PMB Seminars
PMB Seminars Spring 2012
| Date | Speaker / Topic | Host |
|---|---|---|
| 1/18 | Jian-Kang Zhu, Purdue University (p) "Dynamic Regulation of DNA Methylation in Arabidopsis" | Renee Sung |
| 1/25 | Sarah Stanley, University of California, Berkeley (m) Cancelled | Daniel Portnoy |
| 2/1 | Daniel S. Rokhsar, University of California, Berkeley (JGI) (p) "Old Fashioned Genetics with New Fangled Tools" | Peggy Lemaux |
| 2/8 | Derek Lovley, University of Massachusetts Amherst (m) "Artificial Photosynthesis and Other Electromicrobiology Strategies for Producing Biofuels" | John Coates |
| 2/10 | Jennifer D. Lewis (p) Plant Gene Expression Center Special Seminar Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, 101 Barker, noon "Arabidopsis innate immunity and the HopZ family of effector proteins" | Special Seminar |
| 2/15 | Alice Barkan, University of Oregon (p) "Toward a Mechanistic Understanding of the Roles of Pentatricopeptide Repeat Proteins in Organellar Gene Expression" | Sheila McCormick |
| 2/22 | D. Lee Taylor, University of Alaska Fairbanks (m) "6 Million Species of Fungi? Evidence for Fine-Scale Niche Partitioning and Plant-Driven Partner Choice Underlying Microbial Hyper-Diversity in Interior Alaska." | Tom Bruns |
| 2/29 | Cyril Zipfel, Sainsbury Laboratory at Norwich, UK (p) "Receptor Kinase-Mediated Immunity in Plants" Buchanan Lecture | Becky Bart |
| 3/7 | Don Bryant, Pennsylvania State University (m) "The phylum Chlorobi: Unexpected diversity among the green chlorophototropic bacteria revealed by Genomics, Metagenomics, and Metatranscriptomics" Arnon Lecture | Bob Buchanan |
| 3/14 | Doris Wagner, University of Pennsylvania (p) "Regulation of Reproductive Development in Arabidopsis Thaliana" | Jennifer Fletcher |
| 3/21 | Edward F. DeLong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (m) "Structure and Function in Natural Microbial Communities : A Transcriptomic Perspective" Cancelled | Kimmen Sjolander |
| 4/4 | Katie Dehesh, University of California, Davis (p) "From oxylipins to Retrograde Signaling" | Renee Sung |
| 4/11 | Scott C. Dawson, University of California, Davis (m) "Molecular Architecture and Functioning of Ventral Disc, a Complex Microtubule Structure, in the parasite Giardia Lamblia" | Michi Taga |
| 4/18 | Marilyn Roossinck, Pennsylvania State University (p) | Chelsea Specht |
| 4/25 | Peter Sarnow, Stanford University (m) "Subversion of a Liver-Specific MicroRNA by Hepatitis C Virus" | Britt Glaunsinger |
Download a Spring 2012 seminar poster (8.5 x 14 PDF).
Plant Gene Expression Center Seminars Spring 2012
The Plant Gene Expression Center hosts seminars throughout the year. The schedule is below and can also be found at pgec.usda.gov
| Date | Speaker | Lab Affiliation/ Host |
|---|---|---|
| 1/12 | Mona Monfared | Fletcher Lab |
| 1/19 | Devin O'Connor | Hake Lab |
| 1/26 | Hua Jiang | McCormick Lab |
| 2/2 | Yu Zhang | Quail Lab |
| 2/9 | Weimin Ni | Quail Lab |
| 2/16 | Dr. Matthew Hudson, University of Illinois | Peter Quail |
| 2/23 | Feng Li | Baker Lab |
| 2/23 | Nathalie Bolduc | Hake Lab |
| 3/1 | Jutta Roesler | Quail Lab |
| 3/8 | Dale Aromdee | Hake Lab |
| 3/22 | Brandon Celaya | Harmon Lab |
| 4/5 | Anne Pfeiffer | Quail Lab |
| 4/19 | Aaron Sluis | Hake Lab |
| 4/26 | Claire Bendix | Harmon Lab |
| 5/3 | Jennifer Nemhauser, University of Washington | Jennifer Fletcher |
Graduate Student & Postdoc Seminars
In addition, students and postdocs host regular seminars to share research and information. Please check the PMB home page for regular updates.
