Plant Biology Division: Activities Archive 2005

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	2005
	January 15-19	Greg May, Lloyd Sumner, Kiran Mysore, Patrick Zhao, Rujin Chen, Yuanji Zhang, Guangming Li and Bob Gonzales attended and presented at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference, San Diego, CA.
	January 26	Elison Blancaflor presented a seminar to the Biology Department, Oklahoma Christian University, Oklahoma City, OK.
	February 7	Feb Pierre Broun, University of York, visited the Plant Biology Division for research discussions.
	February 10-11	Rick Dixon attended the Scientific Advisory Board meeting, Chromatin Inc, Chicago, IL.
	February 15-16	The Consortium for Alfalfa Improvement, consisting of scientists from The Noble Plant Biology and Forage Improvement Divisions, the US Dairy and Forage Research Center (Madison, WI) and Forage Genetics International (W. Lafayette, Wisconsin), held its be-annual meeting at the Noble Foundation.
	February 16	Patrick Zhao hosted a GeneSpring analysis training session, Kruse Auditorium.
	February 19	Lloyd Sumner presented an invited seminar, Metabolomics: A tool for gene discovery, hypothesis building, and mechanistic understanding, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
	February 21-22	Rick Nelson was an invited speaker at the New dimensions of RNA in Cellular Functions, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
	March 3	Lloyd Sumner participated in a Review Panel RFA-ES-04-008: Metabolomics: Application to Environmental Health Research, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
	March 10-11	Rick Dixon, Lloyd Sumner, Patrick Zhao, Greg May, Zhentian Lei and Mohamed Farag visited the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, VA, for research discussions concerning the joint VBI/Noble/NSF Plant Genome Grant.
	March 15-17	Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the Plant Metabolomics session of the American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. He also be visited with Drs. Joe Noel, Salk Institute, and Sekhar Bodduppali, Galileo Pharmaceuticals Inc, concerning collaborative research projects in plant natural products.
	March 23-24	Rick Dixon presented the Loomis Lecture, and a separate talk, in the endowed talk/mini-symposium series at Iowa State University held in the memory of Plant Physiologist, Walter E. Loomis.
	March 29-31	Rick Dixon presented an invited talk on isoflavonoid phytoestrogens at an international meeting on Natural Preservatives in Foods, Princeton, NJ.
	April 1	Lahoucine Achnine presented an invited seminar at East Tennessee State University, Johnston City, TN.
	April 1-3	Rick Nelson organized the Noble Virology Mini-retreat, Noble Conference Center and Kruse Auditorium. The invited speakers were Drs. Michael Milgroom, Martin Dickman, Masayuki Ishikawa, Yuichiro Watanable, Biao Ding and Vicki Bowman Vance.
	April 5	Rick Nelson presented an invited seminar at the University of Washington, St. Louis.
	April 5-8	Million Tadege gave an oral presentation at the 2nd Australian Model Legume Workshop, Rottnest Island Perth, Western Australia.
	April 5-19	Li Tian attended the Protein Purification & Characterization Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
	April 20-23	Lahoucine Achnine attended and presented at the Terpnet 2005 Conference, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
	April 21	Lloyd Sumner provided an invited presentation on Medicago truncatula proteomics as part of a Proteomics Workshop and Symposium (http://www.danforthcenter.org/symposia/proteomics/) hosted by the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and sponsored by NSF Plant Genome.
	April 25-30	Kiran Mysore was an invited speaker at the World DNA & Genome Day Conference, Dalian, China.
	April 26	Lloyd Sumner hosted Dr. Tim Smith, SOSU, and his Instrumental analysis class from Southeastern Oklahoma State University. This included a lecture on biological mass spectrometry, tour and demonstrations of mass spectrometry based instrumentation at the Noble Foundation.
	April 26-27	Rick Dixon visited the Noble Laboratory, University of York, for research discussions.
	April 27-30	Greg May and Ping Xu attended and presented at the Genomics & Beyond: Frontiers in Plant Biology - Plant Biochemistry Symposium, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
	May 1	Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Texas at Austin.
