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Past PCMB Seminar Speakers


Speaker Affiliation Seminar Title Quarter
Kevin Folta University of Florida Green Light - An Unexpected Contributor to Plant Development SP08
Kevin Folta University of Florida Strawberry Genomics - A Gateway to the Rosaceae SP08
Maureen Hanson Cornell University Intracellular Dynamics of Plant Organelles SP08
Danny Schnell University of Massachussetts, Amherst Chloroplast protein import: mechanism and role in plant development SP08
Rouf Mian US Department of Agriculture Improving pest resistance of soybean using genomics assisted breeding SP08
Mike Thomashow
PMBB Distinguished Seminar Series
Michigan State University Gene regulons involved in plant cold acclimation SP08
Tai-Ping Sun Duke University Sites of gibberellin biosynthesis and early events in gibberellin signaling in Arabidopsis SP08
Bernie Epel Tel Aviv University Plant viruses raft on the endoplasmic reticulum to spread cell to cell SP08
Mark Hanikenne University of Liège, Belgium Metal hyperaccumulation in Arabidopsis halleri: how is Zinc accumulating in the leaves? SP08
Geraldine Bonnard CNRS, France Biogenesis of c-type cytochrome in plant mitochondria SP08
Jean-David Rochaix University of Geneva, Switzerland Tracking thylakoid protein kinases from Chlamydomonas to Arabidopsis SP08
Xochitl Pérez-Martínez
IMB Hosted Seminar
Universidad Nacional Autónoma of Mexico Synthesis and assembly of the mitochondrial protein Cox1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae SP08
Craig Pikaard
Waller Memorial Lecture
Biology Department, Washington University, St. Louis Roles of non-coding, Pol IV-dependent RNAs in large-scale gene silencing and chromatin organization WI08
Susan Dutcher Washington University School of Medicine Using Chlamydomonas and Comparative Genomics to study microtubule organizing centers WI08
Mary-Lou Guerinot Dartmouth College From the Soil to the Seed: Metal Homeostasis in Arabidopsis WI08
Bo Liu University of California at Davis Matching kinesins to microtubule-based movements in plant cells WI08
Richard Michelmore
PMBB Distinguished Seminar Series
University of California, Davis Comparative genomicsof plant-pathogen interactions WI08
Joy Ward University of Kansas, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Plant Evolution Under Changing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentrations WI08
Diego Gonzalez-Halphen Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico An atypical mitochondrial ATP synthase in chlorophycean algae WI08
Scott Michaels Indiana University Integration of light and temperature signals in the regulation of flowering time AU07
Howie Bouis Harvest Plus Harnessing the Power of Agricultural Research to Improve Human Nutrition -- Can Institutions and Scientists Work Together Across Disciplines? AU07
Richard Sayre OSU, PCMB and BioCassava Plus Biofortification of Cassava, BioCassava Plus at 28 months AU07
Sally A. Mackenzie University of Nebraska, Lincoln Relaxation of Recombination Surveillance in the Plant Mitochondrial Genome AU07
David Guttman University of Toronto Evolutionary and functional analysis of a host-pathogen arms race AU07
Marcelo Paes de Barros Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul (UNICSUL), São Paulo, Brazil Is H2O2 a missing redox signal in aquatic plants? The fates of an indomitable molecule in seawater AU07
Xuehua Zhong PCMB Graduate Program, OSU Structure and Function of RNA Motifs that Regulate RNA Replication and Trafficking SP07
Doreen Ware USDA-ARS & Cold Spring Harbor Labs Evolution and expression of plant miRNAs SP07
Natasha Raikhel
Waller Memorial Lecture
University of California, Riverside A Genetic Screen for Components of the Trafficking Machinery to the Protein Storage Vacuole SP07
Natasha Raikhel
Waller Memorial Lecture
University of California, Riverside Looking to the Future of Plant Biology SP07
David Knaff Texas Tech University Structural, spectroscopic and mutagenic studies of ferredoxin-dependent enzymes SP07
Elli Wurtzel CUNY Regulation of provitamin A carotenoid accumulation in cereal crops SP07
Peter Nagy University of Kentucky Systems biology approach to study the roles of host proteins in plant virus replication SP07
Jessica Lucas PCMB Graduate Program, OSU Microtubule Arrays and Cell Divisions of Stomatal Development in Arabidopsis SP07
Xianfeng Xu PCMB Graduate Program, OSU Conservation and Distinction of Plant Nuclear Pores SP07
Brian McSpadden Gardener The Ohio State University,
Department of Plant Pathology
Diversity, biogeography, and activities of rhizobacteria that promote plant health WI07
Carol Dieckmann University of Arizona Eyespot placement and assembly in Chlamydomonas WI07
