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2007-2008 Alumni Newsletter 100 Years of Plant Pathology ebratio ial cel n o th i enn e D nte ep en ar C tm e n t o P l a n t P a t h o l o g y a n d P l a n t - M i c r o b e B i o 2007-2008 l o g y a Alumni t Co re nl l U Newsletter n i ve rs it y 1 9 0 7 - 2 0 0 7 Volume 50 Table of Contents Page 1 Thanks 2 Letter from the Chair 3 100 Years of Plant Pathology at Cornell 8 Graduate Students 10 Faculty News 13 Celebrations 15 Facilities Projects 18 Northeast Plant Diagnostic Network he layout work for this year’s issue of the 19 Plant Disease Diagnostic Clinic TAlumni Newsletter was done by Susanne Lipari and Dawn Dailey O’Brien. 20 Congratulations Many thanks to Margaret Haus for compiling 24 Plant Pathology Web Sites information regarding past and present graduate 25 In the News students and Jackie Armstrong for pursuing and organizing contributions from alumni, 27 Necrology faculty and staff. Thanks to George Hudler for proofreading. A big thank you to Kent Loeffler 28 Thank You to Donors for many of the photographs. 28 News for Future Newsletters Send feedback and suggestions for future newsletters to [email protected] The Alumni Newsletter is published annually by the Department of Plant Pathology and Plant- Microbe Biology College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Cornell University, 334 Plant Science Ithaca, NY 14853 Alumni Newsletter 2008, Vol. 50 Department of Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology Cornell University—Page Greetings Fall 2008 from theChair George Hudler Chair, Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology reetings to all from Ithaca’s East Hill! It’s Saturday. The Another conspicuous change – not to the newsletter but Gsun is shining, the temperature is just as it should be for to the campus - is an enormous white building that has been a beautiful autumn day in Ithaca, and despite the fact that I’m growing south of Plant Science on Alumni Field for the past temporarily sidetracked by overdue paperwork, I’m pleased to couple of years. It’s just about done and has already begun to be bringing this 2008 edition of our departmental newsletter house some of the highest quality biological research in the to your screen or mailbox. world. Yet to be installed in the 2 acre (yup – that says 2 acre) If you missed us last year, it’s not because your mail basement of the building is the first generation of 24 new growth delivery system failed. We simply ran out of time to produce chambers with state of the art climate control that is certain to a respectable newsletter as we were preoccupied first with our provide plant scientists with exceptional facilities for precise, Centennial Year Celebration and then a department external r e p e a t a b l e program review. Hopefully now we’re back on track, and you experiments. can expect regular annual communications from us in future The next time years. You can also expect future editions to come to you via y o u a r e o n the internet unless you request otherwise inasmuch as internet campus, you publishing is not only less expensive but it also allows us to absolutely must use a lot more color to tell our stories. We hope you’ll like the make time to new option and trust that you’ll tell us if you don’t or if you check out this have suggestions for improvements. splendid new By the way, if once a year isn’t enough, go to pppmb.cals. facility. And cornell.edu to check out our new web page. “Feature stories” if the weather The new Life Sciences building on Tower Road are changed at least monthly and sometimes more often as isn’t quite to we try to keep up with our very busy and productive faculty your liking, you can get from here (Plant Science) to there and students. through a $3 million tunnel that runs beneath Tower Road. One conspicuous change that has occurred since the In the pages that follow, you should get a pretty good idea last time you saw a newsletter from us is the name of of what we’ve been up to and where we’re going. It’s been our department and our graduate field. We’re now “Plant an exciting time despite the occasional setback (like the NYS Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology” – a change that was economy!) and we remain optimistic that the future is bright. made after considerable discussion among ourselves and with Your smile at our doorstep will help to ensure that so please our colleagues in Geneva. The most persuasive argument for do stop by if you are in the area. the change came from faculty at both campuses who thought In the meantime, best wishes from us to you and yours. that “plant pathology”, alone, just didn’t accurately reflect our