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Phone: (612) 625-1234
Fax: (612) 625-1738

Department of Plant Biology
University of Minnesota
250 Biological Science Center
1445 Gortner Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55108

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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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