Plant Gene
Expression Center
2003/2004 Seminar Series
Conference Room 2/3, 12 noon -1 p.m.
September
25 Dr. Loy Volkman, PMB, UC-Berkeley
"Lessons on hijacking
the actin cytoskeleton from the baculovirus bag-o-
tricks"
Host: Sarah Hake
October
23 Dr.
Chuck Gasser,
Dept. Plant Biology, UC-Davis
"Regulatory interactions
in ovule morphogenesis"
Host: Sheila McCormick
October
30 Dr.
Sakis Theologis, PGEC
"The Arabidopsis
ORFeome"
Host: Peter Quail
November
06 Dr. John Bowman, Dept. Plant Biology,
UC-Davis
"Polarity of
leaves"
Host: Graduate Students
(Colin Leasure et al.)
December
11 Dr. Phil Newmark, Dept. Cell and Structural
Biology, Univ. Illinois
"Planarian regeneration: a classic problem enters the era of
functional genomics"
Host: Jenn Fletcher
January
22 Dr.
Xing Wang Deng,
Dept. Biology, Yale U.
"Light control of plant
development: another progress report"
Host: Peter Quail
January
29 Dr.
Xuemei Chen,
Rutgers
"Small RNAs in plant
reproductive development"
Host: Jenn Fletcher
February
05 Dr.
Carl Thummel,
HHMI, Dept. Human Genetics, Univ. Utah
"Steroid regulation of
gene expression during Drosophila development"
Host: Jenn Fletcher
April
15 Dr.
Hugo Dooner,
Rutgers
"Maize genome organization
revealed from recombination
and transposition studies of
the bronze region"
Host: Sarah Hake
May
06 Dr.
Kris Niyogi,
Dept. PMB, UC-Berkeley
"It's not easy being
green"
Host: David Ow
May
13 Dr.
Dina Mandoli,
Dept. Biology, Univ. Washington
"The joys and pitfalls
of accessing non-model systems in the genomic
age: what happens when
evolution, development, physiology,
systematics and genomics fuse
in the kitchen sink of science "
Host: Peter Quail