| Plant Biology Division: Activities Archive |
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| Presentations By and Activities of Plant Biology Staff | ||
| 2008 | ||
| January 11-17 | Michael Udvardi, Andry Andriankaja, Patrick Zhao, Yuhong Tang, Jarrod Steele, Xinbin Dai, Rakesh Kaundal, Marilyn Roossinck and Rick Dixon will be attending the International Plant and Animal Genome XVI Conference, San Diego, CA. Rick Dixon will present two invited talks, on lignin biosynthesis and genetic improvement of bioenergy crops. | |
| January 16 - February 6 | Marilyn Roossinck will be conducting research at the Costa Rica Lab, Liberia, Costa Rica | |
| February 7-8 | The Consortium for Alfalfa Improvement (with representatives from NF Plant Biology and Forage Improvement Divisions, Forage Genetics International, University of Wisconsin and University of Minnesota) will meet at the Foundation for their bi-annual meeting. | |
| February 14-17 | Marilyn Roossinck is an invited speaker at the NEON-Microbial Biology Workshop, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA | |
| February 18-19 | Rick Dixon, Luis Escamilla-Trevino, Michael Udvardi, Jiyi Zhang, Yuhong Tang and Rick Nelson will attend the DOE Bioenergy Sciences Center annual retreat at Townsend, TN | |
| February 23 | Lloyd Sumner will receive a Cameron University Distinguished Alumni 2007 Award and will attend the award luncheon in Lawton, OK | |
| February 24 | Rick Dixon will attend the OCAST Plant Science Program grant review meeting, Oklahoma City | |
| February 26 | Rick Dixon is an invited seminar speaker at the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Texas, Austin | |
| March 6-7 | ByoungEun Min will present a talk at the NSF EPSCoR Meeting, Oklahoma City, OK | |
| March 9-14 | Rick Dixon is an external reviewer of the research programs at AGResearach, Palmerston North and HortResearch, Auckland, New Zealand | |
| March 19-21 | Marilyn Roossinck and Rick Nelson will be attending the Plant Virus Ecology Coordination Network Workshop, East Lansing, Michigan | |
| March 20 | Rick Dixon is an invited seminar speaker at the Michael Smith Laboratory (Biotechnology), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada | |
| March 26-28 | Lloyd Sumner will present an invited seminar at the University of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC | |
| March 31 - April 3 | Marilyn Roossinck is an invited speaker at the Society of General Microbiology 162nd Meeting; (Journal of General Virology Editorial Board Meeting), Edinburgh, Scotland | |
| March 31 - April 3 | Marilyn Roossinck is an invited speaker at the Society of General Microbiology 162nd meeting & Journal of General Virology Editorial Board Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland | |
| April 4-9 | Kelly Craven and Nikki Charlton will attend the 90th European Conference on Fungal Genetics: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland | |
| April 10-11 | Rick Dixon will visit the University of New Hampshire, College of Life sciences and Agriculture, to present a seminar in the "Dean's visionary seminary" series | |
| April 14-16 | Marilyn Roossinck is will present an invited seminar at the University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN | |
| April 18-20 | Rick Nelson will host the annual Noble Foundation Virology Retreat; Noble Conference Center, Ardmore | |
| April 24-25 | Rick Dixon will present a research seminar at the Center for Chemical Ecology, Penn State University, University Park, PA | |
| April 26 | Rick Dixon will attend the Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, at which he will be inaugurated into the Academy | |
| April 26-28 | Marilyn Roossinck is a symposium speaker at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Phytopathological Society of Japan; Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, Japan | |
| May 2-3 | Rick Dixon will be attending a meting of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| May 20-21 | Rick Dixon and Lloyd Sumner are invited speakers at a Symposium on "Secondary Metabolism: Good Things Made in Plants" at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN | |
| May 22-23 | Lloyd Sumner is an invited speaker at the University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI | |
| June 1-5 | Lloyd Sumner, David Huhman, Mohamed Bedair, Zhentian Lei and Narumon Sawasdipuksa will attend and present at the 57th American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference, Denver, CO | |
| June 3 | Rick Dixon, Kiran Mysore and Michael Udvardi will speak at the National Alfalfa Improvement Congress, Ardmore | |
| June 3 | Ajith Anand will present an invited seminar at the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India | |
| June 5 | Ajith Anand will present an invited seminar at the Monsanto Research Corporation, Bangalore, India | |
| June 6 | Ajith Anand will present an invited seminar at the Metahelix Life Sciences, Banhgalore, India | |
| June 8-10 | Guodong Wang is an invited speaker at the 1st International Conference on Plant Secondary Metabolism, Kunming, China | |
| June 9-11 | Fang Chen will be attending the 3rd Plant Cell Wall Biosynthesis Meeting, Asilomar Conference Facility, Pacific Grove, CA | |
