Previous Seminars

Speaker Affiliation Date Location
PLS/PLP 596A Organizational Meeting Dr. Marc Orbach School of Plant Sciences 1/21/2014 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Panax ginseng Genome Sequencing & NGS-based Approach for Plant Diversity. Dr. Tae-Jin Yang Seoul National University 1/17/2014 - 11:00am Marley 230
Frequent And Widespread Horizontal Transfers in Plants Dr. Olivier Panaud University of Perpignan 1/15/2014 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Functional and Evolutionary Analysis of Cation/Proton Antiporter-1 Genes in Brassicaceae Adaptation to Salinity David Jarvis School of Plant Sciences 1/10/2014 - 1:30pm Marley 441H
Bacterial Modulation of Disease Susceptibility, Hormone Signaling, and Microbiome Function Dr. Sheng-Yang He MSU-DOE Plant Research Lab Michigan State University 12/10/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Notes from the Underground: Emerging Roles for Receptor Kinases in Roots Dr. Frans Tax Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology 12/3/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
The Why and the How for Building a Phylogenetic Tree of all Plant Species Dr. Michael Sanderson Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 11/19/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Doctoral Defense:Investigation of the physiology of hydrogen production in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii using spectral-selective photosystem I light Daniel J. Johnson School of Plant Sciences 11/13/2013 - 1:00pm Saguaro Hall 219
The Desert Legume Program – Unique Germplasm Collection from the World’s Dry Regions Matthew B. Johnson Desert Legume Program, University of Arizona 11/12/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Plant-Microbe-Rock Interactions in a Model Ecosystem Dr. Dragos G. Zaharescu Biosphere 2, University of Arizona 11/5/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Doctoral Defense: Field Root Biomass, Morphology and Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Pavon 76 and its Wheat-Rye (1RS) Translocations Ruth J. Kaggwa School of Plant Sciences 11/1/2013 - 9:00am Forbes 229
Does Gene Duplication Contribute to Plant Adaptation to Soil Salinity? Courtney Magness School of Plant Sciences 10/29/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Undulatus, the Winding Story of a New Snake Pathogen Mana Ohkura School of Plant Sciences 10/15/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Deconstructing And Reconstructing Soybeans Dr. Eliot Herman School of Plant Sciences 10/8/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Health Effects of Long-Term Irrigation with Recycled Municipal Wastewater: Are We Spreading Antibiotic Resistance to our Food Supply? Dr. Jean McLain University of Arizona Water Resources Research Center 10/1/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
The Effects of the Nutritional Environment on Starch Accumulation and Hydrogen Production in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Daniel Johnson School of Plant Sciences 9/24/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
How Comparative Genomics Breathes New Life into Studies of Bacterial Pathogenesis and Death Dr. David Baltrus School of Plant Sciences 9/17/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Viral Population Genomics: New Tools, New Insights Dr. Zhongguo Xiong School of Plant Sciences 9/10/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
The Evolution and Distribution of Modern Biodiversity: Examples in Cycads and Ferns Dr. Nathalie Nagalingum Royal Botanical Garden Sydney, Australia 9/3/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
PLP 596A Organizational Meeting Dr. Marc Orbach School of Plant Sciences 8/27/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Aflatoxin-producing fungi associated with sugarcane: host relations, persistence in the environment, and relationships within Aspergillus section Flavi Nicholas P. Garber School of Plant Sciences 7/22/2013 - 9:00am Marley 230
Tarenaya and Aethionema: Genome Evolution of Brassicaceae from an Outgroup Perspective Erik van den Bergh Wageningen University 5/21/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Roots of the Second Green Revolution Dr. Jonathan Lynch Department of Plant Science Penn State University 4/30/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Phylogenetic Relationships and Diversity of Endohyphal Bacteria in Tropical Seed-associated Fungi Justin P. Shaffer School of Plant Sciences 4/23/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Evolution of the Plant Telomeres and Telomerase Dr. Mark Beilstein School of Plant Sciences 4/16/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Protein Body Formation in Cereal Seeds as an Evolution of Protein Sorting to Storage Vacuoles Dr. Alessandro Vitale CNR Instituto de Biologiae Biotechnologia, Milan, Italy 4/12/2013 - 3:00pm Marley 230
Ocean Viruses: Nanoscale Entities with Global Scale Impacts Dr. Matthew Sullivan Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 4/9/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Effects of Heat and Drought on Cotton Production Mr. Timothy Dabbert School of Plant Sciences 4/2/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Dating Divergence with Diffusion: Inferring History from Contemporary Genetic Variation Dr. Ryan Gutenkunst Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona 3/26/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
The Genetic Architecture of Maize Domestication Dr. John Doebley University of Wisconsin-Madison 3/19/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Global Analysis of RNA Secondary Structure and RNA-protein Interaction Sites in Plants. Dr. Brian Gregory Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania 3/5/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Molecular Dialogues Between Pollen and Pistil Dr. Mark Johnson Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University 3/1/2013 - 3:00pm Marley 230
TAL Effectors: From Pathogenesis to Genome Editing Dr. Bing Yang Dept. Genetics, Development and Cell Biology, Iowa State University 2/26/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Inferring Semantic Geometric Models of Biological Structure from Image Data Dr. Kobus Barnard School of Information: Science, Technology and Arts 2/19/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Journal club:"Parallel domestication of the shattering1 genes in cereals" Carlos Maldonado 2/19/2013 - 12:00pm Marley 441H
Journal Club: Disruption of a Rice Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein Causes a Seedling-Specific Albino Phenotype and Its Utilization to Enhance Seed Purity in Hybrid Rice Production" Joshua Weaver 2/12/2013 - 12:00pm Marley 441H
Next-Generation Platforms for the Genetic Analysis of Complex Traits: Examples from Maize and Cotton Dr. Michael Gore USDA 2/5/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Transcription factor-dependent nuclear localization of a transcriptional repressor in jasmonate hormone signaling School of Plant Sciences Journal Club 2/5/2013 - 12:00pm Marley 441H
Design, Construction, and Applications of Synthetic Gene Networks Dr. Xiao Wang School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University 1/29/2013 - 4:00pm Marley 230
School of Plant Sciences Journal Club-Auxin controls petal initiation in Arabidopsis Yu-Ling Huang 1/29/2013 - 12:00pm Marley 441H