Date/Host	Speaker	TITLE
January 26, 1998 Norm Pace	Lynda Goff Department of Biology UC Santa Cruz	"Algal parasites"
February 2, 1998 Graduate Students	Natasha Raikhel MSU/DOE Plant Research Laboratory Michigan State University	"Transport to the vacuole: Receptors and trans elements"
February 9, 1998 Norm Pace	Mitch Sogin Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, Massachusetts	"Perspectives on Eukaryotic genomes"
******************** Note: Tuesday February 17, 1998 Sheng Luan	Peter Hepler ***Room TBA*** Biology Department University of Massachusetts	"The role of calcium and the cytoskeleton in pollen tube growth"
February 23, 1998 Sheng Luan	Michael Sussman Biotech Center University of Wisconsin	"Phenotypic analysts of 'knockout' Arabidopsis mutants in genes encoding plasma membrane transporters and protein kinases"
March 2, 1998 Sheng Luan Proj:	Winslow Briggs Carnegie Institute Stanford University	"Signal transduction in phototropism: Probing an elusive pathway in plants"
March 9, 1998 Graduate Students	Alan Jones Department of Biology University of North Carolina	"Terminal differentiation of tracheary elements a secreted protease to coordinate programmed cell death with wall formation"
March 16, 1998 Anastasios Melis	Irene Baroli Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology UC Berkeley	"Dynamics of the light-induced inactivation of photosystem II and its repair. An in vivo study"
March 30, 1998 Russell Jones	Sarah Swanson Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology UC Berkeley	"Hormonal regulation of vacuolar pH and tonoplast transport in barley aleurone"
April 6, 1998 Norm Pace	Darryl Kropf Department of Biology University of Utah	"Cell polarity in plant zygotes"
April 13, 1998 Mike Freeling	Justine Walsh Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology UC Berkeley	"LIGULELESS2: A basic-leucine zipper protein involved in the establishment of the maize blade-sheath boundary"
April 20, 1998 Brian Staskawicz	Giles Oldroyd Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology UC Berkeley	"The function of Prf, a resistance gene of tomato"
April 27, 1998 Norm Pace	Jeff Palmer Dept. of Biology Indiana University	"Rollercoaster evolution: Huge and reversible changes in mutation rates in plant mitochondrial genomes"
May 4, 1998 Tom Bruns	Richard Michelmore Dept. of Vegetable Crops UC Davis	"Clusters of resistance genes in plants"
May 11, 1998 Don Kaplan & Lewis Feldman	Zygmunt Hejnowicz Dept. of Biophysics and Cell Biology Silesian University POLAND	"A central role for mechanical forces and stresses in plant cells and organs in providing location-specific information"
May 18, 1998 Lewis Feldman	Edgar Moctezuma Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology UC Berkeley	"Gravitropic mechanisms of the peanut gynophore"
June 1, 1998 Lewis Feldman	Stacy Steinberg Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology UC Berkeley	"Leaf shape and leaf shape development in Arabidopsis"