Nelson Garcia (advisor: Ronald Philips)
Awards/Grants: PBS Summer 2007 travel grant to attend the Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics (Amount - $520.00); Renewal of Fulbright Fellowship Grant for 2007-2008 School Year (August 15, 2007-August 3, 2008); PBS Spring 2008 travel grant to attend the 50th Maize Genetics Conference (Amount - $ 1, 000.00)
Presentations: Attended the 50th Annual Maize Genetics Conference at Washington DC on February 27- March 2, 2008 and presented a poster titled “Mapping QTLs for kernel oil content in Korean High Oil (KHO) Corn using SNP and SSR markers”
Meetings: Attended the Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA from June 18-22, 2007. Two modules were attended – Quantitative Genetics (by Bill Muir and Bruce Walsh) and QTL Mapping (by Rebecca Doerge and Zhao Bang Zheng).
Other: Graduate student representative to the PBS colloquium committee; Currently a TA for BIOL3005W Lab, Plant Function

Edward Gilding (advisor: David Marks)
Awards/Grants: Microbial and Plant Genomics Graduate Fellowship; National Science Foundation (USA) and the National Research Foundation (Singapore) East Asian and Pacific Summer Institute Award
Presentations: Gilding, Edward K., Marks, M. David (July 2007). “An Arabidopsis MYB is required for the coordination of developmental events during trichome morphogenesis”. Poster session at the American Society of Plant Biologists and Botanical Society of America Joint Congress, Chicago, Illinois, July 10th, 2007.
Publications: Marks, M. D., Betancur, L., Gilding, E. K., Chen, F., Bauer, S., Wenger, J. P., Dixon, R., Haigler, C. “A new method for isolating large quantities of Arabidopsis trichomes for transcriptome, cell wall, and other types of analyses”. The Plant Journal. In review.
Lewis, J. M., Mackintosh, C. A., Shin, S., Gilding, E. K., Kravchenko, S., Baldridge, G., Zeyen, R., and Muehlbauer, G. J. "Overexpression of the maize teosinte branched1 gene in wheat suppresses tiller development" Plant Cell Reports. In press.
Marks, M. D., Gilding, E. K., and Wenger, J. P. “Genetic interaction between glabra3-shapeshifter and siamese in Arabidopsis thaliana results in trichomes with meristemoid activity“. The Plant Journal. 2007 Oct. Vol. 52(2):352-61.
Outreach/Public Service: Mentor for plantingscience.org, online
2007-present Mentor for Murray Junior High, Falcon Heights, MN
2005-present Teaching Assistant, BIOL 3005W Plant Function, University of Minnesota 2007.

William Haun (advisor: Nathan Springer)
Awards/Grants: Summer stipend fellowship-2007, PBS Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for Spring semester 2008

Yadong Huang (advisor: Sue Gibson)
Awards/Grants: Summer stipend fellowship-2007, amount received $5220.00.
Presentations: Oral presentation at Minisymposium-regulation of metabolism (invited), Plant Biology and Botany 2007 Joint Congress, Chicago, IL, USA.
Poster presentation at Plant Biology and Botany 2007 Joint Congress, Chicago, IL, USA. Huang, Y.D., Li, C.Y. and Gibson, S.I. (2007) Identification of a Protein Kinase and a RING-Finger Protein Involved in Plant Metabolic Response.
Publications: Huang, Y.D., Li, C.Y., Biddle, K.D. and Gibson, S.I. (2008) Identification, cloning and characterization of sis7, sis9 and sis10 sugar-insensitive mutants of Arabidopsis (submitted).

Keunsub Lee (advisor: Georgiana May)
Awards/Grants: 2007 PBS summer stipend fellowship
Presentations: 2007 MSA meeting at Baton Rouge, LA (Louisiana State University) Poster title: Competitive interactions between endophytic Fusarium verticillioides and Ustilago maydis result in reduced smut disease severit

Xing Liu (advisor: Jerry Cohen)
Awards/Grants: Travel grant for Summer 2007 from PBS program, $700; 2007 PBS Summer Stipend Fellowship, $4,971.
Meetings: Attended Plant Biology and Botany 2007 Joint Congress in Chicago, IL on July 7 through July 11, 2007.
Other: Passed SPEAK test in April 2007.

Moana McClellan (advisor: Rebecca Montgomery)
Awards/Grants: PBS Summer Travel Grant, 2007;
Journal Citations: Cordell S., McClellan M., Yarber Carter Y., and Hadway L., “Kaupulehu Tropical Dry Forest Outplanting Program”. Endangered Species Bulletin (in press).

Rachel Mills (advisor: Ruth Shaw)
Awards/Grants: CBS 2007 Outstanding TA Award
Meetings: Attended the Invasive Species Symposium in MN and the NASA Carbon Cycle and Climate Change meeting in MD.
Other: Accepted into the University of Texas at Austin Marine Science
Program for a PhD in Biogeochemistry

Sumitha Nallu (advisor: Kate VandenBosch)
Presentations: Poster presented at “The 20th North American Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation Conference” held at Marquette University, Milwaukee,WI from July10,2007- July 14,2007. “Defensin-like genes in Medicago truncatula: function and patterns of gene expression.”

Ryoko Oono (advisor: R. Ford Denison)
Awards/Grants: PBS Summer Fellowship 2007 – received $4,971; PBS Travel Grant 2007 – received $700; PBS Travel Grant 2008 – received $1,035
Presentations: Ecological Society of America in San Jose , CA from August 5-10 “Legume-rhizobium symbiosis with two different life histories”

Brian Piasecki (advisor: Carolyn Silflow)
Awards/Grants: Received Microbial and Plant Genomics Institute Fellowship that included $2000 research/travel stipend.
Presentations: Attended the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) conference entitled “The Biology of Cilia and Flagella” August 4 – 9, 2007 in Saxton’s River, Vermont. I presented a poster for the abstract entitled “The Uni2 protein is a cell-cycle regulated marker of basal bodies in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii”.
Publications: Piasecki, B.P., LaVoie, M., Tam, L-W, Lefebvre, P.A., and Silflow, C.D. (2008) The Uni2 phosphoprotein is a cell cycle-regulated component of the basal body maturation pathway in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Molecular Biology of the Cell 19, 262-273.
Work from master’s thesis was submitted in a manuscript entitled “Cryopreservation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: A cause of low viability at high cell density” to the journal Cryobiology.
Other: Plant Biological Sciences graduate student representative to the curriculum committee; Photo credit for an online publication on algae at The University of Minnesota; Provided a Chlamydomonas fluorescence image used on the website and poster for the upcoming Chlamydomonas meeting in France this summer.
Fulbright Fellowship to Sweden for the 2008-2009 academic year.

Christopher Pinahs (advisor: R. Montgomery/P. Reich)
Awards/Grants: PBS Summer Fellowship 2008; PBS Travel

Yiping Qi (advisor: Fumiaki Katagiri)
Awards/Grants: PBS travel grant
Presentations: On PBS annual retreat in May 2007, gave a talk titled
“Isolation and characterization of protein complexes containing the Arabidopsis disease resistance protein RPS2”; Attended the 18th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research in Beijing, China, June 20-23, 2007 and presented a poster titled “Identification of Arabidopsis proteins that associated with disease resistance protein RPS2”.
Other: Volunteered to present a poster about research for PBS Open House in 2008.

