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New Soybean Disease Identification Resource for 2018 publication from the ISU
Extension and Outreach
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach released an updated version
of the “Soybean Diseases” publication designed to help farmers and other
professionals within the agriculture industry identify disease threats to
soybean production in Iowa.
To read the complete article about this Soybean Diseases publication, click
here.
Plant and Insect Diagnostic Clinic updates: What’s to come in spring 2018?
The Plant and Insect Diagnostic Clinic (PIDC) encourages all its visitors to be on the lookout for more
updates on their website around mid-March as the clinic will be moving to a new location (2445
ATRB, 2213 Pammel Dr. Ames, IA 50011). As the PIDC changes its location to a new building, they
promise exciting changes in service quality and in the simplicity of their new upcoming forms.
To read the complete article on the upcoming changes to the Plant and Insect Diagnostic Clinic, click
here
Dates:
April 7, April 14, April 21
Registration cost: $50
Location: 210 Bessey Hall
Deadline: March 30, 2018
Register here
To read more about this
workshop here
Dates:
February 20-22
Registration cost: $85-220
Location: Scheman Building
Register here
To read more about this
conference click here
February 20, 2018 3:10-4:00 p.m. Science 1: room 152 PLPM Seminar: “Multi-trophic interactions in the phytobiome and their role in
the safety and sustainability of agricultural production”-Dr. J.P. Dundore-Arias, University of Minnesota
February 21, 2018 11:30 a.m. APS webinar: “Getting Your Manuscript Accepted by APS Journals”. Register here. [Free for APS
members or $49 for non-members]
February 23, 2018 12:10-1:00 p.m. 255 Bessey Hall. Brown Bags: “How can the library support your research”
February 27, 2018 3:10-4:00 p.m. Science 1: room 152 PLPM Seminar: “Shifting soil and rhizosphere microbiomes to more robust,
interconnected communities: Is everything “N”-sync?-Dr. Larry Halverson
March 2, 2018 3:10-4:00 p.m. Science 1: room 152 PLPM Seminar: “Choice and challenge – student choice and self-regulated learning in
online microbiology” -Dr. Nancy Boury
March 3-4, 2018 ASPB Midwest Meeting. At Iowa State University. Register here.
March 6, 2018 5:40-7:40 p.m. 1306 Elings Hall 5. CALS Women Leadership Workshop: “Skills for Leadership in Industry”
RSVP here
April 10, 2018 CALS Women Leadership Workshop: “Where We’ve Been: Reflections on Gender Inequality in the Agricultural Sciences”
RSVP here
April 18, 2018 11:30a.m. APS webinar: “Approachable Science on Genetically Engineered Crops (GMOs)”. Register here. [Free for
APS members or $49 for non-members]
May 8-10, 2018 Loomis/CBC Joint Symposium & Workshop: “Genome editing– putting together the pieces”. Molecular Biology
Building, Iowa State University. More info coming soon here.
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Sadaf Anwaar, Islamic International University, Islamabad, Pakistan
On Tuesday, January 9, 2018, Sadaf Anwaar presented a seminar
entitled: “Role of Nanotechnology in Plant Nutrition and Disease
Management.” Sadaf is a faculty member and a graduate student
in the department of Biotechnology and Bioinformatics at the
Islamic International University. Sadaf’s presentation focused on
the development of copper nanoparticles on callogenesis and
regeneration of rice cells [Seminar Video here].
Anne Dombroski-Brokman, ISU Environmental Health & Safety
On Tuesday, January 16, 2018, Anne Dombroski-
Brokman from the Iowa State University Environ-
mental Health and Safety (EH&S) presented a semi-
nar entitled: “Trolleys, dollies, and carts: USDA permits
and the journey to ATRB.” During this presentation,
we learned about the resources available from
EH&S to assist faculty and staff with USDA ePer-
mits, USDA inspections and additional resources to
assist in the move to the new ATRB building. Anne
encouraged the audience to reach out to EH&S if ad-
vice was needed during the developing of new SOPs
for the new building.
Dr. Surupathrudu Kanakala, Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Iowa State University
On Tuesday, January 23, 2018, Dr. Surupathrudu Kanala
presented a seminar entitled: “Control of Bemisia tabaci and
virus transmission by plant-mediated RNA interference.” Dr.
Kanakala is a current postdoctoral fellow at Dr. Miller’s
lab. His presentation focused on his previous research on
Begomoviruses transmission by sweet potato whitefly
(Bemisia tabaci) at the Ministry of Agriculture in Israel
[Seminar Video here].
Dr. Dipali Sashital, ISU Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology
On Tuesday, January 30, 2018, Dr. Dipali Sashital pre-
sented a seminar entitled: “CRISPR-Cas systems: RNA-
guided immunity in prokaryotes.” Dr. Sashital’s presenta-
tion focused on the understanding of endogenous
clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic re-
peats (CRISPR) loci and CRISPR-associated (Cas) pro-
teins involved in adaptive immunity against foreign
DNA from bacteriophages and plasmids [Seminar
Video here].
To learn more about Dr. Sashital’s lab research click
here
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I know you are all really excited to be moving into your new building. I am unsure if
this is a whole department move or a percentage of the department. But, as you clean-up and
trash your offices in preparation for your move, you might at some point wonder if the library
would like your “no longer wanted” books and journals. Here is a general answer to some
common questions concerning donating books to the library.
I can come over and evaluate the books (time permitting) or, if you want to speed
things up, you can send me a list of what you have (author/title/year). Once I have a list I
check to see if we already own the item and/or if it’s something we’d want to add to our col-
lection. In general I don’t add older textbooks (6+ yrs) or books that we already have a copy
of. To be honest, the few times that I have done this, I end up taking only a small percentage,
but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t like to see what you are willing to give up first!
Alternatively, you can just drop them off for me at the library. When you donate the books to the library we dispose
of any books that are not added to the collections. How they are disposed of varies depending on what they are. Books
(monographs) are sent to be resold though the ISU warehouse but journals we usually send out for recycling as I believe the
warehouse will not take them. I think you can also take them directly to the warehouse but we would like a look at them
first.
Feel free to ask me any questions concerning not only the donations/disposals of monographs/journals/etc… but anything
else related to the library as well.
Sincerely,
Michael Bobb
Science and Technology, Librarian
Iowa State University
Trying to save space as we move to the new building? Donate your books to the library
Qi, M., Grayczyk, J. P., Seitz, J. M., Lee, Y., Link, T. I., Choi, D., Pedley, K. F., Voegele, R. T., Baum, T. J., Whitham,
S. A.* (2018) Suppression or activation of immune responses by predicted secreted proteins of the soybean
rust pathogen Phakopsora pachyrhizi. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 31:163-174.
doi: 10.1094/MPMI-07-17-0173-FI
NCR-SARE Announces 2018 Graduate Student Grant Program Call for Proposals
The 2018 North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Re-
search and Education Program (NCR-SARE) Graduate Stu-
dent Grant Call for Proposals is now available online.
Qualifications: The student must be officially registered as a
graduate student or resident (according to his or her institu-
tion’s requirements) at the time the project begins.
NCR-SARE strongly encourages having farmers, ranchers,
local organizations, or others who will use or benefit
from the project involved in its planning, design, and im-
plementation.
A student is allowed to receive only one NCR-SARE Gradu-
ate Student grant during her or his student career.
Proposals are due online by 4:00 p.m. CDT, April 12, 2018.
Graduate Student Grant Proposals must be submitted online
at http://www.ciids.org/ncsare/gs/