Spring Seminar Series 2010
Fridays at 2 - 2:50pm
ENV 125
BIOL 4800/5860
For questions please contact Jyoti Shah at 940-565-3535 or shah@unt.edu
Hosts are listed in parentheses.
Jan 29
Rebecca Dickstein (Host: Tom La Point)
UNT, Department of Biological Sciences
“Exploration of processes required for development of symbiotic nitrogen-fixing root nodules in the model legume Medicago truncatula”
Feb 5
Oliver Yu (Host: Kent Chapman)
Danforth Center, St. Louis, Missouri
“Flavonoids and auxin-related microRNAs regulate nodule and lateral root development in legumes”
Feb 12
Stephen Spiro (Host: Michael Allen)
U. Texas at Dallas, Dallas
“TBA”
Feb 19
Young Jin-Lee (Host: Kent Chapman)
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
“Mass Spectrometric Imaging of Plant Metabolites in Single Cell Level High Spatial Resolution”
Feb 26
Jose Lopez (Host: P. Jagadeeswaran)
U.Washington Medical Center-Seattle
“The von Willebrand factor in health and disease: The good, the bad, and the ultra-large”
(Renetta Stevens- assistant to Dr. Lopez-- email: renettas@psbcresearch.org)
Mar 5
Frank Hailer (Host: Jeff Johnson)
Smithsonian Inst., National Zoological Park & National Museum of Natural History
Mar 12
Million Tadege (Host: Becca Dickstein)
Oklahoma State University
“TBA”
Mar 19
No Seminar-- Spring Break
Mar 26
Mark Morais (Host: Don Smith)
UTMB, Galveston, TX
“TBA”
Apr 2
Consuelo M. De Moraes (Host: Jyoti Shah)
Pennsylvania State University
“Chemical Communication among plants and Insect”
Apr 9
R. Larry Peterson (Host: Kevin Stevens)
University of Guelph, Canada
“Mycorrhizas: structural characteristics of the plant-fungus interface”
Apr 16
Alain Vanderpoorten
University of Liege, Belgium
Apr 23
Walter Dodds (Host: David Hoeinghaus)
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
“Value of Aquatic Ecosystem Goods and Services”
Apr 24 (Saturday)
Grad student presentations: Keynote speaker: S.P. Dineshkumar (Yale)
Apr 30
Dayna Brichat-Harhay (Host: Gerard O’Donovan)
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Clay Center, NE
“TBA”