Plant Biology Division: Activities Archive 2000

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Plant Biology Division: Activities Archive 2000


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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.
May 1	Maria Harrison will began a six-month sabbatical at the National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
May 16-18	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.

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