Heriberto Cerutti University of Nebraska-Lincoln RNA-mediated gene silencing: evolution and mechanisms WI07
Steve Theg University of California-Davis Protein transport on the chloroplast Tat pathway:  How to get folded
proteins across an ion tight membrane
WI07
Albrecht von Arnim University of Tennesee, Knoxville Close Encounters of the Complex Kind WI07
Maria Ghirardi Colorado School of Mines Algal [FeFe]-hydrogenases –properties and potential applications WI07
Nathan Springer University of Minnesota Are mom and dad interchangeable and how did I get so big? Lessons from inbred and hybrid gene expression studies AU06
Gregory Armstrong
The Ohio State University, Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology Preparations in the dark for a day in the sun--skotomorphogenesis to photomorphogenesis and beyond in Arabidopsis AU06
Neocles Leontis
Bowling Green State University, Department of Chemistry Using RNA Tertiary Structure when Interpreting RNA Functional Data AU06
Steve Theg
Section of Plant Biology, UC Davis Transport of proteins across chloroplast membranes AU06
Maureen McCann
Deptartment of Biological Sciences, Purdue University The plant extracellular matrix AU06
Alice Cheung University of Massachusetts NA AU06
Ray Zielinski Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois Plant signaling networks involving Ca2+, calmodulin and CNGCs AU06
David Evans Oxford Brookes University Protein targeting to the plant inner nuclear envelope- expressing the
mammalian lamin B receptor in plants
AU06
Bonnie Bartel
PMBB Distinguished Seminar Series
Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University. Biogenesis and functions of plant peroxisomes SP06
Elisabeth Waigmann Max F. Perutz Laboratories
University Departments at the Vienna Biocenter, Institute of Medical Biochemistry
Medical University of Vienna
Characterization of MPB2C, a host factor of tobacco mosaic virus movement protein SP06
Claire Remacle University of Liège (Belgium), Department of Life Sciences Manipulating the mitochondrial genome in the green alga
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
SP06
Robin Buell TIGR Insights into the Rice Genome SP06
Roger Innes University of Indiana, Department of Biology Guarding the Goods: Molecular Insights into the Central Alarm System of Plants SP06
Bill Lucas
Waller Memorial Lecture
Department of Biology, University of California Davis Plasmodesmata & the Phloem: Partners in Local & Long-Distance Signaling SP06
Ronald Koes Department of Genetics at Amsterdam University in the Netherlands Genetic control and evolution of diverse inflorescence structures SP06
Motoaki Seki RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, Japan Arabidopsis whole-genome expression profiling under abiotic stress conditions SP06
Sid Shaw Indiana University Microtubule Dynamics in the Arabidopsis Cortical Array WI06
Sue Golden Texas A&M University Winding up the cyanobacterial circadian clock WI06
Ed Cahoon Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Toward An Understanding of Sphingolipid Synthesis and Function in Plants WI06
Bonnie Bartel Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Rice University Biogenesis and functions of plant peroxisomes WI06
Annkatrin Rose Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology,
The Ohio State University.
Combining computational and experimental approaches to uncover
functions of long coiled-coil proteins in Arabidopsis
AU05
Alice Barkan Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon Plant-specific RNA binding protein families revealed through the genetic analysis of nuclear-chloroplast crosstalk AU05
Nick Carpita Purdue University. Cell wall structure and biosynthesis in grasses and cereals AU05
Gary Thompson National Science Foundation The nodding mutant: Characterizing a plasma membrane-anchored
protein in phloem sieve elements
AU05
Alan Lloyd University of Texas Transcription factor networks controlling a suite of
Arabidopsis epidermal pathways
AU05
Saranyan Palaniswamy Human Cancer Genetics Program,
The Ohio State University
AGRIS : A systems biology approach to establish cis-regulatory networks
and identify direct targets for TFs in Arabidopsis thaliana
AU05
David F. J. Tees Ohio University Defining interactions for hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins using
single molecule forced unbinding
AU05
Baishnab Charan Tripathy Jawaharal Nehru University, India Resistance of Plants to Oxidative Stress: A Transgenic Approach AU05
Doug Kinghorn Ohio State University, College of Pharmacy Potential Cancer Chemopreventives from Plants SP05
Steve Rodermel Department of Botany, Iowa State University Arabidopsis Variegation Mutants and the Mechanisms of Chloroplast Biogenesis SP05