Victoria Ranua (advisor: Cynthia Weinig)
Presentations: "Balancing Land Use and Natural Resources" University of Minnesota Plant Biology Seminar Series; St. Paul, Minnesota. Fall 2007; "Reproductive Strategies of the MN threatened wetland plant species, Viola lanceolata" Minnesota Society for Conservation Biology Annual Conference; Lansboro, Minnesota. 08 March 2008; "Report to the City of Blaine Natural Resource Conservation Board on the reproductive strategies of the lance-leaved violet, Viola lanceolata." City of Blaine Natural Resource Conservation Board; Blaine, Minnesota, 15 April 2008.
Other: Wetland Plants of Minnesota Field Identification Techniques with Dr. Robert Mohlenbrock. Midwest Natural Resources, Inc.; St. Paul, Minnesota. September 2007; Wetland delineation in problem sites. University of Minnesota Wetland Delineator Certification Program, St. Paul, Minnesota, July 25, 2007; 2008 Wildland Firefighter Safety Refresher Training: the changing fire environment. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Bloomington, MN. 19 March 2008. (has been a federally certified wildland firefighter since 2005)
Special Recognition:
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community and Victoria Ranua just made Newsweek today. http://www.newsweek.com/id/139090

This is a follow-up article to the front-page Star Tribune article on 3 May: http://www.startribune.com/local/south/18539994.html. The tribe is doing great things in balancing development with land stewardship. By the end of the year my co-workers will be publishing the first breeding bird survey done in Minnesota along with a faunal atlas. I am working on a companion floral atlas. This work has already produced several new county records and one new state record in a urban / agriculture interface landscape (Hydrocotyle ranunculoides http://www.minnpost.com/markneuzil/2007/11/19/138/whats_better_than_a_hole_in_one_buttercup_pennywort) We are in the process of planting native prairie species as biofuel for use in the tribe's new bio-energy plant. The tribe also has the largest green roof in the Midwest and soon to complete the second. We are exploring the benefits of a vegetated roof and involved in a trail and error process to determine which native plants will do best in this created environment.

Local based efforts are working to solve local (and global) problems.

Jessica Savage (advisor: Jeannine Cavendar-Bares)
Awards/Grants: Thesis Research Grant, University of Minnesota - $1,500; Plant Biological Sciences Travel grant - $500
Presentations: Savage, J. (presenter), Cavender-Bares, J. and A. Verhoeven. (2008) Variation in six willow (Salix) species photoprotective ability during an experimental dry-down. Presented at the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Preserve Symposium, Bethel, MN.
Savage, J. (presenter), Cavender-Bares, J. and A. Verhoeven. (2007) Variation in the nonphotochemical energy dissipation of six co-occurring willow (Salix) species during an experimental dry-down. Presented at the Botanical Society of America Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
Publications: Savage, J., Cavender-Bares, J. and A. Verhoeven. Six willow (Salix) species photoprotective responses to drought correspond with their habitat preferences. New Phytologist.

Kerrie Sendall (advisor: Peter Reich)
Awards/Grants: Macquarie University Research Excellence Fellowship ($160,000), 2008; Plant Biological Sciences (PBS) Graduate Program Travel Grant ($750), 2008; PBS Graduate Program Summer Stipend Fellowship ($5000), 2007; PBS Graduate Program Travel Grant ($750), 2007.
Presentations: Sendall, K. M. and P. B. Reich. Variation in leaf and fine stem CO2 flux as a function of plant size: a comparison of seedlings, saplings, and trees. Presented at the 2008 Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve (CCESR) Research Symposium.
Publications: Vourlitis, G. L., J. de Souza Nogueira, F. de Almeida Lobo, K. M. Sendall, S. R. de Paulo, C. A. Antunes Dias, O. B. Pinto, Jr., and N. L. R. de Andrade. 2008. Energy balance and canopy conductance of a tropical semi-deciduous forest of the southern Amazon Basin, Water Resources Research 44: W03412.

Xiaodong Sun (advisor: Min Ni)
Awards/Grants: PBS Travel Grant $700; PBS Summer Stipend Fellowships $4971
Presentations: Poster presentation at 18th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research in Beijing, P.R.China “Molecular and Genetic Characterization of Intermediates in Phytochrome and Cryptochrome Signaling”
Publications: Xiaojun Kang, Yun Zhou, Xiaodong Sun, Min Ni (2007) “HYPERSENSITIVE TO RED AND BLUE 1 and its C-terminal regulatory function control FLOWERING LOCUS T expression.”
The Plant Journal 52(5) , 937–948

Xiaoqing Sun (advisor: Carolyn Silflow)
Awards/Grants: PBS Spring Travel Funding; MPGI Travel Funding; Travel funding from the 2008 Chlamydomonas meeting; PBS Summer Travel Funding
Presentations: Presented a poster titled “Regulation of hydrogenase gene expression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii” at 29th Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals in Denver, CO during May 2007; Presented a poster titled “Regulation of hydrogenase gene expression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii” at 8th International Hydrogenase Conference in Breckenridge, CO during August 2007; Presented a poster titled “Regulation of hydrogenase gene expression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii” at E3 Symposium (IREE annual meeting) in Minneapolis, MN during November 2007.

Lin Wang (advisor: Jane Glazebrook)
Awards/Grants: 2007 Summer fellowship; 2008 Thesis fellowship
Presentations: Plant Biology & Botany 2007 joint congress
July 7-11 Hilton Chicago
Poster presented: Arabidopsis AtCBP60 family genes are important for defense responses against Pseudomonas syringae

Tim Whitfeld (advisor: George Weiblen)
Awards/Grants: Systematics Association, Systematics Research Fund ($1,600) for field work in Papua New Guinea; PBS Travel Award ($1,000) for field work in Papua New Guinea; OIP Pre-Dissertation award ($5,000).
Projects: Whitfeld, T. J. S. and G. D. Weiblen. 2007. Online checklist of the woody genera of New Guinea: http://geo.cbs.umn.edu/NGwoodygenera/NGwoodygenera.html
Whitfeld, T. J. S. and G. D. Weiblen. 2008. A digital flora of New Guinea: http://ng.brit.org/

Heather Whittington (advisor: Jennifer Powers)
Awards/Grants: PBS Summer Travel Grant, $1000
Other: University of Utah, 2008 Stable Isotopes in Ecology summer course

Lynette Wong (advisor: Albert Markhart/Jerry Cohen)
Awards/Grants: PBS Summer Travel Grant, $1000
Meetings: Presented Poster at 2007 American Society of Plant Biologists in Chicago, IL, Wong, L. Y., Cohen, J. D., and Markhart, A.; “Evidence for stress induced /in vivo/ metabolic flux of 2-phenylethyl glucosinolate in /Nasturtium officinale/ R. Br.”

Kelly Zinn (advisors: Deb Allan/Carroll Vance)
Awards/Grants: PMGI Travel Grant 1/2008; PBS Travel Grant; 2008.
Presentations: KE Zinn, J. Liu, DL Allan, CP Vance (2008) The P1BS cis Regulatory Element is Required but not Sufficient for Expression of LaSAP1 in Phosphorus Deficient Proteoid Roots. Abstract for Plant and Animal Genome XVI Conference in San Diego, CA.

