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Department of Plant Biology
University of Minnesota
250 Biological Science Center
1445 Gortner Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55108

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Seminars and Events

PBS Colloquium Seminar Series
Spring 2009

Seminars are held in Rm 335 Borlaug at 3:30 pm

Date
Speaker
Title

Jan.
13

Dr. Chad Myers
Dept. of Computer Science/ Engineering - U of M

Discovering biological networks through computational models for genomic data integration

Jan.
20

Dr. Jennifer Normanly
Univeristy of Massachusetts
Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Molecular Genetic & Metabolite profiling analysis of tryptophan metabolism in plants
Jan.
27

OPEN

Feb.
3
Dr. Jerry Cohen
University of Minnesota
Dept. of Horticultural Science
At the intersection of plant hormone signaling and proteomics
Feb.
10
Dr. Gary Drews
University of Utah
Dept. of Biology
Regulation of female gametophyte & endosperm development in arabidopsis
Feb.
17

OPEN

Feb.
24

PBio Evolutionary Biology Faculty Position Applicant

Evolutionary and molecular genetics of adaptive flower color divergence in Mimulus
Feb.
26

PBio Evolutionary Biology Faculty Position Applicant
Note: This is a Thursday!
Location: 105 Cargill

Floral evolution and diversification in Andean Iochroma (Solanaceae)
Mar.
5
PBio Evolutionary Biology Faculty Position Applicant
Note: This is a Thursday!
Location: 105 Cargill
TBA
Mar.
9
PBio Evolutionary Biology Faculty Position Applicant
Note: This is a Monday!
Location: 105 Cargill
The evolutionary ecology of colonization: insights from the genetics and genomics of plant invasions
Mar.
10

Dr. Sheng Yang He
Michigan State University
MSU-DOE Plant Research Lab

CANCELLED!!!!
Mar.
17

SPRING BREAK

Mar.
24

Dr. Craig Pikaard
Washington University in St. Louis
Dept. of Biology

Roles of nuclear RNA polymerases IV & V in RNA-mediated gene silencing
Mar.
31
Dr. David Somers
Monsanto
Monsanto's Biotechnology pipeline
Apr.
7
Dr. William Lucas
HAMM Memorial Lecturer
University of California - Davis
Department of Plant Biology
Plasmodesmata & the Phloem: Partners in the trafficking of information macromolecules
Apr.
14
Dr. Clint Chapple
Perdue University
Department of Biochemistry
Genetics & biochemistry of lifnin biosynthesis in land plants
Apr.
21
Dr. Outi Savolainen
University of Oulu
Department of Biology
TBA
Apr.
28
Dr. Sarah Ward
Colorado State University
Dept. of Soil & Crop Sciences
Interspecific hybridization & genetic structure in invasive Linariapopulations
May
5
Dr. Sharon Long
Stanford University
Dept. of Biological Sciences
TBA

Any questions regarding speakers, please contact Patrice Myers (pmyers@umn.edu)

Seminars in Other Departments

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Department of Entomology
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
Department of Horticulture Sciences
Department of Microbiology
Department of Neuroscience
Department of Plant Pathology
Community Genetics

 
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