| Presentations By and Activities Of Plant Biology Staff
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| 2001 |
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| January 4 |
Dr. Bruce Roe, University of Oklahoma, visited the Plant Biology Division
for discussions on Medicago truncatula genomic sequencing. |
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| January 11-12 |
Rick Dixon, Maria Harrison, Jinyuan Liu and Greg May attended the Medicago
truncatula satellite meeting at the Plant and Animal Genome Meeting,
San Diego. |
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| January 12 |
Rick Nelson visited Large Scale Biology, Vacaville, CA and gave a presentation.
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| January 13-17 |
Jinyuan Liu and Thomas Oh attended the Plant and Animal Genome Meeting,
San Diego. |
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| January 19 |
Rick Dixon sat on the PhD defense committee of graduate student Isabelle
Salles, OU, Norman. |
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| January 22-23 |
Maria Harrison hosted a Medicago truncatula transformation workshop
at the Noble Foundation. Participants are from the United States and Europe.
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| February 2-4 |
Maria Harrison attended the MPMI Editorial Board – Minneapolis,
MN |
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| February 7-9 |
Nancy Paiva served on a USDA SBIR grant review panel – Washington,
DC |
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| February 8-9 |
Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at Virginia Polytechnic University
– Blacksburg, VA |
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| February 27 |
Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at the Department of Molecular
and Cellular Biology – University of Texas at Austin |
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| March 1 |
Maria Harrison presented a seminar for the Department of Botany and Microbiology,
Oklahoma University |
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| March 1 |
Rick Dixon attended the Scientific Advisory Board meeting of David Michael
and Co., Philadelphia, PA, to present a report on the research project of
vanillin biosynthesis in his lab that is funded by Dr. David Michael |
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| March 2 |
Rick Dixon gave a research seminar at the Department of Horticulture’s
Faculty Retreat, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN |
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| March 2 |
Maria Harrison participated in a student Ph.D. thesis examination at
TAMU, College Station, TX |
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| March 9 |
Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at Texas Women’s University,
Denton, TX |
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| March 14-18 |
Maria Harrison was a plenary speaker at the Fungal Genetics conference,
Asilomar, California |
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| March 15 |
Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at the Danforth Center, St. Louis,
Missouri |
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| March 18-29 |
Rick Nelson presented seminars at Peking University, Beijing, China and
at the Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming, China |
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| March 19 |
Maria Harrison was in the lab of Dr. Doug Cook, research collaborator,
University of California in Davis |
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| March 19-22 |
Kim Spiering attended the Conviron Service & Maintenance Seminar,
Winnipeg, Canada |
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| April 5-7 |
Maria Harrison attended the New Phytologist Editorial Board meeting,
London, UK. |
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| April 6-11 |
Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the Keystone Symposium on Plant
Foods for Human Health, Breckenridge, Colorado. Nancy Paiva presented a
talk and Chang-Jun Liu presented a poster at the Keystone Symposium. |
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| April 8-12 |
Maria Harrison will participate in a NSF grant panel, Washington, D.C
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| April 16-17 |
Drs. Ken Korth (University of Arkansas) and Seiichi Matsuda (Rice University)
visited the Plant Biology Division for research discussions with Rick Dixon’s
group. |
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| April 24 |
Nancy Paiva presented an invited seminar at UCLA, Department of Biology.
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| April 27-29 |
The Noble Foundation hosted the 10th Annual Virology Mini-Retreat. |
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| May 2 |
Mike Cawley, Rick Dixon and Steve Rhines visited the Clayton Foundation,Houston,
TX, for discussions on future potential interactions with Noble in the area
of plant products and human health. |
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| May 7-8 |
Maria Harrison presented a seminar in the Division of Biological Sciences,The
University of Montana, Missoula, MT. |
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| May 7-9 |
New Plant Biology Non-Resident Fellow Professor Virginia Walbot [Stanford
University] visited the Plant Biology Division for research discussions
and to present a seminar. |
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| May 10-13 |
Yiming Bao attended the Plant Sciences Institute Symposium, Iowa StateUniversity,
Ames, Iowa. |
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| May 21-22 |
Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the BBSRC workshop on Plant Natural
Products, University of Warwick, UK. |
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| May 27-31 |
Lloyd Sumner, Victor Asirvatham and David Huhman attended the 49th ASMS
Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Chicago, IL. |
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| May 28-June 2 |
XinShun Ding and Martin Yassi attended the 6th International Symposium
on Positive Strand RNA Viruses, Paris, France. |
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| June 6-7 |
Scientists and management from Forage Genetics International visit ed
the Plant Biology Division for discussions with Rick Dixon and Nancy Paiva
in relation to current and proposed sponsored research projects. |
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| June 9-23 |
Marilyn Roossinck was in the lab of Dr. Rusty Rodriguez, Northwest Biological
Center, Seattle, Washington, for collaborative research. |
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| June 16-20 |
Maria Harrison was an invited speaker at the 2001 Congress on In Vitro
Biology, St. Louis, Missouri. |
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| June 19-21 |
Rick Dixon presented a seminar on "Private Foundation-University
Interactions" at the Meeting of the North Central Section of the American
Phytopathological Society, Manhattan, Kansas. |
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| July 5-13 |
Wayne Versaw, Heungsop Shin, Liming Zhao and Huda Mussa participated
in the 3rd International Congress on Mycorrhizas, Adelaide, Australia.
