Graduate Seminar Series
The Graduate Student Council in the Department of Plant and Soil Science hosts a weekly Seminar Series, bringing researchers, students, and industry professionals together to dig deep into topics at the forefront of current research.
Below, you can learn about upcoming seminars, as well as watch videos and read abstracts from past presentations. Or, hop over to our YouTube channel's Seminar Series Playlist to see all of the videos in one place.
Spring 2024
May 2 — Climate Change in Agriculture
Katharine Hayhoe, Ph.D.
Climate scientist, distinguished professor and chair at Texas Tech University, and
chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy
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Apr. 25 — Multi-scale observation and modeling of terrestrial ecosystem production
Xiangming Xiao, Ph.D.
Professor of Ecology and Remote Sensing at School of Biological Sciences, University
of Oklahoma
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Apr. 18 — Carbon dynamics in regenerative cotton systems of the semi-arid Texas Plains
Apr. 11 — Improving Crop Drought Tolerance and Water-use Efficiency in the Texas High Plains – Physiological Perspective
Qingwu Xue, Ph.D.
Professor, Regents Fellow, and Faculty Fellow in the Texas A&M AgriLife Research at
Amarillo and Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Texas A&M University
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Apr. 3 — Understanding Climate-Groundwater Feedbacks Using Data Driven and Integrated Hydrologic Modeling Approaches
Hoori Ajami, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Groundwater Hydrology in the Department of Environmental Sciences
at University of California, Riverside
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Mar. 28 — Fusarium Wilt of Cotton in the Southern High Plains: Its History, Current Situation, and Future
Mar. 21 — Understanding single cell regeneration pathway and development of tissue-culture free regeneration and gene-editing platform in crops
Mar. 7 — Three Decades of Evapotranspiration (ET) Measurement – The Bushland Large Weighing Lysimeters
Feb. 28 — N and P regulation of flowering time, architecture, and use efficency in food crops
Feb. 22 — Agricultural Intensification Using Regenerative Practices
Feb. 15 — Could Biotechnology and Genomics Alone Carry the 21st Century Green Revolution? A Cautiously Optimistic View of a Pragmatic Plant Geneticist
Spring 2019
May 2 — Epigenomic landscape modification, network rewiring, and transgressive phenotypes in rice
Ai Kitazumi
PhD candidate, Dept. of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University
Thursday, May 2, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Apr. 25 — Breeding for abiotic stress tolerance and value added traits in sorghum
Chad Hayes, Ph.D.
Plant Stress and Germplasm Development Unit, USDA-ARS- Cropping Systems Research Laboratory,
Lubbock
Thursday, April 25, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Apr. 18 — Ornamental and fruit horticulture
Vikram Baliga
Horticultural Research Greenhouses, Dept. of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University
Thursday, April 18, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Apr. 11 — Controlling weedy organisms through metabolic engineering: Applications in agriculture and in large-scale bioreactors
Damar Lopez-Arredondo, Ph.D.
Dept. of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University
Thursday, April 11, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Apr. 4 — Colloquium Lecture: Environmental plant physiology
Bruce Bugbee, Ph.D.
Dept. of Plants, Soils, and Climate, Utah State University
Thursday, April 4, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Open Reception and Graduate Student Interactive Lunch
Mar. 28 — Signal transduction pathways in Arabidopsis
Ning Yuan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scientist Dept. of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University
Thursday, March 28, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Mar. 21 — Something old, something new, resources for cotton improvement
Todd Campbell, Ph.D.
USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Florence, South Carolina
Thursday, March 21, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Pre-seminar social at 3:30pm
Mar. 7 — Approaches to improve soil health and resilience in Southern Ogallala Aquifer Region
Rajan Ghimire, Ph.D.
Dept. of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University
Thursday, March 7, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Pre-seminar social at 3:30pm
Feb. 28 — Harnessing Grass Cell Wall Synthesis and Breakdown to Improve Biofuel Production
Laura Bartley, Ph.D.
Dept. of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma
Thursday, February 28, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Feb. 21 — Entomology
Megha Parajulee, Ph.D.
Texas A&M Department of Entomology
Thursday, February 21, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Feb. 14 — Chronic drought stress of common turfgrass species in a semi-arid environment
Joey Young, Ph.D.
Department of Plant and Soil Science Texas Tech University
Thursday, February 14, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Feb. 7 — Four archetypes for future food systems
Paul B. Thompson, Ph.D.
W. K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics, Michigan State University
Thursday, February 7, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
Pre-seminar social at 3:30pm
Jan. 31 — Summer-dormant cool-season perennial grasses – New forages resilient to climate fluctuations in the Southern Great Plains
Dariusz Malinowski, Ph.D.
Texas A&M University, Vernon
Thursday, January 31, 2019
4:00 - 4:55 pm
Agriculture Science Building (AGRI)
Room 214
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