The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc.   Plant Biology Division: Activities Archive 1999
 

Presentations By and Activities Of Plant Biology Staff

1999

January 8-10 Eighth Annual Noble Virology Retreat - Ardmore, OK.
January 15 -21 Maria Harrison participated in the Plant and Animal Genome VII Conference - San Diego, CA.
January 19-22 Rick Dixon was a member of an external review team evaluating citrus research for the state of Florida.
February 2-7 Maria Harrison was an invited seminar speaker at a Mycorrhizal workshop - Adelaide, Australia.
February 3-5 Bob Gonzales attended the "Patent Law for Managers, Engineers and Scientists" Course - Boca Raton, FL.
February 6-7 Madan Bhattacharyya attended a Soybean Conference - Iowa State University - Ames, Iowa.
February 6-10 Toshiro Shigaki presented a poster at the Miami Nature Biotechnology Winter Symposia - Miami, Florida.
February 11 Madan Bhattacharyya presented a seminar at the Dept.of Botany and Microbiology- Oklahoma University.
February 7-12 Ken Korth & Susanne Rasmussen presented posters at the Keystone Symposia - Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
February 11-12 Rick Nelson was an invited seminar speaker at Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ.
March 5 Maria Harrison presented a research seminar at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.
March 8 Maria Harrison presented a research seminar at the University of CA-Berkely, Berkely, CA.
March 10 Bob Gonzales attended the Biotechnology Advisory Board Meeting, OKC Community College, OKC.
March 12 Rick Dixon visited Global Agro, Inc. La Jolla, CA, for research discussions.
March 15 Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at the University of Maryland.
March 16 Rick Dixon visited David Michael and Co, Philadelphia, for research contract discussions.
March 19 Rick Dixon attended the Biomedical Research Summit, Governor's Mansion, OKC.
March 31 Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at Oklahoma State University.
April 6 Rick Dixon, Mike Cawley and Larry Pulliam visited the Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA, for discussions on intellectual property.
April 7-9 Madan Bhattacharyya presented a seminar at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
April 8-9 Marilyn Roossinck presented a seminar titled "Exploring the mechanisms of RNA virus evolution using plant viruses" at the Centro de Biologia Molecular, Madrid Spain and visited the Lab of Esteban Domingo.
April 9-15 Dr. Kenneth O'Callaghan, University of Nottingham, UK, visited Rick Dixon's lab for research discussions.
April 15 Rick Nelson began a Sabbatical at the John Innes Center, Norwich United Kingdom. He worked in the lab of Andy Maule, Department of Virus Research through July 15th.
April 11-16 Marilyn Roossinck attended the International Plant Virus Epidemiology meeting - Almeria, Spain.
April 18-23 XinShun Ding attended the Cryo-Techniques and Immunogold Workshop at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
April 19-20 Marilyn Roossinck visited the lab of Dr. Fernando Garcia-Arenal in Madrid, Spain.
April 21-23 Ken Korth attended the 4th European Symposium on Plant Isoprenoids, Barcelona, Spain.
April 22-25 Chris Steele attended the Symposium on Metabolic Networking in Plants at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
May 15-20 Kim Spiering attended the Conviron Spring Service Seminar, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
May Rick Dixon served on the USDA Plant Pathology Competitive Grants Panel, Washington DC.
May 25-26 Drs. Bruno Sobral & Pedro Mendes, Nat'l Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, visited the Division for discussions on Bioinformatics.
May 27 Marilyn Roossinck presented an invited seminar at the Ohio Medical School, Toledo, Ohio, on Virus Evolution.
June 3-4 Rick Dixon attended the Akkadix Inc. Scientific Advisory Board meeting, San Diego, CA.
June 9-13 Camelia Maier attended the NPLC Conference, Fallen Leaf Lake, Nevada.
June 11-15 Rick Dixon & Mike Cawley visited the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, for discussions with Dr. Chris Lamb.
June 17 Rick Nelson presented a seminar at the John Innes Center, Norwich, U.K.
June 18-27 Christian Dammann attended the 26th Meeting of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies, Nice, France.
June 23 Marilyn Roossinck attended a NSF Workshop in Costa Rica on biodiversity of microbes associated with Lepidoptera species through July 1.
June 24-25 Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the Institute for International Research symposium on Agricultural Genomics: New Technologies, Functions and Advances, San Diego, CA.
July 6 Drs. Rick Dixon, Bob Gonzales, Maria Harrison & Greg May visited the National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
July 7 Maria Harrison presented a seminar at the National Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
July 9-18 Martin Yassi, Ning-Hui Cheng & Ping Xu attended the American Society of Virology Conference, Amherst, MD.
July 9-14 Chris Steele attended the Phytochemical Society of North America Conference, Montreal, Canada.
July 22-23 Maria Harrison was an invited speaker at the 2nd Medicago truncatula Satellite in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
