Department of Plant Sciences

Plant Biology Seminar Series (PLS696A)

All Seminars are held on Tuesday – 4:00 p.m. to 4:50 p.m. in Marley 230*

*Unless otherwise indicated on the schedule.

Fall 2006: Plant Biology Seminar Series (PLS696A)

Seminar Date

Speaker

Department/ Institution

Seminar Title

Host

08.22.06

This seminar date (only this date) for Registered Graduate Students

 

“Introduction, Organization, Instruction”(Registered Students Only)

Dr. Robert Leonard

08.29.06

Dr. Richard Meagher, Professor

University of Georgia

“Nuclear actin-related proteins as epigenetic regulators of gene expression”

Dr. Ravi Palanivelu

09.05.06

Dr. Ramin Yadegari, Assistant Professor

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona

“Epigenetic control of seed induction in Arabidopsis.”

Dr. Richard Jorgensen

09.12.06

Dr. Barry Pryor, Assistant Professor

Department of Plant Sciences,

University of Arizona

“Alternaria systematics: species-groups, species concepts, and the problematic integration of morphotaxonomy”

Dr. Richard Jorgensen

09.19.06

Dr. David Gang, Assistant Professor

Department of Plant Sciences,

University of Arizona

“Medicinal Plant Metabolism”

Dr. Richard Jorgensen

09.26.06

Dr. Damon Lisch

Staff Scientist

University of California, Berkeley

“A gift that keeps on giving: heritable epigenetic silencing of a plant transposable element”

Dr. Richard Jorgensen

10.03.06

Dr. Shelly McMahon,

Research Assistant Professor

Department of Plant Sciences,

University of Arizona

“Phylogenetics and

phylogenomics in angiosperms”

Dr. Richard Jorgensen

10.10.06

Dr. David Braun, Assistant Professor

Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University

“Genetic analyses of cell signaling in leaf development”

 

Dr. Ramin Yadegari

10.17.06

Taijoon Chung

Graduate Associate

Department of Plant Sciences

University of Arizona

“SMU-2 & SMU-1 homologues

 as novel alternative splicing factors”

Dr. Richard Jorgensen

10.24.06

Dr. Chieri Kubota

Associate Professor

Department of Plant Sciences
University of Arizona

“Controlled Environment Plant Physiology and Technology Research: High Quality Transplants and Final Greenhouse Crop Production”

Dr. Richard Jorgensen

10.31.06

Dr. Marja Timmermans, Associate Professor

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories

“Establishment of organ polarity in plants; rivalry between small RNAs”

Dr. Richard Jorgensen

11.07.06

Dr. Katherine Osteryoung, Associate Professor

Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University

“How Cholorplasts Divide”

Dr. Elizabeth Vierling

11.14.06

Dr. Wolfgang Lukowitz, Assistant Professor

Cold Spring Harbor

“Cell fate decisions in the early Arabidopsis embryo”

Dr. Frans Tax

11.21.06

Dr. H. Corby Kistler, Research Geneticist and Professor

 

USDA ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory, University of Minnesota

 

“Profiles in Scourge: Genomics, gene expression and pathogenicity of the fungal plant pathogen, Fusarium graminearum”

Dr. Martha Hawes

11.28.06

Dr. Themis J. Michailides

Plant Pathologist

University of California, Davis

“Aflatoxin Contamination in Pistacho and Prospects of Biological Control”

Dr. Barry Pryor

12.05.06

Dr. William B. Miller, Professor

Cornell University

Department of Horticulture

“Flower Bulb Research at Cornell University” (tentative)

Dr. Chieri Kubota

 

Spring 2007: Plant Biology Seminar Series (PLS 696A)

 

Seminar Date

Speaker

Department/ Institution

Seminar Title

Host

01.16.07

Dr. Kathy Barton

Department of Plant Biology,

Carnegie Institution

“_MicroRNA action in the context of meristem formation and polar development of the leaf”

Dr. Ravishankar Palanivelu

01.23.07

This seminar date (only this date) for Registered Graduate Students

 

“Introduction, Organization, Instruction”(Registered Students Only)

Dr. Ravishankar Palanivelu

01.30.07

Dr. Julia Frugoli

Assistant Professor

Department of Genetics & Biochemistry,

Clemson University

“Shoots, Roots & Nodules: Local & Long Distance Signaling in M. truncatula

Dr. Frans Tax

02.06.07

Dr. Mary Beth Mudgett, Assistant Professor

Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University

“Microbial Pathogenesis: How do type III effectors modulate host transcription and signal transduction?

Dr. Ramin Yadegari

02.13.07

Dr. Bhimanagouda S. Patil,

Associate Professor

Department of Horticultural Sciences

Texas A & M University

“Produce for Health: Role of Horticulture”

Dr. Chieri Kubota

02.20.07

Dr. Xinnian Dong

Professor

“Special Seminar: Graduate-Student Invited Speaker”

Department of Biology

Duke University

“Genetic Genomic Studies of Systemic Acquired Resistance”

Graduate Students

02.27.07

Dr. David Geiser
Associate Professor

Department Plant Pathology,

Pennsylvania State University

“Molecular characterization of culture collections: being prepared for disease outbreaks”

Dr. Barry Pryor

03.06.07

NO SEMINAR

NO SEMINAR

NO SEMINAR

 

03.13.07

Spring Break

NO SEMINAR

NO SEMINAR

 

3.15.07

Note: Unusual date

Dr. Qifa Zhang

National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement

Huazhong Agricultural Univ.

“Genomics-based strategy for the development of green super rice”

Dr. Rod Wing

03.20.07

Dr. Jay Thelen

Assistant Professor

Department of Biochemistry

University of Missouri-Columbia

“Proteomics of seed filling in oilseed crops”

Dr. David Gang

3.26.07

Note: Unusual Date & Time

Dr. Amy Clore

Assistant Professor

Department of Natural Sciences

New College of Florida

The Joao Leiva Neto Lecture

“Maize stem pulvini and Madagascar periwinkle carpels: models for the study of plant organ responses to stimuli”

PLS Graduate Students

03.27.07

 

Dr. Sanja Roje

 

Institute of Biological Chemistry
Washington State University

“Dissecting the metabolism of folates and flavin nucleotides in plants”

Dr. David Gang

04.03.07

Dr. Barbara Kunkel

Associate Professor

Department of Biology

Washington University

“Molecular genetic analysis of plant-pathogen interactions: How does the pathogen gain the upper hand?”

Dr. Ravishankar Palanivelu

04.10.07

Dr. Nigel Crawford

Professor

Biological Sciences

University of California

“Plant Nitric Oxide Synthesis and Signaling”

Dr. Elizabeth Vierling

04.17.07

Dr. Leslie Gunatilaka

Arid Lands

University of Arizona

“Prospecting Arid Land Plants & Associated Microorganisms for Bioactive Metabolites”

Dr. Elizabeth Vierling