Plant Biology Seminar series

Department of Plant Biology Seminar series

Fridays 11.15 – 12.05 in Plant Science 404 (The Whetzel Room)

Spring 2009 (current) schedule as PDF

Previous semesters' schedules as PDFs: Fall 2008 Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Fall 2006

Seminar Date	Speaker / Affiliation	Title	Host
*January*
23rd	Georg Jander Boyce Thompson Institute	The role of 4-methoxyindol-3ylmethylglucosinolate in plant defese: new tricks for an old molecule	Bill Crepet wlc1
30th	Gerald Edwards Washington State University	Structural and functional diversity in C4 photosynthesis	Klaas van Wink kv35
*February*
6th	Eric Richards Boyce Thompson Institute	Dissecting cytosine methylation pathways in plants	Klaas van Wink kv35
13th		NO SEMINAR
20th		NO SEMINAR
27th	Sorina Popescu Boyce Thompson Institute	Signaling pathways and networks in plant biotic interactions	Bill Crepet/Klaas van Wijk wlc1/kv35
*March*
6th	Randall Small University of Tennessee	Phylogeny and diversification in recent and rapid radiations: an example from Penstemon (Plantaginaceae)	Dead Plant Society, Janelle Burke jmb328
13th		NO SEMINAR
20th		NO SEMINAR - SPRING BREAK
27th	Gregg Howe Dept. of Energy Plant Research Laboratory at Michigan State University	Molecular mechanism of jasmonate action: Managing plant stress in hostile environments	Georg Jander gj32
*April*
3rd	Asaph Aharoni Weizmann Institute of Science	The Ins and Outs of tomato fruit metabolism	Joss Rose jr286
10th	David Domozych Professor of Biology Skidmore College	The Charophycean Green Algae: Living at the interface of the microbial and plant worlds	Joss Rose jr286
17th	Mike Pollard Michigan State	Deconstructing cutin and suberin, the polymeric lipid barriers of the plant cell wall	Joss Rose jr286
24th	Jim Leebens-Mack University of Georgia	Unraveling the origin of sex chromosomes in Asparagus	Jerry Davis jid1
*May*
1st	S.P. Dinesh -Kumar Yale	Development of genomic resources for the model grass Brachypodium distachyon	Jian Hua jh299