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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 2006-07
PRL Seminars 2006-07
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Plant Biology Seminar Series Room 101 Biochemistry Building Mondays at 4:10 p.m. |
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Monday Seminars, Fall 2007
| Date & Host | Speaker | Title |
| August 27 |
Dr. Yunde Zhao |
The role of yucca flavin monooxygenases in auxin biosynthesis |
| September 10 |
Dr. Bo Liu |
Roles of microtubule-based motor kinesins in plant cell growth |
| September 17 |
Dr. Maria Harrison Cornell University |
The arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis; genomics approaches to dissect development and function |
| September 24 |
Dr. Terry Chapin University of Alaska, Fairbanks |
Social-ecological sustainability in a changing world: Concepts and policy strategies to address climate change in Alaska |
| October 1 |
Dr. Jeff Chen |
Mechanisms and evolution of plant polyploids |
| October 8 |
Dr. Helen Alexander University of Kansas |
A 20-year study of the population ecology of a cryptic plant, Mead's milkweed: Population trajectories and estimates of survival and detection |
| October 15 |
Dr. Douglas Landis MSU |
Harvesting ecosystem services from biofuels |
| October 22 |
Dr. Joseph Kieber University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Cytokinin Signaling: A bacterial paradigm in a eukaryotic world |
| October 29 |
Pending |
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| November 5 |
Dr. Herman Höfte Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, Versailles, France |
Building walls for growth in plants |
| November 12 PRL, Howe |
Dr. George Jander |
Arabidopsis-aphid interactions |
| November 19 |
Dr. Thomas Boller University of Basel, Switzerland |
Innate immunity in plants |
| November 26 |
Dr. Reinhard Jetter U British Columbia, Canada |
Secondary metabolites at the plant surface: Biological chemistry of cuticular triterpenoids |
| December 3 |
Dr. Chris Staiger |
Regulation of actin dynamics |
Monday Seminars, Spring 2007
| Date & Host | Speaker | Title |
| January 8 PLB-Telewski | Dr. Jeff Mitton University of Colorado | Historical biogeography of ponderosa pine and limber pine inferred from organellar genomes |
| January 22 PLB-Malmstrom | Dr. Phil Robertson Michigan State University | Accounting for greenhouse gases in agricultural landscapes: An ecosystem approach |
| January 29 PRL-Brandizzi | Dr. Jurgen Denecke University of Leeds, UK | Transport of the plant vacuolar sorting receptor: A tail's tale |
| February 5 PRL-Keegstra | Dr. Diane Bassham Iowa State University | Vacuolar autophagy in plant senescence and abiotic stress responses |
| February 12 PLB-Last | Dr. Molly Jahn University of Wisconsin | The translation initiation factor, eIF4E, and resistance to plant viruses |
| February 19 PRL-Benning | Dr. Greg Vanlerberghe University of Toronto | Role of mitochondrial alternative oxidase in plant cell metabolism and physiology |
| February 26 | Dr. Chris Staiger University of Toronto | Seminar cancelled. |
| March 12 PLB-Malmstrom | Dr. Glenn Juday University of Alaska Fairbanks | Climate change, tree-ring studies, biodiversity, forest management and forest dvelopment following fire |
| March 19 PLB-Last | Dr. Jim Birchler University of Missouri | Genetic and epigenetic aspects of centromere specification in maize and the development of artificial chromosome platforms |
| March 26 PRL Students | Dr. Rich Jorgensen University of Arizona | Evolutionary and functional diversification of the epigenome: A paragenetic perspective on the role of RNA silencing in the biology of plants |
| April 2 PLB Students | Dr. Steven Huber University of Illinois | Oxidative signaling in plants: Possible role for methionine oxidation? |
| April 9 PLB-Prather | Dr. Lynn Bohs University of Utah | Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Solanaceae family including an update on the PBI Solanum Project |
| April 16 PRL-Walton Anton Lang Memorial Lecture | Dr. Mark Estelle Indiana University | Genetic and biochemical studies of the auxin receptor reveals a novel mechanism of hormone perception |
| April 23 PRL-He/Day | Dr. Brian Staskawicz UC Berkeley | Pathogen effector proteins as molecular probes to elucidate Arabidopsis disease resistance signaling networksl |
Monday Seminars, Fall 2006
| Date & Host | Speaker | Title |
| August 28 PLB-Ohlrogge | Dr. Robert Mullen University of Guelph | Peroxisome biogenesis and the formation of multi-vesicular peroxisomes during tombusvirus infection: A role for ESCRT |
| September 11 PLB-Osteryoung | Dr. Jodi Nunnari UC Davis | The machines that divide and fuse mitochondria |
