All seminars are Thursdays at 4:00 PM in 319 Morrill South unless otherwise noted. Join us for refreshments beginning at 3:45 PM. Our fall series will be updated as titles become available. In general, the series will feature talks from faculty, postdocs and students from the PB Program.

Please note two special events: the PB annual symposium on Sat. October 3 on "Plant Epigenetics"; and a seminar on Th., December 3, featuring Dr. David Galbraith from the Univ. of Arizona.

PB Faculty PhD rotation talks:

September 17
ANA CAICEDO
Biology Department
"How to evolve a weed: the origins of U.S. weedy rice"
MICHELLE DaCOSTA
Dept. of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences
"Stress Physiology of Perennial Grasses"
DANNY SCHNELL
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
"Organelle biogenesis in plants as a model for understanding protein trafficking and intracellular communication"

September 24
ALICE CHEUNG
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
"Signaling mechanisms for polarized cell growth in pollen tubes and root hairs"
SAM HAZEN
Biology Department
"Systems biology of plant biofuel attributes"
ELSBETH WALKER
Biology Department
"Ironing out the details: how the YSL transporters move iron and other metals in plants."

SPECIAL EVENT:
Saturday, October 3, 2009
ANNUAL PLANT BIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM
"Plant Epigenetics"
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Faculty coordinators: Alice Cheung and Sam Hazen

PB FACULTY AND POSTDOC PRESENTATIONS:
October 8
NAOMI YOUNG
Postdoctoral fellow, Hazen Lab
"Regulation of shoot branching in ramosus mutants of pea"

October 22
LI LIN
Postdoctoral fellow, Hazen Lab
"Assembly of linear artificial chromosomes consisting of a large centromeric DNA fragment capped with expansive telomeric repeats"

October 29
CALEB ROUNDS
Postdoctoral fellow, Hepler Lab
"Oscillation without respiration: aerobic fermentation in lily pollen tube growth"

November 5
QIAOHONG DUAN
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cheung Lab
"The FERONIA/SIRÈNE Receptor-like Kinase Regulates RHO GTPase-mediated Root Hair Development and Pollen Tube-Female Gametophyte Interaction"

November 12
JENNIFER NORMANLY
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
"Metabolic Regulation and Engineering"

SEMINAR CANCELLED due to scheduling conflict:
November 19
TOBIAS BASKIN
Biology Department
"Plant mitosis: mutants and models"

SPECIAL PB SEMINAR:
December 3
DAVID GALBRAITH
Department of Plant Sciences,
University of Arizona
"High throughput implementation of methods in plant
biotechnology: what can we achieve, and where is it taking us?"
Faculty host: Sue Roberts

December 10
PB PhD student rotation talks