Past Events

Western University's Earth Day Planning Committee is now accepting registration for the 12th Annual Earth Day Colloquium on April 9th. Registration is completely FREE and all are welcome!  Details on event registration is below, and information on the event schedule and this year's speakers is attached.  12th Annual Earth Day Colloquium Western University Thursday April 9th, 2015 Physics and Astronomy Atrium 9:00 am - 4:00 pm and Keynote in Nat Sci 145 from 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Embarrassing plant-­‐feelings:A story of plants in literature SPEAKER: Dr Sonnet L'Abbé, 2015Edna Staebler Writer In Residence, Wilfrid Laurier University LOCATION: Room 1307–ThornbroughTIME:3:45pm ABSTRACT: attached.

PhD Defense - Siripen Leelachao Tuesday, April 7th, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. Graham 3301 - Murray Room Poster attached.

Tuesday, 7 April, 9:00-12:00  (Rm. 265 Alexander Hall)      9:00 Angela Dukes (Advisors:  Kari Dunfield and Pedro Atunes)Pathogen Interactions:  A Mechanism by which the Invasive Plant Vincetoxicum rossicum Achieves Plant Community Dominance 9:30 Mila Mari (Advisor:  Richard Heck) Quantifying the Influence of Agricultural Management Systems on Soil Structural Quality Using X-ray Computed Tomography

Monday, 6 April, 9:00-12:00 AM  (Murray Room, Rm. 3301 Graham Hall) 9:00 Telfer, Zachariah (Advisors: Cynthia Scott-Dupree and Mary Ruth McDonald)Improving Carrot Weevil Management in Ontario 9:30 Pamela Loughran (Advisors: Cynthia Scott-Dupree and Chris Cutler)>Development of Standardized Methods for Assessing Risk of Pesticide Exposure to Bumble Bees (Bombus impatiens) 10:00 Craig Moore (Advisor: Tom Hsiang)Detection of Fungal Effectors in Four Fungal-Plant Interactions to Examine Effector Evolution

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MSc Defense - Sara Altimimi Thursday April 2, 2015 10:00 a.m. Thiessen Room, Bovey 1118 Poster attached.

  "Potential Uses of Remote Sensing for Agronomic and Germplasm Assessment", Jerry L. Hatfield, Laboratory Director and Supervisory Plant Physiologist, National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, Ames, Iowa  Wednesday April 1st, 3:35-4:35pm 

Dr Lindsay Eltis Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology Life Sciences Centre University of British Columbia  Performance-enhancing steroids - the ugly truth about a pathogen's success

MSc Defense - Vera Bosak Zurowsky Wednesday, April 1st, 2015 10:00 a.m. ALEX265 Poster attached.