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Spring 2008


Department of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology 
2008 Spring Seminar Series

Plant Pathology 681
Wednesdays, 12:20 PM
H. H. Whetzel Seminar Room
404 Plant Science Bldg.

See a PDF of the seminar flyer

Date

Speaker

Title

1/23/2008 Tracy Rosebrock
Dept. of PP&PMB
Cornell University
The role of ubiquitination in the elicitation and evasion of tomato immunity by Pseudomonas syringae

1/30/08

No Seminar

2/6/2008

Louise Glass
Plant and Microbial Biology Univ. of California, Berkeley

Oscillation of signaling components during germling fusion in Neurospora crassa

2/13/2008

Philip Bronstein
Dept. of PP&PMB
Cornell University

Evaluating the global transcriptional response to bioavailable iron in Pseudomonas syringae DC3000

2/20/2008 Melanie Filiatrault
Dept. of PP&PMB
Cornell University
 Identification of small RNAs in Pseudomonas syringae using high-throughput sequencing and bioinformatics
2/27/2008 Jonathan Walton
MSU-DOE Plant Research Lab Michigan State University
Biosynthesis of fungal cyclic peptides involved in plant pathogenesis and human poisoning
3/5/2008 Tae Sung Kim
Dept. of PP&PMB
Cornell University
Understanding the genetic basis of natural variation in the circadian clock regulation of Neurospora crassa
3/12/2008 Kathryn Bushley
Dept. of PP&PMB
Cornell University
Evolution of genes encoding nonribosomal peptide synthetases in fungi
3/19/2008 Spring Break – no seminar

3/26/2008

Rui Hai Liu
Department of Food Science Cornell University

Dietary phytochemicals for prevention of cancer: Food for thought
4/2/2008 Kwangwon Lee
Dept. of PP&PMB
Cornell University
Light, clock, and pathogenicity
 4/9/2008 Frank Schroeder
Boyce Thompson Institute  
 A synergistic blend of small molecules differentially regulates both mating behavior and population density in Caenorhabditis elegans
 4/16/2008 Brett Tyler
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Plant Pathology, Physiology and Weed Science, Virginia Tech
 
4/23/2008 Xiaohong Wang
Dept. of PP&PMB
Cornell University
Alternative splicing and peptide mimicry: novel mechanisms of plant parasitism by the potato cyst nematode Globodera rostochiensis
4/30/2008 Steve Winans
Dept of Microbiology
Cornell University
Quorum sensing, Agrobacterium tumefaciens
5/7/2008 Joanne Morello
Dept. of PP&PMB
Cornell University
The extracellular components of the type III secretion system of Pseudomonas syringae
Contact information: Gillian Turgeon, 254-7458 - bgt1@cornell.edu
Department of Plant Pathology, 334 Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: 607-255-3245 Fax:607-255-4471