	May 2-4	Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at the Metabolomics Workshop: Techniques – Data Processing – applications, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
	May 9	Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at the Institute of Food Research, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom.
	May 13	Rick Dixon was an invited seminar speaker at a the University of California, Davis.
	May 17-20	Elison Blancaflor was an invited speaker at the First Symposium on Plant Neurobiology, Florence, Italy.
	May 18	Patrick Zhao was an invited speaker at UC Davis: Plant Genomics and Bioinformatics: from Genome to Phoneme.
	May 20	Rick Dixon attended the Scientific Advisory Board meeting of Chromatin Inc, Chicago, IL.
	May 24	Rick Nelson and Xinshun Ding visited their collaborators, Drs. Il-Ryong Choi and Hei Leung, at the International Rice Institute at Los Banos. The collaboration is funded by USAID and involves the optimization of a functional genomics system using a virus that infects rice. Rick Nelson also presented an invited seminar while in Los Banos, Phillippines.
	May 25-June 15	Marilyn Roossinck worked in the research lab in Costa Rica.
	June 2-5	Hongliang Wang attended the Meristems 2005 Conference, Ames, Iowa.
	June 5-9	Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the International Model Legume Conference, Asilomar, CA. Greg May, Rujin Chen, Patrick Zhao and Hongliang Wang attended.
	June 5-9	Lloyd Sumner gave an oral presentation at the Metabolomics session of the 53rd ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry, San Antonio, TX. David Huhman and Zhentian Lei attended.
	June 8-12	Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at the 5th Symposium on Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Plant Gene Expression, University of Texas at Austin.
	June 12-14	Rick Nelson and Xinshun Ding attended the Rice Coordinated Agricultural Project Meeting (USDA funded research) in Little Rock, AR.
	June 14-16	Xinshun Ding was an invited speaker at the RiceCAP Marker Assisted Breeding Workshop, Stuttgart, AR
	June 15-19	Rujin Chen and Li Kang attended the 16th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Madison, WI.
	June 16-17	Marilyn Roossinck participated in an NIH Study Section, Washington, DC.
	June 18-22	Rick Nelson was an invited speaker at the Plant Virology Club Satellite Symposium of the American Society for Virology National meeting. Attending the ASV National meeting were Rick Nelson, Marilyn Roossinck and Ping Xu.
	June 20-23	Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker and chaired the Plant Metabolomics session at the Metabolomics Society Meeting, Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.
	June 24	Rick Dixon attended a Scientific Advisory Board meeting at Chromatin Inc., Chicago, IL.
	July 2-6	Greg May was an invited speaker at the Aberystwyth Satellite Workshop of the XX International Congress, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom.
	July 4-13	Rick Dixon was on sabbatical leave at the Noble laboratory, University of York, UK.
	July 5	Lloyd Sumner presented a lecture and demonstration for the Noble Scholars and OSP Teachers, Weighing molecules and The Large-scale Biochemical Analysis of Plant Proteomes and Metabolomes.
	July 10-15	Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker and Srinivasa Reddy, Fang Chen and Li Tian attended the Gordon Research Conference, Plant Metabolic Engineering, Tilton, NH.
	July 16-21	Gail Shadle, Lisa Jackson, Shelly Carter, Christy Motes, Jianzhong Liu, Patrick Zhao, Changming Ye, Rujin Chen, Marina Naoumkina, Ji He and Cheolmin Yoo attended and presented at the American Society for Plant Biologists Annual Conference, Seattle, WA.
	July 16-22	Elison Blancaflor, Rick Nelson and Lloyd Sumner were invited speakers at the 12th International Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, Cancun, Mexico. Keri Wang and Ajith Anand presented posters.
	July 17-20	Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the International Botanical Congress, Vienna, Austria.
	July 21	Rick Dixon visited BASF Plant Sciences, Limburgerhof, Germany.
	July 23-28	Xinshun Ding, Nobumitsu Sasaki and Jianzhong Liu attended and presented at the International Union of Microbiological Societies, San Francisco, CA.
	July 20-Aug. 3	Rick Nelson and Marilyn Roossinck gave invited talks at the American Phytopathological Society Annual Conference, Austin, TX.
