DEPARTMENT OF PLANT & MICROBIAL BIOLOGY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

Spring 2004 Seminar Series

Mondays:   Seminar 4-5 pm, 101 Barker           Reception 5-6 pm, Koshland lobby

 

Jan. 26:      Wolf Frommer, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford               (Host: Sheng Luan)

                  “FRET imaging of sugar transport and metabolism”

 

Feb. 2:       Zac Cande, University of California, Berkeley                                        (Host: Andy Jackson)

                  “Meiotic prophase chromosome behavior in maize meiocytes”

 

Feb. 9:       Alfred Spormann, Stanford University                                                  (Host: Sydney Kustu)

                  “Dynamics and control of Shewanella oneidensis biofilms”

 

Feb. 23:     TBA

 

March 1:    DANIEL I. ARNON LECTURE 1

Bob Whatley, Oxford University                                                            (Host: Bob Buchanan)

                  “Chloroplasts revisited: Berkeley 1948–64”

 

March 8:    Esther Angert, Cornell University                                                           (Host: Graduate Students)

                  “Epulopiscium spp.: bacteria living large”

 

March 15: DANIEL I. ARNON LECTURE 2

Jean-David Rochaix, University of Geneva                                           (Host: Kris Niyogi)

                  “Biogenesis and acclimation of the photosynthetic apparatus in Chlamydomonas”

 

March 29:  Howard Ochman, University of Arizona                                    (Host: Kathleen Ryan)

                  “Genomes as gene homes: the evolution of gene contents in bacteria”

 

April 5:      Joe Ecker, Salk Institute                                                                           (Host: Paul Ludden)

                  “Weeding out the genes: whole genome studies of Arabidopsis”

 

April 12:   Karen Kaczorowski, Ph.D. finishing talk                                               (Host: Peter Quail)

                  “Arabidopsis PSEUDO RESPONSE REGULATOR 7 is a signalling intermediate in phytochrome regulated seedling de-etiolation and phasing of the circadian clock”

 

April 19:    James Alfano, University of Nebraska                                                    (Host: Postdocs)

                  “TBA”

 

April 26:    Philip Benfey, Duke University                                                              (Host: Mary Wildermuth)

                  “TBA”

 

May 3:       Hou-Sung Jung, Ph.D. finishing talk                                                      (Host: Kris Niyogi)

                  “Molecular genetics of non-photochemical quenching in Arabidopsis”

 

May 10:     Lisa Grubisha, Ph.D. finishing talk                                                        (Host: Tom Bruns)

                  “Effects of geographic barriers and distance on California island and coastal Rhizopogon communities”

 

May 17:     Antonio Izzo, Ph.D. finishing talk                                                          (Host: Tom Bruns)

                  “TBA”