PLANT & MICROBIAL BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Fall 2002 Seminar Series, 101 Morgan Hall

Monday, 4-5 pm,           Tea: 3:30-4:00 pm, Rm 338 KH

 

Aug. 26:    Angela Hay, UC Berkeley, PMB finishing talk                           (Host: Sarah Hake)

                  “Analysis of Leaf Development and KNOTTED1-Like Homeobox (KNOX) Function in Maize and Arabidopsis”

 

Sept. 2:      Labor Day Holiday

 

Sept. 9: The Buchanan Lecture

Henry Daniell, University of Central Florida                  (Postdoctoral Scholars)

                  “Chloroplast Genetic Engineering: An environmentally friendly approach to create Genetically Modified Crops”

 

Sept. 16:    Patrick Shiu, Stanford University                                               (Host: Louise Glass)

                  “Meiotic Silencing by Unpaired DNA”

 

Sept. 23: The Tsujimoto Lecture

Kelly Dawe, Univ. of Georgia, Athens                                        (Graduate Students)

                  “Title to be announced”

 

Sept. 30:    Dan Kliebenstein, UC Davis                                                     (Host: Kris Niyogi)

                  “Quantitative Genetics, Secondary Metabolism, Insects and Evolution - What can Arabidopsis natural variation tell us?”

 

Oct. 7:       NO SEMINAR

 

Oct. 14:    Russell Jones, UC Berkeley                                                       (Host: Tasios Melis)

                  “Life and Death of the Cereal Endosperm”

 

Oct. 21:     Speaker to be announced,                                                       (Departmental Host)

                  “Title to be announced”

 

Oct. 28:     Steven Brenner, UC Berkeley                                                     (Host: Tasios Melis)

                  “Alternative Splicing and Gene Regulation”

 

Nov. 4:     Lislie Sieburth, Univ. of Utah                                                   (Host: Renee Sung)

                  “Title to be announced”

 

Nov. 11:    Veteran’s Day Holiday

 

Nov. 18:    Dr. Shouwei Ding, UC Riverside                                   (Host: Andy Jackson)

                  “RNA Silencing, an Adaptive Antiviral Defense in Plants and Drosophila”

 

Nov. 25:   Qijun Xiang, UC Berkeley, PMB finishing talk                         (Host: Louise Glass)

                  “Genetic Dissection of Vegetative Incompatibility and Hyphal Fusion in Neurospora crassa”

 

Dec. 2:      Doris Wagner, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia                    (Host: Renee Sung)

                  “Title to be announced”

 

Updated 22-Aug-2002