Seminar in Plant Biology
PBI 290B (CRN 44289) Spring 2015
Supported by the Plant Biology Graduate Group
Seminars are Fridays, 12:10 – 1:00pm, 1022 LSA (Life Sciences Addition)
Date
Title
Speaker
Apr. 3
Competing paths and interests - mapping steps
in sugar translocation in plants
Wolf Frommer, Carnegie Institution for Science
Host – Georgia Drakakaki ([email protected])
Apr. 10
Plant Epidermal Patterning: Fate,
Communication, and Decision-Making
Keiko Torii, University of Washington
Host – Chuck Gasser ([email protected])
Apr. 17
Cell-type innate immunity in Arabidopsis
Maeli Melotto, UC Davis, Dept. of Plant Sciences
Host - Florence Negre-Zakharov ([email protected])
Apr. 24
Getting the most out of plant cell walls:
transcriptional regulation of secondary cell wall
deposition and natural variation in woody
biomass traits
Carl Douglas, University of British Columbia
Host – Andrew Groover ([email protected])
May 1
Linking cellulose to cortical microtubules
Ying Gu, Penn State University
Host –Bo Liu ([email protected])
May 8
Evolution and engineering of symbiotic
associations between plants and microbes
Jean-Michel Ané, University of Wisconsin
Host – Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra ([email protected])
May 15
Danger sensing and signaling in plant immunity
Yusuke Saijo, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Host – Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar
([email protected])
May 22
Comparative Genomes Coupled with Functional
Analyses to Discover Novel Factors Critical for
Photosynthesis
Arthur Grossman, Carnegie Institution for Science
Host – Clark Lagarias ([email protected])
May 29
The importance of quiescent stem cells for plant
development
Lieven De Veylder, VIB-UGent, Belgium
Host – Anne Britt ([email protected])
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