2001, Fall
Plant Biology seminars that took place in the Fall semester, 2001.
Host: Daniel Cosgrove
| Date | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, August 29, 2001 | Relationship between the preprophase band, Golgi stacks and the nuclear envelope | Dr Ram Dixit, Postdoctoral Scholar, Cyr lab, PSU |
| Wednesday, September 12, 2001 | Genetics of plant resistance to phytopathogenic bacteria | Dr Timothy McNellis, Assistant Professor , Plant Pathology, PSU |
| Wednesday, September 19, 2001 | Phylogenetic incongruence: window into genome history and speciation mechanisms | Dr Jonathan Wendel, Professor of Botany, Iowa State University. Host: Claude dePamphilis |
| Wednesday, September 26, 2001 | Analysis of male sterile Arabidopsis mutants to investigate early events in meiosis | Dr Christopher Makaroff, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Miami University of Ohio. Host: Hong Ma |
| Wednesday, October 3, 2001 | Molecular processes in cynipid galls – a window into plant development | Dr Karsten Schonrogge, Center of Ecology and Hydrology, Dorset, United Kingdom |
| Wednesday, October 10, 2001 | TnpA, the Spm-transpon encoded protein, promotes demethylation of the Spm sequence through an active mechanism | Hongchang Cui, Plant Physiology Graduate Student, Fedoroff lab, PSU |
| Wednesday, October 17, 2001 | Fibers: a model for studying cell differentiation and cell wall formation | Dr Zheng-hua Ye, Associate Professor of Plant Biology, University of Georgia. Host: Hong Ma |
| Wednesday, October 24, 2001 | Early signaling in root gravitropism | Victoria Kramer, Plant Physiology Graduate Student, Gilroy lab, PSU |
| Wednesday, October 31, 2001 | Kinetic aspects of redox signaling | Dr Avihai Danon, Weizmann Insittute, Rehovoth, Israel |
| Wednesday, November 7, 2001 | Proteomics of Arabidopsis thaliana | Dr Klass van Wijk, Associate Professor, Plant Biology, Cornell University |
| Wednesday, November 14, 2001 | Are expansisns involved in aerenchyma formation? | S. K. Nuwan Umantha, Plant Physiology Graduate Student, Brown lab, PSU |
| Wednesday, November 21, 2001 | Mixed messages in caterpillar saliva Dr Gary Felton, Professor, Entomology, PSU | |
| Wednesday, December 5, 2001 | 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 |