Spring 2012 Plant Biology Graduate Program Seminar Series

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Date: 27-Jan
Speaker: Dr. Christopher J. Williams, Franklin & Marshall College
Title: "Polar forests on an ice-free earth: Lessons for the future from the fossil record"
Host: Ari Novy & Lena Struwe
Date: 3-Feb
Speaker: Dr. Yin-Long Qiu, University of Michigan
Title: "Mycorrhizas and the Colonization of Land by Plants"
Host: Debashish Bhattacharya & Lena Struwe
Date: 10-Feb
Speaker: Allison J. Miller, Saint Louis University
Title: "Origin and Evolution of Perennial Crop Species"
Host: Lena Struwe
Date: 17-Feb
Speaker: Arthur Tucker, Delaware State University
Title: TBD
Host: Lena Struwe
Date: 24-Feb
Speaker: Damon Little, The New York Botanical Garden
Title: Plant DNA barcoding: Markers to Application
Host: Lena Struwe
Date: 2-Mar
Speaker: Harry Klee, University of Florida,Gainesville, FL
Title: Genetics and Biochemistry of Complex Trait - Tomato Flavor
Host: Tom Leustek
Date: 9-Mar
Speaker: Erwin Grill, Technische Universitat Munchen, Freising, Germany
Title: Long and Short Distance Signaling of Water Deficit in Plants
Host: Joachim Messing
Date: 23-Mar
Speaker: Alice Barkan
Title: "Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of the Roles of Pentatricipeptide Repeat Proteins in Organellar Gene Expression."
Host: Pal Maliga
Date: 30-Mar
Speaker: Roger Deal, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Title: "Chromatin Dynamics and Cell Fate Specification"
Host: Eric Lam
Date: 6-Apr
Speaker: George Chuck
Title: "Domesticating New Biofuel Crop Plants Using microRNAs."
Host: Hugo Dooner
Date: 13-Apr
Speaker: Dominique Bergman, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Title: TBD
Host: Juan Dong
Date: 20-Apr
Speaker: David Jackson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Title: TBD
Host: Andrea Gallavotti
Date: 27-Apr
Speaker: Eva Kondorosi
Title: TBD
Host: Zora Maliga

All seminars are held Fridays at 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm in 138A Foran Hall unless otherwise noted.

Please contact the respective host by email if you would like to meet the speaker.

For further information:
Harry Janes, 732-932-9711 x243, janes@aesop.rutgers.edu
Ms. Kathy Larrabee, 732-932-9375 x358, plantbio@aesop.rutgers.edu

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