The following is the schedule for seminars during the 2005/2006 Academic year.
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are given in the Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology, Seminar Room on Friday afternoons at 4:00. Refreshments are provided at 3:45.

• September 30 12:00
  Roger Hangarter - Indiana University
  sLowlife: Communicating an awareness of plants through science and art
  Host: Winslow Briggs
• September 30
  Roger Hangarter - Indiana University
  Light-induced chloroplast movements in leaves.
  Host: Winslow Briggs
• October 7
  Shimon Schuldiner - UC San Francisco
  Why do we need large transporters when the small ones can do it better?
  Host: Wolf Frommer
• October 21
  Wallace Marshall - UC San Francisco
  Deconstructing the Centriole
  Host: Dave Ehrhardt
• October 28
  Julia Bailey-Serres - UC Riverside
  Sensing of oxygen deprivation by plant cells: Initiation of signaling and mechanisms of response
  Host: Kathy Barton
• November 4
  Julie Roden - Mudgett Lab
  The bacterial protein XopN interacts with a tomato receptor-like kinase
  Host: Kathy Barton
• November 11
  Cynthia Weinig - University of Minnesota
  Quantitative variation and genetic mechanisms of adaptation to heterogeneous environments.
  Host: Kathy Barton
• November 18
  Allen Miller - Iowa State University
  Control of plant luteovirus gene expression by long-distance RNA interactions
  Host: Kathy Barton
• December 2
  Louise Glass - UC-Berkeley
  Fatal attraction: Nonself recognition and programmed cell death in Neurospora
  Host: Shauna Somerville
• December 9
  Mary Lou Guerinot - Dartmouth University
  Iron uptake and homeostasis in Arabidopsis
  Host: Shauna Somerville
• December 16
  Susan Lolle - Purdue University
  Evidence for non-Mendelian inheritance of ancestral sequences in plants
  Host: Kathy Barton
• January 6
  Sue Thayer (Shauna Somerville lab)
  Gene Expression Changes in Geranium dissectum in response to Global Change Factors in an Annual Grassland Ecosystem
• January 13
  Sheng Yang He - Michigan State University
  Suppression of host defenses during Pseudomonas syringae infection of Arabidopsis.
  Host: Shauna Somerville
• January 20
  Dan MacLean (Rhee lab)
  Responses to abiotic stress in Arabidopsis
  Matt Humphrey (Shauna Somerville lab)
  Conservation of broad-spectrum m/o powdery mildew disease resistance in monocot and dicot plants
• January 27
  Maureen McCann - Purdue University
  The plant extracellular matrix
  Host: Chris Somerville
• February 3
  Patrick Sieber - California Institute of Technology
  Functions of miR164 microRNAs in plant development
  Host: Chris Somerville
• WEDNESDAY, February 8
  Eduardo Rocha - Institut Pasteur, France
  Order and disorder in bacterial genomes
  Host: Devaki Bhaya

• February 10
  Maor Bar-Peled - University of Georgia
  Precursors for wall synthesis. The different metabolic routes plants are using to synthesize nucleotide-sugars
  Host: Sue Rhee
• February 17
  Brian Staskowicz - UC Berkeley
  Plant Pathogen Interactions
  Host: Shauna Somerville
• February 24
  Peter Facchini - University of Calgary, Canada
  Opium Poppy: Blueprint for an Alkaloid Factory
  Host: Sue Rhee
• March 8 WEDNESDAY 11:00
  Jose Gutierrez-Marcos - University of Oxford
  Genomic imprinting in maize endosperm
  Host: Matt Evans
• March 10
  Serry Koh (Shauna Somerville Lab)
  Knock Knock, Who is there?: Subcellular responses of Arabidopsis to the powdery mildew pathogens
  Pablo Jenik (Kathy Barton lab)
  Cell cycle and development: a tilted story
• March 17
  Katie Dehesh - UC Davis
  TBA
  Host: Winslow Briggs
• March 24
  Debbie Alexander (Kathy Barton Lab)
  How many genes can dance on a PINHEAD?
  Melissa Lim (Shauna Somerville Lab)
  A novel component of Arabidopsis nonhost resistance to powdery mildew
• April 7
  Desh Pal Verma - Ohio State University
  A unique vesicular fusion machinery involved in cell plate formation and the role of callose synthase
  Host: Shauna Somerville
• THURSDAY, April 13
  Simon Ruediger - Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf
  Controlling the size of the stem cell domain in Arabidopsis
  Host: Wolf Frommer
• April 21
  Howard Ochman - University of Arizona
  The Essence of Bacterial Genomes
  Host: Arthur Grossman
• WEDNESDAY April 26 10:00
  Elena Kisseleva-Romanova - Oxford University
  Elongation factor Spt6 represses the transcription initiation from cryptic promoters by two distinct mechanisms
  Host: Devaki Bhaya
• April 28
  Sonja Vorwerk - (Chris Somerville Lab)
  Analysis of PMR6: searching for the connection between the plant cell wall and pathogen resistance
• May 2 TUESDAY 4-5:00 pm
  Jane Parker - Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne
  Peeling off the layers of plant cellular defence against pathogens
  Host: Shauna Somerville
• May 12
  George Haughn - University of British Columbia
  All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go: Genetic Analysis of Seed Coat Differentiation
  Host: Chris Somerville
• June 2
  Waltraud Schulze - Max Planck Institute Potsdam
  Strategies for Unraveling Membrane Protein Signaling in Plants Using Proteomic Tools
  Host: Wolf Frommer
• June 16
  Peter Quail - Plant Gene Expression Center and UC-Berkeley
  Phytochrome photosensory signaling and transcriptional networks
  Host: Winslow Briggs
• Tuesday, July 18 4:00
  Chentao Lin - Department of MCDB, UCLA
  How cryptochrome works in Arabidopsis -- an old story with some new insights?
  Host: Zhiyong Wang
• August 18 1:00
  Martha Clokie - University of Warwick, UK
  Viruses of Marine Cyanobacteria: their Evolution and Significance in the Oceans
  Host: Shaun Bailey