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2004, Fall

Plant Biology seminars that took place in the Fall semester, 2004.

Coordinator: Daniel Cosgrove

Date Title Speaker Host(s)
Monday, September 13, 2004 Getting to the root of tropisms: integrating touch and gravity signaling in Arabidopsis Dr Simon Gilroy, Associate Professor of Biology, Penn State University Daniel Cosgrove
Monday, September 20, 2004 Arabidopsis homologs of the RAD51 recombinational protein are required for normal meiosis but not mitosis Wuxing Li, Plant Physiology Graduate Student in Ma lab Daniel Cosgrove
Monday, September 27, 2004 Expansin expansion: radiation of the expansin gene family in rice and Arabidopsis and inferences about the evolution of gene function Dr Javier Sampedro Jimenez, Post-doc in Cosgrove lab Daniel Cosgrove
Monday, October 4, 2004 Regulation of floral organ identity in Arabidopsis by the SCFUFO ubiquitin protein ligase Dr Weimin Ni, Post-doc in Ma lab Daniel Cosgrove
Monday, October 11, 2004 Shape shifting in plants: gravitropism and plant form Dr Roger Hangarter, Professor, Biology, Indiana University Surinder Chopra
Monday, October 18, 2004 The control of apical cell growth and morphogenesis: facts and models Dr José A. Feijó, Professor, Plant Biology, University of Lisbon and Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal Daniel Cosgrove
Monday, October 18, 2004 (4:00 to 5:00PM) Sex, parental conflict, and infanticide: an epigenetic tragedy Dr Ueli Grossniklaus, Professor, Plant Developmental Biology, University of Zürich, Switzerland Teh-hui Kao
Monday, October 25, 2004 The S-RNase-mediated self-incompatibility mechanism in flowering plants Paja Sijacic, EMPP Graduate Student in Kao lab Daniel Cosgrove
Monday, November 1, 2004 12:15 – 1:15PM, 112 Buckhout Extracellular protease inhibitors of Phytophthora infestans determine a novel counterdefense mechanism Dr Sophien Kamoun, Associate Professor, Plant Pathology, Ohio State University Seogchan Kang. Co-sponsored with the Plant Pathology Department
Monday, November 8, 2004 Developmentally and cell-cycle regulated nuclear-envelope targeting in plants Dr Iris Meier, Associate Professor, Plant Biotechnology and Plant Biology, Ohio State University Richard Cyr
Monday, November 15, 2004 Regulation and action of the plant growth hormone auxin Dr Bonnie Bartel, Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University Irmgard Seidl-Adams and Sarah Melissa Witiaks (Invited by graduate students)
Monday November 29, 2004 Genetic engineering of trees for fungal pathogen resistance Dr Haiying Liang, Post-doc in Carlson lab Daniel Cosgrove
Monday, December 6, 2004 Role of xyloglucan and xyloglucan endotransglycosylase in plant cell growth Dr Takumi Takeda, Post-doc in Cosgrove lab Daniel Cosgrove