2000, Spring
Plant Biology seminars that took place in the Spring semester, 2000.
Coordinator: Daniel Cosgrove
| Date | Title | Speaker | Host(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, January 19, 2000 | Studies of Arabidopsis phytochrome signaling | Dr Jason Reed, Assistant Professor, Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Daniel Cosgrove |
| Wednesday, January 26, 2000 | Aspects of auxin transport in Arabidopsis | Dr Philip J. Jensen, Postdoctoral Scholar, Tien Lab, PSU | |
| Wednesday, February 2, 2000 | Methionine sulfoxide reductase of plants | Dr Ming Tien, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, PSU | |
| Wednesday, February 9, 2000 | Rhizobium genes and genomes: Beyond early nodulation | Dr Sharon Long, Stanford University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute | Daniel Cosgrove |
| Wednesday, February 16, 2000 | Evolution of phenotypic plasticity to light availability: a tale of constraints and adaptation | Dr Massimo Pigliuci, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolution, University of Tennessee | Claude dePamphilis |
| Wednesday, February 23, 2000 | Structural basis of two-component signal transduction | Dr B. Tracey Nixon, Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, PSU | |
| Wednesday, March 1, 2000 | Signaling pathways in floral induction | Dr Detlef Weigel, Principal Investigator, Salk Institute | Hong Ma |
| Wednesday, March 15, 2000 | Biosynthesis of aromatic plant secondary metabolites | Dr Klaus Herrmann, Professor, Biochemistry, Perdue University | Jack Schultz. Co-sponsored by Plant Science Seminars |
| Wednesday, March 22, 2000 | Regulation of mutator transponsons in maize | Dr Virginia Walbot, Professor, Genetics and Biological Sciences, Stanford University | Mark Guiltinan. Co-sponsored by Plant Science Seminars |
| Wednesday, March 29, 2000 | The Chocolate Box: Biotechnology and the Cacao Tree | Dr Mark Guiltinan, Associate Professor of Horticulture, PSU | |
| Wednesday, April 5, 2000 | Function and evolution of group-1 grass pollen allergens | Mara Guttman, Plant Physiology Graduate Student, Cosgrove lab, PSU | |
| Wednesday, April 12, 2000 | Subterranean plant-plant interactions | Dr John Yoder, Professor, Vegetable Crops, University of California, Davis | Claude dePamphilis |
| Monday, April 17, 2000 | Epistatic analysis of hrl1: insights into multiple defense pathways in Arabidopsis | Sendil Devadas, Plant Physiology Graduate Student, Raina Lab, PSU | |
| Wednesday, April 26, 2000 | HYL1, a novel dsRNA binding protein, is a negative regulator of ABA signaling | Cheng Lu, Plant Physiology Graduate Student, Fedoroff Lab, PSU |