Seminars given: 2001/2002 (October-May)

• Friday, October 5
  Dr. Krishna Niyogi - University of California, Berkeley, CA (niyogi@nature.berkeley.edu) It's not easy being green Host: Arthur Grossman
• Friday, October 12
  Dr. Frederic Partensky - Station Biologique, CNRS, Roscoff, France Speciation processes in Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant photosynthetic organism in the ocean Host: Devaki Bhaya
• Friday, October 19
  Dr. John Zehr - University of California, Santa Cruz, CA (zehrj@cats.ucsc.edu) Molecular ecology of nitrogen fixation in the sea: From gene expression to global carbon cycling Host: Chris Field
• Friday, October 26
  Dr. Patrick Shiu - (Metzenberg lab) Meiotic Silencing of Unpaired DNA
  Dr. Brent Helliker - (Berry lab) The environmental record in your front lawn: oxygen isotopes in grass leaf cellulose.
• Friday, November 2
  Dr. Danny Schnell - University of Massachusetts (dschnell@biochem.umass.edu) The protein import machinery of chloroplasts Host: Arthur Grossman
• Friday, November 9
  Dr. George Rudenko - (Walbot lab) Post-transcriptional regulation and epigenetic control of MuDR/Mu transposons in maize
  Dr. Qingfang He - (Grossman lab) The high light inducible polypeptides (HLIP) in Synechocytis PCC6803: Function and Regulation
• Friday, November 16
  Dr. C. Barry Osmond - Columbia University - Biosphere 2 (osmond@bio2.columbia.edu) Boom or Bust at Biosphere 2 Host: Joe Berry
• Friday, November 23
  HOLIDAY
• Friday, November 30
  Dr. Debra Delmer - University of California, Davis (dpdelmer@ucdavis.edu) Some new insights into the mechanism of cellulose synthesis in plants Host: Chris Somerville
• Friday, December 7
  Dr. Gert deBoer - (C. Somerville lab) No carbohydrates, only green and fat
  Dr. Melanie Barnett - (Long lab) Complete genome sequence of the legume symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti
• Friday, December 14
  Dr. Maria Harrison - Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation (mjharrison@noble.org) The arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis: an underground association Host: Shauna Somerville
• Friday, January 11
  Wolfgang Lukowitz - (C. Somerville lab) Mutations affecting cell fate decisions in the early Arabidopsis embryo
  Yang Rae Cho - (Walbot lab) Gene expression profile comparisons among thirteen organs of maize using cDNA microarrays
• Friday, January 18
  Dr. Jeffrey Palmer - Indiana University (jpalmer@bio.indiana.edu) Evolutionary Transfer of Mitochrondrial Genes to the Nucleus: When, What, How, and Why? Host: Arthur Grossman
• Friday, January 25
  John Sedbrook - (C. Sommerville lab) Delving into the molecular mechanisms underlying directional cell expansion in Plants
  Mark Lambrecht - (TAIR) Development of computational tools to annotate and analyze genomic data of Arabidopsis thaliana
• Friday, February 1
  CANCELLED - Dr. Ralph Quatrano will be rescheduled in spring
• Friday, February 8
  Derek Wells - (Long lab) The Sinorhizobium meliloti stringent response affects multiple aspects of Symbiosis
  Florent Mouillot - (Field lab) Biomass burning and global carbon budget: a historical approach
• Friday, February 15
  Dr. David Baum - University of Wisconsin, Madison (dbaum@facstaff.wisc.edu) Flowering trees to flowering genes: searching for the genetic causes of morphological evolution Host: David Ackerly
• Friday, February 22
  Martin Lohr - (Grossman lab) The golden age of xanthophyll re-cycling
  Lukas Mueller - (TAIR) AraCyc, a Biochemical Pathway Database for Arabidopsis thaliana
• Friday, March 1
  Dr. Mark Estelle - University of Texas, Austin (mestelle@mail.utexas.edu) Auxin Regulates Degradation of Transcriptional Repressors Host: Zhiyong Wang
• Friday, March 8
  Chung Soon Im - (Grossman lab) Identification and regulation of high-light induced genes in Chlamydomonas
  Lisa Moore - (Field lab) Measuring plants' influence underground
• Friday, March 15
  Dr. Bo Liu - University of California, Davis (bliu@ucdavis.edu) Kinesin-related motor proteins in plant cytokinesis Host: David Ehrhardt

• Friday, April 5
  Dr. Sue Rhee - (TAIR) TAIR today
  Dr. Katrina Ramonell - (S. Somerville lab) Microarray data: current analysis tools
• Friday, April 12
  Dr. Elaine Tobin - (University of California, Los Angeles, CA) The circadian clock of Arabidopsis
• Friday, April 19
  Dr. Charles Yanofsky - (Stanford University, Stanford, CA) Tryptophan metabolism and its regulation in bacteria
  Dr. Angela Valbuzzi - (C. Yanofsky lab) Mechanism of action of the anti-TRAP regulatory protein of Bacillus subtilis
• Friday, April 26
  Dr. Yuki Mizukami - (University of California, Berkeley, CA) Mitosis and Endoreduplication: Alternative Cell Cycle Strategies for Plant Growth
• Friday, May 3
  NO SEMINAR (CIW Centenary)
• Friday, May 10
  Dr. Tom Juenger - (University of California, Berkeley, CA) QTL mapping in Arabidopsis thaliana: exploring the genetic architecture of morphological integration and phenotypic plasticity
• Friday, May 17
  Raka Mitra - (Long lab) Plant gene expression in the Rhizobium/legume symbiosis
  Dr. Dominque Bergmann - (C. Somerville lab) Asymmetric cell division in Arabidopsis development: new mutants in stomatal pattern
• Friday, May 24
  Dr. Ralph Quatrano - (Washington University, St. Louis, MO) Genetic approaches to the study of intracellular polarity in plants using the moss Physcomitrella
• Friday, May 31
  Dr. Jeff Hicke - (Asner lab) Trends in North American net primary productivity derived from satellite observations
  Dr. Pablo Jenik - (Barton lab) Embryos: Placement of the shoot-root axis in Arabidopsis
• Friday, June 7
  T.B.A.