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2006, Fall
Plant Biology seminars that took place in the Fall semester 2006.
Coordinator: Daniel Cosgrove
| Date | Title | Speaker | Host(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, September 11, 2006 | Root engineering: a strategy for agriculture in marginal areas of cultivation | Dr Roberto A. Gaxiola, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Connecticut | Simon Gilroy |
| Monday, September 18, 2006 | Connections between the Arabidopsis BON1/CPN1 gene and plant defense | Jianxin Liu, Plant Biology Graduate Student in McNellis Lab | Daniel Cosgrove |
| Monday, September 25, 2006 | Essential microscopy for plant sciences | Dr Richard J. Howard, Research Fellow, DuPont Crop Genetics | Seogchan Kang. Co-sponsored with the Plant Pathology Department |
| Monday, October 2, 2006 | Plant cell wall synthesis from an industrial perspective | Dr Kanwarpal Dhugga, Senior Scientist, Pioneer Hi-Bred International | Daniel Cosgrove |
| Monday, October 9, 2006 | Protein domains in the kinesin superfamily | Jennelle Heyer, Plant Biology Graduate Student in Cyr Lab | Daniel Cosgrove |
| Monday, October 16, 2006 | A conserved trigger for siRNA biogenesis in plants | Dr Michael Axtell, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Penn State University | Daniel Cosgrove |
| Monday, October 23, 2006 | Mechanisms of large-scale uniparental gene silencing in hybrids: the epigenetics of nucleolar dominance | Dr Craig S. Pikaard, Professor, Biology Department, Washington University | Teh-hui Kao. Co-sponsored with the Department of Biology |
| Monday, October 30, 2006 | Overcoming biomass recalcitrance: Enabling DOE's 2030 goals | Dr Mike Himmel, Principal Scientist, National Renewal Energy Laboratory | Daniel Cosgrove and Tom Richard. Co-sponsored with the Biomass Energy Center |
| Monday, November 6, 2006 | Plant cell walls as a resource for biofuels: Valuable insights through wall mutants | Dr Markus Pauly, Associate Professor, Michigan State University | Daniel Cosgrove. Co-sponsored with the Department of Biology and the Biomass Energy Center |
| Monday, November 13, 2006 | Using recombinant inbred lines of Arabidopsis to study the ecology of plastic traits | Dr Hilary Callahan, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Barnard College, Columbia University | Louise Comas |
| Monday, November 20, 2006 | Genetic and molecular dissection of defense signaling pathways in rice | Dr Yinong Yang, Associate Professor of Plant Pathology, Penn State University | Daniel Cosgrove |
| Monday, November 27, 2006 | Gene amplification and origin of novel chromosomes | Dr Manoj Dhar, Professor, Department of Biotechnology, University of Jammu, India | Surinder Chopra |
| Monday, December 4, 2006 | Proteomic study of Arabidopsis guard cells | Zhixin Zhao, Plant Biology Graduate Student in Assmann Lab | Daniel Cosgrove |
| Monday, December 11, 2006 | HYL1 and miRNA processing in Arabidopsis | Liang Song, Plant Biology Graduate Student in Fedoroff Lab | Daniel Cosgrove |