Special Seminars, Endowed Lectures
The department hosts several seminars and endowed lectures throughout the academic year. Endowed lectures are paid for with private funds invested and held by the Regents of the University. The Daniel I. Arnon Lecture was established with resources from the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. The endowment also supports graduate students who are designated Arnon Fellows. The Bob B. Buchanan and Harry Tsujimoto Lectures were established with a generous gift from the K/T Foundation of San Francisco.
Arnon Lecture
The Arnon Lecture honors the late Professor Daniel I. Arnon (1910-1994). Arnon spent his career at Berkeley, obtaining his Ph.D. in plant nutrition with Dennis R. Hoagland and later joining the faculty. He is best known for his pioneering research in the fields of photosynthesis and plant nutrition. His career is recounted in a memoir written for the National Academy of Sciences. The lecture is held annually in early March. Speakers have made distinguished contributions to photosynthesis or a related field and are selected by the Arnon Lecture Committee.
| 2000 | Paul D. Boyer | 2001 | George H. Lorimer |
| 2002 | Bob B. Buchanan | 2003 | Jan M. Anderson |
| 2004* | Jean-David Rochaix | 2004* | F.R. Whatley |
| 2005 | Joanne Chory | 2006 | William A. Cramer |
| 2007 | Achim Trebst | 2008 | James Barber |
| 2009 | Elisabeth Gantt | 2010 | Arnon Centennial Symposium at Asilomar** |
| 2011 | Jürgen Soll | 2012 | Don Bryant |
Buchanan Lecture
The Bob. B. Buchanan Lecture honors Professor Bob B. Buchanan, a longtime faculty member in the department, who also serves as Executive Associate Dean of the College of Natural Resources. Professor Buchanan did undergraduate work at Emory and Henry College and obtained a Ph.D. in Microbiology from Duke University. After completing postdoctoral research with the late Professor Jesse C. Rabinowitz in the Department of Biochemistry, Buchanan joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1963. He is known for his contributions to microbiology, photosynthesis and plant biochemistry.
Speakers are typically young investigators on the way to achieving prominence in plant biology. They are selected by postdoctoral scholars in the Department of Plant & Microbial Biology.
| 2001 | Peter Schrümann | 2001 | Kenneth Cline |
| 2002 | Henry Daniell | 2003 | Julian Schroeder |
| 2005 | Jim Carrington | 2005 | Steve Kay |
| 2007 | Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar | 2008 | Jen Sheen |
| 2009 | Steve Jacobsen | 2010 | Dominique Bergmann |
| 2011 | Xuemei Chen | 2012 | Cyril Zipfel |
Tsujimoto Lecture
The Tsujimoto Lecture honors Harry Y. Tsujimoto, an accomplished former Berkeley staff member. He did undergraduate work at Cornell University and obtained an M.S. in plant nutrition from UC Berkeley. Daniel Arnon was his thesis advisor. Tsujimoto spent 25 years as a member of the Arnon research group where he participated in major discoveries on photophosphorylation and ferredoxin. Graduate students select the speaker, a recognized individual in plant biology or microbial biology.
| 2001 | Christine Foyer | 2002 | Jen Sheen |
| 2002 | Kelly Dawe | 2003 | Rob Martienssen |
| 2004 | Massimo Pigliucci | 2005 | Luca Comai |
| 2007 | Craig Pikaard | 2007 | Brandon Gaut |
| 2009 | Elizabeth Arnold | 2010 | Mary Rumpho |
| 2010 | Nicolas Money | 2011 | Patrick Keeling |
Other Seminars on Campus:
Nutritional Science and Toxicology
Structural Biology Series, College of Chemistry
Henry Wheeler Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases
Environmental Science and Policy Management, College of Natural Resources