APS Poster Competition

	Student’s Name		Institution	Authors	Poster Title
1.	Christie Almeyda		University of Minnesota	Almeyda, C.V. & Lockhart, B.E.	Characterization of Tomato yellow blotch virus, a new tymovirus occurring in greenhouse-grown tomatoes in Minnesota
2.	Matt Berry		Michigan State University	Berry, M.C., G.C. McGhee, & G.S. Sundin	The presence of a functional waaL gene in Erwinia amylovora affects virulence in pear and resistance to reactive oxygen species
3.	John C. Bienapfl		University of Minnesota	Bienapfl, J.C., Percich, J.A., & Malvick, D.K.	Identification and evaluation of Fusarium species associated with root disease of soybean in Minnesota.
4.	Kirk D. Broders		Ohio State University	Broders, K.D., Wallhead, M., Austin, G., Paul, P.A.; Lipps, P.E.; & Dorrance, A.E.	Effect of soil physical properties on incidence of corn and soybean damping-off caused by Pythium spp.
5.	Emmanuel Byamukama		Iowa State University	Byamukama, E, Robertson, A. & Nutter, F.W., Jr.	Integrating GPS, GIS and geostatistics for risk assessment of bean pod mottle virus in Iowa
6.	Sungyul Chang		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Chang, S., Steinlage, T.A., Hymowitz, T., & Hartman, G.L.	Characterizing soybean rust resistance in Glycine tomemtella
7.	Yu Chen		University of Wisconsin-Madison	Chen, Y. & Halterman, D.	Characterization of the RB-mediated late blight resistance phenotype
8.	Valdir Correa		Ohio State University	Correa, V.R.; Majerczak, D.R., Ammar, E.D., Merighi, M., Coplin, D.L., Pratt, R.C., Redinbaugh, M.G., & Hogenhout, S.A.	Characterization of a Pantoea stewartii TTSS gene required for persistence in its flea beetle vector
9.		Christian Cruz	Ohio State University	Cruz, C.D. & Dorrance, A.E.	Prevalence of frogeye leaf spot caused by Cercospora sojina in Ohio
10.	Carola De La Torre		Ohio State University	De La Torre, C., & Lewandowski, D.J.	Sequence comparisons between Hosta virus X isolates and differential infection of hosta cultivars
11.	Javier A. Delgado		North Dakota State University	Delgado, J.A., Schwarz, P.B., Gilespie, J, Rivera, V., & Secor, G.A.	Diffusion of deoxynivalenol into apparently healthy tissue of potato tubers inoculated with Fusarium graminearum
12.	Maria Mercedes Diaz Arias		Iowa State University	Diaz-Arias, M.M., Leandro, L., & Munkvold, G.	Frequency of Fusarium species associated with soybean roots in Iowa
13.	Sawsan Elateek		Ohio State University	Elateek, S.Y., Lewis Ivey, M.L., & Miller, S.A.	Identification of phytoplasmas affecting greenhouse tomatoes in North America
14.	Margaret L. Ellis		Ohio State University	Ellis, M.L., Broders, K.D., Paul, P.A., &  Dorrance, A.E.	Efficacy of fungicides against Fusarium germinearum isolates associated with soybean seedling diseases in Ohio
15.	Aakansha Gambhir		North Dakota State University	Gambhir, A., Lamppa, R.S., Rasmussen, J.B. & Goswami, R.S.	Fusarium and Rhizoctonia species associated with root rots of dry beans in North Dakota and Minnesota
16.	Liangliang Gao		University of Minnesota	Gao, L., Iorrizo, M., Mann, H., Carputo, D. & Bradeen, J.	Comparative structural genomics of disease resistant wild potato species comprising the tertiary gene pool of cultivated potato
17.	Carlos Gongora		Iowa State University	Gongora-Canul, C.C. & Leandro, L. F.S.	Window of opportunity for root infection leading to foliar symptoms of soybean sudden death syndrome
18.	Shaunta Hill		Michigan State University	Hill, S.H., & Hausbeck, M.K.	Pathology and treatment of American ginseng seed
19.	Jonathan M. Jacobs		University of Wisconsin, Madison	Jacobs, J.M., Meng, F., & Allen, C.	Identifying gene expression differences between Race 1 and Race 3 strains of Ralstonia solanacearum during bacterial wilt disease development at warm and cool temperatures
20.	Jennifer C. Jirak		University of Wisconsin, Madison	Jirak, J.C. & P.D. Esker.	Identification of potential plant pathogens from prematurely killed corn stalks in Wisconsin-2007
21.	Hun Kim		Purdue University	Kim, H. & C.P. Woloshuk	Two putative hexose kinase genes, HXK1 and HXK2 are involved in FBI biosynthesis of Fusarium verticillioides
22.	Jessica Koczan		Michigan State University	Koczan, J. & Sundin, G.W.	Analysis of genes involved in biofilm formation of Erwinia amylovora: Implications in pathogenesis
23.	John Koenig		Ohio State University	Koenig, J., Madden, L.V., Hicks, T.E., & Boehm, M.J.	Controlling dollar spot: climatic conditions and the timing of fungicide applications
24.	Tammy Kolander		University of Minnesota	Kolander, T.M., Kurle, J.E.; & Malvick D.K.	Can rotational crops, weeds, and native plants support Fusarium virguliforme populations in the absence of soybeans?