	August 1-2	Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at the NIH-sponsored Standards Workshop for Metabolomics, Bethesda, MD.
	August 1-3	Rick Dixon attended the Phytochemical Society of North America annual meeting, La Jolla, CA and acted as session chair. Jack Blount and Xianzhi He attended and presented.
	August 3-4	Rick Dixon, Lloyd Sumner, Rujin Chen, Patrick Zhao, Xiaoqiang Wang and Elison Blancaflor spoke at the Noble Foundation/Salk Institute Retreat, La Jolla, CA.
	August 3-8	Fang Chen participated in the Plant Wall biosynthesis Meeting, Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA.
	August 5-7	Kiran Mysore, Ajith Anand and Zarir Vaghchhipawala will be attended and presented at the 26th Crown Gall Conference, Bloomington, Indiana.
	August 11-20	Marilyn Roossinck was on sabbatical conducting research in Liberia, Costa Rica.
	August 15 -26	The Mysore Lab conducted a large scale Medicago truncatula mutant screening at the Foundation. Several people from different universities and countries participated in this workshop.
	August 17-18	Rick Dixon attended the Consortium for Alfalfa improvement meeting, Madison, WI.
	August 18-19	Rick Dixon attended the Chromatin In. Scientific Advisory Board meeting, Chicago, IL.
	Aug. 28-Sept 1	Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at the American Chemical Society National meeting, Chemical Biology Division of the ACS, Washington, D.C. Session topic was Studying the Metabolome.
	September 9	Rick Nelson presented an invited seminar at the University of Oklahoma in the Department of Botany and Microbiology.
	September 13	Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the Oklahoma BioLife Science Symposium, Oklahoma City.
	September 21-24	Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at Umeå Plant Science Centre, Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden.
	September 24-25	Marilyn Roossinck attended the American Society for Virology Council Meeting, New York, NY.
	October 8	Rick Dixon attended the editorial board meeting of Annual review of Plant Biology, Vancouver, BC.
	October 10-12	Plant Biology Division Non-Resident Fellow review.
	October 16-18	Noble Foundation Plant Biology/University of York annual retreat.
	October 25-27	Rick Dixon and Lloyd Sumner were speakers at the Medicago Genomic Function and Response to Biotic Stress symposium, Ardmore Convention Center.
	Oct 31-Nov 4	Rick Nelson hosted the USDA RiceCAP-Sponsored Workshop on Virus Induced Gene Silencing and Stable RNAi in Rice.
	November 1-5	Elison Blancaflor presented at the American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology Meeting, Reno, NV.
	November 10	Lloyd Sumner presented an invited guest lecture Metabolomics – methods and applications in Functional Genomics course at OSU, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
	November 15	Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at a plant cell wall seminar, USDA, Albany, CA.
	November 16-18	Lloyd Sumner and Rick Dixon hosted a Noble/NSF.VBI Integrated Functional Genomics Workshop.
	November 19-23	Rick Nelson spoke at the USAID Linkage Program Collaborative Projects Review Meeting. Nelson attended and Xinshun Ding presented at the 5th International Rice Genetics Symposium and Third International Rice Functional Genomics Symposium, Manila, Philippines.
	November 19-23	Yuhong Tang attended the 3rd Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics, Seattle, WA.
	November 20-27	Rick Dixon was on sabbatical leave at the Noble Laboratory, Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, University of York, UK.
	November 29-30	Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at a Society of Chemical Industry meeting on Plants as Factories for Active Compounds, London, UK.
	December 7	Rick Dixon and Lloyd Hildebrandt (Inoveon, OKC) hosted a meeting to discuss the interface between plant and biomedical science, PHF, OKC. Rick Dixon, Lloyd Sumner and Steve Rhines will be giving presentations.
	December 14-19	Rick Nelson, Elison Blancaflor, Kiran Mysore, Ajith Anand, Keri Wang, Ewa Urbanczyk-Wochniak and Ping Xu attended and presented at the XII International Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions Congress, Merida, Mexico.
	December 19-20	Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the American Chemical Society "Pacifichem" meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii.

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