Horticulture
Nov. 14, 3:30 pm, HORT 117
Christopher J. Staiger
Biological Sciences
Purdue
"Regulation of Actin Organization"
Nov. 21, 3:30 PM, HORT 117
John E. Hamer
Biological Sciences
Purdue
"Genetic and Physiological Controls on Cytokinesis in Aspergillus nidulans"
Plant Cell and Molecular Biology
Nov. 12, 4 pm, ARB 116
Laurie Mets
University of Chicago
"Can Photosynthesis Occur Without Photosystem I"
Nov. 19, 4 pm, ARB 116
Philip Rea
University of Pennsylvania
"From Yeast to Plants and Back Again: The Molecular Basis of Vacuolar Energization"
Brown Bag Seminars for Faculty and Staff
Nov. 12, 12 noon, ARB 116
Sharon Williams
"Personnel Services"
Entomology
Nov. 14, 4 pm, ARB 116
Joseph Maddox
University of Illinois
"Biology of Entomopathogenic microsporidia"
Nov. 21, 4 pm, ARB 116
Alan York
Entomology
Purdue
Title TBA
Botany & Plant Pathology
Nov. 13, 3:30 pm, ARB 116
Jean Ristaino
North Carolina State University
"Tracking Ancient and Modern Epidemics of Plant Disease in Space and Time"
Nov. 20, 3:30 pm, ARB 116
Pam Green
Michigan State University
"Control of mRNA Stability in Higher Plants"
Biological Sciences
Nov. 13, 4 pm, LILY G-126
B.J. Taparowsky
Biological Sciences
Purdue
"Identification of novel proteins regulating transcriptional responses in hematopoitic cells"
We have had some new people join the department recently. They are Nathan Lange who will be working as a postdoc in Randy Woodson's lab; Jose Ibeas Corcelles, working in Mike Hasegawa's lab as a postdoc; Yoshikiyo Sakakibara, a visiting scholar in Mike Hasegawa's lab.
We have received word from Telephone Services that the cutover date for the new Purdue telecommunications system originally scheduled for January 3, 1997 has been changed to March 8, 1997, the first Saturday of spring break. The delay is due to the incomplete status of several projects. There will be a freeze date of January 8 for adding and changing equipment. After this date, customers will not be able to request additional telephones or change the locations of telephones until the cutover. The freeze date for software changes will be February 8. After this date customers will not be able to change the features, such as voice mail and forwarding, on their telephones until cutover.
David Rhodes has received a $40,066 increase from the Office of Naval Research to support his project entitled "Biosynthesis of 3-Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) in Marine Algae".
Steve Weller has received a $50,000 increase from USDA to support his project entitled "Biorational Management of Herbicide Resistance: Population Dynamics & Demography".
Jim Simon received $35,000 from Ball Seed Company to support breeding program in ornamental herbs.
Jim Simon received $1,900 from Frontier Coop Herbs to support work on essential oil chemistry.
Mitchell, Cary A, Tracy AO Dougher, S Suzanne Nielsen, Martha A Belury and Raymond M Wheeler. 1996. Costs of providing edible biomass for a balanced vegetarian diet in a controlled ecological life-support system. Plants in Space Biology, pages 245-254. Institute of Genetic Ecology, Tohoku University.
Muchhal, Umesh S, Jose M Pardo, and KG Raghothama. 1996. Phosphate transporters from the higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 93:10519-10523.
Allen Hammer was in Columbus, OH November 1-2, 1996 to participate in Research Committee meeting of Ohio Florists Foundation and serve as University resource for grant proposals.
Allen Hammer was guest speaker at the Northeast Indiana Flower Growers Association's 1996 Banquet held November 6, 1996 at the Fort Wayne Botanical Conservatory. His presentation was entitled "Where We've Been and Where We Are Going".
Jim Simon was an invited speaker in President Beering's Fly Around at the Purdue/IUPUI Technology Center in Columbus, IN.
Cary Mitchell was in Charlotte, NC October 27-30, 1996 to attend an Advanced Life Support Requirements Workshop at NASA Johnson Space Center.
Mike Hasegawa was in Fresno, CA October 26-November 2, 1996 to give a presentation at the Agriculture Research Service Aflatoxin Elimination Workshop and visit the University of California at Santa Cruz.
November 12 - Deadline for pending incomplete grades to become failing grades.
December 2 - Final examination reports must be received for all graduating students by the Graduate school, Room 170 YONG. Students for whom a final report is not received will not be able to graduate in December. (Final examination reports are not required for nonthesis Master's students in graduate departments with approved alternative graduation criteria.)
December 6 - One bound plus one unbound copy of the doctoral thesis must be deposited in the Library Thesis Deposit Office, Room 279, Stewart Center. Appointments can be made by calling 42905.
December 9 - Thesis Receipt must be delivered to the Graduate School, Room 170, YONG.
(See the Job Opportunities bulletin board on the 2nd floor for additional information about these positions.)
Graduate Research Assistantships (PhD). Dept. of Horticulture, Pennsylvania State University.
PhD Scholarship. Dept. of Horticulture, Pennsylvania State University.
Graduate Teaching Assistantships and Fellowships available for MAg, MS, and PhD programs. Dept. of Horticulture, Pennsylvania State University. Application deadline: January 15, 1997.
Endowed Land-Grant Chair for Research. Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Dept. of Horticultural Science, University of Minnesota. Application deadline: November 15, 1996.
Assistant Professor of Environmental Plant & Soil Science. PhD in plant science, soil science, environmental science or related field. Texas A&M University Research and Extension Center, Dallas. Application deadline: March 15, 1997.
Note to The Plant Poet - look for your poem in the next issue.