Presentations By and Activities of Plant Biology Staff
2009
January 10-14
Michael Udvardi, Jarrod Steele, Prasenjit Saha, Patrick Zhao and Xinbin Dai will be attending and presenting at the 2009 Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, CA
January 26-27
Rick Dixon, Yongzhen Pang and Jian Zhao will present at the Consortium for Alfalfa Improvement bi-annual meeting with scientists from Forage Genetics and the US Dairy and Forage Research Center, Madison, Wi. The meeting will be at the Noble Foundation
February 2
Rick Dixon is an invited speaker at the University of Tennessee /Oak Ridge National Laboratory course "Current Topics in Bioenergy Science", Knoxville, TN. His presentation is entitled "Lignin biosynthesis and its manipulation for the development of dedicated bioenergy crops"
February 8-10
Rick Dixon is an invited speaker at the joint USDA-DOE Plant Feedstock Genomics for Bioenergy investigator meeting, Bethesda, MD. His presentation is entitled "Systematic modification of monolignol pathway gene expression for improved lignocellulose utilization"
February 11-14
Marilyn Roossinck will participate in a NIH Study Section, Washington, DC
February 15-17
Rick Dixon is an invited speaker at the International Association of Plant Biotechnology meeting, Napier, New Zealand. His presentation is entitled "Proanthocyanidin biosynthesis and engineering in Medicago"
February 16-20
Marilyn Roossinck is hosting the Phylogenetics Course at the Noble Foundation
February 17-19
Lloyd Sumner is an invited speaker at the University of California, Davis
February 18-19
Rick Dixon will visit AgResearch, Palmerston North, New Zealand
February 23-26
Rujin Chen and Lab will organize and host an annual community-oriented Medicago FNB mutant screen workshop as part of an NSF funded project at the Noble Foundation
February 27-28
Rick Dixon will attend the University of Alabama/Purdue University Botanicals Center Annual Symposium and Scientific Advisory Board meeting, West Lafayette, IN
February 27
Michael Udvardi is an invited speaker at Texas Women's University, Denton, TX
March 4
Rick Dixon will speak at a Plant Molecular Biology symposium, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
March 12
Marilyn Roossinck will present an invited seminar at the University of Texas, Austin, TX
March 20
Marilyn Roossinck will present an invited seminar at NCGR, Santa Fe, NM
March 23-27
Lloyd Sumner, David Huhman, and Mohamed Bedair will be hosting a regional metabolomics workshop and mini symposium
March 25-27
Jiyi Zhang will participate in the 2009 Joint Genome Initiative User Meeting, Walnut Creek, CA
March 25 - April 16
Plant Biology & Forage Improvement Divisions will be hosting 10 SOTC Biotechnology Students as part of a laboratory mentorship program every Wednesday and Thursday from 12:45-3:30 pm
March 31 - April 1
Kiran Mysore, Yuhong Tang and Avinash Srivastava will be attend the Oklahoma EPSCoR Annual State Conference 2009, Oklahoma City. Kiran will also be presenting at the EPSCoR Biofuel grant External Advisory Boaed meeting.
April 7-8
Marilyn Roossinck is an invited speaker at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
April 9
Rujin Chen will present an invited seminar at the Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
April 9-14
Nikki Charlton will travel to North Carolina State University to receive the Nusbaum Scholar Award, Raleigh, NC
April 17-19
Marilyn Roossinck will host the 18th Annual Noble Virology Retreat to be held on our Noble Campus.
April 21-23
Marilyn Roossinck is an invited speaker at the Plant Virus Ecology Network (PVEN) Conference (Invited speaker of Oklahoma State University), Venice, Italy
April 24
Elison Blancaflor will present an invited seminar to the Plant Biology Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
May 12-13
Rick Dixon will attend the bi-annual meeting of the National Research Council Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Washington, DC
May 18-21
Patrick X. Zhao and Haiquan Li will attend RECOMB 2009, the 13th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, Tucson, Arizona
May 24-27
Rick Dixon is a keynote speaker at the 2nd International Glucosinolate Conference, Elsinore, Denmark. His talk is entitled "Engineering of plant natural products- an overview"
May 27-28
Michael Udvardi is an invited speaker at the University of Missouri, 26th Annual Interdisciplinary Plant Group Symposium, Columbia, Missouri
May 31 - June 4
Lloyd Sumner, Zhentian Lei, Mohamed Bedair and David Huhman will attend and present at the 57th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry, Philadelphia, PA
June 7-8
Lloyd Sumner is an invited speaker at the In Vitro Biology Conference, Charleston, South Carolina. Hee-Kyung Lee will attend and present a poster
June 13-25
Elison Blancaflor will attend the Live Cell Microscopy Course, Vancouver, Canada
June 14-16
Michael Udvardi is an invited speaker at the 16th International Congress on Nitrogen Fixation, Big Sky, Montana. Jeremy Murray and Alex Valentine will be attending and presenting posters
June 21-22
Lloyd Sumner is an invited guest at The University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center, Madison, WI
