1. No category

Seminar in Plant Biology
PBI 290B (CRN 44289) Spring 2015
Supported by the Plant Biology Graduate Group
Seminars are Fridays, 12:10 – 1:00pm, 1022 LSA (Life Sciences Addition)
Date
Title
Speaker
Apr. 3
Competing paths and interests - mapping steps
in sugar translocation in plants
Wolf Frommer, Carnegie Institution for Science
Host – Georgia Drakakaki (gdrakakaki@ucdavis.edu)
Apr. 10
Plant Epidermal Patterning: Fate,
Communication, and Decision-Making
Keiko Torii, University of Washington
Host – Chuck Gasser (csgasser@ucdavis.edu)
Apr. 17
Cell-type innate immunity in Arabidopsis
Maeli Melotto, UC Davis, Dept. of Plant Sciences
Host - Florence Negre-Zakharov (fnegre@ucdavis.edu)
Apr. 24
Getting the most out of plant cell walls:
transcriptional regulation of secondary cell wall
deposition and natural variation in woody
biomass traits
Carl Douglas, University of British Columbia
Host – Andrew Groover (agroover@ucdavis.edu)
May 1
Linking cellulose to cortical microtubules
Ying Gu, Penn State University
Host –Bo Liu (lbliu@ucdavis.edu)
May 8
Evolution and engineering of symbiotic
associations between plants and microbes
Jean-Michel Ané, University of Wisconsin
Host – Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra (rossibarra@ucdavis.edu)
May 15
Danger sensing and signaling in plant immunity
Yusuke Saijo, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Host – Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar
(spdineshkumar@ucdavis.edu)
May 22
Comparative Genomes Coupled with Functional
Analyses to Discover Novel Factors Critical for
Photosynthesis
Arthur Grossman, Carnegie Institution for Science
Host – Clark Lagarias (jclagarias@ucdavis.edu)
May 29
The importance of quiescent stem cells for plant
development
Lieven De Veylder, VIB-UGent, Belgium
Host – Anne Britt (abbritt@ucdavis.edu)
Image from: http://veganlogy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/plants.jpg