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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

bobbm@iastate.edu

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/