Plant Biology Seminar

Department of Plant Biology Seminar series

Fridays 11:15 – 12:05 in Plant Science 404 (The Whetzel Room)

Fall 2012 schedule as PDF

Previous semesters' schedules as PDFs: Spring 2012, Fall 2011, Spring 2011

Schedule

Seminar Date	Speaker / Affiliation	Title	Host
*September*
7th	No Seminar
14^th	Peter Davies Department of Plant Biology Cornell University	Crop Biotechnology: Science and Sustainability	Bill Crepet
21^st	No Seminar - due to special seminar 9/25
25^th TUESDAY TIME - 3:00 PM	Peter Hatch Thomas Jefferson Revolutionary Garden at Monticello	Thomas Jefferson, Hortobotanist, the theme being that Jefferson looked at botany through the lens of a gardener: botany was all about the usefulness of plants?	Jim Reveal
28^th	No Seminar - due to special seminar 9/25
*October*
5^th	Ned Friedman Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Harvard University	Darwin's "adominable mystery" and the search for the earliest flowering plants	Bill Crepet
12^th TIME - 11:15 AM	Lorraine Gudas Department of Pharmacology Weill Cornell Medical College	New Insights into Epigenetic Changes in Stem Cell Differentiation	Bill Crepet
12^th TIME - 2:00 PM	Yuxian Zhu Peking University	The diploid cotton Gossypium raimondii genome sequence and beyond	Peter Davies
19^th	Erich Grotewold The Ohio State University	System Approaches to Unravel Plant Gene Regulatory Networks	Li Li
26^th	Jaideep Mathur University of Guelph	Organelle extensions: Short term strategies for meeting long-term requirements	Jocelyn Rose
November
2^nd	No Seminar - due to special seminar 11/5
5^th MONDAY TIME - 3:00 PM	Susan Golden University of California, San Diego	The Itty-Bitty Time Machine: How Cyanobacteria Tell Time	Andre Jangendorf
9^th	No Seminar - Hurricane Sandy Travel Issues
16^th	TBA
23^th	No Seminar - Thanksgiving Break
30^th	Carmen Catala Boyce Thompson Institute Cornell University Department of Plant Biology	Auxin regulation of tomato fruit development	Bill Crepet