PLANT & MICROBIAL BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT

Fall 2001 Seminar Series

101 Morgan Hall

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

 

Sept. 10:    Kirk Apt, Martek Biosciences                                                     (Kris Niyogi, host)

                  "Plastid Protein Targeting and Metabolic Engineering of Microalgae"

 

Sept. 17:    Seminar Postponed

 

Sept 24:     Hong Ma, Penn State University                                                 (Sheng Luan, host)

;Molecular genetic analysis of meiotic homologue interaction and segregation in Arabidopsis

 

Oct. 1:       Ken Cline, University of Florida, BUCHANAN LECTURE, (Postdoc Scholars) ;Protein trafficking to the photosynthetic membranes within chloroplasts

 

Oct. 8:      Tsvi Sachs, Hebrew University of Jerusalem                             (Renee Sung, host)

                  Internal competition has a role in the generation of plant form

 

Oct. 15:     Jonathan Walton, Michigan State University                            (Louise Glass, host)

                  "Roles of Histone Deacetylase in Plant/Pathogen Interactions

 

Oct. 22:     Kathy Osteryoung, Michigan State University                         (Kris Niyogi, host)

;The Chloroplast division apparatus: molecular dissection of a cellular

machine

 

Oct. 29:     Dr. Larry Grill, Biosource, Inc.                                      (Peggy Lemaux host)

;Large Scale Production of Pharmaceuticals in Plants

 

Nov. 5:     Pat Zambryski, UC Berkeley                                                    (Tasios Melis, host)

;Plasmodesmata: Gatekeepers for intercellular communication in plants"

 

Nov. 12:    Jack Keene, Duke University                                                     (Loy Volkman, host)

"Ribonucleoprotein infrastructure regulating the flow of genetic information between the genome and the proteome"

 

Nov. 19:    Alice Barkan, University of Oregon                                           (Sarah Hake, host)

;Protein-facilitated group II intron splicing in chloroplasts: a nuclear gene family encodes intron-specific splicing factors

 

Nov. 26:   Dr. Sebastian Bednarek, U. of Wisconsin/Madison                 (Sheng Luan, host)

;Role of the 68kDa Arabidopsis dynamin-like protein family in plant development ;

 

Dec. 3:      Jennifer Bragg - PMB Finishing Talk                                       (Andy Jackson, host)

;Properties of BSMV gb protein

 

Dec. 10:    Herve Vaucheret, INRA (French Institute for Agronomy Research)

TSUJIMOTO LECTURE    (Graduate Students)

                  "Genetic dissection of gene silencing in Arabidopsis

Revised 20-Sep-2001