SPRING 2013 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 24
CURTIS WILKERSON
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Michigan State University
"Designing plant cell walls that are both functional and easy to deconstruct"
Host: Sam Hazen


PB graduate student sponsored seminar:
FEBRUARY 14
ROGER HANGARTER
Department of Biology
Indiana University
"Light regulated chloroplast movements in leaf cells"
Hosts: PB PhD Graduate Students- David Chan Rodriguez, Walker Lab and Graham Burkart, Bezanilla Lab

FEBRUARY 21
PB PhD Graduate Student short research talks
ELISHA ALLAN, Jung Lab
"Understanding and Managing Turf Diseases"
AMANDA BOUSQUET, Jung Lab
"Fungicide resistance detection using high-resolution melting analysis" 
DAVID CHAN RODRIGUEZ, Walker Lab
"The role of YSL4 and YSL6 in Arabidopsis thaliana"
LAKSHMI SUGAVANAM, Schnell Lab
"Overexpression and Purification of Carboxysome Proteins for Antibody Production."

FEBRUARY 28
PB PhD Graduate Student short research talks
JOSH COOMEY, Hazen Lab
"Characterizing a bZIP transcription factor in B. distachyon"
CHRISTINA STONOHA, Ma Lab
"Comparative SNP analysis between two races of Fusarium oxysporum f.s. lycopersici"
ANDREA VU, Wick Lab
"Seedborne transmission and population genetics of Peronospora belbahrii and Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. basilici"
COLBY WITHERUP, Caicedo Lab
"Flowering time variation in weedy and cultivated rice"

SEMINAR CANCELLED DUE TO WINTER STORM- RESCHEDULED FOR MAY 2
YING GU
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Penn State University
"Composition and regulation of cellulose synthase complexes: What have we Learned from Arabidopsis thaliana."
Host: Tobias Baskin

PB graduate student sponsored seminar:
MARCH 14
NORMAN WICKETT
Chicago Botanic Garden and Northwestern University
"How high throughput sequencing and bioinformatics are changing our hypotheses of early land plant evolution"
Host: Colby Witherup, PB PhD Graduate Student, Caicedo Lab

MARCH 28
ERIC WARD
President and Director,
Two Blades Foundation
"Toward Durable Disease Resistance"
Host: Dong Wang

APRIL 4
OWEN HOEKENGA
Plant, Soil and Nutrition Research
USDA-ARS & Cornell University
"Leveraging non-targeted metabolomic profiling via statistical genomics:case studies in maize grain quality"
Host: Elsbeth Walker

APRIL 11
CHRIS SCHARDL
Department of Plant Pathology
University of Kentucky
"Evolution of bioprotective alkaloids of plant-symbiotic fungi (endophytes)." 
Host: Li-Jun Ma

APRIL 18
JEN SHEEN
Department of Molecular Biology, MGH and Department of Genetics, Harvard
"Plant Innate Immune Signaling Networks"
Host: Li-Jun Ma

APRIL 25
MENG CHEN
Biology Department
Duke University
"Shedding light on the nucleus: Phytochrome signaling in plants" "
Host: Danny Schnell

MAY 2 (rescheduled from March 7)
YING GU
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Penn State University
"Composition and regulation of cellulose synthase complexes: What have we Learned from Arabidopsis thaliana."
Host: Tobias Baskin

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