Joe Wang, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Coordinate and conduct seed treatment research trials on crops important primarily to Midwest and Western regions, such as cereals, canola, corn, soybean, sugar beets, pulse crops, and vegetables.
• Work directly and independently with Asset/Product Managers, Technology Managers, Account Managers and FMD specialists and scientists to support Valent seed treatment products.
• Develop technical presentations, literature, and training materials exercising in-depth knowledge of agronomics to develop and promote seed treatment products with COIs (academic, industry, commodity groups, sales.

Leland, MS

• Initiate, direct and execute all scientific research and development strategies for the company through research staff and critical individual studies.
• Manage the seed protection program and conduct seed safety, seed- and soil-borne disease screenings using lab and greenhouse bioassay techniques, and various compatibility studies to determine the efficacy of seed.
• Exercise technical discretion in the design, execution and interpretation of experiments that contribute to project strategies.
• Make detailed observations concerning all research, analyze data, interpret results, and prepare detailed data summaries and reports.
• Supervise personnel and manage daily tasks to ensure the timely delivery of output for both short-term projects (such as early efficacy and seed safety screening programs for new fungicides or insecticides and new.
• Pursue a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology Under Dr. Tom Allen at Mississippi State University, which is fully funded by Valent.

RTP, North Carolina

• Develop and execute lab and greenhouse protocols to screen chemical and biological seed treatment candidates against plant pests and supporting existing commercial products, e.g,, product life cycle management.
• Coordinate the team’s field seed treatment trials to support regulatory, formulations, development, marketing and sales.
• Study ILeVO on its effect on crop early development, its efficacy against soybean SDS and SCN, and its interaction with pre-emergence herbicides.
• Conduct in-vitro cell test of small molecules for antifungal actitivies and biological stability of the prototype formulations.
• Evaluate different formulations of experimental insecticides against Lepidopteran insects such as black cutworm and fall armyworm in corn and soybean.
• Manage seed-/soil-borne pathogen isolation, identification, culture, preservation, inoculation and disease evaluation.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Assisted in performing daily operations associated with a soybean pathology program to study soybean traits under biotic stresses, screen commercial and pre-commercial soybean lines for reaction to various diseases.
• Interacted with the field pathology, entomology/nematology, and abiotic stress groups within the agronomic traits division.
• Handled regulated and non-regulated GMO soybean seeds treated with Acceleron seed treatment following GLP, APHIS and WPS regulations.
• Conducted greenhouse screens for resistance to soybean southern stem canker, Phytophthora root rot and charcoal rot.
• Optimized bioassays to screen soybean lines for reaction to brown stem rot, sudden death syndrome and white mold.
• Maintained collection of soybean pathogens and prepare inoculated sorghum kernels for field soy SDS, WM and PRR trials.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Assisted the team lead in developing a wheat pathology program and performing wheat breeding research in cooperation with other teams, e.g., WestBred wheat breeding, wheat doubled haploid, marker discovery.
• Applied for the USDA-APHIS-PPQ permits for fungal pathogens tested as well as propagate and maintained pathogens for the inoculation assays.
• Managed seed inventory of wheat lines from 5 breeding stations across the US.
• Screened wheat breeding lines for resistance to common fungal diseases in controlled environments and field.
• Responsible for the day-to-day operation of the pathology greenhouses and growth chambers, including wheat planting and tissue sampling, maintenance of equipment, and wheat disease evaluation and data collection and.
• Conducted plant tissue lyophilization, grinding, aliquoting, DNA extraction and quantification for genotyping and fingerprinting.

East Lansing, Michigan Area

• Collaborated with researchers from other departments at MSU to determine the susceptibility of 15 cover crops to Phytophthora capsici.
• Assisted a lab technician culturing and inoculating Fusarium spp. and Phytophthora asparagus for field asparagus fungicide trials.
• Participated in the cucurbit downy mildew spore trapping project to develop ipmPIPE.

East Lansing, MI

• Supervised several undergraduate assistants in laboratory and greenhouse work.
• Evaluated the efficacy of registered and experimental fungicides and fungicide combinations to control Cylindrocarpon root rot and Phytophthora root rot in American ginseng and Phytophthora blight in squash in the.
• Monitored resistance of Alternaria panax isolates from American ginseng to azoxystrobin in vitro.
• Worked on the cucurbit-Phytophthora capsici interaction and investigated foliar disease response to P. capsici in cucurbits in relation to inoculum concentration and condition, inoculation technique, isolate virulence.
• Compared the susceptibility of cucurbit foliage and fruits to Phytophthora capsici infection.
• Isolated and established the relative frequency of different Fusarium spp. (F. oxysporum, F. sporotrichoide, F. solani, F. proliferatum, F. acuminatum, and F. avenaceum) associated with stratified ginseng seed coat and.

• Cooperated the research in investigating the incidence, prevalence, and damage of Fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. conglutinans on Chinese cabbage in Yanqing County, Beijing.
• Evaluated the effect of fungicides Thiram and o-allylphenol on four important wheat soilborne pathogens (Rhizoctonia cerealis, Gaeumannomyces graminis, Bipolaris sorokiniana, and Fusarium graminum).
• Identified Alternaria spp., Fusarium spp., and Bipolaris spp. associated with wheat seed samples from different regions.
• Developed consistent inoculation and evaluation systems of wheat sharp eyespot and take-all diseases in the growth chamber and greenhouse.
• Assessed the synergistic effect of different combinations of Thiram and o-allylphenol on the growth of Rhizoctonia cerealis and Gaeumannomyces graminis.
• Observed morphological changes of Rhizoctonia cerealis and Gaeumannomyces graminis caused by fungicides via fluorescence microscopy.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Plant Pathology/Phytopathology, 4.0

• Define the prevalence of QoI resistance in the C. cassiicola population from Mississippi soybean and explore the comprehensive nature of.

Master, Plant Pathology

Activities and Societies: Oral presentation in the 2011 MSU Plant Science Graduate Student Research Symposium. Poster presentation in the.

Master Of Science - Ms, Plant Pathology/Phytopathology