The following is the schedule for seminars during the 2002/2003 Academic year.
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are given in the Carnegie Institution Seminar Room on Friday afternoons at 4:00. Refreshments are provided at 3:45.

• Friday, September 20
  Dr. Dave Ehrhardt - (Ehrhardt Lab) Illuminating cell structure and dynamics in living plant cells
• Friday, September 27
  Dr. Chentao Lin - University of California, Los Angeles, CA (clin@protos.lifesci.ucla.edu) How cryptochromes work in Arabidopsis Host: Winslow Briggs
• Friday, October 4
  Dr. Jeffrey Moseley - (Grossman Lab) What on earth does copper have to do with chlorophyll biosynthesis in Chlamydomonas?
• Friday, October 11
  Dr. Jean Greenberg - University of Chicago, Illinois (jgreenbe@midway.uchicago.edu) New tools for dissecting host-pathogen interactions using the Arabidopsis-Pseudomonas syringae model system. Host: Shauna Somerville
• Tuesday, October 15
  Dr. Thierry Meinnel - Institut des Sciences du Vegetal, France Control of Protein Half-Life by N-Terminal Methionine Excision. Host: Arthur Grossman
• Friday, October 18 11:00 a.m.
  Dr. Debbie Alexander - Oxford The role of Corkscrew in maize shoot development Host: Kathy Barton
• Friday, October 18 Location: Herrin T175 Time 3:30
  Dr. Brenda Reinhart - (Barton Lab) MicroRNAs in Plants
  Dr. Arthur Grossman - (Grossman Lab) What do photosynthetic organisms do when they are starved?
• Friday, October 25
  Dr. Roger Innes - Indiana University (rinnes@bio.indiana.edu) Pathogen Perception by Plants: New Models for Old Questions. Host: Shauna Somerville
• Friday, November 1 11:30 a.m.
  Sonja Vorwerck - (Chris Somerville Lab) Functional analysis of kelch protein from maize
• Friday, November 1
  Dr. Neelima Sinha - (visiting scientist, UC-Davis) Gene expression during the development and evolution of leaves Host: Barton Lab
• Friday, November 8
  Dr. Peter McCourt - University of Toronto Information between development and hormones in Arabidopsis Host: Chris Somerville
• Friday, November 15 Location: Herrin T175 Time: 3:30
  Dr. Kathy Barton - (Barton Lab) Leaf polarity and meristem formation in Arabidopsis
  Dr. Julie Roden - (Mudgett Lab) What proteins are Xanthomonas injecting into plant cells during pathogenesis?
• Friday, November 22 1:00 Carnegie Seminar Room
  Dr. John T. Kennis - Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Primary reactions of the LOV2 domain of the plant blue light receptor phototropin. Host: Winslow Briggs
• Friday, November 22
  Dr. Sarah Hake - University of California, Berkeley (maizesh@nature.berkeley.edu) The role of knox genes in maize and Arabidopsis Host: Zhiyong Wang
• Friday, December 6
  Dr. Zhenhui He - San Francisco State University, CA (zhe@sfsu.edu) Funcional analyses of cell wall associated kinase genes in Arabidopsis Host: Zhiyong Wang
• Friday, December 13 Location: Herrin T175 Time: 3:15
  Wolfgang Lukowitz - (Chris Somerville Lab) YODA: a map3 kinase implicated in development
  Dr. Zhiyong Wang - (Wang Lab) Steroid hormone signal transduction in Arabidopsis
• Friday, December 20
  HOLIDAY
• Friday, January 10
  Dr. Paul Schulze-Lefert - Max Planck Institute, Cologne, Germany Multi-shield disease resistance Hosts: Mary Beth Mudgett and Shauna Somerville
• Friday, January 17
  Postposed to April 1
• Friday, January 24 Time: 12-1:00
  Tapio Palva, Professor - Division of Genetics, University of Helsinki Role of the WRKY70 transcription factor in controlling global gene expression and defense resoponses in Arabidopsis
• Friday, January 24 Location: Herrin T175 Time: 3:30
  Dr. Sid Shaw - (Long Lab) TBA
  Dr. Shauna Somerville - (Shauna Somerville Lab) Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Powdery Mildew Disease
• Friday, January 31
  Caroline Dean - John Innes Institute, Norwich, England The need for winter in the switch to flowering Host: Chris Somerville
• Monday, February 3
  Heriberto Ceruddi Mechanisms of epigenetic gene silencing in Chlamydomonas and Arabidopsis: from defense response to developmental control Host: MaryBeth Mudgett
• Friday, February 14
  Dr. Steve Henikoff - Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (steveh@fhcrc.org) Large-scale discovery of induced point mutations Host: Zhiyong Wang
• Friday, February 21 Location: Herrin T175 Time: 3:30
  Dr. Colby Starker - (Long Lab) TBA
  Dr. Farhah Assaad - (Chris Somerville Lab) T.B.A.
