Past presentations by and activities of Plant Biology staff
2000
January 7-8
Maria Harrison participated in a NSF grant meeting, San Diego,
CA.
January 8
Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at a Symposium on Metabolic
Engineering to be held at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces.
January 9-12
Jinyuan Liu, Benjamin Dugdale and Greg May attended the Plant
and Animal Genome VIII Conference, San Diego, CA.
January 11
Nancy Paiva presented a seminar at Bionova (DNAP) in Oakland,
CA.
February 1
Rick Dixon and Tom Stasz visited Du Pont, Wilmington, DE,
for research and licensing discussions.
February 2
Rick Dixon and Tom Stasz visited Novartis, Research Triangle
Park, NC, for research and licensing discussions.
February 9-11
Rick Nelson presented an invited seminar at Texas A&M
and visited various departments.
February 12-16
Bob Gonzales attended the Southeast Deer Study Group Meeting,
Wilmington, NC.
February 21-27
Rick Dixon and Maria Harrison were co-organizers, and Session
Chairs, at the Monsanto/Noble Foundation Keystone Symposium on Signals and
Signal Perception in Biotic Interactions in Plants, Taos, NM.
March 1-3
Maria Harrison presented seminars at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI in the Agronomy and Botany/Plant Pathology Departments.
March 4-10
Yongqing Liu attended the "New Frontiers in Plant Science &
Plant Biotechnology Symposium", Toulouse, France.
March 6-7
Rick Dixon and Tom Stasz visited Forage Genetics, West Salem,
Wisconsin, for discussions on collaborative research.
March 12-17
Lloyd Sumner attended and recruited at the Pittsburgh Conference
on Analytical Chemistry, New Orleans, LA.
March 13-15
Rick Nelson presented a seminar at the University of California,
Davis.
March 16-17
Rick Dixon attended the Scientific Advisory Board meeting,
Akkadix Inc., San Diego, CA.
March 20-25
Ann Harris attended a Perkin-Elmer BioSystems workshop, San
Francisco, CA.
March 23-30
Wayne Versaw attended the European Conference on Fungal Genetics
5 Conference, Arcachon, France.
March 26-29
Nancy Paiva presented a talk entitled "Genetic Engineering
to Improve Attributes of Crop Plants" at the American Chemical Society Meeting,
San Francisco, CA.
March 26-30
Rick Dixon was an invited speaker for two symposiums at the
American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
March 28-29
Marilyn Roossinck presented and lectured and comducted a seminar
at Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX, on Virus evolution.
April 3-6
Nancy Paiva served on the USDA Grant Panel, Washington, DC.
April 4-5
Marilyn Roossinck presented a seminar at Thomas Jefferson University,
Philadelphia, PA.
April 7-9
Maria Harrison attended a New Phytologist Editorial Board Meeting,
Aberdeen, Scotland.
April 7-9
Plant Biology 9th Annual Virology Retreat.
April 10-13
Maria Harrison was an invited speaker at the Biochemical Society
Meeting, "Moving molecules through membranes," Leeds, England.
April 12
Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at the Department of
Chemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
April 17
Lloyd Sumner presented a lecture at OSU, Stillwater, over metabolite
profiling as part of a metabolism class being taught by John Cushman.
April 19
Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at the Department of
Biochemistry, OSU, Stillwater, OK.
April 20
Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at OMRF, OKC.
April 21
Nancy Paiva presented a lecture at OSU, Stillwater, as part
of the biochemistry course, "Metabolism and Metabolic Engineering".
April 25
Rick Dixon visited the Department of Plant Science, University
of Nottingham, UK, for Research discussions.
April 26
Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at the John Innes Center,
Norwich, UK.
April 28
Rick Nelson presented a seminar at University of North Texas,
Denton.
Jinyuan Liu attended the "Development & Use of Soybean Microarrays for
Global Expression & Functional Genomics", Urbana, Illinois.
May 17-19
Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the Agricultural Genomics 2000 Conference,
"New Technologies, Functions and Advances in Plant Biotechnology", San Diego,
CA
May 18-20
Christian Dammann attended the 13th Annual Penn State Symposium
in Plant Physiology, State College, Pennsylvania.
May 30-June 4
Marilyn Roossinck attended and presented at the RNA Society
Conference, Madison, WI.
June 8-11
Madan Bhattacharyya attended a Grant Writing Seminar, Iowa
State University, Ames, Iowa.
June 10-16
Lloyd Sumner and David Huhman attended and presented at the
48th American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference, Long Beach, CA .
June 10-15
Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the 2000 Congress on
In Vitro Biology, San Diego, CA.
June 15-16
Rick Dixon attended the Scientific Advisory Board Meeting,
Akkadix, Inc., San Diego, CA
June 17-24
The following employees attended the 6th International Congress
of Plant Molecular Biology, Quebec, Canada: Greg May, Angela Scott, Ivonne
Torres-Jerez, Nancy Paiva, Suparna Mundodi, Hwa-Soo Shin, Bonnie Watson,
Yiming Bao, Bill Schneider, Ping Xu, XianZhi He, Parvathi Kota, Fang Chen,
Dianjing Guo, Rick Nelson, Ning-Hui Cheng, Christian Dammann, Wing-Ming
Chou, Yongqing Liu, Heungsop Shin and Huda Mussa.