Plant Biological Sciences Student Accomplishments 2006-2007

Wendy Clement(advisor George Weiblen)

Awards/Grants:  Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship; Society for the Study of Evolution Travel Grant ($750) for Evolution 2007 meeting in New Zealand; PBS Summer Travel Grant for Botany 2007 meeting in Chicago; PBS Summer Fellowship (Summer 07)

Presentations:  A fig by any other name would smell just as sweet: A study of phylogeny and floral volatile mimicry in figs and close relatives, Wendy Clement and George Weiblen, Evolution 2006, Stony Brook, NY; June 23-27, 2006

Publications:  Ronsted, N., G.D. Weiblen, W. Clement, N. Zerega, and V. Savolainen. In review. Reconstructing the phylogeny of figs (Ficus, Moraceae) to unravel the origin of fig-wasp mutualisms. Symbiosis.

Nicholas Deacon (advisor Cavender-Bares)

Awards/Grants:  Plant Biological Sciences Graduate Stipend Fellowship:  $4734;

University of Minnesota Council of Graduate Students Travel Grant:  $281; University of Minnesota Dayton Wilkie Fellowship: $1200;  University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation International Research Grant  $5000.

Presentations: Oral Presentation:  “Factors affecting the population genetic structure of Quercus oleoides in Costa Rica”.  Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting (August 2006).

Jenny Dechaine (advisor Cynthia Weinig)

Awards/Grants: GK12 Fellowship July 2006 – June 2007 (30,000 & tuition); PBS Summer Stipend Fellowship 2006 ($1821); Plant Biological Sciences Travel Grant, June 2006 ($500); MPGI Travel Grant, June 2006 ($400)

Meetings:  Evolution 2006. Joint meeting: Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists, and Society of Systematic Biologists. Stony Brook, New York. June 2006

Publications: C. Weinig, C., M.T. Brock, J. Dechaine, and S.M. Welsh. 2007. Resolving the genetic basis of invasiveness and predicting invasions. Genetica 129: 205-216.

Dechaine, J.M., J.A. Johnston, M.T. Brock, and C. Weinig. Constraints on the evolution of adaptive plasticity: costs of plasticity to density are expressed in segregating progenies.  Inreview at New Phytologist.

Volunteer: Judge at Twin Cities Regional Science Fair, February 23, 2007 

Bryn Dentinger  (advisor David McLaughlin)

Awards/Grants:  April 2007 - Simons Foundation Summer Fellowship in Systematic Biology: $4628 (+ grad health insurance); April 2007 - Plant Biological Sciences Summer Fellowship: $700 to supplement the Simons Fellowship; April 2007 - Plant Biological Sciences Travel Grant: $700; July 2006 - North American Mycological Association (NAMA) Graduate Fellowship: $2000
(administered by the Mycological Society of America)

Publications:  Celio, G. J., M. Padamsee, B. T. M. Dentinger, K. Josephson, T. S. Jenkinson, E. G. McLaughlin, and D. J. McLaughlin. Septal pore apparatus and nuclear division of Auriscalpium vulgare. Mycologia. In review.

Celio, G. J., M. Padamsee, B. T. M. Dentinger, R. Bauer, and D. J. McLaughlin. 2006. Assembling the fungal tree of life: Constructing the Structural and Biochemical Database. Mycologia 98(6):850-859.

Dentinger, B. T. M. and D. J. McLaughlin. 2006. Reconstructing the Clavariaceae using nuclear large subunit rDNA sequences and a new genus segregated from Clavaria. Mycologia 98(5):746-762.

Presentations:  Dentinger, B. T. M. and D. J. McLaughlin. 2006. The elusive little pigs: Unraveling the taxonomy and evolution of porcini. Mycological Society of America conference, 29 Jul-03 Aug 2006. Quebec City, QC.

Dentinger, B. 2006. Systematics, biogeography, and speciation of porcini mushrooms. (oral presentation) Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference, 17-19 March 2006. St. Louis, MO.

Outreach/Public Service: (4 Dec 2006, 30 Mar 2007) Evolution of Fungi. Guest lecture for Biodiversity and Phylogeny (BIOL170), Macalester College, St. Paul, MN.

(15 Sept 2006) Interviewed by KARE 11 News, Minneapolis, MN: discussed a local mushroom poisoning; static link:(www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=134547)

(02 Mar 2006) Presenter for the Minnesota Native Plant Society; "A match made in humus? The connection between bolete mushrooms and trees in Minnesota"

Edward Gilding(advisor David Marks)

Awards/Grants: Microbial and Plant Genomics Institute Travel Grant ($500)

Meetings: Botanical Society of America annual conference, Chico, CA, July 2006. 

Presentations: Presented a poster “Fluorescent proteins for the visualization of

transcription factor interactions in Arabidopsis”, Gilding E K, Sanders M, and Marks M D.

William Haun (advisor Nathan Springer)

Awards/Grants:  $500 travel grant from PBS for travel to the Maize Genetics Conference in Pacific Grove, CA, March 9-12, 2006.

Meetings:  I attended and presented a poster at the Maize Genetics Conference in Pacific Grove, CA, March 9-12, 2006.

Publications:  Haun WJ, Laoueille-Duprat S, O'connell MJ, Spillane C, Grossniklaus U, Phillips AR, Kaeppler SM, Springer NM  (2007) Genomic imprinting, methylation and molecular evolution of maize Enhancer of zeste (Mez) homologs.  Plant J 49: 325-37.

Katy D. Heath(advisor Peter Tiffin)

Awards/Grants:  MPGI Travel Grant; Plant Biology Travel Grant

Meetings: MEEC Conference, St Louis MO: oral presentation spring 2006; UMN Center for Community Genetics: oral presentation fall 2006; ESA conference, San Jose CA: oral presentation scheduled, summer 2007

Keunsub Lee(advisor Georgiana May)

Awards/Grants:  PBS travel award

Meetings:  24th Fungal Genetics Conference, March 21 – 25, 2007, Pacific Grove, California

Xing Liu

Awards/Grants: PBS Travel Award and the PBS Summer Fellowship.

Rachel Mills(advisor Ruth Shaw)

Awards/Grants: PBS Summer Fellowship the PBS summer travel grant

Rachel Morphew (advisor Kathryn VandenBosch)

Awards/Grants:  Plant Biological Sciences Summer Stipend Fellowship

Meetings/Presentations:  2006 In vitro Biology Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, Poster Presentation (06/2006); 40th North American Alfalfa Improvement Conference & 19thBloomington, MN, Poster Presentation (07/2006); So You Want To Go To Graduate School?, Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI, Informational Seminar (09/2006); Introduction to Research, Viterbo University, La Crosse, WI, Oral Research Presentation (09/2006)

Mahajabeen Padamsee(advisor David McLaughlin)

Awards:  Phinney Graduate Fellowship ($8,500); Dayton-Wilkie Natural History Funds ($1,400); Deep Hypha Travel Award ($900); Plant Biology Travel Award ($500)

Meetings: Deep Hypha meeting, Baton Rouge, LA  Feb 2006; Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference, St. Louis, MO  Mar 2006

Presentations: Mycological Society meeting, Quebec City, Quebec,  July

Publications:Celio, G.J., M. Padamsee, B.T.M. Dentinger, R. Bauer, and D.J. McLaughlin.   Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life: Constructing the Structural and Biochemical Database. In press.

