Tuesday Seminar Series

Spring 2013

PBGG Tuesday Seminars are at 12:10 p.m. in Life Sciences 1022. In Spring 2013, the PBGG Tuesday Seminar Series features our current students giving In Progress and Exit Seminars.

Download a PDF file of the PBGG Tuesday seminar schedule here.

Date Speaker Major Professor Title

April 2 Maysaya Thitisaksakul Professor Beckles Cloning and characterization of OsGSK: A putative integrator of salt stress response and carbohydrate metabolism in rice

April 9 Brad Kaufman
Professor Comai Post-hybridization events in interspecific crosses of Arabidopsis

April 16 Jennifer Gray
Professor Harmer Characterizing the biochemical role of RVE8 and its homologues in the Arabidopsis circadian clock 

April 23 Polly Hsu
Exit Seminar!
Professor Harmer Accurate timekeeping is controlled by a cycling activator in Arabidopsis

April 30 Paul Bilinski Professor Ross-Ibarra Searching for Patterns of Repetitive Sequence Evolution

May 7 Ciera Martinez Professor Sinha Understanding the functional divergence and phylogenetic history of the PIN-FORMED1 clade in S. lycopersicum

May 14 Shajahan Anver
Exit Seminar!
Professor Harmer XAP5 Circadian Time Keeper: A novel chromatin associated protein conserved in eukaryotes

May 21 Minmin Wang
Exit Seminar!
Professor Zakharov Investigation of Branched-Chain Amino Acid Metabolism Involved in Aroma Formation in Melon

May 28 Hossein Gouran Professor Dandekar Constructing innate immunity in grapevine to Pierce's disease

June 4 Mitch Elmore Professor Coaker Investigating plant immune responses using quantitative proteomics