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.
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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Jan 7 PRL-Howe |
Dr. George Wagner University of Kentucky |
“Specific functions of two different trichome types in |
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Jan 14 PLB-Tao |
Dr. Heather Hallen-Adams Michigan State University |
“The amatoxin gene super-family: A new fungal paradigm” |
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Jan 21 PLB-Tao |
Dr. Bin Han National Center for Gene CHINA |
“Comparative genomics studies of the Asian cultivated |
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Jan 28 PLB-Tao |
Dr. Kenneth Keegstra Michigan State University |
“Progress and problems in understanding plant cell wall |
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Feb 4 PRL-Montgomery-Kaguri |
Dr. Donald Bryant Penn State University |
“Bioprospecting in Yellowstone National Park: Discovery of a 6th phylum |
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Feb 18 PRL-Grad Students |
Dr. Alan Collmer Cornell University |
“Looking at Pseudomonas |
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Feb 25 PLB-Shachar-Hill |
Dr. Donald Ort University of Illinois |
“The dependence of yield on photosynthesis: Opportunities for improvement” |
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Mar 3 |
SPRING BREAK |
No seminar |
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Mar 10 PLB-Osteryoung |
Dr. Mary Rumpho University of Maine |
“Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of photosynthesis in a kleptoplastic sea |
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Mar 17 |
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No Seminar |
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Mar 24PLB-Klausmeier |
Dr. John Raven University of Dundee UNITED KINGDOM |
What has genomics told us about oceanic primary productivity? |
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Mar 31 PRL-Brandizzi |
Dr. Iris Meier Ohio State University |
“New activities at the plant nuclear pore” |
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Apr 7 PLB-Grad Students |
Dr. Jiankang Zhu University of |
“Small RNA’s and epigenetic regulation in abiotic |
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Apr 14 Anton Lang Lecturer PRL-Zeevaart |
Dr. William Lucas University of |
“Plasmodesmata, the phloem and control over |
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Apr 21 PRL-Hu |
Dr. Maureen Hanson Cornell University |
“Genetic and developmental variation in the dynamic |