Padamsee, M., P.B. Matheny, and D.J. McLaughlin. The mushroom family Psathyrellaceae: evidence for large-scale polyphyly of the genus Psathyrella. In review. Mol. Phyl. Evol.

Celio, G.J., M. Padamsee, B.T.M. Dentinger, T.S. Jenkinson, E.G. McLaughlin, and D.J. McLaughlin. Septal pore apparatus and nuclear division of Auriscalpium vulgare. Submitted.

Brian Piasecki(advisor Carolyn Silflow)

Awards/Grants:Received $500 from the Keith R. Porter foundation to attend and give a presentation at the 12th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas.

Presentations:Gave a presentation entitled “The UNI2 gene in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii encodes a component of basal bodies and probasal bodies” at The 12th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomomans.  It was held in Portland, Oregon May 9-14, 2006.

Lorien Radmer(advisor Deb Samac)

Publications:  Overexpression of defense response genes in transgenic wheat enhances resistance to Fusarium head blight Caroline A. Mackintosh · Janet Lewis · Lorien E. Radmer · Sanghyun Shin · Shane J. Heinen · Lisa A. Smith · Meagen N. Wyckoff · Ruth Dill-Macky · Conrad K. Evans · Sasha Kravchenko · Gerald D. Baldridge · Richard J. Zeyen · Gary J. Muehlbauer Plant Cell Rep (2007) 26:479–488.

Victoria Ranua(advisor Cynthia Weinig)

Active member of the Minnesota Native Plant Society (monthly meetings) Appointed to the Minnesota Native Plant Society Conservation Committee. Recertified as a Federal Wildland Firefighter Type II (3rd year as a wildland firefighter... prescribed burns important habitat management tool).

Jessica Savage(advisor Jeannine Cavender-Bares)

Awards/Grants:  Charles Brand Fellowship -  University of Minnesota, year stipend ($18,000) & tuition; Carolyn Crosby Fellowship – University of Minnesota, summer stipend ($3,000) and research grant ($3,000).

Presentations:  Savage, J. (presenter) and J. Cavender-Bares. (August 2006) Drought response strategies of co-occurring willow (Salix) species. Presented at the Ecological Society of America Annual Conference, Memphis, TN.

Savage, J. (poster) and J. Cavender-Bares. (September 2006) Drought response strategies of co-occurring willow (Salix) species at Cedar Creek Natural History Area. Presented at the Long Term Ecological Research Network All Scientists Meeting, Estes Park, CO.

Publications:  Cavender-Bares, J., Sack, L. and J. Savage. (2007) Drought reduces nocturnal transpiration in two live oak species. Tree Physiology 27:611-620.

David Schladt(advisor Georgiana May)

Awards/Grants:  PBS travel grant

Xiaodong Sun(advisor Min Ni)

Awards:Plant Biological Sciences Summer Fellowship 2006 ($4734); Plant Biological Sciences Travel Grant 2006 ($500)

Meetings:The 17th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Madison, WI, June 2006

Publications:Yun Zhou, Xiao-Dong Sun, Min Ni (2007) Timing of Photoperiodic Flowering: Light Perception and Circadian Clock Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 49 (1), 28–34.

Xiaoqing Sun(advisor Carolyn Silflow)

Presentations:  IREE symposium, on eastbank campus presented a poster "Production of Hydrogen by the Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii”, January 2007; 29th Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals, Denver, CO April 29-May 2 poster title: Production of Hydrogen by the Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Peter Voth(advisor Georgiana May)

Awards/Grants:  American Society for Virology Travel Award ($500); awarded July, 2006; Plant Biological Sciences Travel Grant;  Plant Biological Sciences Summer Fellowship.

Meetings and Presentations:  Invited Speaker: The Saint Paul Public Schools, Secondary Catalyst Summer Institute: The Architecture of Life; June 19-30. University of Minnesota, College of Biological Sciences, St. Paul, MN; American Society for Virology 25th Annual Meeting; July 15-19, 2006; Madison, WI; Poster presentation: “Genetic Variation in Ustilago maydis virus H1 in the USA, Mexico, and South America”; American Phytopahological Society/Mycological Society of America/Canadian Phytopathological Society Joint Meeting; July 29-August 2, 2006; Quebec City, Quebec, Canada; Invited Symposia Speaker: “Population Structure of Ustilago maydis virus H1 Across the Americas”; Invited Speaker: Biol 1905 Freshman Seminar for the Biological Sciences: From Ebola to SARS: Human Behavior and the Emergence of New and Deadly Human Viruses. November, 2006.

Publications: Voth, P. D., Mairura, L., Lockhart, B. E., and May, G. (2006). Phylogeography of Ustilgo maydis virus H1 in the USA and Mexico. Journal of General Biology 87: 3433-3441.

Lockhart, B. E., Swenson, A. S., Olszewski, N. E., and Voth, P. D. (2007). Characterization of an Unusual Crucifer-Infecting Tobamovirus Causing Red Ringspot of Penstemon. Plant Disease (In Prep).

Mentoring:  Mentored/supervised Linah Mairura on Directed Research, NSF REU, and Honors Thesis projects from the Summer 2004 through Spring 2006, when she graduated with Honors and Summa Cum Laude. Her final Honors thesis was titled: “Biogeography of a fungal virus using comparative genomics”; Supervised Rebecca Marcus, an undergraduate volunteer, assisting me on my research from Fall 2005 through Spring 2006; Mentoring/supervising Mallory Turner on Directed Research and Honors Thesis Projects from the Summer 2005 to present. Her current research is re-characterizing the presence of toxin encoding satellite dsRNAs by Ustilago maydis virus H1.

Timothy Whitfeld(advisor George Weiblen)

Awards/Grants:  PBS Summer Fellowship; PBS Travel Award; EEB Rothman Fellowship Award

Wenjing Zhang (advisor Bill Gray)

Awards/Grants:NAASC Travel Award (support for attending the 18th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research), Summer 2007.

Publication:  Moon, J., Zhao, Y., Dai, X., Zhang, W., Gray, W.M., Huq, E., and Estelle, M. 2007. A New CULLIN 1 Mutant Has Altered Responses to Hormones and Light in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol, 143: 684-696.

Qiuxia Wu(advisor Neil Olszewski)

Awards/Grants:  PBS summer fellowship.

Songqing Ye(advisor Jerry Cohen)

Awards/Grants:  PBS Summer Fellowship, MPGI travel grant, PBS travel Grant and International Conference on Arabidopsis Research Travel award (or The North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee (NAASC) travel award. 

Plant Biological Sciences Student Accomplishments 2005-2006

American Society for Plant Taxonomists Graduate Research Awar
Wendy Clement received a research award in the amount of $1,000.

Alexander P. and Lydia Anderson Fellowship
Maj Padamsee was awarded a $3,000 research grant and Kelly Zinn was awarded a $2000 research grant.

