Seminar Series

Genetic Engineering/Physiological and Molecular Plant Biology
(CPSC 598 and IB 513)
Wednesdays at noon in  W109 Turner Hall

 

Spring 2008

Date

Speaker

Title

Jan. 16   No Seminar

Jan. 23

Angus Murphy

Purdue University

"Simultaneously one and different: PIN and PGP auxin efflux systems"
Jan. 30

 

No Seminar - Orientation meeting with students
Feb. 6

Gustavo Caetano-Anolles

Crop Sciences - UIUC

"Origin, evolution, and structure of the protein world"
Feb. 13

Hongyun Wang

UIUC, Student Seminar

"Developmental control of seed oil biosynthesis in Arabidopsis"
Feb. 20

Tony Grift

Ag Engineering, UIUC

"Picking the Low Fruit"
Feb. 27

 

No Seminar
Mar. 4 (Tuesday)

Richard Flavell

CERES, Inc.

Time, Location and Title TBA
Mar. 05

 

No Seminar
Mar. 12

Matt Hunt

UIUC, Student Seminar

"Exploring soybean developmental processes using genomic and transgenic approaches"
Mar. 19

 

Spring Break - No Seminar
Mar. 26

David Braun

Biology, Penn State

"Tie-dyed encodes a novel protein controlling carbohydrate accumulation in maize leaves"

Apr. 2

Gary Stacey

Plant Microbiology & Pathology, Univ. of Missouri

"Legume-Microbe Interactions"
Apr. 9

Jarret I. Glasscock

Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis

"Massively paralel sequencing"
Apr. 16

Roger Hangarty

Biology, Indiana University

"Light-dependent chloroplast movements in leaf cells"

Apr. 23

Ayna Sala

UIUC, Student Seminar

"Regulation of Zein Transgene Expression in Response to Long Term Selection for Grain Protein"

Apr. 25 Friday - 4:00 PM 167 NSRC

Jin Zhu

UIUC, Student Seminar

 

"Cross comparison of photosynthesis inhibition and plant defense"

NOTE TIME AND LOCATION CHANGE

Apr. 30

F. Robert Tabita Microbiology, Ohio State

"What can different forms of Rubisco from the three kingdoms of life tell us about its evolution, function, and potential advantageous modification?"

This seminar series is made possible by the generous support from the Department of Crop Sciences, the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, the Department of  Plant Biology, the School of Integrative Biology, the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and the PMPB program.

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