| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| AUG 28 | O R G A N I Z A T I O N A L M E E T I N G | |
| SEP 4 | Dr. J. Phil Gibson (Assistant Professor, OU Depts of Botany & Microbiology, Zoology) | "Ecological genetics of seaside alder: fragmentation, isolation, and conservation" |
| SEP 11 | Dr. Linda Watson (Department Chair, OSU Dept of Botany) | "Late tertiary climatic changes and the evolutionary success of Tribe Senecioneae (Asteraceae), a phylogenetic approach" |
| SEP 18 | Dr. Jeremy Murray (Postdoctoral Associate, Noble Foundation) | "Hermes, a new common symbiotic gene is essential for symbiotic intracellular invasion" |
| SEP 25 | Dr. Yang Hong (Associate Professor, OU Civil Engineering and Environmental Science) | "Applications of satellite remote sensing information in hydroclimatological study" |
| OCT 2 | Dr. Phillip Harries (Postdoctoral Associate, Noble Foundation) | "Dissecting the role of the actin cytoskeleton in the movement of diverse plant viruses" |
| OCT 9 | Dr. Janette Steets (Assistant Professor, OSU Botany) | "Natural selection in plant populations: ecological context and evolutionary consequences" |
| OCT 16 | TBA | (Dr. Holt will be out of town - this slot can be used if we have a speaker and substitute host) |
| OCT 23 | Dr. Chris Zou (Assistant Professor, OSU, Natural Resource Ecology and Management) | TBA - Ecohydrology |
| OCT 30 | Dr. Rakesh Kaundal (Postdoctoral Associate, Noble Foundation) | "Machine learning in protein functional annotation (a case study on predicting subcellular localization in rice)" |
| NOV 6 | Mr. Roderick Kumimoto Graduate Student, OU Botany and Microbiology - Holt Lab | TBA - Role of plant NF-Y transcription factors in flowering time and drought resistance |
| NOV 13 | Dr. David Meinke OSU Regents Professor, Dept of Botany | TBA - Embryology and essential genes in Arabidopsis |
| NOV 20 | Dr. James Susaimuthu Postdoctoral Associate, Noble Foundation | "Habitat-adapted symbioses: ways to mitigate stress in plants" |
| NOV 27 | T H A N K S G I V I N G H O L I D A Y | |
| DEC 4 | Dr. Ping Xu (Postdoctoral Associate, Noble Foundation) | "Two faces of viruses to their plant hosts" |
| DEC 11 | Dr. Luis L. Escamilla-Treviņo (Postdoctoral Fellow, Noble Foundation) | "Overcoming recalcitrance in switchgrass to improve biofuel production: characterizing monolignol biosynthesis genes" |