Backus Award, Mycological Society of America
Bryn Dentinger was awarded a $1,000 grant.

Carolyn Crosby Fellowship
Nicholas Deacon was awarded a $3,000 research grant and Jenny Dechaine also received a $2,000 research grant for summer 2005

CBS Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Summer Silvieus and Dan Griffin received the CBS outstanding teaching award in the amount of $250.

Center for Community Genetics Fellowships/Travel Grants
Summer Silvieus received a Summer Research Grant from the Center for Community Genetics in the amount of   $2, 280.   She also received a Community Genetics Travel Grant for $757.   Laurie Stone also received $1615 for a summer stipend fellowship.   She also received a travel grant for $757.

Croasdale Fellowship
Brian Piasecki received $1000 from The Phycological Society of America to attend the Friday Harbor Labs course in June 2005.

Dayton-Wilkie Natural History Funds (Bell Museum)
Maj Padamsee has received a $1,400 fellowship for 2005.
Jessica Savage received a $1,200 award for research.
Bryn Dentinger received a $1,120 research grant for the summer of 2005.

Deep Hypha Travel Award
Maj Padamsee has received a $900 fellowship for 2005.            
For travel to the 2005 annual meetings for the Mycological Society of America Bryn Dentinger received a $900 grant.

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship and Doctoral Dissertation International Research Grant
Bryn Dentinger received the DDF which includes a stipend, health and tuition benefits for the academic year 2005-06 to finish up with his research and writing of his thesis.
Nicholas Deacon was awarded $5,000 for the DD International Research Grant to continue his thesis research in Costa Rica.

GK-12 Initiative
Summer Silvieus received a 2005-06 12-month stipend plus tuition for this fellowship.
Jenny Dechaine has been awarded this fellowship for 2006-07.

Hamm Memorial Fellowship
Ali Sivitz received a $1,500 Hamm fellowship.

NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
Wendy Clement was awarded the NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for
2006-2007, which is to provide research funding to students that are completing their dissertation projects.

Molecular Plant Genetics Institute Fellowship
Ryoko Oono, first-year student in fall 2005 received this fellowship for the academic year that includes tuition and a stipend.  

Molecular Plant Genetics Institute Travel Grant
Ali Sivitz received a $500 travel grant.
Brian Piasecki received a travel grant for Summer 2005

Pletcher Fellowship
Wendy Clement was awarded a $2500 scholarship to be used for travel or stipend.

Phinney Fellowship
Wenjing Zhang received the Bernard and Jean Phinney Graduate Fellowship in Plant Molecular Biology.   Each student was awarded $8,000 for stipend plus tuition and fringes.

Plant Biological Sciences Annual Retreat - May 19, 2005
All students, other than first-year students, presented a poster at the retreat.

Plant Biological Sciences First-Year Student Fellowship
Our incoming students receive a PBS fellowship for their first semester while they do rotations to identify an advisor.   The following students that received this were:   Rachel Mills, Sumitha Nallu, Lingtian Kong, Xiaodong Sun, Xiaoqing Sun

Plant Biological Sciences Travel Awards
The PBS Graduate Program support graduate student travel. These funds are to help support travel to professional meetings, a scientific laboratory or workshops to learn new techniques, or for the collection of biological materials. The following students received travel awards for summer 2005, fall 2005 and spring 2006 not to exceed $500 for each student:    Ed Gilding, Nicholas Deacon, BJ Haun, Angela Hendrickson, Ali Sivitz, Wendy, Clement, Jennifer Dechaine, Bryn Dentinger, Harpartap Mann, Ryoko Oono, Maj Padamsee, Brian Piasecki, Lorien Radmer, Jessica Savage, Xiaodong Sun, Lin Wang, Songqing Ye, Wenjing Zhang, Yun Zhou, Kelly Zinn.

Plant Biological Sciences Summer Fellowships
Summer Block Grant Stipend Awardees for 2005 were: Divya Chandran, Nicholas Deacon, Jenny Dechaine, Bryn Dentinger, Keunsub Lee, Harpartap Mann, Brian Piasecki, Lorien Radmer, David Schladt, Laurie Stone, Chad Westberg, Yun Zhou, Kelly Zinn, Pavani Maragowni.

Tuition Fellowship
Peter Matsumoto, recipient of the National Needs Fellowship received a tuition fellowship for f all 2005.

UMN International Travel Dissertation Fellowship
Wendy Clement received the UMN Int'l fellowship award in the amount of $5,000

Presentations at conferences, Publications

Divya Chandran
Model Legume Conference, June 5-9, 2005 Pacific Grove CA; Gave an oral presentation entitled: "An evaluation of aluminum tolerance in MedicagotTruncatula "

Presented a poster entitled "Physiological and molecular characterization of aluminum tolerance in Medicago truncatula ".

American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) July 16-20, 2005 Seattle, WA.   Presented a poster entitled "Molecular characterization of A1-induced genes

PBS Annual Retreat May 2005 - presented poster

Wendy Clement
Phylogeny of Castilleae (Moraceae): Investigating the evolutionary history of the figs' closest relatives Wendy Clement (oral presentation) XVII International Botanical Congress, Vienna, Austria; July 17-23, 2005

Phylogeny and pollination biology of Castilleae (Moraceae): Investigating the evolutionary history of the figs' closest relatives; Wendy Clement (oral presentation)

Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference, St. Louis, MO; March 17-19, 2006
PBS Annual Retreat May 2005 - poster

Silvieus, S.I., W. L. Clement , and G.D. Weiblen. Submitted. Cophylogeny of fig pollinators, parasites and parasitoids, pp. In K. J. Tilmon (ed.), Evolutionary Biology of Plant and Insect Relationships University of California Press, Berkeley, California.

Zerega, N.J.C., W.L. Clement , S.L. Datwyler, and G.D. Weiblen. 2005. Biogeography and divergence
times in the mulberry family (Moraceae). Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution . 37:402-416.

PBS Annual Retreat May 2005 - poster

Nicholas Deacon
Oral Presentation:   "Distribution of Genetic Diversity in a Fragmented Tropical Live Oak Forest". Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting (August 2005)

PBS Annual Retreat May 2005 - poster

Bryn Dentinger
Dentinger, B.T.M. and D.J. McLaughlin. Reconstructing the Clavariaceae using nuclear large subunit rDNA sequences and a new genus segregated from Clavaria . Mycologia (submitted).

Celio, G., M. Padamsee, B.T.M. Dentinger , R. Bauer, and D.J. McLaughlin. Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life: Constructing the Structural and Biochemical Database. Mycologia (submitted).

Harsh, N.S.K., Y.P. Singh, H.K. Gupta, B.M. Mushra, D.J. McLaughlin, and B. Dentinger . 2005. A new culm rot disease of bamboo in India and its management. Journal of Bamboo and Rattan 4(4):387-398.

Dentinger, B. 2006. Systematics, biogeography, and speciation of porcini mushrooms. (oral presentation) Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference, 17-19 March 2006. St. Louis, MO.

Dentinger, B.C . and McLaughlin, D.J. 2005. Homoplastic surgery: Reconstructing the classification of two coral mushroom families (Clavariceae and Pterulaceae). (poster presentation) Mycological Society of America Meetings, July 2005. Hilo, HI.