Rivka Barg Volcani Center A.R.O., Bet Dagan, Israel Biotechnological and Basic Aspects of Early Fruit Development in Tomato SP05
HimaB. Pakrasi Systems Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO Systems Analysis of Physiology of Photosynthetic Organisms SP05
Xing-Wang Deng
Waller Memorial Lecture
The Plant Genomics Group, Yale University Rice Genomics: from Research to Application SP05
Xing-Wang Deng
Waller Memorial Lecture
The Plant Genomics Group, Yale University Light Control of Arabidopsis Development SP05
Phil Benfey
PMBB Distinguished Seminar Series
Department of Biology, Duke University A Systems Biology Approach to Understanding Root Development SP05
Geoff Wasteneys Department of Botany, University of British Columbia New Views on the Shape of Plants SP05
Nigel Crawford Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, San Diego Nitric Oxide: Synthesis and Action of an Enigmatic Signal in Plants SP05
Hitoshi Miyasaka Kansai Electric Power Co. Environmental Research Center in Kyoto, Japan The stress-tolerant green alga Chlamydomonas W80, a prominent genetic resource for anti-stress genes SP05
Sarah Wyatt Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University "THE gravity persistent signal (gps) Mutants of Arabidopsis: Insights into Gravitropic Signal Transduction" WI05
Greg Armstrong Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology, The Ohio State University "Shedding light on nucleus-plastid crosstalk in the dark" WI05
Patrice Hamel Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA "Heme Delivery Systems and Redox Components Involved in Cytochrome C Assembly in Organelles" AU04
Zhixin Xie Center for Gene Research and Biotechnology, and Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University "The Small RNA World: microRNA and Other Small RNAs in Plants" AU04
Tzfi Tzfira Department of Biochemistry & Cell Biology
State University of New York, Stony Brook
"Agrobacterium-host interaction: From nuclear import to integration" AU04
Hongwei Gou Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, LaJolla, CA "Ethylene Signaling in Plant Growth Response" AU04
Elena Shpak Biology Department, University of Washington "Regulation of plant organ size by the receptor-like kinase ERECTA" AU04
Katherine Osteryoung Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University "Molecular, Biochemical and Genetic Dissection of Plastid Division in Plants" AU04
Steven Clark LSA Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan   AU04
David Somers Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology,
The Ohio State University
"ZEITLUPE and Circadian Timing: The Long and Short of It" AU04
Zheng-Hua Ye University of Georgia "Molecular and genetic analysis of fiber cell differentiation" AU04
C. Robertson McClung Dartmouth College "An Evolving View of the Arabidopsis Circadian Clock" AU04
Wilhelm Gruissem
PMBB Distinguished Speaker
ISwiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich "Control of Cell Cycle and Differentiation in Arabidopsis" AU04
Vijay Sharma University of California at Berkeley "Functional analysis of the CLE gene family: Maintenance of stem cells in Arabidopsis" SU04
Manli Yang University of Toledo "The Lethal Leaf Spot 1 (LLS1) protein catalyzes chlorophyll degradation and is localized to the chloroplast inner membrane" SU04
Gregory Matera Department of Genetics,
Case Western Reserve University
"Nuclear bodies, small RNA import and Spinal Muscular Atrophy" SP04
Patricia Leon Departamento de Biología Molecular de Plantas, Instituto de Biotecnología UNAM "Analysis of the Participation of the ABA Hormone During Glucose Signaling" SP04
Harsh Bais Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, Colorado State University "News from Underground: The Biology of Root Exudates" SP04
K.G. Raghothama Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University "Molecular regulation of phosphate starvation responses in plants" SP04
Thomas Okita
PMBB Distinguished Speaker
Institute for Biological Chemistry, Washington State University "RNA Transport and Localization: New Insights on Protein Synthesis and Protein Localization in Plants" SP04
Andrew Staehelin Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado "Electron Tomographic Analysis of Cytokinesis at 7 nm Resolution" SP04
Andrew Staehelin Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado "Seeing More Than Meets the Eye - The Science and Art of Electron Microscopy" SP04
Dae-Jin Yun Visiting Professor, Center for Plant Environmental Stress Physiology, Purdue University "Genetic Screening for Plant Cell Death Suppressors and Their Functional Analysis" SP04