25.	Yueqiang Leng		North Dakota State University	Leng, Y., & Zhong, S.	Development of transformation and RNA-mediated gene silencing systems for functional genomics of Cochliobolus sativus
26.	Lu Liu		Iowa State University	Liu, L, Block, C.C., & Nutter, F.W.	Quantifying and comparing the aggressiveness of Pantoea stewartii isolates under different temperatures
27.	Zhenyu Liu		University of Wisconsin-Madison	Liu, Z. & Halterman, D.	Investigating signaling components required for RB-mediated potato late blight resistance response by RNA interference in Agro infiltrated leaves of Nicotiana benthaminana
28.	Xin Lu		Iowa State University	Lu, X., Robertson, A.E., & Nutter Jr., F.W.	Quantification and comparison of components of aggressiveness of isolates of Diaporthe phaseolorum var. caulivora collected in Iowa soybean fields
29.	Xin Lu		Iowa State University	Lu, X., Robertson, A.E., Byamukama, E., & Nutter, F.W.	Comparison of the prevalence and incidence of Soybean mosaic virus in Iowa soybean fields during 2005 to 2007
30.	Jon Massman		University of Minnesota	Massman, J.M., & Smith, K.P.	Locating resistance QTL for Fusarium head blight using association mapping in contemporary barley breeding germplasm
31.	Qingxiao Meng		Michigan State University	Meng Q., Cui Xiaolan Bi Yang, Lu Xiaohong, Hao Jianjun, and Liu Xili	Study on the resistance risk and resistance inheritance of Phytophthora capsici to Flumorph
32.	Annemarie Nagle		Ohio State University	Nagle, A., Garbelotto, M., & Bonello, P.	Differences in constitutive and induced expression of two phenolic compounds in coast live oaks susceptible and resistant to infection by Phytophthora ramorum
33.	Shahideh Nouri		University of Wisconsin-Madison	Nouri, SH., German, T.L., & Groves, R.L.	Comparing the genetic diversity of cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) in snap bean and pepper: implications for locally specific inoculums
34.	Alicia Owens		Iowa State University	Owens, A., Jesse, L., Gleason, M., & Batzer, J.	Effectiveness of extended duration row covers for suppression of bacterial wilt in muskmelon
35.	Carlos Alberto Perez		University of Minnesota	Perez, C.A., Wingfield, M.J., Slippers, B., Altier, N., & Blanchette, R.A.	First report of the Eucalyptus pathogen Neofusicoccum eucalyptorum on non-Eucalyptus hosts and preliminary estimation of its variability in Uruguay
36.	Susilo Poromarto		North Dakota State University	Poromarto, S. & Neson, B.D.	Effects of soybean cyst nematode on growth of pinto beans
37.	Rosa Raudales		Ohio State University	Raudales, R., Stone, E., & McSpadden Gardener, B.B.	Relief of abiotic stress in corn by DAPG-producing Pseudomonas fluorescens strain Wood1R under acidic soil conditions
38.	Juan Rodriquez		North Dakota State University	Rodriquez, J.J., Thompson, A., Rivera, V., & Secor, G.	Comparison of field, tuber and detached leaf evaluations of potato germplasm for late blight resistance
39.	Carlos Rodriguez-Brljevich		Iowa State University	Rodriguez-Brljevich, C., Robertson, A.E., Kanobe, C., Nordman, D., & Shanahan, J.F.	Fungicide seed treatments reduce infection of maize by soil-borne Fusarium species and thereby contribute to improved photosynthesis
40.	Carlos Rodriguez-Brljevich		Iowa State University	Rodriguez-Brljevich, C., Nordman, D., & Robertson, A.E.	Effectiveness of fungicide seed treatments against seed-borne Fusarium verticillioides in maize (Zea mays L.)
