DEPARTMENT OF PLANT & MICROBIAL BIOLOGY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

Fall 2003 Seminar Series

Mondays:   Seminar 4-5 pm, 2060 VLSB           Reception 5-6 pm, Koshland lobby

 

Sept. 8:      Shauna Somerville, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford        (Host: Mary Wildermuth)

                  “Mutational analysis of susceptibility suggests an informational role for the host cell wall in plant-pathogen interactions”

 

Sept. 15:    Adam Arkin, LBNL, UC-Berkeley, and HHMI                                          (Host: Kris Niyogi)

                  “The comparative analysis of microbial stress response”

 

Sept. 22:    Bob Fischer, University of California, Berkeley                                      (Host: Mary Wildermuth)

                  “Imprinting - at the intersection of DNA repair and gene transcription”

 

Sept. 29:    Leland Pierson, University of Arizona                                                    (Host: Steve Lindow)

                  “In the garden of good and evil: potential roles and regulation of secondary metabolite production by Pseudomonas aureofaciens”

 

Oct. 6:       Karen Osmont, PhD Finishing talk                                                         (Host: Mike Freeling)

                  “extended auricle 1 (eta1), an essential component of the genetic network controlling maize leaf development”

 

Oct. 13:     Raoul Ranjeva, Université P. Sabatier, Toulouse, France                       (Host: Russell Jones)

                  “Cytosolic and nuclear calcium signalling, a means to determine plant cell response specificity?”

 

Oct. 20:     Jennifer Pfluger, PhD Finishing talk                                                      (Host: Pat Zambryski)

                  “seuss, ettin, auxin response and flower development”

 

Oct. 27:     Vitaly Citovsky, State University of New York, Stony Brook                (Host: Pat Zambryski)

                  “Partners-in-infection: host proteins involved in genetic transformation of plant cells by Agrobacterium”

 

Nov. 3:      TSUJIMOTO LECTURE

Rob Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory                                (Host: Graduate Students)

                  “Transposable elements, RNA interference and the origin of heterochromatin”

 

Nov. 10:   Jeremy Dettman, PhD Finishing talk                                                      (Host: Tom Bruns)

                  “Phylogenetic divergence and reproductive isolation in Neurospora”

 

Nov. 17:    BUCHANAN LECTURE

Julian Schroeder, University of California, San Diego                           (Host: Postdocs)

                  “Guard cell signal transduction: from genomics to cellular signaling dynamics”

 

Nov. 24:    Sarah Assmann, Pennsylvania State University                                      (Host: Russell Jones)

                  “TBA”

 

Dec. 1:       Eduardo Blumwald, University of California, Davis                             (Host: Sheng Luan)

                  “Vacuolar cation/proton antiporters”

 

Dec. 8:       David Bartel, MIT and Whitehead Institute                    (Hosts: Kris Niyogi and Kathy Collins)
Jointly sponsored by the Departments of Plant & Microbial Biology and Molecular & Cell Biology

                  “Tiny regulatory RNAs in animals and plants”