The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc.   Plant Biology Division: Activities Archive 2006
 
Presentations By and Activities of Plant Biology Staff
  2006  
  January 14-18 Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at the International Plant and Animal Genome XIV Conference, San Diego, CA, title: "Gene Discoveries and Integrated Functional Genomics Studies of Medicago truncatula Responses to Biotic and Abiotic Stress." Patrick Zhao, Xinbin Dai and Michael Udvardi attended and presented posters.
  Jan. 30-Feb. 22 Marilyn Roossinck was in Liberia, Costa Rica for a research sabbatical.
  February 11-14 Yuhong Tang attended the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities 2006 meeting, Long Beach, CA.
  February 14-17 Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the International Anthocyanin Workshop, Rotorua, New Zealand.
  February 21-22 Rick Dixon visited AgResearch, Palmerston North, New Zealand, for research discussions and to present a seminar.
  February 25-27 Christy Motes presented at the Southern Section of the American Society of Plant Biologists conference, Daytona Beach, Florida.
  March 9 Elison Blancaflor presented a seminar at the Biological Sciences Department, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas.
  March 13-15 Kiran Mysore presented an invited seminar discussed research collaborations at the Department of Crop Physiology, UAS, GKVK, Bangalore, India.
  March 29 Rick Dixon was an invited seminar speaker at the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne, Germany.
  March 31 Rick Dixon was an invited seminar speaker at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK.
  April 5-7 Rick Nelson was an Invited Speaker at the Association of Applied Biologists' "Advances in Plant Biology" meeting at the University of Warwick, UK.
  April 7-10 Lloyd Sumner was an Invited Speaker and Session Chair at the 4th International Conference of Plant Metabolomics held at Wokefield Park, Reading, UK. Ewa Urbanczyk-Wochniak gave an oral presentation.
  April 18-19 Dr. Brian Cantor (Vice-Chancellor, University of York) and Dr. Jack Lim (Center for Novel Agricultural Products, University of York) visited the Foundation for discussions with Mike Cawley and Rick Dixon.
  April 19 Rujin Chen presented an invited seminar at the Department of Botany, OSU, Stillwater, Okla.
  May15-18 Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker for the Workshop Systems Biology – From Genome to Phenome, Plant Biotechnology Centre Primary Industries Research Victoria Department of Primary Industries, Melbourne, Australia.
  May 17-21 Elison Blancaflor and Michael Udvardi were invited speakers at the 2nd Pan American Plant Membrane Biology Workshop, South Padre, Texas.
  May 19 Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
  May 22-26 Rujin Chen attended the 2nd International Symposium on Plant Neurobiology, Beijing, China.
  May 27 Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at the Waters Users’ Workshop, Seattle, Wash.
  May 28-June 1 Lloyd Sumner and Zhentian Lei attended and presented at the 54th American Society of Mass Spectrometry Conference, Seattle, Wash.
  June 3-7 Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the Society for In Vitro Biology conference, Minneapolis, MN. He presented Development of alfalfa as a versatile crop. Sanchita Vaghchhipawala attended and presented a poster.
  June 3-10 Aline Valster participated in the 2006 Quantitative Fluorescent Microscopy Course at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, Maine.
  June 4-9 The Plant Biology and Forage Improvement divisions hosted a USDA sponsored and funded workshop, 2006 RiceCAP Workshop: DNA Markers, Mapping and Beyond.
  June 18-23 Srinivasa Rao Uppalapati attended the Gordon Research Conference, Cellular & Molecular Fungal Biology, Plymouth, New Hampshire.
  June 26-30 Srinivasa Chaluvadi attended the Rice Gene Annotation Workshop, Washington, DC.
  June 24-28 Lloyd Sumner (Co-organizer) attended and presented at the Second Scientific Meeting of The Metabolomics Society, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
  June 28-July 2 Rujin Chen will be attending the 17th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, Madison, Wis.
  July 8-12 Jack Blount, Jin Nakashima, Gail Shadle, Lisa Jackson, Yongzhen Pang, Zhenzhan Chang and Lenong Li will present at the 2006 Phytochemical Society of North America Conference, Oxford, Miss.
  July 13-16 Xiaoqiang Wang, Hui Shao, Luis Escamilla-Trevino, Lenong Li and Zhenzhan Chang will work at the Argonne National Laboratory doing APS Beamtime and SBC Specific hutch training, Chicago, Ill.
  July 15-19 Marilyn Roossinck is an invited speaker at the American Society for Virology Conference, Madison, Wis. Akhtar Ali will present a poster.
  July 16-21 Rick Dixon is an invited speaker at the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology International Meeting, Lyon, France. His topic is “Metabolic engineering of plant natural products for animal and human health.”
  July 24-25 Marilyn Roossinck will be visiting the lab of Dr. Richard Allison, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Miss.
  July 29-Aug. 2 Ajith Anand and Keri Wang will present at the American Phytopathological Society Conference, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
  July 30-Aug. 4 Phil Harries and Rick Nelson attended the Plasmodesata 2006 International Conference, Pitlochry, Scotland. Harries gave an oral presentation.
  August 1-2 Lloyd Sumner was an Invited Panelist at the W.R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) National User Facility equipment/capital refreshment plan workshop (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash.
  August 4-10 Marilyn Roossinck was an invited speaker at the Fifth International Symbiosis Society Congress 2006, Vienna, Austria.
  August 5-9 Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) Conference, Boston, MA. Million Tadege gave an oral presentation and Vagner Benedito, Elison Blancaflor, Fang Chen, Rujin Chen, Luis Escamilla-Trevino, Ji He, Li Kang, Palani Karuppaiah, Ashverya Laxmi, Kiran Mysore, Satish Nagaraj, Marina Naoumkina, Magaly Rincon-Zachary, Hui Shao, Zarir Vaghchhipawala, Keri Wang, Xiaoqiang, Bonnie Watson and Cheolmin Yoo attended and presented posters.
  August 5-9 Yuh-Shuh Wang attended the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Conference, Saxtons River, Vermont.
  August 13-18 Jiangqi Wen and Ping Xu attended the International Congress of Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology, Beijing, China.
  August 24 Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at the University of Arkansas Medical School, INBRE lecture series.
  August 22-25 Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the 23rd International Conference on Polyphenols, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Luzia Modolo attended and presented.
  August 31 Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at Oklahoma State University Chemistry Department.
  September 7-8 Rick Dixon presented at the NSF Plant Genome Grant Awardees’ Meeting, Arlington, Virginia.
  September 7-10 Yuhong Tang attended the meeting of the Microarray Gene Expression Data Society, Seattle, Wash.
  September 10-13 Xiaoqiang Wang was an invited speaker for NIEHS, NIH Retreat, Carolina Beach, North Carolina. He visited the NIEHS in Research Triangle Park, NC after the retreat.
  September 10-15

