Sections
Personal tools
Document Actions

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