MSU Plant Biology Department

Monday Seminar Series

Plant Biology sponsors a weekly seminar series. Every Monday a visiting scientist presents a research seminar on a topic of their choice. The faculty, post docs and students have an opportunity to meet with the speaker on an individual basis. The seminar series is provided as a service to the department and to all others interested.

Date

Speaker

Title

Sept 14th - PRL
Hu

Dr. Bonnie Bartel

“Using Arabidopsis to find new roles for peroxisomes and peroxin"

Sept 21st - PRL
Grad Students

Dr. Jen Sheen

“Plant glucose and energy signaling network”

Sept 28th - PLB
Shachar-Hill

Dr. Jen Lau 

“The importance of community ecology to evolutionary biology: how species interactions influence adaptation to novel environments”

Oct 5th - PLB
Prather 

Dr. Christopher Dick

“Pre-pleistocene population structure of tropical forest trees”

Oct 12th - PRL
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Dr. Gregory Martin

“Bacterial elicitation and evasion of plant immunity”

Oct 19th - PLB
DellaPenna

Dr. Jeff Harper

“Coding and decoding calcium signals in plants”

Oct 26th - PLB
Sears

Dr. Simon Prochnik

“Learning about the evolution of developmental complexity by comparing the genomes of Chlamydomonas and Volvox

Nov 2nd - PRL
Howe

Dr. John Gershenzon

“The many roles of plant volatile terpenes:  making scents of diversity”

Nov 9th - PLB
Grad Students

Dr.Robert Robichaux

"Silverswords and Lobeliads:  Restoring Hawaii's Marvels of Evolution"

Nov 16th - PLB
Ebert-May

Dr. Felicia Kessing

“The ecology of infectious diseases: a case study of Lyme disease and anaplasmosis”

Nov 23rd - PRL
Pauly

Dr. Jocelyn Rose

 “Plant extracellular matrices:  cellulose, cuticles and capturing the chaos at the surface”

Nov 30th - PLB

Dr. Yair Shachar-Hill

“Aquaporins in pollen growth and development”

Dec 7th - PRL
Howe
Hans Kende Memorial Lecture

Dr. Leron Katsir

“The age of epigenetics”

Plant Biology Seminar Series

Fall Semester

Jointly sponsored by the Department of Plant Biology and the Plant Research Laboratory.

Room 101 Biochemistry Building

Mondays at 4:10 P.M.



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