Lloyd Sumner hosted a visiting scientist, Dr. Lanfang Levine, Senior Research Chemist, Biological/Analytical Chemistry Core Lead, Dynamac Corporation, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
  September 13

Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at an international workshop on “Plant Biotechnology for Production of Industrial Materials,” Osaka, Japan.
  September 15

Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan.
  September 16

Marilyn Roossinck attended the American Society for Virology Fall Council Meeting, San Francisco, CA
  September 28-29 Patrick Zhao attended the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics Biology and Computational Biology, Toronto, Canada.
  October 6 Elison Blancaflor gave an invited research seminar presentation at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at OSU, Stillwater, Okla.
  October 14 – Nov.5 Marilyn Roossinck conducted research in Liberia, Costa Rica.
  October 16-18 Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at the French Society for Electrophoresis and Proteomic Analysis Conference, St. Malo, France.
  October 24 Rick Dixon presented an invited research seminar in the Pioneers in Genomic Biology series at the University of Illinois, Urbana.
  November 2-6 Elison Blancaflor will attend and chair a session at the American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology Conference, Arlington, Virginia.
  November 14 Aline Valster will attend the Advanced Light Microscopy Symposi, Boston, Mass.
  November 16 Patrick Zhao will present an invited research seminar in Bioinformatics and Plant Genomics at the University of Missouri - Columbia.
  November 17-19 Kiran Mysore, Ajith Anand and Zarir Vaghchhipawala will attend and present a the 27th Crown Gall Conference, Williamstown, Mass.
  December 12-14 Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the Second International Symposium on research into plant secondary metabolites and medicinal phytocompounds, Academia Sincia, Taipei, Taiwan.
     
     
     
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