GDCB Department Brown Bag Seminars

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Spring 2009 Seminars

Wednesdays, 12:00 noon
1102 Molecular Biology Building
Unless otherwise noted

March 4, 2009
TBD

March 11, 2009
Curtis Mosher
"The Nano eNabler: A Molecular Printer at the Carver Lab"
Description: The Carver Lab in MBB has acquired a new instrument, the NeN for short. I will be discussing how it can be used to deposit fempto- to attoliter quantities of materials in almost any pattern and on a variety of surfaces. I will also touch on how the NeN is being used in research today.

March 25, 2009
Eric Henderson
"Heretical Approach To Acquiring Research Funding"
Description: I will discuss a proposal for how we might bridge the schism between academia and "industry" to our, and humanity's, immense benefit.

April 1, 2009
Marianne Hopkins
"Intrinsic Variation in Plants: Not just another Sex Scandal"

April 8, 2009
Bing Yang
"HOST GENE EXPRESSION FOR DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY IN RICE BACTERIAL BLIGHT"

April 15, 2009
Clark Coffman
"Germ Cell Migration and Death: Studies of a G Protein-Coupled Receptor and New Strategies to Address Old Questions"

April 22, 2009
Yanhai Yin
"Signaling Pathways Promoting Plant Growth: Brassinosteroids and Beyond"

April 29, 2009
Erik Vollbrecht
"Transposon mutagenesis and inflorescence development in maize"

May 6, 2009
Jeff Essner
Description: endothelial tube formation in vivo