Seminar Series 2007-2008

 
 


Fall Term 2007

October 3, 2007
Curtis Suttle
Departments of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Botany & Plant Microbiology Immunology
University of British Columbia
"Viruses: The Largest Reservoir of Genetic Diversity in the Sea"

Host: Valerian Dolja

 

October 17, 2007
Sally Otto

Department of Zoology
University of British Columbia
"Why Have Sex? The Population Genetics of Sex and Recombination"

Host: Dee Denver

 

October 22, 2007
Roger Beachy

Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
St. Louis, Missouri
"Identifying the ‘Achilles Heels’ in Plant Virus Infection and Disease, and Applying Biotech Strategies to Intervene"

Host: James Carrington

 

October 24, 2007
Eric Lai

Sloan-Kettering Institute
New York
"MicroRNAs and Other Small RNAs in Drosophila"

Host: James Carrington

 

October 31, 2007
Mark Farman

Department of Plant Pathology
University of Kentucky
"Mechanisms of Telomere Instability in the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae"

Host: Michael Freitag

 
November 7, 2007
Deborah Bell-Pedersen
Department of Biology
Texas A&M University
"How Fungi Tell Time"

Host: Michael Freitag

 

November 14, 2007
Federica Brandizzi

MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory
Michigan State University
"Protein Export from the Plant Endoplasmic Reticulum"

Host: Valerian Dolja

 

Winter Term 2008

January 9, 2008
Nicole Perna
Genome Center of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin - Madison
“Looking at the Genomes of Enterobacteria Through Mauve-Colored Glasses”

Host: Joyce Loper

 
January 23, 2008
Jason Stajich

Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley
“Evolutionary Genomics of the Fungal Kingdom: A view from the Chytrids”

Host: Joey Spatafora

 
February 6, 2008
Marja Timmermans
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
New York
"Small RNAs as Mobile Signals in Plant Development"

Host: Jim Carrington

 
February 20, 2008
David Gang
Departments of Plant Sciences and Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
University of Arizona
"Medicinal Plants, Metabolism and Metabolomics"

Host: Fred Stevens

 
March 5, 2008
Jonathan Weissman

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of California, San Francisco
"Biology Without Bias:  Functional Insight from Resolution Genetic Interaction Maps"

Host: Elisar Barbar

 

Spring Term 2008

April 2, 2008
Paul Sternberg
California Institute of Technology, Division of Biology
"Networks of Interacting Genes and Cells Specifying C. elegans Behavior"

Host: Dee Denver

 
April 16, 2008
Craig R. Roy
Section of Microbial Pathogenesis
Yale University School of Medicine
"Subversion of Eukaryotic Vesicle Transport Pathways by the Intracellular Pathogen Legionella pneumophila"

Host: HMIP Graduate Student Committee
Contact: Kelsie Sandoz

 
 
May 6, 2008
Jeff Dangl
Department of Biology
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"The Plant Immune System"

Host: Jeff Chang

 
May 14, 2008
Gary Karpen
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Life Sciences Division
University of California, Berkeley
"Chromatin Regulation of Genome Stability"

Host: Michael Freitag