Seminars and Events

PBS Colloquium Seminar Series
Fall 2009
Seminars are held in Rm 335 Borlaug at 3:30 pm

Date	Speaker	Title
Sept. 22	Dr. Robert Fischer Berkeley University Plant & Microbial Biology	Regulation of Gene Imprinting by DNA Demethylation in Arabidopsis
Sept. 29	Dr. Jane Glazebrook University of Minnesota Plant Biology	Microarrays, Models, and Mutants: Stories of Plant Disease Resistance
Oct. 6	NAS Lectureship Series 2009 Dr. Jeffrey Palmer Indiana University - Bloomington Department of Biology	Horizontal Gene Transfer Gone Wild in Mitochondrial Genomes: Whole-Genome Transfer, Chimeric Genes, and Compartment-Specific Mechanism
Oct. 13	MPGI Seminar Location: 105 Cargill Dr. Sergey Nuzhdin University of Southern California Molecular & Computational Biology	Genomics Approaches for the Analysis of Adaptation
Oct. 20	MPGI Seminar Location: 105 Cargill Dr. Ashlee Earl Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT	Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program
Oct. 27	No Seminar. See Oct 28th
Oct. 28	MPGI Seminar Special Date/Time: Wednesday at 4p.m. Location: 105 Cargill Dr. Tony Long University of California – Irvine Ecology and Evolution	Alternatives to Association Mapping for the Dissection of Complex Traits
Nov. 3	MPGI Seminar Location 105 Cargill Dr. Anna Caicedo University of Massachusetts – Amherst Department of Biology	Crops and Weeds: Insights from Plant Population Genomics
Nov. 10	Dr. Lourens Poorter Wageningen University Forest Ecology & Forest Management Host: Dr. Jennifer Powers	TBA
Nov. 17	MPGI Seminar Location 105 Cargill Dr. Richard Clark University of Utah Department of Biology	Genomic Approaches for Understanding Genome Evolution and the Genotype-Phenotype Map
Nov. 24	THANKSGIVING WEEK - NO SEMINAR
Dec. 1	Dr. Marty Spalding Iowa State University Department of Botany	TBA
Dec. 8	PRATT SEMINAR Dr. Doug Cook University of California – Davis Department of Plant Pathology	TBA
Dec. 9	Dr. Doug Cook More info to come...
Dec. 15	Dr. Jiming Jiang University of Wisconsin Department of Horticulture	Light from the black holes of plant genomes

Any questions regarding speakers, please contact Patrice Myers (pmyers@umn.edu)

Seminars in Other Departments

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior
Department of Entomology
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development
Department of Horticulture Sciences
Department of Microbiology
Department of Neuroscience
Department of Plant Pathology
Community Genetics

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