The following is the schedule for seminars during the 2003/2004 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.

  • August 15
      Ottoline Leyser University of York
      The hormonal control of shoot branching in Arabidopsis. Host: Kathy Barton

  • Friday, September 19 12:00
      Dr. Rakefet Schwarz - Bar-Ilan University, Israel
      Acclimation of cyanobacteria to environmental stress - Redox homeostasis and modulation of light harvesting pigments. Host: Arthur Grossman

  • September 26
      cancelled

  • October 3
      Wolfgang Lukowitz (Chris Somerville lab)
      A negative regulator of auxin responses mediates axis formation in the Arabidopsis embryo
      Steve Pollock (Grossman lab)
      High carbon dioxide requiring mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

  • Tuesday, October 7 12:00
      Steve Tanksley Cornell University
      The Molecular Bases of Quantitative Variation - Lessons from the Tomato. Host: Sue Rhee

  • October 16 10:00
      Maarten Heyn Freie Universitaet Berlin
      Homo and hetero fluorescence energy transfer in phytochrome dimers: potential for LOV1/LOV2. Host: Winslow Briggs

  • October 17
      Zhiyong Wang
      Proteomic study of brassinosteroid response
      Michelle Facette (Chris Somerville lab)
      Fiber and Starch: How the Cell Wall Makes the Atkin's Diet Work

  • October 24
      Clint Chapple Purdue University
      Secondary metabolism in Arabidopsis: new directions for the phenylpropanoid pathway

  • October 31

  • November 7
      Patricia Zambryski UC-Berkeley
      Intercellular communication via plasmodesmata during Arabidopsis development Host: Dave Ehrhardt

  • November 14
      Dominique Bergmann (Chris Somerville lab)
      Stomatal development in Arabidopsis
      Jeff Schraeger (Grossman lab)
      Aspects of Interactive BioDiscovery in the BioLingua Project

  • November 21
      Elliot Meyerowitz Cal Tech
      Toward the Computable Plant: Dynamic Gene Expression and Cell Division Analysis in Arabidopsis development Hosts: Kathy Barton/Chris Somerville

  • December 5
      Robert Fischer UC Berkeley
      Imprinting - at the intersection of DNA repair and gene transcription. Host: Kathy Barton

  • December 12
      Pablo Jenik (Barton lab)
      Effects of the tilted mutation in the patterning of the Arabidopsis embryo
      Raka Mitra (Long lab)
      Transcriptional regulation in non- nodulating Medicago truncatula mutants and preliminary analysis of transcription-based gene cloning

  • December 17 10:00
      Loren Looger Duke University
      Computational design of binding proteins with novel specificities and their use to control gene expression

  • January 16 POSTPONED (See February 20)

  • January 23 Special Seminar 12:00
      Prof. Wolfhard Ruediger, Botanical Institute Univerity of Munich
      Biochemical investigations on the phototropin molecule before and after illumination

  • January 23
      Thorsten Hamann (Chris Somerville lab)
      Microarray based analysis of pectin biosynthesis
      Ted Raab (Chris Somerville lab)
      Amino acids in soils: sources and sinks in graminoid ecosystems

  • January 30 11:00
      Melissa Liim Washington University, St. Louis
      The virulence and avirulence activities of the Pseudomonas syringae gene, avrRpt2. Host: Shauna Somerville

  • January 30
      Xu-Mei Chen Rutgers University
      Post-transcriptional control of flower development. Host: Shauna Somerville

  • February 2 12:00
      Eberhard Schaefer Rutgers University of Freiburg, Germany
      Genetic and molecular analysis of signal transduction in photomorphogenesis. Host: Winslow Briggs

  • February 6
      Sue Rhee
      Deconstructing Arabi: How will we know when we've achieved 'total knowledge' of a flowering plant?

  • February 11 Wednesday 4:00
      Andrew Hanson University of Florida
      Folate Metabolism

  • February 13
      Valerie Williamson UC-Davis
      Molecular interactions of root-knot nematodes with their host plant. Host: Carnegie Grad students

  • February 20
      Dan Rokshar JGI
      Whole genome analyses. Host: Arthur Grossman

  • February 25 Wednesday 4:00
      Nathan Nelson Tel Aviv University The crystal structure of plant Photosystem I. Host: Wolf Frommer

  • February 27 Cancelled

  • March 5
      Devaki Bhaya
      Light matters: phototaxis and signal transduction in cyanobacteria
      Nick Kaplinsky (Barton lab)
      Pattern formation during Arabidopsis embryogenesis

  • March 12 Cancelled

  • March 17 12:00
      Jean-David Rochaix University of Geneva, Switzerland
      Thylakoid Bogenesis and Dynamics
      Host: Arthur Grossman

  • March 19
      Monica Stein (S. Somerville lab)
      Components of Arabidopsis Non-Host Defense to Barley Powdery Mildew
      Jeff Moseley (Grossman lab)
      Genetic and expression analysis of acclimation to phosphate starvation in Chlamydomonas

  • March 26
      Hugo Dooner Rutgers Universtiy
      Maize Genome organization and gene content.
      Host: Matt Evans

  • March 31 12:00
      Alessia Para University College, Huddinge, Sweden
      "The end is near" - premature termination of the shoot apical meristem in Arabidopsis thaliana mutants
      Host: Winslow Briggs

  • April 2
      Widmar Tanner Regensburg
      Main topic: Carriers - Lipids - Rafts
      Addendum: Transpiration and long distance transport
      Host: Wolf Frommer

  • April 16 Cancelled

  • April 21 Wednesday, 2:00
      Kevin Gardner University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
      PAS domains: A versatile way to build a biological switch
      Host: Winslow Briggs

  • April 23
      Sherry Mowbray SLU, Uppsala, Sweden
      Enzymes of ribose metabolism: structure and mechanism
      Host: Wolf Frommer

  • April 30
      Serry Koh (S. Somerville lab)
      24 hrs: Subcellular Responses to Powdery Mildew Infections
      Sue Thayer (S. Somerville lab)
      Studying Gene Expression Changes in Response to Global Change Factors in an Annual Grassland Ecosystem

  • May 7
      Clark Lagarias UC-Davis
      Phytochromes: Sensors of Bilins and Light
      Host: Devaki Bhaya

  • May 14
      Julie Roden (Mudgett lab)
      What proteins are Xanthomonas injecting into the plant cell during infection?
      David Ehrhardt (Ehrhardt lab)
      Microtubule dynamics and cortical array organization

  • May 18 Tuesday, 3:30
      Dina Mandoli University of Washington, Seattle
      Some genomic, physiological, developmental, and molecular studies of the giant unicellular alga Acetabularia
      Host: David Ehrhardt

  • May 21
      John Heidelberg Institute of Genome Research, Rockville, MD
      Exploring the Genomic Potential of Marine Microorganisms
      Host: Arthur Grossman

  • May 28
      Barbara Baker University of California, Berkeley
      Genomic and Molecular Genetic Studies of Plant Innate Immunity
      Host: Shauna Somerville

  • June 4 Cancelled

  • June 21 Monday, 12-1:00
      Swathi Rao
      Identification of SNAREs involved in synaptotagmin VII-regulated lysosomal exocytosis
      Host: Shauna Somerville






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