Seminars

Monday, November 9, 2009, "Helicoverpa armigera Gut Digestive Proteases: Biochemical Characterization and Interactions with Plant Protease Inhibitors to Investigate Protease Mediated Mechanisms of Resistance"

4:10 p.m., E-164 Lagomarcino Hall, Nana Chougule, Department of Entomology, ISU, (sponsored by Department of Entomology)

Monday, November 9, 2009, "Miscanthus genetic resources and its potential as an energy crop"

8:00 a.m., 3140 Agronomy Hall, Professor Toshihiko Yamada, Hokkaido University, Japan (sponsored by the Raymond F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding, Professional Plant Breeding Lectures series)

Tuesday, November 10, 2009, "Intersections of pathology and quantitive genetics in cereal crops"

4:10 p.m., 210 Bessey Hall, Nick Lauter, Associate Professor, Plant Pathology, Iowa State University (sponsored by Plant Pathology)

Tuesday, November 10, 2009, "NCERA 200 Symposium - Mechanisms of Resistance to Soybean Viruses"

10:00 a.m., Memorial Union – Cardinal Room. Speakers: Andrew Bent, University of Wisconsin, S. Dinesh- Kumar, Yale University and graduate of Plant Pathology at ISU, Saghai Marrof, Virginia Tech, Raza Hajimorad, University of Tennessee and formerly in Plant Pathology at ISU, and Les Domier, ARS-USDA and University of Illinois.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009, “Regulation of the epigenome; structure and function of ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling complexes”

4:10 p.m., 1414 Molecular Biology Building, Blaine Bartholomew, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, (sponsored by BBMB)

Thursday, November 12, 2009, "TBA"

12:40-1:40 p.m., 3105 Snedecor, Basil Nikolau, Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, ISU (BCB Faculty Seminar)

Friday, November 13, 2009, "Apoptosis Proteins in DNA Damage Response"

4:10 p.m., 1414 Molecular Biology Building, Dr. Chunying Du, University of Cincinnati (sponsored by GDCB)

Tuesday, November 17, 2009, "Functional analysis of WRKY transformation factors in barley-powdery mildew interactions"

4:10 p.m., 210 Bessey Hall, Yan Meng, Roger Wise's Lab, Plant Pathology, Iowa State University, (sponsored by Plant Pathology)

Wednesday, November 18, 2009, "Redesigning a crop species: the hybrid canola story"

4:10 p.m., 2050 Agronomy Hall, 2009 Professional Plant Breeding Lecture, Dr. Michael Martin, Monsanto Company (sponsored by Agronomy)

Thursday, November 19, 2009, "TBA"

4:10 p.m., 1414 Molecular Biology Building, Mandy Zimmerli, Iowa State University, (sponsored by BBMB)

Thursday, November 19, 2009, "Linking pollution patterns and landscape genetics in plants"

3:45 p.m., 210 Bessey Hall, Mary Ashley, University of Illinois, (sponsored by EEOB)

Thursday, November 19, 2009, "The Multi-State Perfect Phylogeny Problem: The Chordal Graph Approach"

12:40 p.m., 1352 Gilman Hall Room, Dr. Dan Gusfield, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley (sponsored by the Baker Center for Bioinformatics & Biological Statistics)

Monday, November 30, 2009, "The Degradation of Atrazine Utilizing Phytoremediation Technology"

4:10 p.m., E-164 Lagomarcino Hall, Ian Murphy, Department of Entomology and Program in Toxicology, ISU MS thesis seminar

Tuesday, December 1, 2009, "TBA"

4:10 p.m., 210 Bessey Hall, Deb Satterfield, Iowa State University, (sponsored by Plant Pathology)

Wednesday, December 2, 2009, "Nanotechnology and Food"

4:10 p.m., E164 Lagomarcino, Dr. Sundram Gunasekaran, Professor, Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison (sponsored by Food Science and Human Nutrition)

Wednesday, December 2, 2009, "An operations research approach to a plant breeding problem"

4:10 p.m., 2050 Agronomy Hall, Dr. Lizhi Wang, Iowa State University
(sponsored by the Raymond F. Baker Center for Plant Breeding, Professional Plant Breeding Lectures series)

Thursday, December 3, 2009, “The N-terminus of Drosophila Raf contains a novel conserved region and contributes to Torso RTK signaling”

4:10 p.m., 1414 Molecular Biology Building, Jian Ding, Iowa State University, (sponsored by BBMB)

Thursday, December 3, 2009, "The role of plant-soil feedbacks on species potential to expand their distributional ranges in response to climate change"

3:45 p.m., 210 Bessey Hall, Inez Ibanez, University of Michigan, (sponsored by EEOB)

Thursday, December 3, 2009, "TBA"

12:40 p.m., 3105 Snedecor Hall, Max Alekseyev, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina (sponsored by the Baker Center for Bioinformatics & Biological Statistics)

Friday, December 4, 2009, "None"

4:10 p.m., 1414 Molecular Biology Building, Dr. Pamela Ronald, Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis (sponsored by GDCB)

Tuesday, December 8, 2009, "TBA"

4:10 p.m., 210 Bessey Hall, Thomas Mitchell, Ohio State University, (sponsored by Plant Pathology)

Thursday, December 10, 2009, "Does inbreeding purge or fix the genetic load? Experiments in Brassica rapa"

3:45-5:00 p.m., 210 Bessey Hall, Don Waller, University of Wisconsin - Madison, (sponsored by EEOB)

Thursday, December 10, 2009, "TBA"

4:10 p.m., 1414 Molecular Biology Building, Andreas Matoushek, Northwestern University (sponsored by BBMB)

Friday, December 11, 2009, "None"

4:10 p.m., 1414 Molecular Biology Building, Dr. Ian Schneider (sponsored by GDCB)