Date

Speaker

Title

Host

Sept. 17

Jean Greenberg 
University of Chicago

"Reductionist & Global Approaches to Understanding Plant Defenses & Pathogenic Mechanisms"

Hutcheson

Sept. 24

Kyung Lee 
National Cancer Institute/NIH

"Licensing mitotic entry: Mechanisms of concerted phosphorylation & down-regulation of Swel by multiple kinases in budding yeast"

Dinman

Oct. 1

Samantha King 
University of Pennsylvania

"Bacterial deglycosylation of host proteins that protect the human airway"

Mosser

Oct. 8

Lian-Yong Gao 
University of Maryland

"Mycobacterial strategies to host defense mechanisms"

Mount

Oct. 15

Dinesh-Kumar 
Yale University

"Plant Innate Immunity: Perspectives from Viral Resistance Genes"

Simon

Oct. 22

Sarah Liljegren 
University of North Carolina

"Cell Seperation in Arabidopsis Flowers and Fruit"

Kwak

Oct. 29

Sidney Altman 
Yale University

"Structure & Function of Rnase P in Procaryotes and Eucaryotes"

Simon

Nov. 5

Chunxin Wang 
University of Maryland

"DNA Damage, Programmed Cell Death & Release of Transgene Silencing in Arabidopsis tso2 mutants with reduced dNTP pool"

Liu

Nov. 12

Leslie Pick 
University of Maryland

“Drosophila Insulin Receptor Regulates Axon Guidance in the Developing Visual System"  
and "A few words about Ftz”

Mount

Nov. 19

Seminar postponed until Dec. 10

Chang

Dec. 3

Wolf Frommer 
Universitat Tubingen

"Development of Tools or in Vivo Metabolite Imaging"

Sze

Dec. 10

Shunyuan Xiao 
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute

"Regulation of Hypersensitive Cell Death & Disease Resistance in Arabidopsis"

Chang