SPRING 2012 SEMINAR SERIES

PB seminars will be held in Morrill 2, Room 222 (unless otherwise noted.). Talks are Thursdays at 4 pm, refreshments beginning at 3:50 pm.

JANUARY 26
PB PhD GRADUATE STUDENT ROTATION TALKS
Greg DeIulio, Ma Lab
"Methylation Pattern of the Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici Genome"
Dennis DePaolo, Walker Lab
"The Hunt for yellow-stripe 3"
Zhongyun Huang, Caicedo Lab
"Evolution of red rice in Asia as compared to U.S."
Scott Lee, Hazen Lab
"Biological conversion assay using Clostridium phytofermentans to estimate plant feedstock quality"

Special PB graduate student sponsored seminar:
FEBRUARY 2
ANDREW McCALL
Department of Biology
Denison University
"Do you know what's in your bouquet?: Floral traits and florivore choice"
Host: Nicole Soper Gorden, PB PhD graduate student, Adler Lab

FEBRUARY 9
JOCELYN MALAMY
Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
University of Chicago
"Two short stories about making lateral roots"
Host: Alice Cheung

MARCH 1
KENNETH OLSEN
Department of Biology
Washington University
"Clover's poison pill: tracing the genetic basis of adaptive evolution in plants"
Host: Ana Caicedo

MARCH 8
AMIT DHINGRA
Department of Biology
Washington State University
"Unraveling the biology of non-photosynthetic plastids."
Host: Om Parkash

MARCH 15
MARTY DICKMAN
Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Texas A & M University
"Death be not Proud: Modulation of Programmed Cell Death for Disease Development/Stress Tolerance in Plants"
Host: Li-Jun Ma

MARCH 29
DOMINIQUE BERGMANN
Biology Department
Stanford University
"Making a difference: identity and pattern in the stomatal lineage"
Host: Dong Wang

APRIL 5
TOM BRUTNELL
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (Jan. 2012)
"A systems approach to understanding photosynthetic differentiation in the grasses"
Hosts: Sam Hazen and Elsbeth Walker

APRIL 12
KATHERINE OSTERYOUNG
Department of Plant Biology
Michigan State University
"The Molecular Machinery of Chloroplast Division."
Hosts: Danny Schnell and Elizabeth Vierling

APRIL 19
JAMES UMEN
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
"Evolution of sexual dimorphism: Insights from Volvocine algae"
Host: Magdalena Bezanilla

Co-sponsored with OEB:
APRIL 26
SUSAN MAZER
Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
University of California, Santa Barbara
"The joint evolution of mating system, life history, and physiology in the annual wildflower Clarkia: Does selection to avoid drought drive the evolution of self-fertilization?"
Host: Tobias Baskin

We would also like to thank PB faculty member Elizabeth Vierling for coordinating this spring's seminar series!