| June 14-18 | Elison Blancaflor and Fang Chen are invited speakers at the In Vitro Biology Conference, Tucson, Arizona. Elison's talk will be entitled "Microscopy tools for the Plant Biologist" . Fang's talk will be entitled "Genetic Manipulation of Lignin Biosynthesis to Improve Biomass Characteristics for Agro-Industrial Processes" | |
| June 15 | Rick Dixon is a Plenary Speaker at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists, Ottowa, Canada. His talk will be entitled "Lignin modification for improvement of dedicated bioenergy crops" | |
| June 16-18 | Marilyn Roossinck will serve on a NIH panel, Washington, DC | |
| June 18-20 | Fang Chen will attend the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Workshop, Golden, CO | |
| June 22-25 | Jiyi Zhang will attend the Pan American Congress on Plants and BioEnergy 2008, Mérida, Mexico | |
| June 25-30 | Jack Blount, Xianzhi He and Yongzhen Pang will attend and present at the Phytochemical Society of North America Conference, Pullman, WA | |
| June 27 - July 1 | Bonnie Watson will attend the American Society of Plant Biologists Conference, Mérida, Mexico | |
| June 29 - July 4 | Kelly Craven will be attending the Gordon Research Conference, "Cellular & Molecular Fungal Biology", Holderness Academy, Holderness, New Hampshire | |
| July 3-4 | Marilyn Roossinck is an invited speaker at the Linnean Society Meeting, The Driving Forces of Evolution: From Darwin to the modern age, London, UK | |
| July 12-16 | Rick Nelson, Phil Harries, Byoungeun Min, Ping Xu, Justin Pita and Marilyn Roossinck will speak at the American Society for Virology Annual Meeting, Ithaca, NY. Marilyn Roossinck is the organizer and convenor of the Milt Zaitlin Symposium hosted by the ASV Plant Virology Club Satellite | |
| July 13-18 | Rick Dixon is a speaker at the Plant Molecular Biology Gordon Conference, Holderness Academy, Holderness, New Hampshire | |
| July 15-18 | Lloyd Sumner is an invited speaker at the 5th International Conference of Plant Metabolomics, Annex Hall in Pacifico Yokohama, Japan | |
| July 19-23 | Xiaoqiang Wang will be attending The Protein Society Symposium, San Diego, CA | |
| July 23-27 | Elison Blancaflor, Cheolmin Yoo and Jiangqi Wen will be attending the 19th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Montreal, Canada | |
| July 26-30 | Rick Nelson is an invited speaker, "Virus movement and plant physiology", at the 2008 American Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. Kelly Craven, Nikki Charlton, Sita Ghimire, Haiyan Li, Jeremy Bell, Kiran Mysore, Ajith Anand, Keri Wang, Senthil-Kumar Muthappa, Zarir Vaghchhipawala and S. Rao Uppalapati will be attending and presenting | |
| August 1-6 | Tracy Feldman will attend the 93rd Ecological Society of America, ESA, Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin | |
| August 10-30 | Marilyn Roossinck will be conducting research in Liberia, Costa Rica | |
| August 11-12 | Rick Dixon and Rick Nelson will attend the Bioenergy Sciences Center annual budget and planning meeting, Atlanta, GA | |
| August 13 - September 27 | Haiyan Li will be working at Montana State University on joint research with Dr. Rob Cramer and Dr. Kelly Craven | |
| August 20-22 | Elison Blancaflor is an invited speaker at a symposium organized by the EPSCoR Center for plant powered production, Petit Jean, Arkansas | |
| August 22-31 | Xiaoqiang Wang will be attending the XXI Congress of the International Union of Crystallography, Osaka, Japan | |
| August 24-29 | Rick Nelson will be presenting at the 9th International Congress of Plant Pathology, Torino, Italy | |
| August 28 - September 3 | Catalina Pislariu will attend the 8th European Nitrogen Fixation Conference, Ghent , Belgium | |
| August 30 - September 3 | Catalina Pislariu will attend and present at the 8th European Nitrogen Fixation Conference, Ghent, Belgium | |
| September 2-7 | Lloyd Sumner is the co-organizer and will chair two sessions at the 4th Metabolomics Society Meeting, Boston, MA | |
| September 4-5 | Rujin Chen will attend the Plant Genome Awardee Meeting, Washington, DC | |
| September 5-6 | Rick Dixon will attend the National Science Foundtion Plant Genome Awardee Meeting, Washington, DC | |
| September 8 | Lloyd Sumner and John Snyder will visit Cornell University for John Snyder's preliminary exam and graduate student committee meeting, Ithaca, NY | |
| September 9 | Marilyn Roossinck will present a seminar at the Scottish Crops Research Institute, Invergowrie, Scotland | |
| September 11 | Marilyn Roossinck will attend the editors meeting for the Journal of General Virology, St. Andrews, Scotland | |
| September 15-17 | Ji He will present at the 2008 IEEE Symposium, Sun Valley, ID | |
| September 19-20 | Marilyn Roossinck will present a symposium talk at the All Iowa Virology Conference | |
| September 25 | Marilyn Roossinck will host the first 2008-2009 Public Lecture in Secience on dinosaurs | |
| September 25 | Rick Dixon will present a seminar in the NAS Lectureship Series, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN | |
| September 29-30 | Rick Dixon and Vaishali Sharma will attend the Scientific Advisory Board Meeting for the NIH Alzheimer's Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN | |
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