SEMINAR IN BOTANY, B5971 -- Spring 2008

Meeting time: 4:30 pm Thursdays Room 310 GLCH Botany and Microbiology

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