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

Spring 2006


Jan. 27 Dr. John Dighton Director of the Pinelands Research Station, Rutgers University
Patchiness and time: Dynamics of soil nutrient availability
Host: Dr. Struwe

Feb. 3 Dr. Michael Balick The New York Botanical Garden
Ancient wisdom and modern medicine: Plants, people, and cultures in the tropical rainforest
Host: Dr. Struwe

Feb. 17 Dr. Jun Wen Smithsonian Institute
Evolution of biogeographic disjunctions between Eastern Asia and North America in plants
Host: Dr. Struwe

Feb. 24 Dr. Joan W. Bennett Dept. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Tulane University
TBA
Host: Dr. White

Mar. 3 Dr. Amy Litt International Plant Science Center, The New York Botanical Garden
The evolution of plant development: Genomic and candidate gene approaches
Host: Dr. Struwe

Mar. 10 Dr. Vitaly Citovsky Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, SUNY Stonybrook
Partners-in-infection: Host proteins involved in genetic transformation of plant cells by Agrobacterium
Host: Dr. Maliga

Mar. 17 Spring Break

Mar. 24 Dr. Xing-Wang Deng Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
Light control of plant development, a role of proteolysis
Host: HostName

Mar. 31 Dr. Maureen Hanson Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University
Editing of organellar mRNAs in plants
Host: Dr. Maliga

Apr. 7 Dr. Robert Fischer Department of Plant and Microbial Biology , U.C. Berkeley
Regulation of gene imprinting in Arabidopsis
Host: Dr. Messing

Apr. 14 Dr. Ian Small Evry Plant Genomics Lab, INRA France
TBA
Host: Dr. Kerstetter

Apr. 21 Dr. Scott Poethig Dept. of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
Regulation of developmental timing in plants by miRNAs and trans-acting siRNAs
Host: Dr. Kerstetter

Apr. 28 TBA

All seminars are held Fridays at 12:35 pm in 138A Foran Hall unless otherwise noted.

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

For further information:
Dr. Randall Kerstetter, 732-445-4737, randallk@rci.rutgers.edu
Ms. Barbara Mulder, 732-932-9711 x358, mulder@aesop.rutgers.edu

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Fall 2005 Spring 2005
Fall 2004 Spring 2004
Fall 2003 Spring 2003
Fall 2002 Spring 2002
Fall 2001 Spring 2001
Fall 2000 Spring 2000
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