In 2002, CEPCEB initiated a special seminar series (BPSC252: Special Topics in Botany) in which CEPCEB faculty and postdocs, as well as invited prominent speakers, are scheduled to present and discuss noteworthy research discoveries in the field of plant biology. The seminar series offers a wonderful opportunity for collaborations to be established across disciplines, institutions and levels of experience. The series is sponsored by the Institute for Integrative Genome Biology and conducted on a weekly basis. The coordinators for the 2007 seminar series are Xuemei Chen (Chair), Venugopala G. Reddy, and Tao Jiang.
DATE |
PRESENTER |
TITLE |
LAB OF /
HOSTED BY |
| January 2007 |
1/5/07 |
NO SEMINAR
|
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1/12/07* |
Erik Nielsen
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center,
St. Louis, MO
|
"A Role for Phosphoinositides in Polar Secretion during Root Hair Development” |
Guest Speaker/Yang |
1/16/07**
2:10pm |
Jiming Jiang
Department of Horticulture
University of Wisconsin-Madison |
"Cemtromere: Supposed to be Silent, Makes Lots of Noise" |
Guest Speaker/Jin |
1/19/07
[BH 2158] |
Nina Federoff
The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
Penn State University
|
"Heterotrimeric G Protein and Reactive Oxygen Species Signaling in the Arabidopsis ER Stress Response" |
Guest Speaker/Chen |
1/26/07
|
Young-Tae Chang [IGERT]
Chemistry Department
New York University |
"Facilitated Chemical Genetics Using Tagged Small Molecule Library " |
IGERT Speaker/Raikhel |
| February 2007 |
| 2/2/07
|
Bin Yu
Botany & Plant Sciences |
“Small RNAs in Arabidopsis: Biogenesis and Function” |
Chen Lab
|
2/7/07*
(Wed)
|
Paul Ahlquist
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Institute for Molecular Virology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
|
“Viral RNA replication complex structure, assembly and function” |
Guest Speaker/Ding |
2/9/07* |
Bernard O. Palsson [5th Annual CEPCEB Noel Keen Lecture and Award Ceremony]
Bioengineering Department
University of California, San Diego |
"The Genetic Basis for Adaptation in E. Coli ”
|
CEPCEB Special Lecturer |
2/16/07* |
William Lucas
Plant Biology Department
University of California, Davis
|
"RNA and Protein Trafficking in the Phloem" |
Guest Speaker/Chen |
| 2/23/07 |
NO SEMINAR |
|
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| March 2007 |
3/2/07** |
Xiaoqiang Wang
Department of Mathematics
Florida State University |
"Structures of Uridine Diphosphate Glycosyltransferases - Mechanism of Glycosylation of Plant Natural Products"
|
Guest Speaker/Chen |
3/9/07* |
Jiayu Liao [IGERT Speaker]
UCR Bioengineering Department
|
"The First Small Molecular Agonist for Class B GPCR" |
IGERT Speaker/Bailey-Serres |
3/16/07 |
NO SEMINAR |
|
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| 3/23/07* |
Ben Scheres
Department of Biology
Utrecht University |
"Root Development: A Numbers' Game" |
Guest Speaker/Reddy |
3/30/07* |
Sue Rhee
Department of Plant Biology
Carnegie Institution of Washington |
"Developing and Exploring Systems Biological Approaches to Unravel How Plants Respond to Environmental Stresses "
|
IIGB Speaker/Raikhel |
| April 2007 |
| 4/6/07* |
Thea Wilkins
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
Texas Tech University
|
"Developing Cotton Fibers as a Single-celled Genomics Platform for Studying
Plant Cell Morphogenesis"
|
Guest Speaker/Raikhel |
4/13/07* |
Alan Jones [IGERT Speaker]
Department of Biology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
"An Unusual Sugar Sensing Mechanism in Arabidopsis"
|
IGERT Speaker/Bailey-Serres |
4/20/07 |
NO SEMINAR |
|
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| 4/27/07* |
Arthur Grossman
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Stanford University
|
"Metabolic Processes in Photosynthetic Organisms in the Hot Springs" |
Guest Speaker/Zhu |
4/27/07
10am
138 Eng II |
Peter Schultz
The Scripps Research Institute |
"New Opportunities in Chemistry and Biology " |
IIGB Speaker/Liao |
| May 2007 |
| 5/4/07 |
NO SEMINAR |
|
|
5/11/07* |
Mary Wildermuth [IGERT Speaker]
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley |
"Integrated Approaches for Elucidating the Role of Salicylic Acid in Plant-Pathogen Interactions" |
IGERT Speaker/Bailey-Serres |
5/14/07*
(Mon)
1:30pm |
Natalia Dudareva
Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Purdue University
|
"Plant Volatiles: A Journey into the Unknown" |
Guest Speaker/Raikhel |
| 5/25/07 |
NO SEMINAR |
|
|
| June 2007 |
6/01/07* |
Jian Hua
Plant Biology Department
Cornell University
|
"Plant defense modulated by genetic repressors and temperature" |
Guest Speaker/Chen |
| 6/8/07** |
Charlie Boone [IGERT Speaker]
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research
University of Toronto, Canada |
[CANCELLED] |
IGERT Speaker/Cutler |
6/15/07* |
Elizabeth Haswell
Division of Biology
California Institute of Technology |
"Shape up or Ship out:
Mechanoperception and Mechanosensitive Ion Channels in Arabidopsis"
