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PCMB Seminar Schedule

All Students, Faculty and Visitors are Welcome
Where:	Room 244, Kottman Hall .	NOTE: See Schedule Below for any Changes
When:	Thursdays, 4:00pm.
NOTE* Whenever possible, seminars will be videolinked to the OSU Wooster Campus, see notes for details..

Spring/Summer 2008
Date	Speaker
March 27, 2008 This Seminar will be video- linked to Fisher Auditorium in Wooster.	Joint PCMB/HC&S Seminar Kevin Folta University of Florida "Green Light - An Unexpected Contributor to Plant Development" Dr. Folta's Web Site Host: JC Jang
March 28, 2008 This Seminar will take place at the Fisher Auditorium in Wooster at 11:00am. It will be video linked to Kottman Hall room 244	Joint PCMB/HC&S Seminar Kevin Folta University of Florida "Strawberry Genomics - A Gateway to the Rosaceae" Dr. Folta's Web Site Host: Esther van der Knaap
April 10, 2008	Maureen Hanson Cornell University "Intracellular Dynamics of Plant Organelles" Dr. Hanson's Web Site Host: Patrice Hamel
NOTICE: Beginning April 24th, 2008, PCMB Seminars will take place in room 155 of Jennings Hall. The seminars will begin at 4:00pm each Thursday unless otherwise noted.
April 24, 2008	Danny Schnell University of Massachussetts, Amherst "Chloroplast protein import: mechanism and role in plant development" Dr. Schnell's Web Site Host: Patrice Hamel
May 1, 2008	Rouf Mian US Department of Agriculture "Improving pest resistance of soybean using genomics assisted breeding" Dr. Rouf's Web Site Host: Robert Tabita
May 8, 2008 Note: This seminar will begin at 3:00pm and will take place in 244 Kottman Hall. This seminar will also be videolinked to the Wooster Campus.	PMBB Distinguished Seminar Speaker Mike Thomashow Michigan State University "Gene regulons involved in plant cold acclimation" Dr. Thomashow's Web Site Host: Dave Somers
May 15, 2008	Tai-Ping Sun Duke University "Sites of gibberellin biosynthesis and early events in gibberellin signaling in Arabidopsis" Dr. Sun's Web Site Host: Rebecca Lamb
May 22, 2008	Bernie Epel Tel Aviv University "Plant viruses raft on the endoplasmic reticulum to spread cell to cell" Dr. Epel's Web Site Host: Biao Ding
June 23, 2008 Note: This seminar will take place in Jennings Hall room 155 at 11:00am. This seminar will be teleconfrenced to 121 Fisher Hall on the Wooster Campus as well.	Mark Hanikenne University of Liège, Belgium "Metal hyperaccumulation in Arabidopsis halleri: how is Zinc accumulating in the leaves?" Host: Patrice Hamel
July 17, 2008 NOTE: This seminar will take place in Jennings Hall room 155. The seminar will be teleconfrenced to 130 Research Services on the Wooster Campus as well.	Geraldine Bonnard CNRS, France "Biogenesis of c-type cytochrome in plant mitochondria" Dr. Bonnard's Web Site Host: Patrice Hamel
August 8, 2008 Note: This seminar will take place in Jennings Hall room 155 at 4:00pm. The seminar will be teleconfrenced to 130 Research Services on the Wooster Campus as well.	Jean-David Rochaix University of Geneva, Switzerland "Seminar Title TBA" Dr. Rochaix's Web Site Host: Patrice Hamel
August 18, 2008 Note: This seminar is co- sponsored by the IMB and Office of Minority Affairs and will take place in Jennings Hall room 155 at 11:00am. The seminar will also be teleconfrenxed to 130 Research Services on the Wosster Campus.	Institute of Mitochondrial Biology Hosted Seminar Xochitl Pérez-Martínez Universidad Nacional Autónoma of Mexico "Synthesis and assembly of the mitochondrial protein Cox1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae" Dr. Pérez-Martínez's Web Site Host: Patrice Hamel

Revised: 8-jul-08

PCMB NEWS

Erich Grotewold Receives Grant from US-Israeli Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund

We are pleased to announce that Erich Grotewold has been awarded another new grant. This is a 3-year award from the US-Israeli Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund. It is in the amount of $137,000 and is entitled "Regulation of tomato fruit development by interacting MYB proteins.".

Erich Grotewold Receives DOE And NSF Grants

Erich Grotewold has been awarded 3-year grant in the amount o $449,390 from the DOE, entitled "Engineering phenolic metabolism in the grasses using transcription factors."

Erich has also been awarded a second, major grant from NSF (Plant Genome). It is a 3-year award in the amount of $2,479,632 entitled "The Grass Regulome Initiative: Integrating control of gene expression and agronomic traits across the grasses.

David Somers' Lab Published In Nature

David Somers’ group has published an article in Nature (Sept. 20) entitled, “ZEITLUPE is a circadian photoreceptor stabilized by GIGANTEA in blue light.” Woe-Yeon Kim and Sumire Fujiwara are co-first authors.

Erich Grotewold Awarded USDA Grant

Erich Grotewold has been awarded a grant from the USDA in the amount of $201,025 for a two-year study entitled, “Transposons as gene control elements.”

Rebecca Lamb Receives OPBC Award

Rebecca Lamb has received an award of $57,567 over two years from the OPBC for a study entitled, ”Two Arabidopsis WWE-PARP proteins involved in abiotic stress response and development.”

Plant Biotechnology In-Floor Seminar Series Schedule

Follow the link below for a schedule of informal 30-40 min seminars that will take place at noon on Fridays in room 189 of Rightmire Hall.
Schedule [pdf]

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