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Michigan State University
Plant Biology Building
Room 106
East Lansing, MI
48824-1312

Phone: (517) 353-2270
Fax: (517) 353-9168

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PRL Seminars

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.


Plant Biology Building
 

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
PRL, Howe  

Dr. George Wagner
Univ. of Kentucky  

Specific functions of two different trichome types in tobacco

January 14
PLB, Sang  

Dr. Heather Hallen-Adams
MSU PRL  

The amatoxin gene super-family: A new fungal paradigm

January 21
PLB, Sang  

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
Sponsored by PLB, Sang  

Dr. Kenneth Keegstra
MSU PRL

Progress and problems in understanding plant cell wall biosynthesis

February 4
PRL, Montgomery-Kaguri  

Dr. Donald Bryant
Penn State University 

Bioprospecting in Yellowstone National Park: Discovery of a 6th phylum containing chlorophototrophs and other adventures in genomics

February 18
PRL Graduate Students  

Dr. Alan Collmer
Cornell University

Looking at Pseudomonas syringae-plant interactions through the aperture of the type III secretion system

February 25
PLB, Shachar-Hill

Dr. Donald Ort
University of Illinois
The dependence of yield on photosynthesis: Opportunities for improvement

March 10
PLB, Osteryoung  

Dr. Mary Rumpho
University of Maine

Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of photosynthesis in a kleptoplastic sea slug

March 24
PLB, Klausmeier  

Dr. John Raven
University of Dundee, United Kingdom

What has genomics told us about oceanic primary productivity?

March 31
PRL, Brandizzi  

Dr. Iris Meier
Ohio State University

New activities at the plant nuclear pore

April 7
PLB Graduate Students

Dr. Jiankang Zhu
University of California, Riverside

Small RNAs and epigenetic regulation in abiotic stress

April 14
Anton Lang Lecture
PRL, Zeevaart  

Dr. William Lucas
University of California, Davis
Plasmodesmata, the phloem and control over flowering: In search of florigen

April 21
PRL, Hu

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
(Hu) 

Light promotes Arabidopsis peroxisome proliferation through PHYA, HYH, and PEX11b proteins

January 15

Igor Libourel
(Shachar-Hill) 

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
(Pauly) 

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
(Osteryoung)  

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