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| Plant Research Laboratory Michigan State University Plant Biology Building Room 106 East Lansing, MI 48824-1312 Phone: (517) 353-2270 Fax: (517) 353-9168 |
Home > Seminars
PRL Seminars
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The PRL sponsors two weekly seminars. Each Monday, a visiting scientist discusses research on a timely topic. While at the PRL, the visiting scientists also visit the PRL laboratories to speak with the students, postdocs, and faculty in an informal setting. This seminar series is administered by the Seminar Committee, composed of two faculty members, two postdoctoral research associates, and one graduate student. Once each semester, the graduate students select and host an outside speaker. The other seminar series, presented on Tuesdays, features a student or postdoc in the plant sciences presenting a seminar on his/her research project. |
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Plant Biology Seminar Series
Spring Semester 2008
Jointly sponsored by the
Plant Research Laboratory
and the Department of Plant Biology
Room 101 Biochemistry Building
Mondays at 4:10 p.m.
(Cookies and coffee at 4:00 p.m.)
| Date & Host | Speaker | Title |
| January 7 |
Dr. George Wagner |
Specific functions of two different trichome types in tobacco |
| January 14 |
Dr. Heather Hallen-Adams |
The amatoxin gene super-family: A new fungal paradigm |
| January 21 |
Dr. Bin Han Natl. Center for Gene Research, China |
Comparative genomics studies of the Asian cultivated rice subspecies indica and japonica and progress in rice functional genomics research in China |
| January 28 |
Dr. Kenneth Keegstra MSU PRL |
Progress and problems in understanding plant cell wall biosynthesis |
| February 4 |
Dr. Donald Bryant |
Bioprospecting in Yellowstone National Park: Discovery of a 6th phylum containing chlorophototrophs and other adventures in genomics |
| February 18 |
Dr. Alan Collmer Cornell University |
Looking at Pseudomonas syringae-plant interactions through the aperture of the type III secretion system |
| February 25 |
Dr. Donald Ort University of Illinois |
The dependence of yield on photosynthesis: Opportunities for improvement |
| March 10 |
Dr. Mary Rumpho University of Maine |
Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of photosynthesis in a kleptoplastic sea slug |
| March 24 |
Dr. John Raven |
What has genomics told us about oceanic primary productivity? |
| March 31 |
Dr. Iris Meier Ohio State University |
New activities at the plant nuclear pore |
| April 7 PLB Graduate Students |
Dr. Jiankang Zhu |
Small RNAs and epigenetic regulation in abiotic stress |
| April 14 |
Dr. William Lucas University of California, Davis |
Plasmodesmata, the phloem and control over flowering: In search of florigen |
| April 21 |
Dr. Maureen Hanson Cornell University |
Genetic and developmental variation in the dynamic morphology of plastids and stromules |
Tuesday Noon Seminar Schedule
Spring 2008
168 Plant Biology
| Date & Host | Speaker (Lab) | Title |
| January 8 | Mintu Desai | Light promotes Arabidopsis peroxisome proliferation through PHYA, HYH, and PEX11b proteins |
| January 15 | Igor Libourel |
Construction of kinetic models from bi-directional metabolic flux meausrements |
| February 12 |
Abe Koo (Howe) |
Alternative routes for JA biosynthesis and wound signaling |
| February 19 |
Cheng Zou (Shiu) |
Genes involved in plant stress response and their function |
| February 26 | Florian Kraemer |
Characterization of AXY3, an altered xyloglucan mutant |
| March 11 |
Xinchun Zhang (Hu) |
FIS1 and DRP3 coordinately regulate Arabidopsis peroxisome division |
| March 18 | Christy Mecey (He) |
Molecular basis of chlorosis caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato strain DC3000 infection in Arabidopsis thaliana |
| March 25 |
Timothy Durrett (Ohlrogge) |
Characterization of acetyl-glyceride production in seeds of Euonymus alatus |
| April 1 |
Chin Mei Lee (Thomashow) |
Identification of trans-acting factors involved in cold-induced CBF2 expression in Arabidopsis |
| April 8 |
Wanessa Wight (Walton) |
Role of depudecin, a histone deacetylase inhibitor in plant pathogen interaction |
| April 15 | Jonathan Glynn |
Functional analysis of ARC6 a key component of the plastid division machine |
| April 22 |
Caleb Knepper (Day) |
Exploring the role of NDR1 in plant defense to a bacterial pathogen |
