2003, Fall
Plant Biology seminars that took place in the Fall Semester, 2003.
Coordinator: Daniel Cosgrove
| Date | Title | Speaker | Host(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, September 8, 2003 | Patterning in plants through plasmodesmata and phyllotaxy | Dr David Jackson, Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | |
| Wednesday, September 15, 2003 | Nutritional Genomics: The next frontier in the post-genomic era | Dr Raymond L. Rodriquez, Professor of Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC, Davis | Majid Foolad, Co-sponsored by the Horticulture Department |
| Wednesday, September 22 , 2003 | Expression and functional studies of the Arabidopsis ASK genes encoding putative subunits of the SCF ubiquitin ligases | Dr Weimin Ni, Postdoctoral Scholar, Ma Lab, PSU | |
| Wednesday, September 29, 2003 | Arabidopsis Capping Factor: A regulator of actin filament dynamics and potential sensor of stress signals | Dr Chris Staiger, Professor of Bioligical Sciences, Purdue University | Richard Cyr |
| Wednesday, October 6, 2003 | sufR, a transcription repressor of the suf operon in cyanobacteria | Tao Wang, Plant Physiology Graduate Student, Golbeck & Bryant labs, PSU | |
| Wednesday, October 13, 2003 | The role of ADP-ribosylation factor protein in hormone regulated secretion in barley | Scott MacCleery, Plant Physiology Graduate Student, Gilroy lab, PSU | |
| Wednesday, October 20, 2003 | Tie-dye1 promotes sink-to-source transition in leaves | Dr David Braun, Assistant Professor of Biology, PSU | |
| Wednesday, October 27, 2003 | The function of knotted 1-like homeobox genes in plants | Dr Sarah Hake, Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley, Center Director at the USDA Plant Gene Expression Center, Albany, GA | PLPHY & EMPP students |
| Wednesday, November 3, 2003 | Biological consequences of dosage dependent gene regulation in multicellular eukaryotes with special reference to hybrid vigor | Dr James Birchler, Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri | David Braun |
| Wednesday, November 10, 2003 | The plant extracellular matrix | Dr Maureen McCann, Associate Provessor of Bioligical Sciences, Purdue University | Daniel Cosgrove |
| Wednesday, November 17, 2003 | The exophysiology of tropical dry-forest trees | Dr Marco Gutierrez, University of Costa Rica | |
| Wednesday, November 24, 2003 | The role of two Arabidopsis kinesins in mitosis | Chris Ambrose, EMPP Graduate Student, Cyr lab, PSU | |
| Wednesday, December 1, 2003 | Auxin metabolism: more complicated than you think | Dr Jerry Cohen, Gordon & Margaret Baily Professor of Horticultural Science, University of Minnesota | Paula McSteen |
| Wednesday, December 8, 2003 | Evolution of floral morphology in Brassicaceae | Dr John Bowman, Assoicate Professor of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis |