HLA Happenings

August 5-August 12, 2016

Rosie Lerner, John Orick and Purdue Master Gardeners from across the state of Indiana will be staffing the Purdue Plant
Info To Go Booth at the 2016 Indiana State Fair, August 5-21, 2016. Come visit Purdue MG volunteers in the Purdue
Extension Ag/Hort Building on the state fairgrounds! Information about the Indiana State Fair can be found here:
http://www.indianastatefair.com/ .

Wednesday, August 10th from 10-11 am, HORT 217

Coffee Hour. Drop in to interact with your colleagues. Graduate Students, this is your chance to chat with
faculty. Please bring your own cup.
Horticulture and Landscape Architecture will have a big presence at the ASHS meetings in Atlanta next week.
**Jian-Kang Zhu is a featured speaker and will deliver a plenary lecture on Thursday, Aug 11, 9:30 10:30 on Targeted
Genome Editing a New Era in Horticultural Plant Research and Genetic Improvement. This is a big honor for
Purdue.
**Purdue get together dinner on Wednesday evening.
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Meehans Public House, 200 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA 30303.
Phone: (404)214-9821
Meehans is 0.3 mi from the Sheraton and a 7 minute walk. (Caution: there are a lot of Peachtree addresses in
Atlanta. Be sure you use Peachtree Street).
Attendees: Sam Burgner, Mokhles Elsysy, Wenjing Guan, Peter Hirst, Khalil Rahman Jahed, Jules Janick, Hye-Ji Kim,
Petrus Langenhoven, Cary Mitchell, Ahmad Shah Mohammadi, Asmaa Morsi, Krishna Nemali, Bryce Patz, Justin Porter,
Fatemeh Sheibani, Seval Taskin, Ariana Torres, Hazel Wetzstein, Bofan Xie, Teng Yang, Jiayin Zhang, Jian-Kang, Zhu Zia
Bazgha
Date
8/8/2016

Time
1:00 PM

Location
Savannah 1 Room

Welcome

Type

Author
Jules Janick

8/8/2016

2:25 PM

Savannah 1 Room

Oral Presentation

Jules Janick

8/9/2016
8/9/2016

10:15 AM
10:15 AM

Augusta Room
Capital South Room

Oral Presentation
Oral Presentation

8/9/2016

10:15 AM

Savannah 3 Room

8/9/2016

10:30 AM

Capital South Room

Workshop, Sustainable
Horticultural Practices in Asian
Countries (CEU Approved)
Oral Presentation, Pomology 1

Ariana Torres
Khalil Rahman Jahed
(Hirst lab)
Hye-Ji Kim

8/9/2016

11:00 AM

Capital South Room

Oral Presentation

8/9/2016

11:30 AM

Capital South Room

Oral Presentation

8/9/2016
8/9/2016

11:45 AM
12:15-1:00 PM

Macon Room
Georgia Ballroom

8/9/2016

12:15-1:00 PM

Georgia Ballroom

8/9/2016

1:00-1:45 PM

Georgia Ballroom

Oral Presentation
Poster, Growth Chambers and
Controlled Environments 1
Poster, Growth Chambers and
Controlled Environments 1
Poster, Teaching Methods

Mokhles Elsysy (Hirst

lab)
Seval Taskin
(Hirst lab)
Fatemeh Sheibani (Hirst
lab)
Hazel Wetzstein
Hye-Ji Kim
Asmaa Morsi (Mitchell
lab)
Bryce Patz (Siciliano)

8/10/2016

8:15 AM

Oral Presentation

Krishna Nemali

9:00 AM
9:30-11:15 AM

Capitol Center
Room
Savannah 1 Room
Georgia Ballroom

8/10/2016
8/10/2016

Oral Presentation
Undergrad Poster

8/10/2016
8/10/2016
8/10/2016

9:45 AM
11:00 AM
12:15-1:00 PM

Macon Room
Macon Room
Georgia Ballroom

8/10/2016

1:00-1:45 PM

Georgia Ballroom

8/10/2016

1:00-1:45 PM

Georgia Ballroom

8/10/2016
8/10/2016

2:45 PM
5:15 PM

Savannah Room
Augusta Room

Oral Presentation
Oral Presentation
Poster, Growth Chambers and
controlled Environments 2
Poster, Environmental Stress
Physiology
Poster, Weed Control & Pest
Management
Oral Presentation
Oral Presentation

Krishna Nemali
Bofan Xie
(Hirst lab)
Justin Porter
Peter Hirst
Sam Burgner (Mitchell
lab)
Hye-Ji Kim

8/11/2016

9:30 AM

8/11/2016
8/11/2016

12:30-1:15 PM
12:30-1:15 PM

Capitol
Center/South
Georgia Ballroom
Georgia Ballroom

8/11/2016

1:15-2:00 PM

Georgia Ballroom

8/11/2016

1:15-2:00 PM

Georgia Ballroom

8/11/2016

1:15-2:00 PM

Georgia Ballroom

8/11/2016

1:15-2:00 PM

Georgia Ballroom

Ahmad Shah
Mohammadi (Maynard)
Krishna Nemali
Hye-Ji Kim

Featured Speaker

Jian-Kang Zhu

Poster, Plasticulture
Poster, Plant Nutrient
Management
Poster, Pomology 2

Wenjing Guan
Hye-Ji Kim

Poster, Waste Utilization in

Horticulture
Poster, Waste Utilization in
Horticulture
Poster, Ornamentals/Landscape
and Turf 2

Mokhles Elsysy (Hirst

lab)
Teng Yang
(Kim lab)
Teng Yang
(Kim lab)
Jiayin Zhang
(Kim lab)

Peter Hirst will preside over his last meeting as president of the American Pomological Society to be held in conjunction with
the ASHS meeting in Atlanta, GA.

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