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2000, Fall
Plant Biology seminars that took place in the Fall semester, 2000.
Coordinator: Daniel Cosgrove
| Date | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, August 30, 2000 | Genetic engineering of wood properties — Recipes for growing custom-made fibers in forests | Dr. Madoka Gray-Mitsumune, University of British Columbia and SLU. Hosts: Daniel Cosgrove and John Carlson |
| Wednesday, September 6, 2000 | Signal recognition and transduction during the self-incompatibility response of Brassica | Dr. Ram Dixit, Postdoctoral Scholar, Cyr lab, PSU |
| Wednesday, September 13, 2000 | Use of an inducible system to study AGAMOUS, a floral regulatory gene in Arabidopsis | Dr. Hong Ma, Professor of Biology, PSU |
| Wednesday, September 20, 2000 | Mechanistic studies of the epigenetic regulation of the maize Spm transponson | Hongchang Cui, Plant Physiology Graduate Student, Fedoroff lab, PSU |
| Wednesday, September 27, 2000 | Stylar S-Rnase binding protiens | Dr. Bruce McClure, Associate Professor, University of Missouri. Host: Andrew Stephenson |
| Wednesday, October 4, 2000 | Microtubules: new functionsfor ancient structures | Dr. Richard Cyr, Professor of Biology, PSU |
| Wednesday, October 11, 2000 | Update on the role of potato tuber lipoxygenase in fungal disease resistance (PhD Thesis Defense) | Steve Pechous, Plant Physiology Graduate Student, Pell lab, PSU |
| Wednesday, October 18, 2000 | Do brassinosteroids have a role in guard cell function? | Laura Haubrick, Plant Physiology Graduate Student, Assmann lab, PSU |
| Wednesday, October 25, 2000 | Bioactive proteins of an Andean crop — Tropaeolum tuberosum (PhD Thesis Defense) | Rejane Guimaraes, Plant Physiology Graduate Student, Flores lab, PSU |
| Wednesday, November 1, 2000 | Molecular genetic analysis of plant disease resistance | Niranjani Jambunathan, Plant Physiology Graduate Student, McNellis lab, PSU |
| Wednesday, November 8, 2000 | Root aerenchyma: formation and function | S. K. Nuwan Umantha, Plant Physiology Graduate Student, Brown lab, PSU |
| Wednesday, November 15, 2000 | Phylogenetic distribution of pollen expansins and their effect on monocot cell walls (MS Thesis Defense) | Mara Guttman, Plant Physiology Graduate Student, Cosgrove lab, PSU |
| Wednesday, November 22, 2000 | Molecular characterization of the self-incompatibility (S-) locus in Petunia inflata | Yan Wang, Plant Physiology Graduate Student, Kao lab, PSU |
| Wednesday, December 6, 2000 | Supply-side economics of phenolic induction in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum): Do DAHPS and PAL coordinate the production pipeline? | Toni Scheaffer, Plant Physiology Graduate Student, Schultz lab, PSU |