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PCMB Seminar Schedule

All Students, Faculty and Visitors are Welcome
Where:	Room 155, 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..

Spring 2009
Date	Speaker
April 16, 2009 NOTE: This lecture will take place in Jennings Hall, Room 001 at 3:30pm. The lecture will be videolinked to the OSU Wooster Campus.	Adolph E. Waller Memorial Lecture Xinnian Dong Department of Biology, Duke University "Dissection of Plant Immune Signaling Network" Dr. Dong's Web Site Host: PCMB Graduate Students
April 17, 2009 NOTE: This lecture will take place at 3:30pm in room 150 of the Younkin Success Center.	Adolph E. Waller Memorial Lecture Xinnian Dong Department of Biology, Duke University "What does it take to have a career in science?" Dr. Dong's Web Site Host: PCMB Graduate Students
April 30, 2009 NOTE: This lecture will take place at 4:00pm in room 518A of the James Cancer Hospital & Solove Research Institute-372 (JA).	Christine Queitsch Department of Genome Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington "Phenotypic robustness and variation: molecular mechanisms and evolutionary impact" Dr. Queitsch's Web Site Host: David Somers
May 7, 2009 NOTE: This lecture will take place at 4:00pm in room 155 Jennings Hall.	Eva Farre Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University "Morning expressed PRRs and the regulation of the Arabidopsis circadian clock" Dr. Farre's Web Site Host: David Somers
May 14, 2009 NOTE: This lecture will take place at 4:00pm in room 155 Jennings Hall.	Ursula Goodenough Washington University "Basal Sexual Strategies: Sexual differentiation, haploid-diploid transitions, and uniparental inheritance of organelle genomes" Dr. Goodenough's Web Site Host: Patrice Hamel
May 14, 2009 NOTE: This lecture will take place at 11:00am in room 170 of the Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute.	Jim Murray Cardiff University (UK) "Control of cell division in plant growth and development: The role of D-type cyclins" Dr. Murry's Web Site Host: Xidian Xie

Revised: 5-may-09

PCMB NEWS

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]

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