Dickie, I.A., Dentinger, B.C ., Avis, P.G., McLaughlin, D.J., and Reich, P.B. 2005. Ectomycorrhizal fungi of North American oak savannas. (oral presentation) Mycological Society of America Meetings, July 2005. Hilo, HI.

Celio, G.J., Padamsee, M., Dentinger, B.C ., McLaughlin, D.J., Hibbett, D.S., Lutzoni, F., Spatafora, J.W., and Vilgalys, R.J. 2005. The nucleus in the AFTOL non-molecular database. (poster presentation) Mycological Society of America Meetings, July 2005. Hilo, HI.

Presenter for the Minnesota Native Plant Society; "A match made in humus? The connection between bolete mushrooms and trees in Minnesota" (02 Mar 2006)

Designer of Porcini Mushrooms Through the Ages , a display for the Plant Pathology Library, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN (Sept 2005)

Volunteer for the second annual Minnesota BioBlitz at the Minnesota River Valley National Wildlife Refuge, Bloomington, MN (10-11 Jun 2005)

Jenny Dechaine
PBS Annual Retreat May, 2005 - poster                                                

Teaching assistant in Plant Diversity and Adaptation, Fall 2005

Ed Gilding
ASPB Plant Genetics 2005, October 14-17, poster presentation
In the fall of 2005 I volunteered to mentor Murray Junior High students when planning their science fair projects with Dr. John Ward.   This activity included a short presentation to two classes and two planning sessions with a small group of students interested in conducting a project that included plants.

Sajeet Haridas
Attended the Model Legume Congress, June 5-9, 2005, Pacific Grove, California.   Presented a poster   Analysis of a putative calcium dependent protein kinase in Medicago Truncatula   Sajeet Haridas , Sergey Ivashuta and J. Stephen Gantt

Ivashuta, Sergey, Jinyuan Liu, Junqi Liu, Dasharath P. Lohar, Sajeet Haridas , Bruna Bucciarelli, Kathryn A. VandenBosch, Carroll P. Vance, Maria J. Harrison, J. Stephen Gantt. 2005. RNA Interference Identifies a Calcium-dependent Protein Kinase Involved in Medicago truncatula Root Development. Plant Cell 17: 2911-2921.

Ivashuta, S., Liu, J., Liu, J., Lohar, D.P ., Haridas, S ., Bucciarelli, B., Vandenbosch, K.A., Vance, C.P., Harrison, M.J., Gantt, J.S. 2005. A Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinase Controls Root Development and Symbiotic Interactions. 2005 Model Legume Congress, June 5-9, 2005, Pacific Grove, California. Paper No. S24, P. 35.

BJ Haun
Attended the presented a poster at the 2006 Maize Genetics Conference, May 9-12, 2006 in Pacific Grove, CA

Tim Heisel
Annual PBS retreat in May 2005 - Presented a poster

2005 International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, June 2005 in Madison, WI - Presented a poster

Meeting for the Institute for Renewable Energy and the Environment, September 2005 in Minneapolis, MN - Presented a poster

Developmental Biology Colloquium, March 2006 in Minneapolis, MN - Gave a 25-minute oral presentation about my research

Yadong Huang
June 15-19, 2005. 16 th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research,

poster presentation

Annual PBS retreat in May 2005 - Presented a poster

Keunsub Lee
Munkacsi, A. B., Kawakami, S., Pan, J. J., Lee, K ., Stoxen, S., Hang, J., May, G. Genome-wide assessment of tandem repeat markers for biogeographical analyses of the corn smut fungus, Ustilago maydis. Molecular Ecology Notes. 6(1): 221-223

Harpartap Mann
Mann, H. S ., Bedford, D., Luby, J., Vickers, Z., and Tong, C. (2005)

Relationship of instrumental and sensory texture measurements of fresh and

stored apples to cell number and cell size. HortScience 40(6): 1815-1820

Rachel Morphew
Attended the 2005 Model Legume Congress in Pacific Grove, CA.

Mahajabeen Padamsee                                                                                    
Oral presentation at Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference.

March 17-19, 2006.   Saint Louis, Missouri.
Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Mycological Society of America.

July 30-August 5, 2005.   Hilo, Hawaii.

Celio, G.J., M. Padamsee, B.T. Dentinger, R. Bauer, and D.J. McLaughlin. Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life: Constructing the Structural and Biochemical Database. Submitted to Mycologia .

Brian Piasecki
Attended a 5-week course entitled Marine Algae at the University of Washington field station Friday Harbor Labs in June 2005.   Attended the 46 th annual meeting of The American Society for Cell Biologists in San Francisco in December 2005.   He presented the paper entitled "The UNI2 gene in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii encodes a component of basal bodies and probasal bodies.

Yiping Qi
Attended the 16th International Conference on Arabidopsis research at Madison from June 15 to June 19 in 2005 .

Lorien Radmer
Poster Presentation: Plant Biology 2005; ASPB, July 16-20, Seattle, WA

Annual PBS Retreat - presented poster

Caroline A. Mackintosh, David F. Garvin, Lorien E. Radmer, Shane J. Heinen,

Gary J. Muehlbauer, A model wheat cultivar for transformation to improve

resistance to Fusarium Head Blight, Plant Cell Reports, Mar 2006, Pages 1 - 7

Jessica Savage
Cavender-Bares, J., Sack, L. and J. Savage. Quantification of nocturnal transpiration in live oaks ( Quercus virginiana and Q. oleoides ) under contrasting soil moisture regimes. In review.

David Schladt
Oral presentation at the Microbial and Plant Genomics Institute (MPGI) retreat the the University of Minnesota on November 5,2005.

Summer Silvieus
Exploring host specificity and species limits of nonpollinating fig wasps, Talk, Joint meeting of the Soc. for the study of Evolution, Soc. of Syst. Biologists, and the American Soc. of Naturalists (Evolution Conference), Fairbanks, Alaska (2005)

Reconstructing a fig wasp parasitoid phylogeny, Poster presentation with undergraduate Erika Blackwell, Joint meeting of the Soc. for the study of Evolution, Soc. of Syst. Biologists, and the American Soc. of Naturalists (Evolution Conference), Fairbanks, Alaska (2005)
Co-cladogenesis in the fig-fig wasp community, Poster presentation with graduate Wendy Clement, Community Genetics Symposium, U. of Minnesota (2005)

Examining cospeciation between figs and their nonpollinating wasps, Poster presentation, Joint meeting of the Soc. for the study of Evolution, Soc. of Syst. Biologists, and the American Soc. of Naturalists (Evolution Conference), Chico, California (2003)

Cophylogeny of fig pollinators, parasites and parasitoids. S. I. Silvieus, G. Weiblen, W. Clement. In press. In K. Tilmon (ed.) Evolutionary Biology of Plant and Insect Relationships . University of California Press, Berkely, California.

Ali Sivitz
Talk at the 2 nd Pan American Workshop on Plant Membrane Biology in May 2006, South Padre Island, Texas

Sivitz AB, Reinders A, Johnson ME, Ward JM. "AtSUC9 is an ultra high affinity sucrose transporter in Arabidopsis." (In preparation) Anke Reinders, Alicia B. Sivitz , Chris Grof and John M. Ward.   Sugarcane ShSUT1: analysis of sucrose transport activity and inhibition by sucralose. (Submitted)

Sivitz AB , Reinders A, Ward JM.   Analysis of the transport activity of barley sucrose transporter HvSUT1. Plant Cell Physiol. 2005 Oct; 46(10):1666-73.