Elizabeth Hood Program Director, MCB Cellular Systems, National Science Foundation "Production and Application of Proteins from Transgenic Plants" SP04
Wallace Marshall University of California, San Francisco "Analysis of Centriole Duplication and Function Using Chlamydomonas" SP04
Brian McGonigle E. I. DuPont Corporation "Engineering of Soybean for Improved Flavor and Health Benefits" SP04
Sheng Yang He DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University "The bacterial type III protein secretion system: Delivering tools for plant cell biology" WI04
Michael Evans Department of Plant Biology, The Ohio State University "Analysis of root growth and gravitropism using video imaging" WI04
Ellen Purpus  Director, Office for Technology Licensing, The Ohio State University "Innovation to Commercialization: University Technology Transfer" WI04
Jorge Vivanco Dept. of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Colorado State University "Root exudation and rhizosphere biology" WI04
Patrick Masson  Laboratory of Genetics, University of Wisconsin " WI04
Berl Oakley  Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University "Gamma-tubulin functions in mitotic coordination and checkpoint regulation" WI04
Yanhai Yin  Plant Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences "Plant Steroid Hormone Signaling: from Membrane Receptors to Nuclear Target Genes" WI04
Cora Steginsky Vice President and General Manager, Agrifood Market Sector, Battell "Commercial Aspects of Plant Biotechnology" WI04
Simon Gilroy Department of Biology, Penn State University " WI04
Yijun Qi  Department of Plant Biology, The Ohio State University "Viroid:  A Small but Versatile RNA" AU03
David Bisaro Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University "Mechanisms of Host Defense Suppression by Geminiviruses" AU03
John Gray Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toledo "Cell Death in Plants - Insights from the Study of Lesion Mimic Mutants" AU03
Brandon Moore Department of Genetics and Biochemistry, Clemson University "Function of Arabidopsis Hexokinase as a Glucose Sensor: Moonlighting, Gene Family and Related Aspects" AU03
Jianming Li Department of Biology, University of Michigan "Regulation of Brassinosteroid Signaling by a GSK3-like Kinase" AU03
Doris Wagner Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania "Genomic Identification of Immediate Early Targets of the LEAFY Trascription Factor" AU03
Philip Rea Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania "From Weeds to Worms:  The Mechanistic Basis of Phytochelatin-Dependent Heavy Metal Detoxification" AU03
Vicki Chandler Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona "Paramutation: Long distance cis and trans communication regulating gene expression" AU03
Tim Nelson Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology,
Yale University
"Development of the leaf vascular  pattern: A river runs through it." SP03
Richard Sayre Department of Plant Biology,
Ohio State University
"Heavy metal metabolism and its genetic manipulation in microalgae" SP03
Doreen Ware
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory "Comparative physical maps of maize and rice"
SP03
Ingo Potrykus Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH),
Zurich, Switzerland
"GoldenRice—a humanitarian project meets all the obstacles of product
development"
SP03
Ingo Potrykus Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH),
Zurich, Switzerland
"GoldenRice—the scientific challenges beyond the basic pathway engineering
for pro-vitamin A
SP03
Kenneth Keegstra
Department of Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Michigan State University
"Biosynthesis of plant cell wall polysaccharides: Using new tools to study an
old problem"
SP03
Kenneth Keegstra Department of Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Michigan State University
"Twenty five years of progress in understanding chloroplast biogenesis" SP03
Rick Nelson
Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
"RNA silencing and its suppression: Plant hosts and viral pathogens battling
for the higher ground"
SP03
Kevin Walker Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University "Taxol: Acquisition, functional expression, and characterization of the acyl/aroyl transferases in Taxol biosynthesis" SP03
David Cove
Emeritus Professor of Genetics, University of Leeds, UK
Clark Way Harrison Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
"Mosses, - models for the study of plant development - and more besides." SP03
Jiaxu Li Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School "Towards global analysis of abiotic stress responses at the functional protein level" WI03
Keith Adams