• Friday, February 28
  Cancelled
• Thursday, March 6 11-12:00
  postponed
• Friday, March 7
  Farhah Assaad - (Chris Somerville Lab) The membrane dynamics of plant motor and defense responses: a systems approach
• Friday, March 13
  Chris Town - (T.I.G.R.) Arabidopsis Affymetrix GeneChip and the Brassica genome
• Friday, March 14
  Dr. Jennifer Fletcher - University of California, Berkeley (fletcher@nature.berkeley.edu) Maintenance of the Arabidopsis shoot apical meristem Host: Kathy Barton
• Friday, March 21 Location: Herrin T175 Time: 3:30
  Heather Youngs - (Chris Somerville Lab) TBA
  Dylan Schwilk - (Ackerly Lab) T.B.A.
• Friday, March 28
  cancelled
• Tuesday, April 1 12:00 Carnegie Seminar Room
  Dr. Rick Amasino - University of Wisconsin, Madison (amasino@biochem.wisc.edu) Memories of winter: regulation of the competence to flower by vernalization Host: Kathy Barton
• Friday, April 4
  Dr. Matt Evans - (Evans Lab) Maternal Effects on Maize Seed Development
  Ted Raab - (Chris Somerville Lab) Phyllosphere, Rhizoshpere and Biosphere
• Friday, April 11
  Dr. Philip Benfey - New York University, NY (philip.benfey@nyu.edu) Radial pattern formation and transcriptional networks in Arabidopsis Host: Zhiyong Wang
• Friday, April 18 Location: Herrin T175 Time: 3:30
  Winslow Briggs - (Briggs Lab) Phototropins: A new family of plant photoreceptors
  George Rudenko - (Walbot Lab) Regulation of MuDR/Mu transposition in maize
• Friday, April 25
  Dr. Jen Sheen - Harvard University (sheen@frodo.mgh.harvard.edu) Functional Genomics of Plant Signal Transduction: From Genes to Cells to Plants Host: Zhiyong Wang
• Friday, May 2
  Jackie Ng - (Grossman Lab) Multiple light input pathways direct phototaxis in cyanobacteria
  Jun-Xian He (Wang Lab) Identification and functional analysis of BZR1 interacting proteins in brassinosteroid signaling pathway
• Friday, May 9
  Dr. Sabeeha Merchant - University of California, Los Angeles, CA (merchant@chen.ucla.edu) Signal transduction for nutritional copper homeostasis Host: Devaki Bhaya
• Friday, May 16 11:00 - 12:00
  Kam Dahlquist - U.C. San Francisco GenMAPP and MAPPFinder: Tools for viewing and analyzing micorarray data using biological pathways and gene ontology
• Wednesday, May 21 12:00 - 1:00
  Christoph Beck - Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Perception and transduction of blue light in Chlamydomonas Host: Arthur Grossman
• Friday, May 23
  Dr. Yixian Zheng - Carnegie Institution, Department of Embryology (zheng@ciwemb.edu) T.B.A. Host: David Ehrhardt
• Friday, May 30
  Dr. Patricia Zambryski - U.C. Berkeley Developmental regulation of plant intercellular communication via plasmodesmata Host: David Ehrhardt
• Friday, June 6
  Dr. Clint Chapple - Purdue University, Indiana (chapple@ppurdue.edu) T.B.A. Host: Chris Somerville
• Friday, June 13
  Jane McConnell - (Ehrhardt Lab) T.B.A.
  Olivier Vallon (Grossman Lab) How Chlamydomonas responds to nitrogen deprivation
• Friday, June 20
  Dr. Zhenbiao Yang - University of California, Riverside, CA (zhenbiao.yang@ucr.edu) T.B.A. Host: Zhiyong Wang