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Plant Gene Expression Center
2008/2009 Seminar Series
Conference Room 2/3, 12 noon -1 p.m.
USDA/ARS, UC Berkeley, 800 Buchanan St., Albany, CA 94710


* Fall 2008 *
September 4 Katie Dehesh, UC Davis (Host: Barbara Baker)
Rapid stress responsive transcriptional networks in Arabidopsis
September 11Beth Thompson (Hake), Min Shao (Ow)
September 18Sadaf Khan (Harmon)
September 25Monica Alandete (McCormick), Shimei Wu (Ow)
October 2Yan Zhang (McCormick), Chan Man Ha (Fletcher)
October 9JinSun Kim (Fletcher), Yu Zhang (Quail)
October 16 George Coupland, Max Planck Institute (Host: Frank Harmon)
Seasonal control of flowering in annual and perennial plants
October 23Helena Pires (Fletcher)
October 30Bryan Thines (Harmon)
November 6 Nevan Krogan, UCSF (Host: Peter Quail)
Functional Insight from Protein-Protein and Genetic Interaction Maps
November 13 Yunde Zhao, UC San Diego (Host: Jennifer Fletcher)
The roles of local auxin synthesis in plant organogenesis
November 20Chan Man Ha (Fletcher), Yue-feng Guan (McCormick)
November 27NO TALKS - Thanksgiving
December 4Pablo Leivar (Quail), JinSun Kim (Fletcher)
December 11 Ursula Goodenough, Washington U (Host: George Chuck)
December 18 Robin Buell, Michigan State (Host: Barbara Baker)
" Gaining insight into the rice genome through whole genome analyses "
December 25NO TALKS - Holiday Break
HOLIDAY BREAK
* Spring 2009 *
January 1 NO TALKS - New Year
January 8 Natalie Bolduc (Hake)
January 22 Tom Gerats, Radboud University Nijmegen (Host: Mily Ron)
Transposon mutagenesis in Petunia: genes involved in floral development.
January 29 Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada, CINVESTAV, (Host: Sarah Hake)
Female germ cell specification in the ovule of Arabidopsis thaliana
February 5 Luca Comai, UC Davis (Host: Sheila McCormick)
The genetic and epigenetic determinants of dosage-sensitive postzygotic incompatibility
February 19 Marja Timmermans, - CSHL (Hosts: Mily Ron & Leonor Boavida)
Small RNAs as Mobile Signals in Plant Development
March 5 Feng Li (Baker), Mily Ron (McCormick)
March 19 George Chuck (Hake)
March 26Weimin Ni (Quail), Elisa Fiume (Fletcher)
April 2 Bonnie Bartel, Rice University (Host: Sakis Theologis)
Using Arabidopsis to find new roles for peroxisomes and peroxins
April 9NO TALKS
April 16NO TALKS
April 23 Siobhan Brady , UC Davis (Host: Mily Ron)
April 30Cancelled
May 7 John Vogel, WRRC
Brachypodium distachyon
May 14 Nick Kaplinsky, Swarthmore College (Host: Sarah Hake)
"Hot and BOBBERED"
May 21Jihyun Moon (Hake), Devin O'Connor (Hake)
May 28Frank Yau (Ow), Scott Rowe (Harmon)
June 4 Elliot Meyerowitz, Caltech (Host: Jennifer Fletcher)
Live imaging and computational models of stem cell behavior in the Arabidopsis shoot apical meristem
June 11 Ji Hyung Jun (Fletcher)
June 18 Jose Dinneny, - TLL Singapore (Host: Jennifer Fletcher)
Towards a spatiotemporal understanding of the salt stress response
June 25-August 20 Summer Break
SUMMER BREAK


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