Department of Botany, Iowa State University "Genome Evolution and the Mysteries of Polyploidy" WI03
June Kwak

Division of Biological Sciences, Cell and Developmental Biology Center, University of California, San Diego "Dissection of guard cell ABA signal transduction mechanisms using single cell functional genomic, molecular genetic and cell biological approaches" WI03
Michael Hippler

University of Jena, Germany "Functional proteomics of transmembrane multiprotein complexes - Protein
dynamics of photosystem I and its light-harvesting antenna proteins in
assembly and adaptation processes."
WI03
Rebecca Lamb

Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University "Function and regulation of floral homeotic genes in Arabidopsis" WI03
Tamara Western

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada "MUM's the word: Seed coat development and cell wall biosynthesis in Arabidopsis" WI03
Joe Chappell

Plant Physiology/Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Program, University of Kentucky "Intertwining Tails: Plant-Pathogen Interactions and the Molecular Regulation and Chemical Wizarof Isoprenoid Metabolism" WI03
J.C. Jang

Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University "Glucose signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana" WI03
Judith Bender

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
"DNA methylation and gene silencing of an endogenous gene family in Arabidopsis" WI03
Desh Pal Verma Department of Molecular Genetics, Ohio State University "Building the cell plate, the final step in plant cell division, involves a novel vesicle fusion machinery" AU02
Iris Meier

 
Department of Plant Biology, Ohio State University "Positioning of Ran Signaling and the Function of Large Coiled-Coil Proteins in Plants" AU02
John Walker Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia "Genetic Dissection of Steroid Signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana." AU02
Neelima Sinha Section of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis "The Development and Evolution of Compound Leaves" AU02
Steven Clouse
 
Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University
"Brassinosteroid Signal Transduction: From Receptor Activation to Gene Expression" AU02
Dean DellaPenna
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University
"Manipulating Plant Metabolism to benefit human health: Vitamin E Synthesis as an example"
AU02
PMBB Distinguished SpeakerAlan Collmer
Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University
"Mining for type III secretion system effectors in the Pseudomonas syringae genome"
AU02
Klaas Jan van Wijk
Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University
"Functional Proteomics of plastids from Arabidopsis thaliana through prediction and experimentation"
AU02
John Davis Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Florida "Trait-targeted genomics in forest trees" SP02
Eric Stahlberg Senior Systems Manager, Ohio Supercomputer Center "Discovery Beyond the Desktop: Bioinformatics Resources at OCS" SP02
Keith Davis Paradigm Genetics Inc. "High Throughput Phenotypic Analysis of Arabidopsis" SP02
PMBB Distinguished SpeakerVirginia Walbot Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University "The Regulation of Mutator transposons and Their Use in Maize Gene Discovery." SP02
Adolph E. Waller Memorial LectureGeorge P. Rédei Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri-Columbia "Ups and Downs in the History of Genetics" SP02
George P. Rédei Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri-Columbia "The Origin of Research with Arabidopsis: What Lies Ahead"
SP02
Roger Hangarter

Department of Biology, Indiana University
"Light-induced chloroplast movements: Dissecting an adaptive response to a dynamic environment. " SP02
SonLazarowitz
 
Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University
"Nuclear Shuttling in Bipartite Geminivirus Movement: The Ins and Outs"
SP02
Glenda Gillaspy
Department of Biochemistry and Fralin Biotechnology Center,Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
"Terminating Signal Transduction in Plants: Why Getting Turned Off Is As Important As Getting Turned On"
SP02
Michael Timko Department of Biology, University of Virginia "Bewitched: Understanding Host and Non-Host Resistance to Striga Parasitism" SP02
Robert Turgeon Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University "Phloem loading: sugars and genes" WI02
Robert Larkin Plant Biology Laboratory and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute
"Plastid Signals Regulate Nuclear Transcription " WI02
Haiyang Wang Yale University
"Light signaling mechanism mediating Arabidopsis photomorphogenic development"
WI02
Reuben Peters Washington St. University
"Isoprenoid Biosythesis: Cyclase Mechanisms"
WI02
Randall Kerstetter University of Pennsylvania
"Kanadi and the regulation of leaf polarity"
WI02
Jianmin Zhou Kansas State University
"In search of host signals and targets for Pseudomonas virulence expression" WI02
Daniel R. Bush Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Resource allocation and multicellular growth: Molecular analysis of plant sugar and amino acid transporters"
WI02
David Mackey University of North Carolina
"The interface between bacterial pathogens and plants: virulence functions and resistance responses" WI02
George J. Wagner Dept. of Agronomy, University of Kentucky "Metabolic Engineering of Plant Trichome Glands to Enhance Natural-Product-Based Insect Resistance and to Facilitate Molecular Farming" WI02
Yunde Zhao Salk Institute
"Molecular mechanisms of auxin biosynthesis and signal transduction"
WI02
Candace Waddell McGill University
"Exploring the role of auxin Indole-3-Butyric Acid in Arabidopsis" WI02
Lianhui Zhang IMA, Singapore
"Bacterial quorum - Sensing and quenching"
WI02
Ralph Quatrano Department of Biology, Washington Unversity
"Genetic approaches to the study of intracellular polarity using the moss Physcomitrella patens" WI02
Carl H. Johnson Dept. of Biology, Vanderbilt University
"As Time Glows By: Circadian Clocks in Cyanobacteria"
WI02
Richard A. Dixon Plant Biology Division, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation "Metabolic engineering of plant natural product biosynthesis in Medicago- new insights on old pathways" AU01
Biao Ding Department of Plant Biology, Ohio State University "Protein and RNA traffic: from a cell to a whole plant" AU01
David Ehrhardt Carnegie Institution of Washington "GFP fusion libraries: visualizing subcellular localization patterns and dynamics in Arabidopsis" AU01
William (Ned) Friedman Department of Environmental, Population and Organismic Biology, University of Colorado "The cell cycle of gametes in plants: from molecules to macroevolution" AU01
Jeanette Nadeau Department of Plant Biology, Ohio State University "Patterning in Arabidopsis stomatal development" AU01
Steven Spiker Department of Botany, North Carolina State University "The Nuclear Matrix and MARs in Plants" AU01
Nancy Dengler Department of Botany, University of Toronto "Development and evolution of photosynthetic tissues in C4 plants" AU01
Robert Last Cereon Genomics, Boston   "The Cereon Arabidopsis Genetic Marker Collection: How, What and Why" SP01
Richard Jorgensen
University of Arizona
"Genetic and epigenetic determinants of RNA silencing patterns in petunia flowers" SP01
Kevin Redding
University of Alabama
"The two sides of Photosystem I: focus on the quinone cofactors" SP01
Ross Dalbey
Ohio State University 
"YidC - A gatekeeper that controls membrane protein insertion in bacteria" SP01
Claude M. Fauquet
Danforth Plant Science Center and University of Missouri, St Louis   "What's causing geminiviruses to emerge?" SP01
Enno Krebbers
DuPont Nutrition and Health "Quality traits for corn and soybeans - adventures in metabolic engineering"  SP01
Chris Wolverton
Ohio State University
" Identification of a new gravity sensor in plants" SP01
Laurie Smith University of California at San Diego "Genetic Analysis of Cell Division and Morphogenesis During Maize Leaf Development" SP01
Eric Richards Washington University "DNA methylation and epigenetic variation" SP01
