Seminars - 2012
1/23/2012 | Soybean Knowledge Base (SoyKB): A Comprehensive Web Resource for Soybean Research | Dong Xu, University of Missouri, Columbia |
1/30/2012 | Engineering enhanced biomass and biofuel production from microalgae | Richard Sayre, Los Alamos National Lab |
2/37/2012 | New GM approaches for exploiting plant protection secondary metabolism for sustainable intensification of food production in traditionally high input and low input agriculture | John Pickett, Rothamsted Research |
2/44/2012 | A systems approach to understanding C4 photosynthesis in the grasses | Tom Brutnell, Danforth Plant Science Center |
2/51/2012 | Programmed cell death in plant defense and development: A role for sphingolipid metabolism/signaling? | Julie Stone, University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
2/58/2012 | Seasonal Patterns of Functional Leaf Area and Photosynthetic Activity in a Temperate Deciduous Forest | Steve Pallardy, University of Missouri, Columbia |
3/65/2012 | The efficiency of photosynthetic carbon metabolism: Adaptation to changing environmental conditions | Asaph Cousins, Washington State University |
3/72/2012 | Roles for IBA-derived auxin in plant development | Lucia Strader, Washington University, St. Louis |
3/79/2012 | Regulation of reproductive development in Arabidopsis | Doris Wagner, University of Pennsylvania |
4/93/2012 | Root based solutions to increasing wheat productivity in dry environments | Michelle Watt, CSIRO, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
4/94/2012 | Improving genetic adaptation of common bean to drought stress in the tropics | Idupulapati Rao, CIAT (International Center for Tropical Agriculture) |
4/95/2012 | The Water and Food Connection | Chancellor Brady Deaton/Prof. Bill Davies, University of Missouri/Lancaster University |
4/100/2012 | Interactions between butterflies and their host plants: from learning and host finding to plant nutrition and the evolution of cognition | Emilie Snell-Rood, University of Minnesota |
4/114/2012 | The evolution of domesticated crop plants: From genomics to archaeology | Michael Purugganan, New York University |
4/121/2012 | The role of RNAi machinery and small RNAs in Plant Immunity | Hailing Jin, University of California, Riverside |
8/233/2012 | Physiological and proteomic approaches towards understanding the drought response of legume plants | Esther Gonzales, Public University of Navarra |
9/249/2012 | Protein oxidation in plants | Ian Max Moller, Aarhus University |
9/254/2012 | The Maize Diversity Project - Linking Phenotypes to Genotypes in Maize and Teosinte | Sherry Flint-Garcia, USDA-ARS |
9/261/2012 | The Virginia Tech Beacon Project: An exercise in plant signaling | Jan Miernyk, USDA-ARS/University of Missouri |
9/268/2012 | iPlant: Cyberinfrastructure for the life sciences | Sheldon McKay, The iPlant Collaborative |
10/275/2012 | Witnessing the Birth of Biomass: Analysis of New Cell Wall Formation During Plant Cytokinesis | Charles Anderson, Penn State University |
10/282/2012 | Studying Polyploidy and Gene Regulation with Comparative Genomics and Transcriptomics | James Schnable, University of California, Berkeley |
10/289/2012 | Cell-type specificity of response to DNA damage | Anne Britt, University of California, Davis |
10/296/2012 | Understanding the role of the Arabidopsis FRA1 kinesin in cell wall assembly | Ram Dixit, Washington University in St Louis |
10/303/2012 | Molecular mechanisms of auxin biosynthesis and signal transduction | Yunde Zhao, University of California, San Diego |
11/310/2012 | Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics of Soybean and Allies (Fabaceae:Phaseoleae) | Ashley Egan, East Carolina University |
11/317/2012 | Evolutionary Genomics of Plant Mating System Evolution | Stephen Wright, University of Toronto |
11/331/2012 | TBD | Chad Niederhuth, University of Missouri |
12/338/2012 | Minding the gap—between guard cells | Winslow Briggs, Carnegie Institution |