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| July 6-10 |
Lloyd Sumner, Gail Shadle, Nancy Paiva, Hideyuki Suzuki, Lisa Riner,
Christy Boydston and Deyu Xie attended the Medicago truncatula satellite
meeting, Madison, WI. |
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| July 6-15 |
Maria Harrison was a Co-organizer and speaker at the 4th Medicago
truncatula workshop and was a Plenary session speaker at the 10th
International Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, Madison,
WI. Jinyuan Liu also presented at both meetings. |
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| July 10-15 |
Marilyn Roossinck, Ping Xu and Xinshun Ding attended the 10th
International Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, Madison,
WI. |
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| July 8-21 |
Chang-Jun Liu attended the Plant Biochemistry Course, Washington State
University, Pullman, WA. |
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| July 16 |
Rick Dixon was a lecturer at the Plant Biochemistry Course, Washington
State University, Pullman, WA. |
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| July 20-26 |
Elison Blancaflor, Dianjing Guo, Chuansheng Mei, Bonnie Watson, Lloyd
Sumner, Parvathi Kota, XianZhi He, Jack Blount and Laura Blaylock attended
the American Society of Plant Physiologists Meeting, Providence, RI. |
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| July 21-25 |
Marilyn Roossinck, Mark Taylor, Bill Schneider, Ping Xu, Shujun Yang
and Yiming Bao attended the American Society of Virology Conference, Madison,
WI. |
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| July 29-Aug 3 |
Marilyn Roossinck attended the Gordon Research Conference, Williams,
Massachusetts. |
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| August 2-3 |
Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at the Mid-Atlantic Plant Molecular
Biology Society Meeting, Laurel, MD. |
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| August 4-8 |
Rick Dixon was the organizer of the Phytochemical Society of North America
2001 Conference, Oklahoma City, OK. Invited Speakers, Poster Presenters
and attendees were Rick Dixon, Greg May, Lloyd Sumner, Nancy Paiva, Lahoucine
Achnine, Victor Asirvatham, Fang Chen, Tony Duran, Dianjing Guo, XianZhi
He, David Huhman, Parvathi Kota, Galina Kourteva, Chang Jun Liu, Chuansheng,
Shashi Sharma, Hideyuki Suzuki, Bonnie Watson, Deyu Xie, Naveed Aziz, James
Enis, Scotty McGill, and Marilyn Nance. |
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| August 11-13 |
Liming Zhao presented a seminar at Purdue University, West Lafayette,
Indiana. |
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| August 11-16 |
Maria Harrison and Wayne Versaw attended the Plant Membrane Biology Meeting,
Madison, WI. |
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| August 17 |
Maria Harrison presented a seminar at Torrey Mesa Research Institute,
San Diego, CA. |
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| August 20-24 |
Rick Nelson was an invited speaker at the Plasmodesma 2001 Conference,
Capetown, South Africa. |
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| August 25-29 |
Rick Nelson presented at the American Phytopathological Society National
Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT. |
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| September 1 |
Marilyn Roossinck hosted a visiting scientist, Dr. Reza Hajimorad for
a three month sabbatical. |
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| September 1-7 |
Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the Brazilian Society for Plant
Physiology meeting, Ilheus, Bahia, Brazil. |
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| September 8-12 |
Zeji Du attended the Frontiers in Transcriptome Exploration, San Diego,
CA. |
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| September 10-12 |
The Plant Biology Division Non-Resident Fellows will visit the Foundation
for a review of the Plant Biology program. |
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| September 10-12 |
Elison Blancaflor visited the lab of Dr. James Stewart, Department of
Crop, Soil and Environmental Science, University of Arkansas, to conduct
collaborative research work on cotton development. |
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| September 14-19 |
Maria Harrison was a keynote speaker at the Molecular Genetics of Model
Legumes meeting, Golm, Germany. |
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| September 20-21 |
Maria Harrison presented a seminar at the Institute of Plant Biochemistry,
University of Halle, Germany. |
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| September 20-22 |
Rick Dixon attended the NSF Plant Genome Grant Awardees meeting in Washington,
DC. |
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| October 1 |
Rick Nelson was an invited seminar speaker at the University of Arkansas-Little
Rock, AK. |
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| October 4-5 |
Rick Dixon was a lecturer in the Plant Molecular Biology/Biotechnology
Distinguished Speaker series, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. |
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| October 22 |
Rick Dixon and Greg May were invited speakers at the CSSA annual meeting,
Charlotte, NC. Chuansheng Mei presented a poster. |
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| October 27-30 |
Rick Dixon was the keynote speaker and a session chair at the X National
Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants, LaPaz, Mexico.
Maria Harrison was an invited speaker and session chair. Greg May was an
invited speaker and Lahoucine Achnine and Gary Dewbre presented posters.
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October 31-
November 1 |
Judy Grider and Karen Flowers attended the Floriculture
College of Knowledge Course, Lansing, Michigan. |
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| November 3-4 |
Rick Dixon attended the Board Meeting of Annual Review of Plant Physiology
and Plant Molecular Biology, Seattle, WA. |
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| November 7-11 |
Elison Blancaflor attended the 17th annual meeting of the American Society
for Gravitational and Space Biology, Alexandria, VA. |
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| November 12-13 |
Robert Gonzales attended the Bioscience Research and Technology Review
Day, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. |
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| November 15 |
Rick Dixon gave an invited seminar in the Department of Botany and Microbiology,
University of Oklahoma. |
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| November 18-23 |
Maria Harrison was an instructor at the EMBO Conference on Medicago
truncatula, Paris, France. |
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| December 3-4 |
Lloyd Sumner participated in the Metabolic Profiling Conference,Chapel
Hill, NC. |
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| December 4-8 |
Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at an International Workshop on Metabolomics
Approaches in Plant Functional Genomics at the Kazusa Academia Center, Chiba,
Japan. |
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| December 14 |
Maria Harrison presented a seminar at Carnegie Institute, Stanford, CA.
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