Dear Fellow Graduate Students,
I hope everyone had a good summer. It has been quite awhile since SPORE met, and we have quite a bit of business to discuss for the upcoming 2009-2010 academic year including: the research symposium (September 18th 2PM), new elections, our account and invited speakers. Therefore, the next SPORE (formerly the plant pathology club) meeting will be held on September 25th at 11AM and be hosted in the Food Safety and Toxicology Atrium.
If you have any questions please feel free to email me at milesti2@msu.edu.
Dear Fellow Graduate Students,
Many of you know that early this spring SPORE (formerly the Plant Pathology Club) decided to have a poster style research symposium for plant pathology graduate students in the fall. All graduate students are strongly encouraged to participate in this symposium.
Posters topics should present new research or research that has been presented at a meeting within the last year. The goal of this symposium is to get feedback from faculty and fellow graduate students about your research and get ideas for future directions. Poster dimensions should not exceed 48” x 48” and should focus on at least a portion of your thesis topic. When you are comfortable with a title for your poster please email it to me at milesti2@msu.edu, titles are due to me by September 14th.
This symposium will be held on September 18th 2009 in the PSSB Greenhouse Conservatory at 2PM, and followed by a Departmental picnic at Patriarche Park in East Lansing. Attached is a flyer that you can hang up near your lab to remind others of the event.
Welcome to the Student Pathological Organization for Research and Education, formerly known as the Plant Pathology club.

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