GENETICS GRADUATE GROUP
Seminar in Plant Breeding and Biodiversity
GGG 292 (CRN 43917) Fall 2009
Seminars will be Mondays, 4:10 – 5:00 p.m. in
PES 2005.
Download a seminar schedule here! (MS Word)
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Date
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Title
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Speaker
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Oct. 5
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Improving maize productivity in water-limiting environments
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Jacqueline Heard
Monsanto Co.
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Oct. 12
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Feral crops for the study of the evolution of invasiveness
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Norman Ellstrand
Ctr for Conservation Biology;
Dept. of Botany & Plant Sciences
UC Riverside
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Oct. 19
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Multiple domestications in Phaseolus
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Paul Gepts
Dept. of Plant Sciences
UC Davis
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Oct. 26
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Macro assembly of the Sorghum bicolor genome from a whole genome shotgun sequence,
and insights from the sorghum genome
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John Bowers
Plant Genome Mapping
Laboratory
Univ of Georgia
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Nov. 2
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Accelerated Yield Technology: Context-Specific MAS for Yield QTL
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Scott Sebastian
Pioneer Hi-Bred Inc.
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Nov. 9
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What I have learned from studying rice domestication
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Tao Sang
Dept. of Plant Biology
Univ of Michigan
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Nov. 16
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Population structure in wild barley: implications for barley domestication
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Peter Morrell
Dept. of Agronomy & Plant Genetics
Univ of Minnesota
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Nov. 23
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Genetic diversity in wild tomatoes: how genome evolution and reproductive barriers
limit its utilization
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Roger Chetelat
Dept. of Plant Sciences
UC Davis
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