Rutgers New Brunswick/Piscataway Campus
Plant Biology Graduate Program Seminar Series
 

Fall 2003


Sept. 5 No Seminar Scheduled
12:00-2:00 pm, Graduate Student Barbecue - Welcoming new and returning students (Skelley Field)
8:30 am-4:00 pm Waksman Institute Scientific Retreat, Douglass College Center

Sept. 12 No seminar scheduled.

Sept. 19 Dr. Faith Belanger Good and evil in grass-fungus interactions
Department of Plant Biology & Pathology, Rutgers University
Host: Dr. James White

Sept. 26 Dr. Jennifer Fletcher Molecular control of shoot and floral meristem activity in Arabidopsis
Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, Plant Gene Expression Center, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Dr. Chen

Oct. 3 No seminar scheduled.

Oct. 10 No seminar scheduled.

Oct. 17 Dr. Karl Guillard Anion exchange membranes and hand-held light meters as potential tools for turfgrass nitrogen management
Department of Plant Science, University of Connecticut
Host: Dr. Heckman

Oct. 24 Dr. Richard Wang Work on salt-tolerant wheat (and more) for world agriculture
USDA-ARS Forage and Range Research Laboratory , Utah State University
Plant Biology Distinguished Alumnus Award Recipient
Host: Dr. James White

Oct. 31 Dr. Steven A. Lommel Tobacco genomics and applications to the study of plant virus infections
Department of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State University
Host: Dr. Hillman

Nov. 7 No seminar scheduled.

Nov. 14 Dr. Paul Falkowski Redox regulation of gene expression
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University
Host: Dr. Zilinskas

Nov. 21 Dr. Léon Otten The Agrobacterium T-DNA oncogene 6b and the enation syndrome
Institute de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Strasbourg, France
Host: Dr. Kerstetter

Nov. 28 Thanksgiving Recess

Dec. 5 Dr. Hajime Sakai Embryo size control in plants
Senior Research Scientist, DuPont, University of Delaware
Host: Dr. Chen

All seminars are held Fridays at 11:30 am in 138A Foran Hall unless otherwise noted.

Please contact the respective host if you would like to meet the speaker.

For further information:
Ms. Barbara Mulder, 732-932-9711 x358, mulder@aesop.rutgers.edu

 



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