increasing activity in the study of microbes as symbionts and epiphytes. It also didn’t clearly identify our participation in and contribution to research and education in topics more closely aligned with mainstream biology. Admittedly the new ORNELL NIVERSITY name is a mouthful to say and it takes a bit of extra room to C U write, but we believe the change was a necessary one that we’ll DEPARTMENT OF PLANT PATHOLOGY grow to appreciate. AND PLANT-MICROBE BIOLOGY Alumni Newsletter 2008, Vol. 50 Department of Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology Cornell University—Page 2 100 Years of Plant Pathology at Cornell HEY! WE’RE 100! Jane Rissler – is a Senior Scientist and Deputy Director t’s not often that anyone or anything gets to celebrate a 100th of the Food and Environment Program for the Union of Ibirthday, but our department did just that with a Centennial Concerned Scientists. Her “specialities” are antibiotic Semester in Fall, 2007. It was, indeed, a grand affair with plenty resistance and environmental risks of genetic engineering. of opportunities for current faculty, staff, and students, as well Among many other prominent activities, she has represented a distinguished group of alums to learn about and reflect on the Union on national news programs such as The NewsHour the heritage that is plant pathology at Cornell. with Jim Lehrer and ABC World News Tonight. The festivities started with the hanging of a Centennial Amy Charkowski – is an Associate Professor in the Banner, 2.5m tall and 6m long, expertly and artistically Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Wisconsin designed by photographer Kent Loeffler, printed on sailcloth, where she directs the Wisconsin Seed Potato Certification and displayed on a previously blank wall at the east end of the program, teaches several graduate level courses, and directs third floor. The banner was SO big that plans to have a “grand an active and diverse research program on plant pathogenic opening” with a celebratory unveiling had to be scuttled. We bacteria and (more recently) attachment of human pathogens just couldn’t find a way to keep something that large covered, to produce. so instead, it just appeared one morning to the surprise and delight of department residents and passersby. The banner, in Nancy Keller - is a Professor in the Genetics Department at miniature form, quickly became a logo, of sorts, for much of the University of Wisconsin. She is well known among fungal what followed. It was displayed at the Cornell reunion table at biologists for her research on the genetics of Aspergillus spp. the APS meeting, it was the cover of a brochure that was sent with special emphasis on determining which genes are most to all alums announcing the schedule of Centennial celebration important for pathogenicity and mycotoxin production. More events, and it was presented as a gift to invited speakers and recently, she has turned her attention to fungi that are also emeritus professors. (Copies are still available for a modest human pathogens fee to cover printing. See the last page of this newsletter for Bob Ziegler – is the Director General of the International more information.) Rice Research Institute in Los Banos, the Phillipines. His With the beginning of the new semester at hand, current position is the latest in a series of posts in which he departmental seminars for the first eight weeks were devoted has devoted his talent and energy to improving Third World to invited contributions by distinguished alums from right agriculture. In addition to his time in the Phillipines, Bob here at home and from as far away as the Phillipine Islands. has worked in Colombia, Mexico, and Burundi, and he was Each visitor came to Ithaca for at least two days with ample chair of the Department of Plant Pathology at Kansas State time to reacquaint themselves with old friends and colleagues University. and frequent favorite Ithaca landmarks. In almost every case, Sheng Yang He – is a professor in the Department of they were introduced by their major professor either in person Plant Pathology at Michigan State University where he or by video connection. You can see the schedule of speakers conducts research on the molecular biology of plant-pathogen and the titles of their talks on page.6 Here’s what they are interactions with special emphasis on the Type III secretion doing now: system it affects pathogenicity by Pseudomonas syringae. Bill Fry – recently stepped down from seven years of Corby Kistler – is a Research Geneticist with the distinguished service as Senior Associate Dean of CALS and USDA-ARS laboratory located on the St.
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