| September 18 PRL-Howe | Dr. Tao Sang Michigan State University | Rice domestication: An old experiment yielding new insights into evolution and signal transduction |
| September 25 PRL-Howe | Dr. Paul Staswick University of Nebraska | Regulating plant hormones by conjugation; jasmonates, auxins, and more! |
| October 2 PRL-Howe | Dr. David Baulcombe John Innes Centre | Small silencing RNAs--the dark matter of genetics |
| October 9 PRL-Keegstra | Dr. Tobias Baskin University of Massachusetts | Role of actin in auxin responses: Needling the pins |
| October 16 PRL-Howe | Dr. Robert Hill University of Manitoba | Upstream components of ABA signal transduction |
| October 23 PLB-Malmstrom | Dr. Jessica Gurevitch State University of New York, Stony Brook | Causes and consequences of plant invasions: Experiments and generalizations |
| October 30 PRL Students | Dr. Clarence (Bud) Ryan Washington State University | Peptide signaling in plant innate immunity |
| November 6 PLB Students | Dr. John Willis Duke University | Genetic analysis of adaptation and reproductive isolation in Mimulus |
| November 13 PLB-Shachar-Hill | Dr. Julian Schroeder UC San Diego | Guard cell signaling and ion channel regulation; new CO2 and abscisic acid signal transduction mechanisms |
| November 20 PLB-Shiu | Dr. Blake Meyers University of Delaware | Deep transcriptional profiling in plants using signature sequencing |
| November 27 PLB-Turetsky | Dr. Kathleen Treseder UC Irvine | Fungi, ecosystems, and global change |
| December 4 PRL-Walton/Trail | Dr. Nancy Keller University of Wisconsin-Madison | Chromatin mechanisms regulating transcriptional activation of fungal gene clusters |
Tuesday Noon Seminars, Fall 2007
| Date & Host | Speaker (Lab) | Title |
| August 28 | Leron Katsir | COI1 is a jasmonate receptor |
| September 11 | Marcin Nowicki | Protein-protein interactions in the plant nucleotide-sugar interconversion |
| September 18 | Janet Paper (Walton) | In vitro and in planta secreted proteins from Fusarium graminearum |
| September 25 | Melissa Lehti-Shiu (Shiu) | Evolutionary history and stress responsiveness of plant receptor-like kinases |
| October 2 | Cheng Zou | Genes involved in plant stress response and their function change along evolution |
| October 9 | Michael Younger (Benning) | Mechanistic characterization of WRINKLED1p: an AP2 transcription factor |
| October 16 | Binbin Lu (Benning) | Functional analysis of a phosphatidate transporter complex in Arabidopsis |
| October 23 | Anthony Schilmiller (Last) | Specialized metabolism in tomato glandular trichomes |
| October 30 | Heather Hallen (Walton) | What makes toadstools deadly: Discovery of the amatoxin and phallotoxin biosynthetic genes |
| November 6 | Sascha Gille (Pauly) | Identification and characterization of a novel Arabidopsis thaliana cell wall mutant using a xyloglucan-specific endoglucanase (XEG) |
| November 13 | Weiqing Zeng | Identification and characterization of scd mutants |
| November 20 | Mike Ruckle (Larkin) | A role for plastid signals during photomorphogenesis |
| November 27 | Hoo Sun Chung (Howe) | JAZmonate signaling network in Arabidopsis |
| December 4 | Aaron Schmitz | Determining the chloroplast division roles of the two FtsZ families in Arabidopsis |
Tuesday Noon Seminars, Fall 2006
| Date | Speaker (Lab) | Title |
| 09/05 | Olivier Lerouxel (Keegstra) | Another brick in the wall: Characterization of a xyloglucan glucan synthase |
| 09/12 | Kohhei Otani (Walton) | Analysis of the HC-toxin biosynthetic gene cluster in Cochliobolus carbonum |
| 09/19 | Chang-cheng Xu (Benning) | Regulation of membrane lipid homeostatis by DGS1 in Arabidopsis |
| 09/26 | Harrie van Erp (Walton) | Regulation of cell wall biosynthetic enzymes and CSL gene expression in maize |
| 10/03 | Marcela Carvallo (Thomashow) | Low temperature regulatory networks in Solanum species |
| 10/10 | Elena Bray Speth (He) | The P. syringae effector AvrPto alters subcellular localization of the RabE GTPase in Arabidopsis |
| 10/17 | Joanna Tripp (Keegstra) | Targeting of Tic40 to the inner envelope membrane |
| 10/24 | Yan Lu (Last) | Functional and informatic analyses of the Arabidopsis plastid |
| 10/31 | Kousuke Hanada (Shiu) | Identification of novel Arabidopsis polyploids by the tiling array of Arabidopsis thaliana |
| 11/07 | Claudia Vergara (Walton) | Hemicellulose biosynthesis in cereals |
| 11/14 | David Cavalier (Keegstra) | Arabidopsis AtXT1 and AtXT2 encode xylosyltransferases involved in xyloglucan biosynthesis |
| 11/21 | Eliana Gonzales-Vigil (Howe) | The role of threonine deaminase in resistance of tomato to arthropod herbivores |
| 11/28 | Weiqing Zeng (He) | Identification of putative components involved in bacterium- and PAMP-induced stomatal closure |
| 12/5 | Miaoying Tian (Day) | Arabidopsis actin depolymerization factor ADF4 is involved in defense signaling transduction |