June 20-29
Maria Harrison participated in the Molecular Genetics of Model
Legumes Conference, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK.
July 7-12
Judy Grider and Janie Gallaway attended the Ohio Florists
Association Short Courses, Columbus, Ohio.
July 8-12
Marilyn Roossinck, chaired a session on Virus Evolution, and
Martin Yassi, Yiming Bao, Bill Schneider and Ping Xu attended the American
Society of Virology Conference, Fort Collins, CO.
July 15-20
Jack Blount, Gary Dewbre, Dianjing Guo, Chang-Jun Liu, Elison
Blancaflor, Laura Blaylock, Liming Zhao, Ning-Hui Cheng and Suparna Mundodi
attended the American Society of Plant Physiologists Conference, San Diego,
CA.
July 15-19
Nancy Paiva, John Cooper and Elizabeth Flatt attended the
North American Alfalfa Improvement Conference, Madison, WI.
July 23-27
Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the Society for Industrial
Microbiology, San Diego, CA.
July 27
Nancy Paiva participated in the External Advisory Board Meeting
for the Center For Dietary Supplement Research Botanicals Center at UCLA.
August 5-10
Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the annual meeting of
the Phytochemical Society, at which he became President of the Society through
August 2001.Nancy Paiva was an invited speaker; Teresita Flores and Galina
Kourteva also attended the meeting.
August 9-10
Greg May was a part of the External Review for the National
Pacific Laboratory, Department of Energy, Pasco, Washington.
August 12-16
Elison Blancaflor attended the Microscopy and Microanalysis
2000 Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
August 12-16
Rick Nelson, XinShun Ding, Shelly Carter and Rodolfo Acosta-Leal
attended the American Phytopathological Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
August 13-19
Maria Harrison was a plenary session speaker at the Third International
Congress on Symbiosis, Marburg, Germany.
August 24
Greg May participated in scientific research discussions at
the National Center for Genome Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
August 28 -
September 1
Marilyn Roossinck visited the laboratory of collaborator, Rusty
Rodriguez, at the Northwest Biological Sciences Center, Seattle, Washington.
September 5
Rick Nelson visited the University of Arkansas, Ken Korth Ð
Plant Pathology, and presented a seminar entitled "Virus Accumulation and
Movement: A Model for Understanding Host Macromolecule Accumulation and
Movement".
September 6-8
Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the European Conference
on the Nutritional Enhancement of Plant-Based Foods, John Innes Centre,
Norwich, UK.
September 13-15
Rick Dixon was a Keynote Speaker at the Meeting of the Cereal
Grains Consortium, Kansas City, MO.
September 20-22
The Plant Biology Division's Non-Resident Fellows were in Ardmore
for a review of the Division's programs.
September 25-27
Steve Cox attended a Radiation Safety Training Symposium, New
Orleans, LA.
October 5
Lloyd Sumner presented a research seminar at the Department
of Botany and Microbiology, Oklahoma University.
October 5-6
Maria Harrison presented a seminar and had research discussions
with Dr. Yair Schacar-Hill at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.
October 7
Noble/OU/OSU hosted the Molecular Plant Biology Conference
for researchers at the Myriad Convention Center, Oklahoma City.
October 16
The IAAP Executive Appreciation Luncheon was hosted by Noble
members at the Pavilion. Donna Windel was featured as the guest speaker.
October 20
Maria Harrison presented a research seminar at National Center
for Genome Research, Santa Fe, NM.
October 20
Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at the University of
Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.
October 26
Rick Dixon, Greg May, Nancy Paiva and Lloyd Sumner visited
the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, for research discussions.
November 1-3
Greg May presented seminars and attended research discussions
at the University of Delaware and Rutgers University, Newark, DE and New
Brunswick, NJ.
November 2
Robert Gonzales attended the Biotechnology Program Advisory
Board for Oklahoma City Community College in OKC.
November 2-3
Rick Dixon visited Professor Charlie Arntzen, Arizona State
University, for discussions on nutraceutical research.
November 4-19
Ignacio Maldonado-Mendoza and Melina Lopez-Meyer from CIIDIR,
Sinaloa, Mexico, conducted research work in Plant Biology.
November 13
Marilyn Roossinck presented a seminar at University of California
at Davis.
November 15
Marilyn Roossinck presented a seminar at University of California
at Berkeley.
November 17
Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at University of North
Texas, Denton.
November 28-29
A group from Forage Genetics Inc., Land of Lakes and USDA Dairy
Research Laboratory, Madison, WI, visited the Plant Biology Division for
research discussions.
November 29-30
Chloe Zubieta, Structural Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute,
visited Rick Dixon's group for research discussions.
December 3
Maria Harrison was an Invited Speaker at the International
Symposium of the Mycological Society of Japan, Tokyo.
December 1-7
Marilyn Roossinck presented at the International Conference
on double-stranded RNA viruses, Aruba.
December 6-8
Rick Dixon attended the Akkadix Scientific Advisory Board Meeting,
LaJolla, CA.
December 6-8
Rick Nelson was an invited speaker at the International Business
Communications meeting on "Agricultural Genomics: Agricultural Product
Development in the Post-Genome Era", Coral Gable, FL.
December 13
Rick Dixon visited the Danforth Center, St. Louis, MO, for
research discussions.
December 22
Rick Dixon visited Professor Edward Cocking, University of
Nottingham, UK, for collaborative research discussions.
