The following is the schedule for seminars during the 2006/2007 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 15 Friday 10-11:00
  Bill Underwood - Michigan State University
  The Innate Immune Function of Plant Stomata Against Bacterial Invasion
  Host: Shauna Somerville
• September 15
  Staffan Persson (Somerville Lab)
  The Arabidopsis irregular xylem 8 mutant is deficient in glucuronoxylan and is essential for secondary cell wall integrity
  Marcella Pott (Ehrhardt Lab)
  Connecting the dots - A new family of membrane proteins interacts with plasmodesmata and the cytoskeleton
• Wednesday, September 20 11-12:00
  Peter Greshoff - Integrative Legume Research, The University of Queensland
  Plant genetic control of nodulation in legumes
  Host: Wolf Frommer
• September 22
  Zac Cande - Dept. Cell and Molecular Biology, UC-Berkeley
  Regulation of maize meiotic prophase chromosome structure and function
  Host: Barton/Walbot
• September 29
  Winslow Briggs
  Phototropins: Plant Blue-Light Receptors that use an Ancient Photoreceptor Module
  
• October 6
  Chris Somerville
  The rationale for biofuels and some research imperatives that will facilitate adoption
  
• October 13
  Sabine Mueller (Ehrhardt lab)
  A pair of kinesins are implicated in spatial control of cytokinesis in Arabidopsis thaliana.
  David Skibbe (Walbot lab)
  Genomic and Proteomic Analyses of Mutator Transposition in Maize
• October 20
  Kathy Osteryoung - Michigan State University
  The chloroplast division machinery in plants: assembling the pieces
  Host: Devaki Bhaya
• October 27
  Dong Wang (Long lab)
  To grow or not to grow: antagonistic interactions between plant defense responses and a major phytohormone
  Stephan Wenkel (Barton lab)
  A negative feedback loop in the pathway specifying leaf polarity
• November 3
  Gloria Coruzzi - New York University
  A systems approach to nitrogen networks and the VirtualPlant
  Host: Wolf Frommer
• November 6 Monday 11-12:00
  Jia-Li - Oklahoma State University
  BAK1 and BAK2, two Leucine-rich repeat receptor-like protein kinases, are essential for early Arabidopsis growth and development
  Host: Zhiyong Wang
• November 10
  Zhen-Ming Pei - Duke University
  Diurnal cytosolic Ca2+ oscillations and flowering
  Host: Zhiyong Wang
• November 17
  Natasha Raikhel - UC Riverside
  Various approaches to address trafficking machinery in plants
  Host: Shauna Somerville
• December 1
  Jiang-Kang Zhu - Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, UC-Riverside
  Stress, small RNAs and epigenetics
  Host: Kathy Barton
• December 8
  Stacey Harmer - Section of Plant Biology, UC-Davis
  Rhythms and greens: the plant clock and its outputs
  Host: Kathy Barton
• December 12 Tuesday, 4:00
  Juergen Soll - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Muenchen
  Protein and metabolite transport in chloroplasts
  Host: Wolf Frommer
• December 15
  Renee Sung - Professor of Plant Biology, UC-Berkeley
  PcG mediated silencing of flower homeotic genes during vegetative development
  Host: Kathy Barton
• January 12
  Staffan Persson - Chris Somerville Lab
  Characterization of genes required for cellulose biosynthesis identified by large-scale co-expression analyses
• January 19
  Melissa Lim - Shauna Somerville Lab
  A novel role for phytochelatin synthase in regulating resistance to fungal pathogens in Arabidopsis
• January 26
  Shaun Bailey - Grossman Lab
  Photosynthesis in the oceans: Coping with oligotrophy in an extreme light environment
• February 2 CANCELLED
  Jennifer Fletcher - Plant Gene Expression Center
  Regulation of stem cell activity and developmental gene expression in Arabidopsis
  Host: Kathy Barton
• February TUESDAY 4:00 - CANCELLED
  Peter Karp and Mario Latendresse
  Software for Displaying Omics Data on Genetic Regulatory Networks
  Host: Arthur Grossman
• February 9
  Jian-Kang Zhu - UC Riverside
  Stress, small RNAs and epigenetics
  Host: Kathy Barton
• February 15, Thursday, 11:00
  Len Pennacchio - Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek
  Human Genome Perspective for Plant-Based Studies
  Host: Shauna Somerville
• February 16 9:00
  Clarissa Bejar - Michigan State University
  Structure-Function Relationship Studies of ADP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase
  Host: Chris Somerville
• February 16 CANCELLED
  Noah Whitman - Rhee Lab
  
• February 21 - Wednesday
  Uli Kutschera - Universitüt Kassel
  Epiphytic methanobacteria as phytosymbionts
  Host: Winslow Briggs
• February 23
  Yunde Zhao - Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, UCSD
  Cooperation between localized auxin biosynthesis and polar auxin transport in plant development
  Host: Winslow Briggs
• March 2
  John Clouston - Ariadne Genomics
  Host:Sue Thayer
  
• March 9
  Pam Green - Delaware Biotechnology Institute
  Host:
• March 16
  Sarah Assmann - Pennsylvania State University
  Host: Wolf Frommer
• March 23
  Sorin Draghici
  
• April 6
  Mark Estelle - Department of Biology, Indiana University
  Host: S. Somerville
• April 20
  Jung-Gun Kim - Dept. of Biology, Stanford, Mudgett Lab
  Xanthomonas XopD SUMO protease is a transcriptional repressor that delays leaf senescence during infection. Dominique Loque - Frommer Lab
  
• May 4
  Bonnie Bartel - Rice University
  Host:
• May 11
  Cora MacAlister - Dept. of Biology, Stanford, Bergmann Lab
  Viktor Kirik - Ehrhardt Lab
  
• May 18
  Jocelyn Rose - Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University
  Host:
• May 25
  Charles Gasser
  Host:
• June 1
  Qiaofeng Yang - Rhee Lab
  Debbie Alexander - Barton Lab
  
• June 8
  Tom Walk - Rhee Lab
  Meghan Sharp - Barton Lab