2009-10 Plant Sciences Seminars
(listing updated 12 November 2009)

Plant Sciences Seminars meet at 9:30 a.m. on Thursdays, in room 2057 of the King Life Sciences Building on the FSU campus in Tallahassee, Florida.

• September 3: Dr. George W. Bates, FSU
  The search for ABA receptors heats up

• September 10: Dr. Hank W. Bass, FSU
  "The nucleolus in quality control of mRNA: aberrant transcripts and nonsense-mediated decay in Arabidopsis." A discussion of the recent Kim et al. (2009) paper in The Plant Cell 21:2045-2057

• September 17: Dr. Kathryn M. Jones, FSU
  SUMO E3 ligase HIGH PLOIDY2 regulates endocycle onset and meristem maintenance in Arabidopsis

• September 24: Dr. Laura R. Keller, FSU
  H₂ production from pond scum?!

• October 1: Dr. Karen M. McGinnis, FSU
  Discussion of Inagaki S, Nakamura K, Morikami A, 2009 A link among DNA replication, recombination, and gene expression revealed by genetic and genomic analysis of TEBICHI gene of Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS Genet 5(8): e1000613. doi:10.1371/journal

• October 8: Debbie Figueroa, FSU
  Recent advances in the characterization of plant centromeres

• October 15: LeAnna Willison, FSU
  Removing allergens from food crops

• October 22: Amber Brown, FSU
  Replication protein A involvement in plant DNA metabolism: from replication to telomere maintenance

• October 29: LemnaTec Demonstration

• November 5: Dr. Thelma Madzima, FSU
  Mobile silencing by tasiRNAs

• November 12: Shaun P. Murphy, FSU
  The role of ameiotic1 (Am1) in the establishment of meiotic chromosome architecture in Zea mays

• November 19: Susan Boerner, FSU
  Long noncoding RNA in plants

• November 26: None scheduled

• December 3: Bodhana Dhole, FSU