Steve Rogstad University of Cincinnati "Pollution and Plant Population Genetics" SP01
John Kiss   Miami University "Which Way to Grow? Gravitropism in Stems and Phototropism in Roots " WI01
Richard Cyr   Pennsylvania State University "Cytoskeletal Function in Living Cells" WI01
Eric Stockinger Ohio State University "Arabidopsis Transcriptional Activator CBF1 and Its Role in Cold-Acclimation in Plants" WI01
Xing Wang Deng Yale University "Light Control of Arabidopsis Development" WI01
Fumiaki Katagiri Novartis Agricultural Discovery Institute Inc. "Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Disease Resistance Mediated by NBS-LRR Resistance Genes" WI01
Meng Sheng Gao Ohio State University "Azorhizobium caulinodans - A Nitrogen-Fixing Bacterium That Induces Stem Nodules on the Legume Sesbania rostrata" WI01
David Jackson Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory "Channels and receptors for cell to cell communication in the shoot apical meristem" WI01
Saskia Hogenhout Department of Entomology, Ohio State University "The Pathogen-Vector-Host Triangle in Virus and Mollicute Diseases of Corn" AU00
Said Sif Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Ohio State University "Regulation of Human Brg1 and hBrm Chromatin Remodeling Complexes" AU00
Erich Grotewold Department of Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology Center, Ohio State University "Regulation of Plant Gene Expression by Plant Myb Transcription Factors" AU00
Wolfgang D. Bauer Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University "Plants Can Disrupt Bacterial Signaling" AU00
Brenda Winkel-Shirley  Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA "Evidence for a Membrane-Bound Enzyme Complex in Arabidopsis Flavonoid Biosynthesis" AU00
Richard Vierstra Cellular and Molecular Biology Program and the Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison "How Do Cells Turnover Proteins? Role of the Ubiquitin/26S Proteasome Proteolytic Pathway" AU00
Joanne Chory
(together with the PMBB Distinguished Speaker Series)
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Plant Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute, La Jolla, San Diego "Steroid Hormones in Plant Development" AU00
Clayton L. Rugh Department of Crop & Soil Science, Michigan State University "Phytoremediation with Transgenic Plants - Detoxification of Mercury Contamination." AU00
Sakis Theologis
(invited through the PMBB Distinguished Seminar Speaker series)
PGEC, Albany, CA "Plant hormone action and genomics" SP00
David Francis Dept. of Horticulture and Crop Sciences, OSU Wooster "A two mechanism hypothesis for resistance to Bacterial Canker (Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis) in tomato." SP00
Hector Flores Penn State University "Rainbows Underground; Interfacing root biology, biochemistry and indigenous farmers" SP00
John Gray Dept. of Biology, University of Toledo "Lesion Mimics as a Resource for Identifying Stress Response/Cell Death Genes in Plants" SP00
Bob Sharrock University of Montana "Phytochromes in Arabidopsis - a plant photoreceptor family" SP00
Mike Seibert National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden CO "A New Algal Hydrogen-Production System " SP00
Steve Tanksley (invited through the PMBB Distinguished Seminar Speaker series) Department of Plant Breeding, Cornell University "Application of Genomics to the Identification, Utilization and Cloning of Economically Valuable Genes from Wild Germplasm" SP00
Lien B. Lai OSU, Dept. of Plant Biology "Regulation of Cell-Specific Expression of C4 Photosynthetic Genes in Flaveria: A Comparative Study" SP00
Thomas Peterson Iowa State University "Organ-specific expression and epigenetic regulation of the P gene, a model Myb in maize" SP00
Jun Wang OSU, Dept. of Plant Biology "On the Chlz in Photosystem II Reaction Center" SP00
John Browse
(Waller lecturer)
Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University "Academia, Industry and the Future of Plant Biotechnology" "Arabidopsis Mutants Reveal Many Roles for Polyunsaturated Lipids in Plants" SP00
Mandy Walker Cambridge University (UK) "Two gene families regulate both leaf hair initiation and anthocyanin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis and common stock" SP00
Venkat Gopalan Department of Biochemistry, OSU "RNase P-based disruption of gene