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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