July 24-28 Yu-Ming Hou, Ning-Hui Cheng, Laura Blaylock, Yiji Xia, Ping Xu, Dianjing Guo, Christian Dammann & XianZhi He attended the American Society of Plant Physiologists Conference, Baltimore, MD.
July 25-30 Maria Harrison was an invited speaker at the 9th International Congress of Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Ignacio Maldonado-Mendoza, Melina Lopez-Meyer, Suparna Mundodi & Madan Bhattacharyya presented papers.
August 1-3 Nancy Paiva was an invited speaker at the Alpha Genome Conference, Madison, Wisconsin.
August 2 Maria Harrison began a sabbatical to last through September 30 at the Centre for Plant Microbe Symbioses, Risoe National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark.
August 4-7 Madan Bhattacharyya attended the Global Soy Forum, Chicago, IL.
August 7-11 Rick Nelson attended the American Phytopathological Society Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
August 9-13 Marilyn Roossinck, XinShun Ding, Yiming Bao, Yu-Ming Hou, and Bill Schneider attended the International Congress of Virology Conference, Sydney, Australia.
August 15-16 Marilyn Roossinck attended the 15th International Working Group on Legume Viruses, Perth, Australia.
August 15-20 XinShun Ding attended the International Congress on Assimilate Transport and Partitioning, Newcastle, Australia.
August 23-27 XianZhi He presented a talk at the Protein Club Meeting on Pathway Engineering in Plants, York, UK.
August 23-25 Greg May attended the Second Annual Impact of Molecular Biology on Crop Production and Crop Protection, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
August 30-
September 2
Rick Dixon was a keynote speaker and Nancy Paiva was an invited speaker at the International Molecular Farming Conference, London, Ontario, Canada.
September 1-4 Bob Gonzales attended the 6th International Automation in Mapping DNA Sequencing Conference, Cambridge, UK.
September 1-10 The Plant Biology Non-Resident Fellows visited Ardmore.
September 8 Greg May presented a seminar at Oklahoma State University.
September 13-17 Robert Williams attended the Radiation Safety Officer Training Course, Hartford, CT.
September 16 Maria Harrison presented a seminar at the Risoe National Laboratories, Department of Plant Biology, Roskilde, Denmark.
September 17-22 Rick Dixon spoke at the European Research Conference on Signal Recognition, Transduction Mechanisms and Gene Regulation in Plants, Kerkrade, The Netherlands.
September 27 Maria Harrison presented a seminar at INRA, Toulouse, France.
October 4-6 Madan Bhattacharyya attended the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Symposium, New Delhi, India.
October 6-7 Lloyd Sumner visited BioRad to view demo proteomic equipment, Hercules, CA.
October 8-12 Lloyd Sumner attended the Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics, Pacific Grove, CA.
October 10-13 Nancy Paiva was an Invited Seminar Speaker at the 9th Gatlinburg Symposium, "Plants, Nutrition and Human Health", Gatlinburg, TN.
October 12-14 Rick Nelson was an Invited Seminar Speaker at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
October 17-20 Maria Harrison attended the NSF Grant Panel, Washington, DC.
October 21-22 Maria Harrison attended the New Phytologist Symposium, Knoxville, TN.
October 22-24 Marilyn Roossinck hosted the Virus Evolution Workshop at the Foundation.
October 23-24 Madan Bhattacharyya attended the Soybean Disease Biotechnology Conference, St. Louis, MO.
October 30 - November 2 Ignacia Maldonado-Mendoza was an invited speaker at the IIIrd Mexcico/US Plant Symposium, Merida, Mexico. Melina Lopez-Meyer participated in the symposium.
November 1-5 Maria Harrison presented a Medicago truncatula transformation workshop.
November 4 Rick Nelson was at OSU as a graduate student committee member for Genqing Liang, a student with Dr. Biao Ding.
November 4-8 Marilyn Roossinck attended a Colletotrichum Conference, Louisville, KY.
November 8-11 Robert Gonzales attended the LI-COR User's Meeting, Lincoln, NE.
November 10-14 Elison Blancaflor attended the "American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology" Conference, Seattle, WA.
November 11-14 Maria Harrison presented a seminar at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
November 11-12 Rick Nelson attended the ATCC Board of Scientific Directors Meeting, Manassas, VA.
November 12-13 Lloyd Sumner presented a seminar at Cameron University, Lawton, OK.
November 18 Rick Dixon, Greg May, Lloyd Sumner and Tom Stasz visited NCGR for research discussions, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
November 19 Rick Dixon and Tom Stasz traveled to San Diego, CA for intellectual property discussions.
November 19 Maria Harrison presented a seminar at University of North Texas, Denton, TX.
November 30 Lloyd Sumner visited Genomic Solutions, MA.
November 30 Elison Blancaflor attended a Bio-Rad Workshop, Dallas, TX.
December 3 Rick Dixon visited the University of North Texas, Denton, for collaborative research discussions with Dr. Kent Chapman.
December 8-9 Greg May visited Monsanto, St. Louis, MO, for scientific research discussions.
December 9-10 Rick Dixon visited Akkadix Inc, La Jolla, CA, for a Scientific Advisory Board Meeting.
December 12-15 Marilyn Roossinck attended A Banbury Center meeting on Host-pathogen Interactions, in Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
 


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