41.	Matthew Rouse		University of Minnesota	Rouse, M.N. & Jin, Y.	Stem rust resistance in Triticum monococcum germplasm
42.	Dan Schlatter		University of Minnesota	Schlatter, D.C., Fubuh, A., Xiao, K., Hernandez, D., Hobbie, S., & Kinkel, L.L.	Influence of carbon source amendments on population density, resource use, and antibiotic phenotypes of soil borne Streptomyces
43.	Gautam Shirsekar		Ohio State University	Shirsekar, G., Vega-Sanchez, M.E., Bordeos, A., Baraoidan, M., Leung, H., & Wang, G.	Identifying the components in Spl11-mediated defense pathway and determining the relationships between Spl11 and other defense signaling genes in rice
44.	Adam J. Sisson		Iowa State University	Sisson, A.J., Batzer, J.C., Duttweiler, K.B., Hemnani, K., & Gleason, M.L.	Phenology of sooty blotch and flyspeck fungi on apples in Iowa
45.	Pattavipha Songkumarn		Ohio State University	Songkumarn, P., Chen, S., Venu, R.C., Gowada, M., & Wang, G.	Isolation and functional analysis of novel secreted proteins in Magnaporthe oryzae
46.	Adam Sparks		Kansas State University	Sparks, A., Raymundo, R., Reinhard, S., Forbes, G., & Garrett, K.	Regional predictions of potato late blight risk in a GIS incorporating disease profiles, climate change, and risk neighborhoods
47.	Sam Stoxen		University of Minnesota	Stoxen, S. & Szabo, L.J.	Assessing population structure of the most prevalent North American races of Puccinia graminis f.sp. tritici using molecular markers
48.	Eugenia Tang		University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign	Tang, E., Paul, C., & Hartman, G.L.	Quantification of Fusarium virguliforme in soybean radicles of partially resistant and susceptible genotypes using quantitative polymerase chain reaction
49.	Nenad Tatalovic		Iowa State University	Tatalovic, N., Batzer, J., Diaz, M.M., & Gleason, M.L.	Delineation of fungal species within the genus Pseudocercosporella in the sooty blotch and flyspeck complex
50.	Tania Y. Toruno		University of Nebraska, Lincoln	Toruno, T.Y., Guo, M., & Alfano, J.R.	Characterization of HopA1, a Pseudomonas syringae type III effector protein
51.	Ismael Badillo Vargas		University of Wisconsin-Madison	Vargas, I., Whitfield, A., & German, T.	Exploiting vector specificity to control insect pests and virus
52.	Chapara Venkata		North Dakota State University	Chapara, V., Taylor, R.J., Pasche, J.S., Secor, G.A., & Gudmestad, N.C.	Competitive studies on parasitic fitness using blended soil infestations of mefenoxam-sensitive and mefenoxam-resistant Phytophthora erythroseptica isolates under fungicide selection pressure
53.	Hehe Wang		Ohio State University	Wang, H., Berry, S.A., St. Martin, S.K., Zhou, L., Krampis, K., Tucker, D., Mao, Y., Hoeschele, I., Maroof, M., Tyler, B., & Dorrance, A.E.	Allele mining for genes associated with partial resistance to Phytophthora sojae in soybean
54.	Christine Weber		Iowa State University	Weber, C., Engelbrecht, C., & Munkvold, G.	Fungal species colonizing ethanol fermentation co- products
55.	Jafe Weems		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Weems, J.D., Zhang, G., Ames, K.A., & Bradley, C.A.	Evaluation of fungicide seed treatment for control of sudden death syndrome of soybean
56.	Xiulan Xu		Ohio State University	Xu, X., Rajashekara, G., & Miller, S.A.	Construction of bioluminescent Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis
57.	Zhihan Xu		Iowa State University	Xu, Z., Harrington, T., Gleason, M., & Batzer, J.	Phylogenetic placement of plant pathogenic Sclerotium species
58.	Chapara Venkata		North Dakota State University	Chapara, V., Taylor, R.J., Pasche, J.S., Secor, G.A. & Gudmestad, N.C.	Competitive studies on parasitic fitness using blended soil infestations of mefenoxam-sensitive and mefenoxam-resistant Phytophthora erythroseptica isolates under fungicide selection pressure
59.	Wendy Zeng		Michigan State University	Zeng, W.T., W.W. Kirk, R. Hammerschmidt, & J.J. Hao	Control of white mold in soybean with biocontrol agents