|
Guest Speaker/Chen |
6/22/07 |
NO SEMINAR |
|
|
6/29/07
BH 1104
|
Harley Smith
Botany & Plant Sciences
University of California, Riverside
|
"Specification of floral cell fate in Arabidopsis" |
Guest Speaker/Springer |
| July 2007 |
7/6/07 |
Ying Fu
Botany & Plant Sciences |
"A ROP GTPase signaling network in the control of plant cell morphogenesis" |
Yang Lab |
7/13/07* |
Cathie Martin
Cell and Developmental Biology
John Innes Center, UK
|
"Designed for attraction:
the specialization of petal cells for pollinator attraction " |
Guest Speaker/ Jin |
7/20/07* |
Mark Bachman [IGERT Speaker]
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering
UC Irvine
|
"LifeChips: Convergence of Microelectronics and Life Science" |
IGERT Speaker/Bailey-Serres |
7/27/07* |
John Fowler
Botany & Plant Pathology Department
Oregon State University
|
"ROP GTPases and the Exocyst Complex: Developmental Roles in Two Model Plants" |
Guest Speaker/Yang |
| August 2007 |
| 8/3/07 |
Colleen Knoth
Botany and Plant Sciences |
"Function and regulation of genes showing late/sustained up-regulation in response to Peronospora" |
Eulgem Lab |
| 8/10/07 |
Andrew Defries
Botany and Plant Sciences |
"LATCA, a Library of Biologically Active Small Molecules for Plant Chemical Genomics" |
Cutler Lab |
8/17/07*
12-3pm
|
CEPCEB-REU 2007 Student Symposium |
This symposium features 10 student presentations from their ten-week summer Research Experiences for Undergraduate experiences in CEPCEB labs |
REU Program Director Patricia Springer |
8/24/07 |
Ruth Chang
Botany & Plant Sciences
|
"MAPK activation in response to oxygen deprivation and re-oxygenation in Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings" |
Bailey-Serres Lab |
| 8/31/07 |
Keun Chae
Botany & Plant Sciences |
"Role of Adhesion Molecules in Plant Reproduction" |
Lord Lab |
| September 2007 |
9/7/07 |
Fan Yang
Botany & Plant Sciences
|
"Investigation of ROP Function in Auxin and ABA Signaling" |
Yang Lab |
9/14/07* |
Charlie Boone [IGERT Speaker]
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research
University of Toronto, Canada |
"Large-scale Mapping of Genetic and Chemical-genetic Interactions in yeast " |
IGERT Speaker/Cutler |
9/21/07* |
Zheng-hua Ye
Plant Biology Department
University of Georgia
|
"Genomic Analysis of Secondary Wall Biosynthesis"
|
Guest Speaker/Yang |
| 9/28/07 |
Jason Wilson
Statistics Department |
"An Alternative Framework for Approaching High Dimensional Data Problems in Bioinformatics" |
Cui Lab |
| October 2007 |
10/5/07* |
Joe Thornton
Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Oregon
|
"The Evolution of Molecular Complexity: Structure –Function Evolution of Steroid Hormone Receptors" |
IIGB Speaker/Sladek |
10/12/07 |
NO SEMINAR
|
|
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10/19/07*
|
Eliot Herman
Plant Genetics Research Unit/USDA-ARS
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center |
"Altering Soybean Seed Protein Content, its biology, its rules, and its opportunities" |
Guest Speaker/Raikhel |
10/26/07 |
Qijun Xiang
Plant Pathology & Microbiology Department |
"The identification of cis- and trans-elements involved in spore-specific gene expression in Phytophthora infestans" |
Judelson Lab |
| November 2007 |
11/2 - 4/07 |
IGERT RETREAT
|
IGERT Retreat with UCSD IGERT Group: San Diego County |
|
| 11/9/07* |
Scott Peck
Department of Biochemistry
University of Missouri-Columbia |
"Phosphoproteomics Reveals New Insights into Plant-Microbe Interactions" |
Guest Speaker/Raikhel |
| 11/12/07 |
Tsutomu Kawasaki
Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan |
"G Protein-mediated Immunity Response in Rice" |
Guest Speaker/Eulgem |
11/16/07*
|
Hong Wu
Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
University of California, Los Angeles
|
[CANCELLED] |
IIGB Speaker/Li |
| 11/23/07 |
NO SEMINAR |
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY |
|
| 11/30/07 |
Raymond St. Leger
Entomology Department
University of Maryland |
"Using genomics, the insect immune system and a scorpion neurotoxin to make entomopathogenic fungi hypervirulent to insects" |
IIGB Speaker/Federici |
| December 2007 |
| 12/7/07* |
Paul Hergenrother [IGERT Speaker]
Department of Chemistry
University of Illinois
|
"Using Small Molecules to Identify Novel Anti-Cancer Targets"
|
IGERT Speaker/Pirrung |
12/7/07*
10am |
David Ehrhardt
Department of Plant Biology
Carnegie Institution of Washington
|
"Molecular Dynamics of Plant Cell Morphogenesis" |
Guest Speaker/Yang |
| 12/14/07* |
Michael Hasegawa
Horticulture & Landscape Architecture
Purdue University |
"Sumoylation in plant responses to abiotic stresses" |
Guest Speaker/Zhu |
12/17/07*
(Mon) |
Carolyn Schultz
School of Agriculture, Food and Wine
The University of Adelaide, Australia
|
"FAXCICLIN-LIKE-ARABINOGALACTAN-PROTEINS: Turgor sensing and regulation in the plant cell wall-plasma membrane-cytoskeleton continuum" |
Guest Speaker/Raikhel |
| 12/28/07 |
NO SEMINAR - Holiday Break |
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