Laurie Stone
Attended the Ecological Society of America meeting in Montreal, Canada, August 2005.  I presented a poster there:  Reproduction and selection in Schizachyrium scoparium and Koeleria cristata in response to elevated CO2 and N.

Presented a poster at Plant Biology Annual Retreat, May 2005.

Presented a poster at ESA, Montreal, Canada, August 2005

Chad Westberg
Attended the National Biorefinery Meeting in Washington D.C., June 2005.

Lynette Wong
Attended the Gordon Research Conference on Plant Metabolic Engineering in July 2005 and presented a poster titled "Water stress increases the levels of phenylethyl glucosinolate in Nasturtium officinale R. Br."

Wenjing Zhang
Meeting & Abstract: Zhang, W. , Ito, H., and Gray, M.W. Investigating the role of ETA2/CAND1 in regulating SCF complex activity.   The 16th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison. June 15th - June 19th, 2005.

Yun Zhou
Attended 16th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research June 2005 in Madison Wisconsin.

Kelly Zinn
Uhde-Stone C, Liu J, Zinn KE , Allan DL, Vance CP. Transgenic proteoid roots of white lupin: a vehicle for characterizing and silencing root genes involved in adaptation to P stress. Plant 2005 Dec; 44(5): 840-53. PLANT JOURNAL 44 (5): 840-853

Kelly E. Zinn , Junqi Liu, Jeltie Hulshout, Deborah L. Allan, Carroll P. Vance (2006) Elucidation of cis-elements in White Lupin Phosphorus Deficiency Signaling.   Abstract for Twenty Third Annual Missouri Symposium, Plant Roots:From Genes to Form and Functions.   Columbia, Missouri USA.

Plant Biological Sciences Student Accomplishments 2004-2005

Carol and Wayne Pletcher Fellowship  
Wendy Clement

Sigma Xi Grants in Aid Research
Wendy Clement
Katy Heath

Garden Club of America Award in Tropical Botany
Wendy Clement

Dayton-Wilkie Award
Wendy Clement
Nicholas Deacon
Bryn Dentinger

Explorer's Club Award
Wendy Clement

UMN International Travel Dissertation Fellowship
Wendy Clement

Carolyn Crosby Fellowship
Nicholas Deacon
Jenny Dechaine

MN Center for Community Genetics Fellowship
Katy Heath
Laurie Stone

GAPSA Travel Grant
Nicholas Deacon

NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
Katy Heath
Peter Voth

NSF Deep Hypha Travel Award
Bryn Dentinger
Andrew Munkacsi

Friday Harbor Labs Course
Brian Piasecki

Croasdale Fellowship/The Phycological Society of America
Brian Piasecki

PMGI/CMPG Retreat Best Graduate Student Poster Award
Lin Wang

GK-12 Fellowship
Summer Silvieus

MN Center for Community Genetic Travel Award
Katy Heath
Summer Silvieus
Laurie Stone

Phinney Fellowship
Wenjing Zhang

PBS Summer Fellowships
Divya Chandran
Nicholas Deacon
Jenny Dechaine
Bryn Dentinger
Keunsub Lee
Harpartap Mann
Brian Piasecki
Lorien Radmer
David Schladt
Laurie Stone
Chad Westberg
Yun Zhou
Kelly Zinn

PBS Graduate Student Publications 2004-2005

Wendy Clement
Clement, W.L., M.C. Tebbitt, L.L. Forrest, J.E. Blair, L. Brouillet, T. Eriksson, and S.M. Swensen. 2004. Phylogenetic position and biogeography of Hillebrandia sandwicensis (Begoniaceae): a rare Hawaiian relict. American Journal of Botany. 91:905-917.

Zerega, N.C., W.L. Clement, S.L. Datwyler, G.D. Weiblen. Biogeography and divergence times in the mulberry family (Moraceae) based on chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. Submitted.

Tebbitt, M.C., L. Lowe-Forrest, A. Santoriello, W.L. Clement, and S.M. Swensen. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships of Asian Begonia , with an emphasis on the evolution of rainballist and animal dispersal mechanisms in sections Platycentrum, Sphenanthera and Leprosae Systematic Botany. Submitted.

Bryn Dentinger
Lutzoni, F., F. Kauff, C.J. Cox, D. McLaughlin, G. Celio, B. Dentinger , M. Padamsee, D. Hibbett, T.Y. James, E. Baloch, M. Grube, V. Reeb, V. Hofstetter, C. Schoch, A.E. Arnold, J. MIiadlikowska, J. Spatafora, D. Johnson, S. Hambleton, M. Crockett, R. Shoemaker, G.-H. Sung, R. Lücking, T. Lumbsch, K. O'Donnell, M. Binder, P. Diederich, D. Ertz, C. Gueidan, K. Hansen, R.C. Harris, K. Hosaka, Y.-W. Lim, B. Matheny, H. Nishida, D. Pfister, J. Rogers, A. Rossman, I. Schmitt, H. Sipman, J. Stone, J. Sugiyama, R. Yahr, R. Vilgalys. 2004. Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits. American Journal of Botany 91(10):1446-1480.

Avis, P.G., D.J. McLaughlin, B.C. Dentinger , and P.B. Reich. 2003. Long-term increase in nitrogen supply alters above-and below-ground ectomycorrhizal communities and increases the dominance of Russula spp. in a temperate oak savanna. New Phytologist 160:239-253.

Dentinger, B . 2002. Book Review: A ballistic introduction to the fungi. The Prairie Naturalis t 1/2:67-68. peer-reviewed

Katy Heath
Pearse IS, Heath KD , Cheeseman JM, 2005.   Biochemical and ecological characterization of two perioxidase isoenzymes from the mangrove, Rhixophora mangle .   Plant cell and Environment, in press.

Kuppusamy, Kavitha
Kuppusamy K , Endre G, Prabhu R, Penmetsa RV, Veereshlingam H, Dickstein R, Cook DR, VandenBosch K. (2004) iLin, a Medicago truncatula gene required for nodule differentiation and persistence of rhizobial infections". Plant Physiology 136:3682-3691

Comparative transcript profiling reveals coordinated gene regulation during nodule development in Medicago truncatula   (Manuscript in preparation)

Munkacsi, Andrew
Munkacsi AB , Pan JJ, Villesen P, Mueller UG, Blackwell M, McLaughlin, DJ (2004) Convergent coevolution in the domestication of coral mushrooms by fungus-growing ants. Proceedings Royal Society, 271, 1777-1782.

Cheryl Scott
Scott, C L ., Hartweck, L M., Garcia, J A., and Neil E. Olszewski. (In preparation). SEC Modifies PPV-CP With an O -GlcNAc at its Amino-terminal End

Sivitz, Ali
The Cre-loxP recombination-based reporter system for plant transcriptional expression studies, Shigaki, T., Vyzasatya, R.R., Sivitz, A.B ., Ward, J.m. Sze, H., Hirschi, K.D.

