Monday, 4-5 pm, 101 Morgan Hall
Tea: 3:30-4:00 pm, Rm 338 KH
08 January: Don Bryant, Penn State University (Tasios Melis) SPECIAL SEMINAR
Complete genomic sequence analysis of the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum: what we have learned so far and prospects for the future.
22 January: Barry Pogson, Australian National University (Kris Niyogi)
Insights into carotenoid biosynthesis, photoprotection and photomorphogenesis
29 January: TBA
05 February: Neal Van Alfen, UC Davis (Andy Jackson)
Molecular basis of disruption of host development by a fungal virus
12 February: Don Hunt, University of Virginia (Sheng Luan)
Proteomics: Automated identification of peptides and proteins at the attomole level in complex mixtures by mass spectrometry
19 February: HOLIDAY
26 February: Steffen Abel, UC Davis (Renee Sung)
Auxin, phosphorus, and mustard oils - three addictions to uncontrolled substances
05 March: George Lorimer, University of Maryland (Bob Buchanan) ARNON LECTURE
Protein machines II. The chaperonins Machine, n a device that transmits or modifies force or motion (Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary)12 March: John Walker, University of Missouri (Sheng Luan)
Genetic dissection of transmembrane signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana
19 March: Nancy Keller, Texas A&M University (Louise Glass)Molecular and genetic relationships between sporulation and mycotoxin production in Aspergillus nidulans
26 March: SPRING RECESS
02 April: Ian Godwin, University of Queensland (Peggy Lemaux)
Golden promise and the 14,0000 BARES: A tall tail of a rampant retrotransposon and the barley genome.
09 April: Peter Schürmann, U. of Neuchatel (Postdoctoral Scholars) BUCHANAN LECTURE
From observations to molecular structures: the emergence of the ferredoxin/thioredoxin system16 April: Ann Britt, UC Davis (Kris Niyogi)
DNA damage-induced checkpoint response in plants
23 April: Matt Metz, UC Berkeley (finishing talk, Brian Staskawicz)Tug of War: Interplay between plant defenses and pathogen virulence factors
30 April: Christine Foyer, IACR Rothamsted, UK (Grad Students) TSUJIMOTO LECTURE
Title to be announced07 May: June Nasrallah, Cornell University (Pat Zambryski)
Latest development in pollen self- incompatibilty
21 May: Fred Gould (Postdoctoral Scholars)
Sustainable design and use of transgenic pesticidal crops