by Maureen Hanson
Plant Biology Seminar
Plant Biology Seminar
404 Plant Science, Fridays, 11:15 am
"The Maize Genome: New Tools, Complexities and Opportunities"
October 9, 2009
Patrick Schnable
Iowa State University
"Local and global coordination of cell polarity in the leaf epidermis"
October 16, 2009
Zhenbiao Yang
Center for Plant Cell Biology at UC Riverside
"Genetic regulation of leaf shape"
October 23, 2009
Neelima Sinha
University California Davis

Carl E. Lewis was named director of the Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden in December 2008.
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Mike Scanlon will head an NSF-funded team from five institutions studying the genomic mechanisms underlying shoot apical meristem (SAM) initiation, structure, and function. Read more

Natalie Uhl, Professor Emeritus of Plant Biology, coauthors with John Dransfield the second edition of Genera Palmarum. Read more

Plant Biology contributes to the Botanical Society of America: The president, an award winner and one of the two student representatives are all members of our department. Read more

Melissa Luckow, Plant Biology professor, was awarded a Smithsonian Institution Senior Fellowship for sabbatical studies on mimosoid legumes at the US National Herbarium. Read more
Plant Biology Seminar
Time: Fridays at 11.15 – 12.05
Place: Plant Science 404
(The Whetzel Room)
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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Entomology (Jugatae)
Horticulture
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Natural Resources
Plant Breeding
Plant Pathology