Analysis of the transport activity of barley sucrose transporter HuShtl, Sivitz, A.B ., Reinders, A., Ward, J.M., (submitted)

Peer Voth
Voth, Peter , Ben Lockhart, and Georgiana May. (2005). Phylogeography of a fungal virus in the USA and Mexico. Molecular Ecology . (in prep)

Vyzasatya, Ravi
The Cre- loxP recombination-based reporter system for plant transcriptional expression studiesToshiro Shigaki, Ravi R. Vyzasatya, Ali B. Sivitz, John M. Ward, Heven Sze and Kendal D. Hirschi, Accepted in Plant Molecular Biology (2005)

Lin Wang
Biodegradation of Atrazine in Transgenic Plants Expressing a Modified Bacterial Atrazin Chlorohydrolase (atzA) Gene Lin Wang1 , Deborah A. Samac2,3, Nir Shapir3,4,6, Lawrence P. Wackett1,3,4, Carroll P. Vance3,5, and Michael J. Sadowsky1,3,6* Accepted by Plant biotechnology journal (in press)

Lynette Wong
Book Review:    Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition:   An Ethnobotany of Britain & Ireland.   Allen, David and Hatfield, Gabrielle published in Plant Science Bulletin 51 (1) 2005

Wenjing Zhang
Chuang, H ., Zhang, W ., and Gray, W.M. 2004. Arabidopsis ETA2, an apparent ortholog of the human Cullin-Interacting Protein CAND1, is required for auxin responses mediated by the SCFTIR1 ubiquitin ligase. Plant Cell, 16(7):1883-97.

Quint, M., Ito, H., Zhang, W ., and Gray, W.M. 2005. Characterization of a novel temperature-sensitive allele of the CUL1/AXR6 subunit of SCF ubiquitin-ligases.   Plant Journal (submitted, under review).       

Presentations at conferences, committee meetings

Avis, P.G., D.J. McLaughlin, B.C. Dentinger, and P.B. Reich. Consequences of increased nitrogen supply and altered root allocation on the ectomycorrhizal communities of a temperate-deciduous ecosystem. Mycological Society of America Meetings, July, 2003. Asilomar, CA.

American Society of Plant Biologists? annual meeting: July, 2003

Deep Hypha meeting, Knoxville, TN

Short presentation on progress made for the Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life project.

Arabidopsis meeting held in Madison Wisconsin from June 20, 2003 through June 24, 2003

Knowles, R.D., Biesboer, D.D., Pastor, J., Russelle, M.P., and Snyder, J.S. Peltigera, a genus of nitrogen-fixing, terricolous lichens: its contribution of nitrogen to forest soils of northern Minnesota. Poster presentation. Forest and Wildlife Research Review,

Plant and Animal Genome Conference: Poster Presentation

Oral presentation at the 57th annual meeting of The Phycological Society of America. The citation is Piasecki, B.P. and Brand, J.J. (2003) "Cryopreservation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Chlorophyta): A cause of low viability at high cell density"

Poster presentation at the American Society of Plant Biologists Annual Meeting

University of Minnesota Duluth, Jan 2004. Knowles, R.D., Pastor, J., Biesboer, D.D., and Snyder, J.S. Increased soil nitrogen associated with dinitrogen-fixing, terricolous lichens of the genus Peltigera in northern Minnesota.

Poster presentation. Ecological Society of America conference, Aug 2004.

Poster presentation at the American Society of Plant Biologists Annual Meeting.

The 14th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, title: Sugars and Phytohormones Regulate Seed Germination and Early Seedling Development via a Complex Signaling "Network")

11th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas. It meets on May 11-14, 2004 in Kobe, Japan.. The citation on the is Piasecki, B. Wu, W., LaVoie, M., Tam, L-W., Lefebvre, P.A., and Silflow, C.D. (2004) "The product of gene identified by the 31E3 mutation localizes to the basal bodies".

Joint meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, Society of Systematic Biologists, and the American Society of Naturalists (Evolution Conference), 2003, presented poster on current research work. University of Minnesota Duluth, Jan 2004.

Knowles, R.D., Pastor, J., Biesboer, D.D., and Snyder, J.S. Increased soil nitrogen associated with dinitrogen-fixing, terricolous lichens of the genus Peltigera in northern Minnesota. Poster presentation. Ecological Society of America conference, Aug 2004

Publications in journals

Avis, P.G., D.J. McLaughlin, B.C. Dentinger, and P.B. Reich. 2003. Long-term increase in nitrogen supply alters above- and below-ground ectomycorrhizal communities and increases the dominance of Russula spp. in a temperate oak savanna. New Phytologist 160:239-253.

Clement, W.L., M.C. Tebbitt, L.L. Forrest, J.E. Blair, L. Brouillet, T. Eriksson, and S.M. Swensen. 2004. Phylogenetic position and biogeography of Hillebrandia sandwicensis (Begoniaceae): a rare Hawaiian relict. American Journal of Botany. In press

Cohen, J.D., Slovin, J.P., and Hendrickson, A.M. 2003. Two genetically discrete pathways convert tryptophan to auxin: more redundancy in auxin biosynthesis. Trends in Plant Science 8: 197-199. (Published)

Lutzoni, F., F. Kauff, C.J. Cox, D. McLauhglin, G. Celio, B. Dentinger, M. Padamsee, D. Hibbett, T.Y. James, E. Baloch, M. Grube, V. Reeb, V. Hofstetter, C. Schoch, A.E. Arnold, J. MIiadlikowska, J. Spatafora, D. Johnson, S. Hambleton, M. Crockett, R. Shoemaker, G.-H. Sung, R. L?king, T. Lumbsch, K. O?Donnell, M. Binder, P. Diedrich, D. Ertz, C. Gueidan, B. Hall, K. Hansen, R.C. Harris, K. Hosaka, Y.-W. Lim, Y. Liu, B. Matheny, H. Nishida, D. Pfister, J. Rogers, A. Rossman, I. Schmitt, H. Sipman, J. Stone, J. Sugiyama, R. Yahr, R. Vilgalys. (in press). Where are we in assembling the fungal tree of life, classifying the fungi, and understanding the evolution of their subcellular traits? American Journal of Botany.

Methods for the Increasing One or More Glucosinolates in a Plant Patent File 110.0224 0160

The title is "ERECTA is required for protection against heat-stress in the AS1/AS2 pathway to regulate adaxial-abaxial leaf polarity in Arabidopsis" . The journal is "Planta". It was published online on 19 March 2004.

Miscellaneous

Poster, Identification of SPY and SEC Substrates, Cheryl L. Scott, Lynn M. Hartweck, Tong-Seung Tseng, Tina M. Thornton, and Neil E. Olszewski

Seminar: "Beer, Brats, und Biology: Graduate research experiences in Germany." Department of Horticultural Sciences, University of Minnesota, March, 2004

Seminar: "Analysis of the tryptophan-dependent IAA biosynthesis pathway: Identification, purification, and characterization of the intermediates and enzymes in maize endosperm." Institut fuer Botanik, Technische Universitaet Dresden. November, 2004.

Seminar presentation in the Horticultural Sciences Department "More than Just a Canal.." April 7, 2004