Chestnut Chat: Student Flash Talks 

As part of our annual fall meeting we look forward to our annual poster session and student flash talks. This year however, in the hopes of providing this opportunity in a virtual space, we will devote our Chestnut Chat to highlighting student work through a series of flash talks. A virtual poster session will follow, and all are welcome to participate - student and professional alike. The event will be hosted by Kendra Collins, TACF’s Director of Regional Programs. We hope you will join us!
Presenters:
• Tyler Fishman - William Patterson University
Restoring endangered Chestnuts trees at William Paterson University
• Xinya Lu - Clemson University
• Uma Plambeck- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Screening full-sib and half-sib families of chestnut seedlings for resistance to Cryphonectria parasitica using a small stem assay and to oxalic acid using a leaf-disc assay
• Jeffrey Grimes - Shippensburg University
• Maya Niesz Kutsch - SUNY - Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF)
Natural pollen dispersal and the effect of controlled burns in American chestnut restoration