Previous Seminars

Speaker Affiliation Date Location
SPECIAL SEMINAR: Bringing Evolution Back into Plant Breeding: How Genetics and Genomics Will Contritube to Sustainable Genetic Crop Improvement Winthrop Professor Wallace A. Cowling UWA Institute of Agiculture - University of Western Australia 3/27/2012 - 11:00am Marley 341H
RESEARCH SEMINAR: How do Yeast Regulate Their Growth Dr. Andrew P. Capaldi University of Arizona - Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology 3/23/2012 - 3:00pm Marley 230
RESEARCH SEMINAR: The ecology and evolution of novel plant-pathogen interactions Dr. Ingrid Parker UC Santa Cruz, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Host: D. Baltrus) 3/20/2012 - 4:00pm Marley 230
STUDENT SEMINAR: Title TBD Joe Vaughan University of Arizona - Graduate Student 3/9/2012 - 3:00pm Marley 230
RESEARCH SEMINAR: Harnessing the Power of Next-Generation Genetics to Address Problems of Plant Breeding, Evolution and Speciation Dr. Detlef Weigel MPI for Developmental Biology, Tuebingen (Host: R. Wing) 3/6/2012 - 4:00pm Keating 103
RESEARCH SEMINAR: The Cornell Soil Health Assessment Protocol and the connections Between Soil Health and Root Health Dr. George Abawi Cornell University 3/2/2012 - 3:00pm Marley 230
RESEARCH SEMINAR: How much selection is acting on plant Genomes Dr. Stephen Wright University of Toronto, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Host: M. Beilstein) 2/28/2012 - 4:00pm Marley 230
STUDENT SEMINAR: Aflatoxin-producing fungal communities associated with maize in Mexico Alejandro Ortega-Beltran University of Arizona - Graduate Student 2/24/2012 - 3:00pm Marley 230
RESEARCH SEMINAR: "Neurosporomics" and advances in the Study of Signal Transduction in Fungi Dr. Katherine Borkovich UC Riverside, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology (Host: B. Pryor) 2/21/2012 - 4:00pm Marley 230
STUDENT SEMINAR: Plant-insect arms race: How does cotton bollworm eavesdrops plant-derived signals Xianchun Li University of Arizona - Department of Entomology 2/17/2012 - 4:00pm Marley 230
RESEARCH SEMINAR: The Role of Plant Cuticle and Associated Genes in the Maintenance of Plant Water Status Dr. Matthew Jenks U.S. Arid Land Agricultural Research Center (Host: K. Schumaker) 2/14/2012 - 4:00pm Marley 230
RESEARCH SEMINAR: Brassinosteroid Signaling Network and Plant Development Dr. Xuelu Wang School of Life Sciences Fudan University, China (Host: R. Yadegari) 2/8/2012 - 2:00pm McClelland Park 402
RESEARCH SEMINAR: Evolution of Flower Developmental Genetic Programs Dr. Lena Hileman University of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Host: M. Beilstein) 2/7/2012 - 4:00pm Marley 230
RESEARCH SEMINAR: Exploring modularity: Cooperating fungal polyketide synthases Dr. Istvan Molnar University of Arizona - School of Natural Resources and the Environment 2/3/2012 - 3:00pm Marley 230
RESEARCH SEMINAR: Diary of a Polyploid: the Early Years (or "How Two Dumb Diploid Plant Species Can Spawn a Smart Polyploid") Dr. Luca Comai UC Davis, Genome Center (Host: R. Mosher) 1/31/2012 - 4:00pm Marley 230
STUDENT SEMINAR: Reconstructing the evolutionary history of Alternaria and related fungal genera Daniel P. Lawrence University of Arizona - Graduate Student 1/27/2012 - 3:00pm Marley 230
RESEARCH SEMINAR: Grass Genome Structure and Evolution: Lessons Learned from Wheat and its Relatives in the Tribe Triticeae Dr. Jan Dvorak UC Davis, Department of Agricultural Plant Biology (Host: X. Wang) 1/24/2012 - 4:00pm Marley 230
RESEARCH SEMINAR: Genome and karyotype evolution in Brassicaceae Dr. Martin Lysak Masaryk University, Czech Republic (Host: M. Barker) 1/20/2012 - 3:00pm Marley 230
PLS/PLP 696A Orientation Dr. Ramin Yadegari School of Plant Sciences - University of Arizona 1/17/2012 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Insect-associated fungi: An inordinate fondness for yeasts Dr. Meredith Blackwell Louisiana State University 1/13/2012 - 4:00pm Marley 230
STUDENT SEMINAR: Reconstructing the evolutionary history of Alternaria and closely related fungal genera Daniel P. Lawrence University of Arizona - Graduate Student 1/13/2012 - 3:00pm Marley 230
RESEARCH SEMINAR: Integrated Disease Management: From Practice to Science and Back Again Dr. Frank Louws North Carolina State University (Host: C. Kubota) 12/6/2011 - 4:00pm Marley 230
STUDENT SEMINAR: Physical Maps and Sequencing Projects: What's Next? Jose-Luis Goicoechea University of Arizona 12/2/2011 - 3:00pm Marley 230
NO SEMINAR Thanksgiving Recess University of Arizona 11/25/2011 - 3:00pm NONE
Host adaptation and evolutionary divergence in Aspergillis parasiticus Nicholas Garber University of Arizona 11/18/2011 - 3:00pm Marley 230
The Epigenetic Regulation of Transposable Elements: Reports from the front lines of the intra-genomes arms race. Dr. Keith Slotkin Ohio State University (Host: R. Mosher) 11/15/2011 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Focus on Algae: Harnessing Algae's Biosynthetic Potential Dr. Joel Cuello University of Arizona (Host: C. Kubota) 11/8/2011 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Genetics and epigenetics of polyploidy and hybrid vigor Dr. Jeffrey Chen University of Texas Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology (Host: Bryan Wang) 11/1/2011 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Heterosis, protein folding, and molecular breeding Dr. Stephen Goff iPlant Collaborative, University of Arizona (Host: R. Yadegari) 10/25/2011 - 4:00pm Marley 230
African Rice (Oryza glaberrima) in Historical Context Dr. Judith Carney University of California, Los Angeles (Host: R. Wing) 10/18/2011 - 4:00pm Marley 230
High throughput phenotyping to link plant genomes to phenomes and its application to study novel traits contributing to salinity tolerance Dr. Mark Tester Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (Host: D. Galbraith) 10/4/2011 - 4:00pm Marley 230
How oomycete and fungal pathogen effectors enter host cells and promote disease Dr. Brett Tyler Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (Host: B. Pryor) 9/27/2011 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Molecular mechanisms underlying cell-cell interactions during pollen tube growth and guidance in Arabidopsis Dr. Ravi Palanivelu University of Arizona, School of Plant Science (Host: K. Schumaker) 9/20/2011 - 4:00pm Marley 230
Genomic and Epigenomic Variation in Maize Dr. Nathan Springer University of Minnesota, Department of Plant Biology (Host: X. Wang) 9/13/2011 - 4:00pm Marley 230