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PCMB/Molecular Genetics Seminar Schedule

All Students, Faculty and Visitors are Welcome
Where:	Room 001, Jennings 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..

Winter 2010
Date	Speaker
Jan 7, 2010	Robin Wharton "TBA"
Jan 18, 2010 *Note: This seminar takes place on a Monday	Nicole Clay Harvard University "MAMP-Activated Innate Immunity in Arabidopsis: Pathogen Recognition and Chemical Defense Systems " Host: Rebecca Lamb
Jan 21, 2010 *Note: This seminar takes place at Biomedical Research Tower 115, at 4:00 PM	Gang Wu University of Pennsylvania "TBA" Host: Susan Cole
Jan 25, 2010 *Note: This seminar takes place at Kottman 244, at 11:00 AM. This seminar will be videolinked to the Wooster campus.	Ana Alonso "Revealing targets for metabolic engineering using metabolic flux analysis" Host: Erich Grotewold
Feb 4, 2010	Mark Seeger "TBA"
Feb 8, 2010 *Note: This seminar takes place at Kottman 244, at 11:00 AM	Yongzhen Pang "Biosynthesis and Bioengineering of Proanthocyanidins in Legume" Host: Dave Mackey
Feb 18, 2010	Anita Corbett Emory University "TBA" Host: Iris Meier
March 4, 2010	Amanda Bird "TBA"
March 18, 2010	Laura Carrel Pennsylvania State University "TBA" Host: Anita Hopper

Revised: 7-feb-10

Spring 2010
Date	Speaker
April 1, 2010	Maki Asano "TBA"
April 22, 2010	Bassem Hassan Katholieke Universiteit Leuven "TBA" Host: Harald Vaessin
April 29, 2010	Venkat Gopalan "TBA"
May 13, 2010	Robert Buchanan University of California at Berkeley "TBA" Host: Patrice Hamel
May 20, 2010 Time and Location yet to be determined.	34th Adolph E Waller Memorial Lecture Mary Rumpho-Kennedy The Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, The University of Maine "TBA" Dr. Rumpho-Kennedy's Web Site Host: PCMB Graduate Student Committee
May 21, 2010 Time and Location yet to be determined.	34th Adolph E Waller Memorial Lecture Mary Rumpho-Kennedy The Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, The University of Maine "TBA" Dr. Rumpho-Kennedy's Web Site Host: PCMB Graduate Student Committee
May 27, 2010	Jian-Qui Wu "TBA"
June 10, 2010	Mandy Simcox

Revised: 7-feb-10

PCMB NEWS

Faculty Position Opening

The merging Departments of Plant Cellular & Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics at The Ohio State University, in conjunction with the interdisciplinary Plant Molecular Biology/Biotechnology (PMBB) program, invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position. Position Information [pdf]

NSF Grant Awarded to Biao Ding

Biao Ding has been awarded a 3-year grant in the amount of $480,000 from the National Science Foundation to study the mechanisms of cell-to-cell RNA trafficking.

Work Study Position Available in PCMB

8-20 hrs/week; $7.26-8.25/hour.
Contact Dr. Rebecca Lamb.
Position Information [pdf}

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.

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]

News Archive

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