| Date & Host |
Speaker | Title |
| September 14
PRL, Hu |
Dr. Bonnie Bartel
Rice University, Houston, TX |
Using Arabidopsis to find new roles for peroxisomes and peroxins |
| September 21
PRL Graduate Students |
Dr. Jen Sheen
Harvard Medical School
|
Plant glucose and energy signaling network |
| September 28
PLB, Last |
Dr. Jen Lau
MSU Kellogg Biological Station |
The importance of community ecology to evolutionary biology: How species interactions influence adaptation to novel environments |
| October 5
PLB, Prather |
Dr.Christopher Dick
University of Michigan
|
Pre-pleistocene population structure of tropical forest trees |
| October 12
PRL, He |
Dr. Gregory Martin
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
Bacterial elicitation and evasion of plant immunity |
| October 19
PLB, DellaPenna |
Dr. Jeff Harper
University of Nevada, Reno
|
Coding and decoding calcium signals in plants |
| October 26
PLB, Sears |
Dr. Simon Prochnik
DOE Joint Genome Inst., Lawrence-Berkeley National Laboratory |
Learning about the evolution of developmental complexity by comparing the genomes of Chlamydomonas and Volvox |
| November 2
PRL, Howe
|
Dr. John Gershenzon
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Germany
|
The many roles of plant volatile terpenes: Making scents of diversity |
| November 9
PLB Graduate Students |
Dr. Robert Robichaux
University of Arizona |
Silverswords and lobeliads: Restoring Hawaii‘s
marvels of evolution |
| November 16
PLB, Ebert-May |
Dr. Felicia Kessing
Bard University
|
The ecology of infectious diseases: A case study of Lyme disease and anaplasmosis |
November 23
PRL, Pauly
|
Dr. Jocelyn Rose
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
Plant extracellular matrices: Cellulose, cuticles and capturing the chaos at the surface |
| November 30
PLB |
Dr. Yair Shachar-Hill
MSU Plant Biology
|
Aquaporins in pollen growth and development |
| December 7
PRL, Howe
Hans Kende Memorial Seminar
|
Dr. Leron Katsir
Universität Freiburg, Germany
|
Reigning in the stem cell niche |
| Date & Host |
Speaker (Mentor) | Title |
| September 8
|
Malali Gowda
(Buell) |
G-capped and polyadenylated small RNAs associate with transscription termini |
| September 15 |
Mintu Desai
(Hu) |
A role for the RING finger domain of the peroxisomal membrane protein PEX2 in photomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis |
| September 22
|
Yan Lu
(Last)
|
The role of a small zinc finger-containing membrane protein in photoprotection in Arabidopsis |
| September 29 |
Hong Luo
(Walton) |
Biosynthesis and cellular localization of Amanita toxins |
| October 6 |
Markus Günl
(Pauly)
|
Glycoside hydrolases involved in hemicellulose metabolism |
| October 13 |
Kyaw Aung
(Hu) |
Functional characterization of an Arabidopsis C-terminal tail-anchored protein in peroxisome and mitochondrial division |
| October 20 |
Bagmi Pattanaik
(Montgomery) |
FdTonB is involved in the photoregulation of cellular morphology during complementary chromatic adaptation in Fremyella diplosiphon |
| October 27 |
Goutami Banerjee
(Walton) |
Deconstructing the plant cell wall: biomass enzymes from fungi |
| November 3
|
Alexandre Brutus
(He) |
Characterization of the first cell wall sensing receptor involved in plant/pathogen interactions |
| November 10 |
Pingfang Yang
(Hu) |
Proteomic identification of novel peroxisomal proteins and functional characterization of the peroxisomal histidine triad family proteins in Arabidopsis |
| November 17 |
Laurent Mene Saffrane
(DellaPenna)
|
Tocochromanol biosynthetic pathway in plants |
| November 24 |
Carmen Faso
(Brandizzi) |
Characterization of line GK-172F03, a potential T-DNA knock-out for AtSec24A |
| December 1 |
Christine Shyu
(Howe)
|
Understanding the molecular mechanism of JAZ8 in the jasmonate signaling pathway in Arabidopsis |
| December 8
|
Chunjie Tian
(Shachar-Hill)
|
Metabolism and transfer of nitrogen in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis |