The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc.   Plant Biology Division: Activities Archive 2004
 
Presentations By and Activities of Plant Biology Staff
  2004  
  January 5-
February 2  		 Hongye Li conducted research at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
  January 9-24 Luis Felipe Chavarria from the Area Conservacion Guanacaste, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, visited Marilyn Roossinck's lab.
  January 10-13 Greg May, Robert Gonzales, Lahoucine Achnine and Marina Naoumkina attended the Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, CA.
  January 19 Rick Dixon visited Horticulture Research International, Wye, UK, to discuss research on hops and collect research materials.
  January 20-21 Rick Dixon visited the Noble Laboratory, University of York, UK.
  January 26-27 The Consortium for Alfalfa Improvement (scientists from Noble, Forage Genetics International, University of Minnesota, and the US Dairy and Forage Research Center, Madison, WI) met for research discussions at the Foundation Conference Center.
  February 9-10 Rick Dixon visited the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and presented a seminar to the North Carolina Plant Molecular Biology Consortium.
  February 10-12 Bob Gonzales and Dennis Walker attended the NIRS Annual Conference, Madison, WI.
  February 17 Rick Dixon attended a meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board, Chromatin Inc, Chicago, IL.
  February 19 Lloyd Sumner was an Invited Speaker at Michigan State University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, East Lansing, MI.
  February 29-March 3  

Rick Nelson gave an invited seminar at the University of Wisconsin, Department of Plant Pathology, Madison, WI.
  March 2 Rick Nelson was an invited speaker at the University of Wisconsin, Plant Pathology Department, Madison, WI.
  March 5 Rick Dixon, Lloyd Sumner, Greg May, Naved Aziz, Aaron Elmer, Marina Naoumkina and Zarir Vaghchhipawala visited the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, VA, for discussions on the joint NSF Plant Genome Project.
  March 6-8 Elison Blancaflor presented at the ASPB Southern Section Meeting, Lafayette, Louisiana.
  March 10 Elison Blancaflor gave an invited seminar to the Department of Botany, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK.
  March 12 Lloyd Sumner visited OSU, Stillwater, OK, for the OK EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement (II) Competition.
  March 19 XinShun Ding was an invited speaker at the Ohio State University, Department of Plant Pathology, Columbus, Ohio.
  March 27-
April 2  		 Lloyd Sumner gave an invited presentation to the Society of Experimental Biology, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  April 1 Rick Dixon presented a breakfast talk on Agricultural Biotechnology to members of the Congressional Agriculture and Agricultural Appropriations Committees, Washington, DC.
  April 8 Marilyn Roossinck spoke at the Noble Foundation Public Lectures in Science series in the Kruse Auditorium.
  April 13 Rick Dixon presented a poster at the OCAST Annual Health Research Conference, Oklahoma City.
  April 16-18 The Noble Foundation Mini- Virology Retreat was held at the Conference Center and Kruse Auditorium.
  May 11-13 Professor Pierre Broun, University of York, visited the Plant Biology Division for research discussions.
  May 11-16 Xianzhi He attended the XVth International Plant Protection Congress, Beijing, China.
  May 12 The Oklahoma Bionet Mini Symposium was held at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK.
  May 13 The EPSCoR Meeting was held at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK.
  May 18-19 Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the USDA ARS National Program Workshop on Plant Biological and Molecular Processes, St. Louis, MO.
  May 18-20 Marilyn Roossinck was an invited speaker at the 5th International Symposium on Plant Pathology and Biotechnology, Hangzhou, China.
  May 20-23 Elison Blancaflor was an invited speaker at the 15th Penn State Symposium in Plant Physiology on The regulation of plant growth, State College, PA.
  May 21 Rick Dixon attended the quarterly scientific advisory board meeting, Chromatin Inc., Chicago, IL.
  May 22-26 Gail Shadle, Lisa Jackson, Million Tadege and Younsing Kwak attended the World Congress on In Vitro Biology, May 22-26th, San Francisco, CA.
  May 23-28 David Huhman, Zhentian Lei and Lloyd Sumner attended the American Society for Mass Spectrometry annual meeting in Nashville, TN.