June 21-25
Fang Chen & Xiaofei Cheng will attend the International Conference on Molecular Systems Biology, Shanghai, China
June 22-24
Rick Dixon, Kelly Craven, Hiroshi Hisano, Rangaraj Nandakumar, Rick Nelson, Hema Ramanna, Malay Saha, Hui Shen, Tim Hernandez, Zengyu Wang, Yuhong Tang, Junying Ma, Avinash Srivastava, Jiyi Zhang and Jiading Yang will attend the 3rd BESC Conference, Ashville, NC
July 8-10
Clemencia Rojas will attend and present at the Plant ROS 2009, Helsinki, Finland
July 11-15
Marilyn Roossinck, Ping Xu, Justin Pita and Presenjit Saha will attend and present at the 2009 American Society for Virology Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada
July 12-16
Rujin Chen and Rajasekhara Duvvuru Muni are invited speakers; Catalina Pislariu, Jianling Peng, Jiangqi Wen, Vagner Benedito, Million Tadege, Lloyd Sumner, Patrick Zhao and Xinbin Dai will attend and present at the 2009 Model Legume Congress, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA
July 12-17
Elison Blancaflor and Rick Dixon are invited speakers at the Plant Metabolic Engineering Gordon Conference in Waterville Valley, NH. Dr. Dixon's talk is entitled "Manipulating transcription factors for plant quality trait enhancement". Xianzhi He, Guoan Shen and John Snyder will be presenting posters
July 17-23
Rick Dixon is a session co-organizer and invited speaker; Elison Blancaflor is an invited speaker at the minority Affairs Committee (MAC) Symposium; 2009 ASPB Conference, Honolulu, HI. Cheol-Min Yoo is chairing a mini-symposium and presenting a talk. Yongzhen Pang, Marina Naoumkina, Rujin Chen, Kim Ballard, Sumana Bhat, Satish Nagaraj, Li Quan, Avisnash Srivastava, Julia Dyachok, Lloyd Sumner, Patrick Zhao, Xinbin Dai, Rakesh, Kaundal, Jianghua Chen, Rui Zhou, Junying Ma and Haiquan Li will present posters.
July 19-23
Xinshun Ding, Kiran Mysore, Ajith Anand and Zarir Vaghchhipawala will be attending and presenting at the IS-MPMI Conference, Quebec, Canada
July 19-24
Marilyn Roossinck is an invited speaker at the GRC Cell-Cell Fusion Conference; From Natural History to Molecular Physics and Medical Applications; Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
July 25-30
Xiaoqiang Wang will be attending the 2009 Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association (ACA), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
August 1-5
Rick Nelson will accept the APS Fellow election, Kiran Mysore is an invited speaker, Rao Uppalapati will chair a session on Molecular Mechanisms of Host Susceptibility, Nikki Charlton and Sita Ghimire will attend and present at the American Phytopathological Society Conference, Portland, OR
August 2-7
Rick Dixon is an invited speaker at the GRC "Plant Cell Walls" Conference, Smithfield, RI. Lina Gallego-Giraldo, Yuhong Tang, Qiao Zhao, Huanzhong Wang, Luis Escamilla-Trevino and Hui Shen will attend and present
August 8-12
Vaishali Sharma will attend and present at the PSNA Conference, Baltimore, Maryland
August 9-14
Dong Sik Yang will attend and present at the GRC "Floral & Vegetative Volatives" Conference, Oxford, UK
August 9-16
Michael Udvardi is an invited speaker and Mustafa Morsy and James Susaimuthu will attend and present at the 6th International Symbiosis Society Congress, Madison, WI
August 10-11
Rick Dixon and Rick Nelson will attend a BESC Budget and Planning meeting, Atlanta, GA
August 25-26
Rick Dixon will participate in the bi-annual meeting of the Consortium for Alfalfa Improvement, Madison, WI
August 30 - September 3
Lloyd Sumner will attend, present and co-organize The 5th Annual International Conference of the Metabolomics Society, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
September 1-4
Kelly Craven will participate in The Fungal Cell Conference, Dundee, Scotland
September 5-8
Kelly Craven is an invited speaker at the Centro Hispano-Luso de Investigciones Agrarias (CIALE), Madrid Spain
September 8-11
Michael Udvardi is an invited speaker at the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and their Impact on Plant Nutrition Conference, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
September 8-13
Kelly Craven will participate in the 7th International Meeting on Yeast Apoptosis, Graz, Austria
September 10-12
Kiran Mysore and Patrick Zhao are invited speakers at the Plant Genome Awardee Meeting, Arlington, VA.
September 23-25
Rujin Chen will present an invited seminar at the 11th Annual Fall Symposium at the Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO
September 25 - October 2
Marilyn Roossinck will attend the JGB Editorial Board Meeting and is an invited speaker at the Darwin & Tree of Life Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland and is an invited speaker the Conférences Jacques Monod Conference, "Understanding emeragence of infectious diseases: focus on New Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Virus Evolution", Roscoff, France. Justin Pita will also attend the Conférences Jacques Monod
September 29
Rick Dixon and Vaishali Sharma will attend the annual Scientific Advisory Board Meeting of the NIH CERC Alzheimer's Center, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, New York
