Itasca orientation and annual retreat
PBS Itasca orientation
In the week before fall semester begins, first-year students in the PBS program participate in a workshop at the Itasca Biological Research Station located on beautiful Lake Itasca, the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Students receive orientation to the program, participate in wet-lab and field-work modules, and get to know other students and faculty in the program. Students find that the Itasca experience provides the knowledge and relationships needed to succeed in the graduate program.
PBS annual retreat
This one-day retreat is an annual event held at the Como Conservatory at Como Park. PBS faculty, PBS students, post docs, lab technicians are invited. Typical activities include first-year student introductions, research talks from graduate students and post-docs, presentations by faculty and administraters in the department, a poster session, and a fun activity for everyone to enjoy.
2012 ANNUAL RETREAT
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2011 ORIENTATION
Top: Mandy Waters, Nagendra Palani Middle: Beth Fallon, Margret Taylor Bottom: Vai Lor, Erin Treiber, Stephanie Erlandson, Yuan Xu
Lab Modules:
Dr. David Marks - “Use of Reporter Genes and Fusion-Proteins to Determine Gene Expression Patterns and the Sub-cellular Localization of Proteins”
Dr. Georgiana May & Roseanne Healy - “Fungi-Seeing the Hidden Diversity”
Dr. Alan Smith & Dr. Carrie Eberle - “In vitro pollen tube growth”
Dr. Peter Morrell- Zhou Fang - “Computing for Next Generation Biology”
Research Talks:
Dr. Dan Voytas - “Precise engineering of plant genomes”
Dr. Fumiaki Katagiri - “How can we study a complex signaling network and why is the plant immune signaling network so complex?”
Dr. Carolyn Silflow - “Chlamydomonas: A model system for studying eukaryotic cilia and centrioles”
Dr. Jerry Cohen - “Proteome and metabolome-wide analysis of flux using whole organism stable isotope labeling"
Activities:
Lake Itasca Pontoon Tour - John Ross
Land Bog Fieldtrip - David Biesboer
Floating Bog Fieldtrip - Jessica Biever
Barbecue
