| Fall Term 2013 |
| October 2, 2013 | William Muller
Department of Biochemistry
McGill University, Quebec, Canada
Oncogene-mediated signal transduction in transgenic models of breast cancer
Host: Siva Kolluri |
| October 16, 2013 | Steve DiFazio
Department of Biology
West Virginia University
Population Genomics of Populus trichocarpa
Host: Steve Strauss |
| October 30, 2013 | Jamie Cate
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley
From Neurospora to yeast: Pathways to sustainable biofuels
Host: Jon Galazka |
| November 13, 2013 | Vladimir Botchkarev
Boston University
Epigenetic regulation of Keratinocyte differentiation and reprogramming
Host: Arup Indra |
| Winter Term 2014 |
| January 8, 2014 | Vanessa Sperandio
Department of Microbiology
UT Southwestern Medical Center
EHEC sings: Pour some sugar on me
Host: Luiz Bermudez |
| January 22, 2014 | Trent Northen
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Metabolic dark matter: mass spectrometry explorations of bacterial metabolism
Host: Steve Giovannoni |
| February 5, 2014 | John Taylor
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Population genomics of fungi: divergence, adaptation and genome wide association
Host: Joey Spatafora |
| February 19, 2014 | Nick Grishin
Department of Biochemistry
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Is bioinformatics beyond BLAST useful?
Host: Andy Karplus |
| March 5, 2014 | Weihong Qiu
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
Shining Light on the Mechanism of Molecular Motor Proteins |
| Spring Term 2014 |
| April 2, 2014 | Robin Buell
Department of Plant Biology
Michigan State University
Exploring the diversity of wild and cultivated potato through genomics
Host: Elizabeth Savory |
| April 16, 2014 | Nancy Keller
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Insights into the fungal secondary metabolome
Host: Joey Spatafora |
| April 30, 2014 | No seminar |
| May 14, 2014 | Eric Nielsen
Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology
University of Michigan
The roles of CSLD proteins in polarized cell wall deposition in Arabidopsis
Host: Valerian Dolja |
May, 21, 2014Special Seminar3:30 – 4:30 pm
Crop Science Bldg
Room 122
| Biswarup Mukhopadhyay
Department of Biochemistry
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Development of biological sulfate reduction and thioredoxin systems and methanogenic archaea |
| May 28, 2014 | Colin Johnson
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics
Oregon State University
The Emerging Roles of the Ferlin Family of Proteins in Membrane Trafficking and Human Disease |