Friday Seminar Series - Spring 2008

Seminars will be held in 1022 Life Sciences at 12:10 p.m.

  March 28

NO SEMINAR - HOLIDAY

     
  April 4

Kris Niyogi, UC Berkeley

"Overlapping functions of carotenoids and vitamin E in chloroplasts"

Host: Kentaro Inoue

     
  April 11

Joe Noel, Salk Institute

"The 'biosynthetic tango' driving the evolution of 'uber-adaptive' enzymes of secondary metabolism"

Host: Florence Negre

     
  April 18

Yunde Zhao, UC San Diego

" The roles of YUCCA genes in auxin biosynthesis and plant development"

Host: Venkatesan Sundaresan

     
  April 25

Paula McSteen, Penn State

"All roads lead to auxin: regulation of axillary meristem initiation in the maize inflorescence"

Host: Neelima Sinha

     
  May 2

Li Tian, UC Davis Plant Sciences

"Phytonutrient biochemistry for crop improvement and human health"

Host: Florence Negre

   
  May 9

Kate Dreher, The Aradbidopsis Information Resources (TAIR)

"Biological interactions beyond the lab bench: TAIR, PMN, piles of data, diverse plants, and you!"

Host: John Labavitch

   
  May 16

Quentin Cronk, University of British Columbia

"Molecular developmental basis for the evolution of bird pollinated flowers in legumes"

Host: Judy Jernstedt

   
 

May 23

 

Gary Drews, University of Utah

"Control of Female Gametophyte and Endosperm Development in Arabidopsis"

Host: John Harada

  May 30

Kathy Barton, Stanford

"TBA"

Host: Ryan Kirkbride

   
   
 
 
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