MSU Plant Biology Department

Monday Seminar Series

All seminars are held in room 101 Biochemistry Building at 4:10 pm on Mondays during the school year. Please contact the Plant Biology Department if you would like to meet individually with one of the speakers.

Date

Speaker

Title

Jan 7

PRL-Howe

Dr. George Wagner

University of Kentucky

“Specific functions of two different trichome types in
tobacco”

Jan 14

PLB-Tao

Dr. Heather Hallen-Adams

Michigan State University

“The amatoxin gene super-family:  A new fungal paradigm”

Jan 21

PLB-Tao

Dr. Bin Han

National Center for Gene
Research

CHINA

“Comparative genomics studies of the Asian cultivated
rice subspecies indica and japonica and progresses of rice functional
genomics researches in China”

Jan 28

PLB-Tao

Dr. Kenneth Keegstra

Michigan State University

“Progress and problems in understanding plant cell wall
biosynthesis”

Feb 4

PRL-Montgomery-Kaguri

Dr. Donald Bryant

Penn State University

“Bioprospecting in Yellowstone National Park:  Discovery of a 6th phylum
containing chlorophototrophs and other adventures in genomics”

Feb 18

PRL-Grad Students

Dr. Alan Collmer

Cornell University

“Looking at Pseudomonas
syringae
-plant interactions through the aperture of the type III
secretion  system”

Feb 25

PLB-Shachar-Hill

Dr. Donald Ort

University of Illinois

“The dependence of yield on photosynthesis:  Opportunities for improvement”

Mar 3

SPRING BREAK

No seminar

Mar 10

PLB-Osteryoung

Dr. Mary Rumpho

University of Maine

“Horizontal gene transfer and  the evolution of photosynthesis in a kleptoplastic sea
slug”

Mar 17

 

No Seminar

Mar 24PLB-Klausmeier

Dr. John Raven

University of Dundee

UNITED KINGDOM

What has genomics told us about oceanic primary productivity?

Mar 31

PRL-Brandizzi

Dr. Iris Meier

Ohio State University

“New activities at the plant nuclear pore”

Apr 7

PLB-Grad Students

Dr. Jiankang Zhu

University of
California-Riverside

“Small RNA’s and epigenetic regulation in abiotic
stress”

Apr 14

Anton Lang Lecturer

PRL-Zeevaart

Dr. William Lucas

University of
California-Davis

“Plasmodesmata, the phloem and control over
flowering:  In search of
florigen”

Apr 21

PRL-Hu

Dr. Maureen Hanson

Cornell University

“Genetic and developmental variation in the dynamic
morphology of plastids and stromules”



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