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2005, Spring
Plant Biology seminars that took place in the Spring Semester, 2005
Coordinator: Daniel Cosgrove
| Date | Title | Speaker | Host(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, January 17, 2005 | Interplant communication by means of selective activation of octadecanoid signaling | Dr Jürgen Engelberth, Postdoctoral Scholar in Tumlinson Lab | Daniel Cosgrove |
| Monday, January 24, 2005 | Characterization of an Arabidopsis meiotic cyclin in yeast | Guanfang Wang, Plant Physiology graduate student in Ma Lab | Daniel Cosgrove |
| Monday, January 31, 2005 | Will that be allelic cache or Mendelian credit? Evidence for the inheritance of ancestral sequences in plants” | Dr Susan Lolle, National Science Foundation | Paula McSteen |
| Monday, February 7, 2005 | Genomics and biochemistry of insect defenses in Spruce and Poplars | Dr Jorg Bohlman, Associate Professor, Departments of Forest Sciences and Botany, University of British Columbia | John Carlson |
| Monday, February 14, 2005 | Regulation of plant development by carbon and nitrogen balance | Dr Zhenbiao Yang, Professor of Plant Biology, UC Riverside | Hong Ma |
| Monday, February 21, 2005 | Ion channels conducting metal nutrients and signals in roots | Dr Edgar Spalding, Professor of Botany, University of Wisconsin | Hong Ma |
| Monday, February 28, 2005 | Chitinase gene expression in Theobroma cacao L. during leaf development and evaluation of transgenic Cacao plants over-expressing endochitinase | Dr Siela Maximova, Research Associate, Horticulture Department, Penn State | Daniel Cosgrove |
| Monday, March 14, 2005 | Gibberellin signaling in Arabidopsis | Dr Tai-ping Sun, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Duke University | Teh-hui Kao |
| Monday, March 21, 2005 | The polarity express: regulation of pollen tube growth by calcium-dependent protein kinases | Dr Andrew McCubbin, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University | Teh-hui Kao |
| Monday, March 28, 2005 | Chemically mediated ecological interactions among plants, herbivores, and parasitoids | Dr Consuelo M. De Moraes, Assistant Professor of Entomology, Penn State | Daniel Cosgrove |
| Monday, April 4, 2005 | Homologue recombination during meiotic prophase I in Arabidopsis thaliana requires a novel plant specific protein encoded by the PARTING DANCERS gene | Asela Asela Wijeratne, Plant Physiology graduate student in Ma Lab | Daniel Cosgrove |
| Monday, April 11, 2005 | Integrated analysis and genetic manipulation of leaf senescence: from bench to bank | Dr Susheng Gan, Assistant Professor, Department of Horticulture, Cornell University | Daniel Cosgrove |
| Monday, April 18, 2005 | Plus-end tracking of a minus-end motor; a paradox and its contribution to microtubule organization | Chris Ambrose, EMPP graduate student in Cyr Lab | Daniel Cosgrove |
| Monday, April 25, 2005 | Maize phytochromes: targets of selection, targets for manipulation? | Dr Tom Brutnell, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Scientist, Cornell University and Boyce Thompson Institute | Surinder Chopra |