SEMINAR IN BOTANY, B5971 -- Fall 2009

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

DateSpeakerTitle
AUG 27O R G A N I Z A T I O N A L    M E E T I N G
SEP 3Dr. J. Phil Gibson
(Associate Professor, OU Depts of Botany & Microbiology, Zoology)
"Style and Substance: Tips for an effective presentation"
SEP 10Dr. Robert Cichewicz
OU Professor
Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry
"Plants and Microbes Point the Way to Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases"
SEP 17Dr. Mike Delong
OU Botany & Micro
"Metapopulations and metacommunities in southern Illinois barrens"
SEP 24Dr. Wayne Elisens
OU Botany & Micro/BioSurvey
"Plant iconography in Maya material culture"
OCT 1Dr. Chuankuan Wang
Northeast Forestry University, PRC
"Ecological Studies at Maoershan Forest Ecosystem Research Station in NE China"
OCT 8Chamindika Siriwardana
OU Botany & Micro
"Identification and molecular characterization of an Arabidopsis mutant resistant to auxin"
OCT 15Joshua Cooper
OU Botany Master’s Student
"Biodiversity and ecology of ephemeral rock pool diatoms in southern Oklahoma"
OCT 22Dr. Andrew Doust
OSU Botany, Stillwater
"Architectural evolution and domestication in grasses"
OCT 29Dr. Liz Bergey
OU Bot & Micro/Zoo/BioSurvey
"Didymo: a diatom that stands up and stands out"
NOV 5Xuhui Zhou
Postdoctoral Researcher
OU Botany & Micro
"Lagged effects of an anomalously warm year on Grassland carbon cycle"
NOV 12Zhongxin Guo
OU Botany & Micro
"TCP1 regulates BR biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana"
NOV 19C A N C E L E D
NOV 26T H A N K S G I V I N G   H O L I D A Y
DEC 3TBA
OU Botany & Micro
"TBA"
DEC 10TBA
OU Botany & Micro
"TBA"