Mark Your Calendar

Seminars

Horticulture
Oct 17, 3:30 pm, HORT 117 Wanda W. Collins NC State University "The Global Agricultural Research System: Issues and Answers"

Oct 24, 3:30 pm, HORT 117 Zianmin Zhou Purdue "Signal Transduction Events of Bacterial Speck Disease Resistance in Tomato"

Plant Cell & Molecular Biology
Oct 15, 4 pm, ARB 116 Tom Peterson Iowa State "Evolution of Pericarp Locus"

Oct 22, 4 pm, ARB 116 Jaclyn Baker USDA MPPL "Role of Oxidative Burst"

Brown Bag Seminar for Faculty and Staff
Oct 22, 12 noon, ARB 116 Lucia Anderson "Payments to Internationals and Consultants"

Entomology
Oct 17, 4 pm, ARB 116 Dr. Larry P. Pedigo Iowa State "John Osmun Award Seminar"

Oct 24, 4 pm, ARB 116 Keith Perry B&PP, Purdue "Aphid Transmission of Plant Viruses"

Botany & Plant Pathology
Oct 16, 3:30 pm, ARB 116 Joanne Chory The Salk Institute "Signal Transduction Pathways Controlling Light-Regulated Development of Arabidopsis"

Oct 23, 3:30 pm, ARB 116 Don Huber B&PP, Purdue "Wheat Production in China: Purdue-China Cooperative Research for Disease control"

Biological Sciences
Oct 16, 4 pm, LILY G-126 John Kuriyan Howard Hughes Medical Institute Rockefeller University "Crystallographic studies of DNA replication and cellular signal transduction"

Oct 23, 4 pm, LILY G-126 Jim Tiedje Michigan State University "Microbes: wizards of bioremediation?"

Additional seminar announcements are posted on the 2nd floor bulletin board.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

If you haven't already noticed, the copy room is now staffed by student workers. They are Corina Roggeveen, Scott Kuckuck, Tonya Swartzendruber, and Kember White. A schedule of their work hours is posted outside the copy room. Leave your copy jobs in the basket in the copy room or give them to your secretary if you have a rush job. We would encourage you to take large jobs to Printing Services. In the future, we will not be stocking supplies. It will be the responsibility of each lab/program to order their own supplies. Tammy Fetrow has furnished everyone with a list of commonly ordered supplies with catalog numbers to assist you in ordering. We still have some supplies and you can sign them out as long as they last.

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Eric Biddinger won third place in the American Society for Horticultural Science Collegiate Branch competition for best oral presentation. He was presented with $100 and a plaque. The presentation and co-authors are as follows: Biddinger, EJ, Chunming Liu, and KG Raghothama. Physiological and molecular changes in aeroponically grown, phosphate-starved tomatoes. Michelle Jones won second place in the Graduate Student Poster competition at the American Society for Horticultural Sciences meeting in Lexington. She was presented with a check for $200 and a plaque. Her poster was entitled: Jones, ML and WR Woodson. Post-pollination signalling in carnation flowers.

GRANTS RECEIVED

Jim Simon received $600 from Botanical Products International, Inc. to support work (with D.J. Charles) on kavalactones.

TRAVEL/PRESENTATIONS

Jules Janick was in Lisbon, Portugal September 28-October 12, 1996 to serve on a Task Force to evaluate Portuguese R&D government establishments.

The following people attended the ASHS annual meeting in Lexington, KY October 6-10, 1996: Rosie Lerner, Cary Mitchell, Kanogwan Kerdnaimongkol, Sven Verlinden, Michelle Jones, Atalene Kämpf, Eric Sarnighausen, Randy Woodson, Mike Dana, Bob Joly, Ed Ashworth, Changhoo Chun, Allen Hammer, Liz Maynard, Mario Morales, Bruno Moser, Win Phippen, Jim Simon.

Steve Weller was in Guatemala City, GU October 7-13, 1996 to meet with Integrated Pest Management-Collaborative Research Support Program Collaborators and visit field plots to examine research.

Randy Woodson was in Naples, FL September 29-October 2, 1996 to attend Research Committee Meeting of Society of American Florists.

Ray Bressan was in Tokyo/Kanazawa, Japan September 30-October 6, 1996 to attend and present a lecture at the Research Association for Biotechnology Symposium in Tokyo and attend the International Scientific Research Program (Joint Research) Workshop in Kanazawa.

Allen Hammer, Shawn Chase, Polly Kaufmann, and Terri Kirk were in Indianapolis October 1-2, 1996 to participate in Indiana Flower Growers Conference.

Allen Hammer was in Dearborn, MI October 3-4, 1996 to participate in Professional Plant Growers Meeting and give address on "Poinsettia Cultivars".

Bonnie McClain was in New Brunswick, NJ October 7-8, 1996 to give presentation for New Jersey Science Teachers Association Conference.

Bonnie McClain was in Cocoa Beach, FL October 10-12, 1996 to attend NASA Teacher Workshop.

UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENT DATES AND DEADLINES

October 18, 24, & 25 - Fall Preview Day

October 23 - Last day a course assignment may be cancelled (with passing or failing grade)

November 12 - Deadline for pending incomplete grades to become failing grades

POSITIONS AVAILABLE

(See the Job Opportunities bulletin board on the 2nd floor for additional information about these positions.)

Resident Director. MS in horticulture or related field. Dept. of Horticulture, University of Arkansas. Application deadline: December 1, 1996.

UNDERGRADUATE NEWS

Hort Club Rose Dethorning (for Sweetest Day Rose Sale)
Wednesday, October 16, 7 pm
Hort Greenhouse

Sweetest Day Rose Sale
October 18
Lobby of Lilly & Stewart Center under the mural
$3 each, discounts for 1/2 doz or dozens
No deliveries