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Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Spring 2008 HLA Seminar Series

Thursdays, 3:30pm
Room 117, Horticulture Bldg.
Receptions at 3:10, HORT 217
***Seminars subject to change and/or cancellation***


Date/(host)

Speaker

Institution

Title

Jan. 10 Lance Duerfahrd English Department, Purdue University Pods and buds: The mysterious, mythic, and maneating potential of cinematic crops
Jan. 17 Natalia Dudareva Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University At the core of plant language: from metabolic networks to volatile emission
Jan. 24 Ajit Shasany Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University Diversity and species relationship in some medicinal and aromatic plants

Jan. 31
Meena Narsimhan

Tom Okita Institute of Biological Chemistry Washington State University The role of RNA targeting in specifying protein localization in plant cells
Feb. 7
Angus Murphy

Room Changed to: Pfendler Dean's Auditorium
Robert Dudler* Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland A plant pathogen virulence factor inhibits the eukaryotic proteasome by a novel mechanism
Feb. 14 Jules Janick Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University What did the Emperor Tiberius grow in his greenhouse? Reflections on horticulture and art.
Feb. 20
Burkhard Schulz & Tesfaye Mengiste

Room Changed to: Pfendler Dean's Auditorium
Thorston Nuernberger* Center of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany Signal perception in Arabidopsis innate immunity
Feb. 28
Michael Van Oosten
Julian Schroeder** Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego Guard cell calcium and ion channel signaling: CO2, abscisic acid and a model for calcium specificity
March 6
Michael Van Oosten
Joe Noel Structural Biology Laboratory Salk Institute Quantitative exploration of the catalytic landscape separating divergent plant sesquiterpene synthases
March 13 SPRING BREAK NO SEMINAR  
March 20
Roberto Lopez
Marc van Iersel Horticulture Department University of Georgia Controlling greenhouse irrigation with soil moisture sensors: practical applications and basic research
March 27 Phil Nelson Food Science Department, Purdue University A career with unexpected world impact
April 3
Avtar Handa
Gopi Paliyath University of Guelph Guelph, Ontario Phospholipase D, membrane and senescence
April 10 Ken Ritchie Physics Department, Purdue University Single molecule imaging of the dynamic organization of cellular membranes

April 17

No Seminar    
April 24
Cary Mitchell/Gioia Massa
A.J. Both Horticulture Department Rutgers University The role of technology in commercial plant production
May 1
Mike Hasegawa
Jen Sheen** Department of Molecular Biology Harvard Medical School Glucose and energy signaling network in plants
May 8
Natalia Dudareva
Toni Kutchan Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, Missouri Alkaloid biosynthesis in opium poppy

*Joint Botany/HLA Seminar Series

**Joint Plant Biology/HLA Seminar Series

     
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