Plant Biology Seminar
Time: Fridays at 11.15 – 12.05
Location: 404 Plant Science Building (The Whetzel Room)
Spring 2013 Seminar Schedule (PDF)
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Special seminars will be announced here and via email.
Special Lecturer at Plant Biology Centennial Celebration:
Dr. Marcus McFerren
Cornell B.S., 1995; Ph.D., 2000; M.D., 2006
A Journey Through Plant Biology: Botanical Medicine and All Its Warts
Friday, June 28, 2013, at 6:00 PM
Room 233 Plant Science
(Reception to follow in 440 Mann Library)
Seminar Series in Other Departments
Crop and Soil SciencesEarth and Atmospheric Sciences
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Entomology (Jugatae)
Horticulture
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Natural Resources
Plant Breeding
Plant Pathology
Leiboff Wins Teaching Award: Samuel Leiboff is the 2013 recipient of the outstanding teaching assistant in Plant Biology. Sam was TA for BioPL 2410 (An Introduction to Plant Biodiversity and Evolution) in the Fall of 2012 and was TA for BioPL 1120 (Issues in Social Biology) in the Spring of 2013.
New Graduate Students Fall 2012 attending the department Ice Cream Social. From L to R: Thereis Choo, Samantha Fuller, Elden Rowland, and Simon Zhou.
Graduates, May 2012. Left to Right: Peter Lundquist, Anne Rea, Arnaud Germain, and Beth Takacs.
Plant Biology Excellence Award winners, graduating seniors Molly B. Edwards and Alexander E. Wilson.
Researchers identify how plant skins are stitched together
"How these building blocks of cutin get put together has been completely unknown," said Jocelyn Rose, associate professor of plant biology and the paper's senior author. Trevor Yeats and Laetitia Martin, graduate students in Rose's lab, are the lead authors. Read Article.
Two of our graduate students received outstanding teaching assistant
awards. Gwynne Lim was TA for BioPL 2480(Vascular Plant Systematics). Sam
Crowell was the TA for BioPL 2410 (Introductory Plant Diversity) and Evolution and BioPL 4480 (Plant Evolution and the
Fossil Record).
Amorphophallus titanum blooms at Cornell
These plants, native only to Sumatra, bloom very infrequently, and then
only for one or; two nights before collapsing. It's difficult to predict
accurately, but the inflorescence will probably open within days.
Until it opens, there's no noticeable odor. After that there's little doubt where the name "Corpse Flower" comes from.
For more information on Amorphophallus titanum, click here.