  May 26-June 1 Xinshun Ding and Palani Karuppaiah attended the 7th International Symposium on Positive-Strand RNA Viruses meeting, San Francisco, CA.
  June 1-5 Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the Third International Congress on Plant Metabolomics, Ames, Iowa; Lloyd Sumner presented and was a conference organizer.
  June 5-8 Xiaoqiang Wang attended the 10th International Conference on the Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules, Beijing, China.
  June 7-11 Kiran Mysore was an invited speaker at the Second International Conference on Legume Genomics and Genetics, Dijon, France.
  June 9-11 Corey Broeckling attended the MIMS Summer Workshop on Modeling Metabolic Dynamics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
  June 13-18 Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at the Gordon Research Conference, Salt and Drought Stress in Plants.
  June 14-16 Greg May gave a symposium presentation at the AAAS Agriculture Genomics Meeting, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.
  June 27-July 2 Ping Xu attended the Gordon Research Conference on Plant Senescence, South Hadley, MA.
  July 1-31 Rick Dixon was on sabbatical at the Center for Novel Agricultural Products, University of York, UK.
  July 2 Rick Dixon visited Gallileo Inc, Sheffield, UK, for research discussions on plant natural products from cell cultures, and to present a seminar.
  July 9-14 Rick Nelson, Marilyn Roossinck, Mark Taylor, Justin Pita, Luis Marquez and Saeed Irian attended and presented at the American Society for Virology Conference, Montreal, Canada.
  July 12 Rick Dixon visited Metanomics Inc and the Max Planck Institute for Plant Physiology, Berlin, Germany, for research discussions and to present a seminar.
  July 12-15 Elison Blancaflor participated in an International grant review panel for NASA and the space agencies of Europe, Japan and Canada, Washington, DC.
  July 24-28 Elison Blancaflor chaired a mini-symposium; Rujin Chen and Hong-Liang Wang were invited speakers at the American Society of Plant Biologists Annual Meeting, Lake Buena Vista, FL, Hwa-Soo Shin, Jack Blount, Stephanie Rogers, Christy Motes, Li Tian, Yuh-Shuh Wang, Jianzhong Liu, Choong-Min Ryu, Srinivasa Reddy, Ajith Anand, Aaron Elmer, Bonnie Watson, Bryna Donnelly and Yuanji Zhang presented posters.
  July 31-August 5 Bettina Deavours and Mohamed Farag attended and presented at the 2004 International Congress on Natural Products Research, American Society of Pharmacognosy, Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona.
  Jul 31-August 5 Ping Xu, Li Kang and Tony Cole attended and presented at the American Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA.
  August 1-6 Marilyn Roossinck presented a symposium talk at the Ecological Society of American annual meeting in Portland, Oregon.
  August 4-6 Lloyd Sumner, Rick Dixon, Greg May and Pedro Mendes hosted the "Noble-VBI-NSF Plant Proteomics Workshop", Ardmore, OK.
  August 7-14 Marilyn Roossinck visited collaborators in Seattle, WA.
  August 8-11 Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker and participant of the Soy 2004 meeting, Cellular and Molecular Biology of the Soybean Conference, Columbia, MO.
  August 9 Rick Dixon, Greg May, Joe Bouton, Steven Rhines, Deyu Xie, Srinu Reddy, and Shashi Sharma attended a meeting of the consortium for Alfalfa Improvement, US Dairy and Forage Research Center, Madison, WI.
  August 12-13 Lloyd Sumner presented an invited seminar, Sigma-Aldrich Chemical Company, Plant Biotechnology Initiative, St. Louis, MO.
  August 13-17 Kiran Mysore and Ajith Anand were invited speakers at the 25th Crown Gall Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
  August 17-21 Rick Nelson co-organized and spoke at the 2004 Plasmodesmata Conference, Asilomar Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA. Nobumitsu Sasaki presented a poster.
  August 20 Rick Dixon attended a meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board, Chromatin Inc., Chicago, IL.
  August 23-26 Rick Dixon was a keynote speaker and Deyu Xie attended the Tannin Symposium, American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
  August 31-Sept. 2 Marilyn Roossinck attended an organizational meeting for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) on the Ecology of Infectious disease, Baltimore, MD.
  September 2 Rick Dixon and Greg May visited Halliburton Technology Center for discussions regarding Guar biotechnology, Duncan, OK.
  September 3 Marilyn Roossinck instructed a Postdoc Seminar Training Class.
  September 8 Rick Dixon was the featured speaker at Meet the Scientist, a series designed to introduce OK business leaders and investors to research ongoing in the state, Presbyterian Health Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK.
  September 8-10 Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at the Phytochemical Society of Europe meeting, Pulawy, Poland.
  September 15 Million Tadege presented a seminar to the Ethiopian Agricultural Research Organization (EARO) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  September 15-16 Rick Dixon, Greg May, Rick Nelson, Rujin Chen, Kiran Mysore, Lloyd Sumner and Xiaoqiang Wang attended the second Annual Noble/York retreat, University of York, York, UK.
  September 16 Million Tadege presented a seminar at the Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  September 21-24 Rick Dixon was a plenary speaker discussing genomics and nutraceuticals at the Plant Genomic European Meeting, Lyon, France. Saeed Irian attended.
  October 7 Elison Blancaflor was an invited speaker at the Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.
  October 18-19 Kiran Mysore was an invited speaker at a symposium on Plant-Microbe Interactions, Kamakura, Japan.
  October 20 Rick Dixon gave the Dermot P. Coyne Lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
  October 21 Kiran Mysore presented an invited seminar at Okayama University, Osaka, Japan.
  October 21-23 Rick Dixon was the Keynote Speaker at the Regional Plant Physiology Meeting, Reno, Nevada.
  October 21-24 Marilyn Roossinck hosted the Virus Evolution Workshop at The Noble Foundation.
  October 29-31 Rick Dixon attended the Annual Review of Plant Biology Editorial Meeting.
  October 30-Nov. 2 Marilyn Roossinck attended the Fungal Genetics Meeting.
  November 1 Elison Blancaflor presented a seminar to the School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.
  November 9 Elison Blancaflor attended the NASA Principal Investigator meeting, New York City, NY.
  November 9-12 Forage Improvement, Plant Biology and Agricultural Division Non-Resident Fellows visited for a review of divisional programs.
  November 9-12 Cheolmin Yoo presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology, New York City, NY.
  November 12 Lloyd Sumner, Patrick Zhao and Yuanji Zhang attended the OKBIOS First Annual Symposium, ACGT facilities, Norman, OK.
  November 18 Lloyd Sumner presented an invited talk at the Oklahoma Section of the American Chemical Society, Ardmore, OK.
  November 18-19 Dr. Stephen Temple, Forage Genetics International, visited the Foundation for discussions with Plant Biology and Forage Improvement Division researchers on alfalfa improvement.
  November 19-Dec. 31 Dr. Yi Li, Peking University, Beijing, China, conducted research in Rick Nelson's laboratory studying virus movement in plants, completing a Collaborative project funded through a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to Dr. Li and administered by The Noble Foundation.
  November 30-Dec. 2 Joe Bouton and Mary Sledge, Greg May, Steve Rhines and Eddie Funderburg attended a USDA Forage and Native Legume Customer Workshop, Chicago, IL.
  December 1-2 Greg May attended a USDA Forage and Native Legume Customer Workshop, Chicago, Il.
  December 8-14 Shashi Sharma attended the Cold Spring Harbor Workshop on Plant Genomes: From Sequence to Phenome, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
  December 12-15 Lloyd Sumner attended and presented at Metabolomics-Pathways in Discovery Conference, Lake Buena Vista, FL.
  December 13-14 Rick Dixon was a speaker at the National Science Foundation workshop on Realizing the Vision: Leading Edge Technologies in Biological Systems, Washington, DC.
  December 14-16 Greg May attended a Cross-Legume Advances through Genomics Conference, Santa Fe, NM.
  December 16 Lloyd Sumner gave an invited presentation at Space Life Sciences, Kennedy Space Center and the University of Florida, KSC, FL.
  December 17 Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at the Environmental Horticulture Graduate Student Association, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
     
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