Washington State University
Molecular Plant Sciences
Seminar Series
Molecular Plant Sciences Graduate Program
Fall 2018 Seminar Series (MPS 515)
Seminars are held each Wednesday at 12:10 p.m in Bryan Hall 305, unless otherwise noted.
| Date | Location | Speaker | Seminar Title | Title & Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 22 | Bryan Hall 305 | MPS GSO student meeting | ||
| Aug. 29 | Bryan Hall 305 | Cancelled | ||
| Sept. 5 | Bryan Hall 305 | Philip Bates | "Defining the Plant Lipid Metabolic Network and Identifying Bottlenecks to Oil Engineering: What Determines Fatty Acid Flux?" | Assistant Professor, Institute of Biological Chemistry - WSU |
| Sept. 12 | Bryan Hall 305 | Lee Hadwiger | “The activation of plant defense genes by fungal and other signals that target the host DNA or chromatin directly” | Emeritus Professor, Plant Pathology, WSU |
| Sept. 19 | Bryan Hall 305 | Scott Carle | "Sailing the Tidal Wave - Tools for Using Marker Data in Crop Breeding" | MPS PhD Candidate, Crop and Soil Sciences |
| Sept. 26 | Bryan Hall 305 | Cancelled | | |
| Oct. 3 | Bryan Hall 305 | Rachael DeTar | “Chloroplast Ion Homeostasis: New Insights into Organelle Function using a Systems Biology Approach”. | MPS Graduate Student |
| Oct. 10 | Bryan Hall 305 | Jennifer Lachowiec | “Understanding Mechanisms of Phenotypic Robustness” | Assistant Professor, Plant Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Montana State University |
| Oct. 17 | Bryan Hall 305 | Craig Pikaard | "Mechanisms of selective gene silencing" | Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Distinguished Professor and Carlos O. Miller Professor, Department of Biology and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University |
| Oct. 24 | Bryan Hall 305 | Jordan Zager | “Regulation of Terpenoid Biosynthesis in Secretory Cell Types” | MPS PhD Candidate, Institute of Biological Chemistry |
| Oct. 31 | Bryan Hall 305 | Cancelled | ||
| Nov. 7 | Bryan Hall 305 | Julia Bailey-Serres | "Plants, Oxygen and Water Extremes" | Director, Center for Plant Cell Biology (CEPCEB), Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, Professor of Genetics, Botany and Plant Sciences University of California - Riverside |
| Nov. 14 | Bryan Hall 305 | Erika Kruse | "Quantitative Quirks: Selection for Snow Mold Tolerance in Winter Wheat" | MPS PhD Candidate, Crop and Soil Sciences |
| Nov. 21 | University break | No Seminar | ||
| Nov. 28 | Bryan Hall 305 | OPEN | ||
| Dec. 5 | Bryan Hall 305 | OPEN |
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