| Past presentations by and activities of Plant Biology staff
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| 2000 |
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| January 7-8 |
Maria Harrison participated in a NSF grant meeting, San Diego,
CA. |
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| January 8 |
Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at a Symposium on Metabolic
Engineering to be held at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces. |
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| January 9-12 |
Jinyuan Liu, Benjamin Dugdale and Greg May attended the Plant
and Animal Genome VIII Conference, San Diego, CA. |
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| January 11 |
Nancy Paiva presented a seminar at Bionova (DNAP) in Oakland,
CA. |
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| February 1 |
Rick Dixon and Tom Stasz visited Du Pont, Wilmington, DE,
for research and licensing discussions. |
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| February 2 |
Rick Dixon and Tom Stasz visited Novartis, Research Triangle
Park, NC, for research and licensing discussions. |
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| February 9-11 |
Rick Nelson presented an invited seminar at Texas A&M
and visited various departments. |
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| February 12-16 |
Bob Gonzales attended the Southeast Deer Study Group Meeting,
Wilmington, NC. |
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| 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. |
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| March 1-3 |
Maria Harrison presented seminars at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI in the Agronomy and Botany/Plant Pathology Departments. |
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| March 4-10 |
Yongqing Liu attended the "New Frontiers in Plant Science &
Plant Biotechnology Symposium", Toulouse, France. |
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| March 6-7 |
Rick Dixon and Tom Stasz visited Forage Genetics, West Salem,
Wisconsin, for discussions on collaborative research. |
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| March 12-17 |
Lloyd Sumner attended and recruited at the Pittsburgh Conference
on Analytical Chemistry, New Orleans, LA. |
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| March 13-15 |
Rick Nelson presented a seminar at the University of California,
Davis. |
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| March 16-17 |
Rick Dixon attended the Scientific Advisory Board meeting,
Akkadix Inc., San Diego, CA. |
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| March 20-25 |
Ann Harris attended a Perkin-Elmer BioSystems workshop, San
Francisco, CA. |
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| March 23-30 |
Wayne Versaw attended the European Conference on Fungal Genetics
5 Conference, Arcachon, France. |
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| 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. |
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| March 26-30 |
Rick Dixon was an invited speaker for two symposiums at the
American Chemical Society Meeting, San Francisco, CA. |
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| March 28-29 |
Marilyn Roossinck presented and lectured and comducted a seminar
at Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX, on Virus evolution. |
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| April 3-6 |
Nancy Paiva served on the USDA Grant Panel, Washington, DC. |
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| April 4-5 |
Marilyn Roossinck presented a seminar at Thomas Jefferson University,
Philadelphia, PA. |
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| April 7-9 |
Maria Harrison attended a New Phytologist Editorial Board Meeting,
Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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| April 7-9 |
Plant Biology 9th Annual Virology Retreat. |
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| April 10-13 |
Maria Harrison was an invited speaker at the Biochemical Society
Meeting, "Moving molecules through membranes," Leeds, England. |
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| April 12 |
Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at the Department of
Chemistry, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. |
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| April 17 |
Lloyd Sumner presented a lecture at OSU, Stillwater, over metabolite
profiling as part of a metabolism class being taught by John Cushman. |
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| April 19 |
Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at the Department of
Biochemistry, OSU, Stillwater, OK. |
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| April 20 |
Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at OMRF, OKC. |
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| April 21 |
Nancy Paiva presented a lecture at OSU, Stillwater, as part
of the biochemistry course, "Metabolism and Metabolic Engineering". |
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| April 25 |
Rick Dixon visited the Department of Plant Science, University
of Nottingham, UK, for Research discussions. |
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| April 26 |
Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at the John Innes Center,
Norwich, UK. |
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| April 28 |
Rick Nelson presented a seminar at University of North Texas,
Denton. |
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| May 1 |
Maria Harrison will began a six-month sabbatical at the National
Center for Genome Resources, Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
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| May 16-18 |
Jinyuan Liu attended the "Development & Use of Soybean Microarrays for
Global Expression & Functional Genomics", Urbana, Illinois. |
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| 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 |
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| May 18-20 |
Christian Dammann attended the 13th Annual Penn State Symposium
in Plant Physiology, State College, Pennsylvania. |
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| May 30-June 4 |
Marilyn Roossinck attended and presented at the RNA Society
Conference, Madison, WI. |
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| June 8-11 |
Madan Bhattacharyya attended a Grant Writing Seminar, Iowa
State University, Ames, Iowa. |
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| June 10-16 |
Lloyd Sumner and David Huhman attended and presented at the
48th American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference, Long Beach, CA . |
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| June 10-15 |
Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the 2000 Congress on
In Vitro Biology, San Diego, CA. |
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| June 15-16 |
Rick Dixon attended the Scientific Advisory Board Meeting,
Akkadix, Inc., San Diego, CA |
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| 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. |
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| June 20-29 |
Maria Harrison participated in the Molecular Genetics of Model
Legumes Conference, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK. |
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| July 7-12 |
Judy Grider and Janie Gallaway attended the Ohio Florists
Association Short Courses, Columbus, Ohio. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| July 15-19 |
Nancy Paiva, John Cooper and Elizabeth Flatt attended the
North American Alfalfa Improvement Conference, Madison, WI. |
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| July 23-27 |
Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the Society for Industrial
Microbiology, San Diego, CA. |
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| July 27 |
Nancy Paiva participated in the External Advisory Board Meeting
for the Center For Dietary Supplement Research Botanicals Center at UCLA.
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| 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. |
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| August 9-10 |
Greg May was a part of the External Review for the National
Pacific Laboratory, Department of Energy, Pasco, Washington. |
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| August 12-16 |
Elison Blancaflor attended the Microscopy and Microanalysis
2000 Conference, Philadelphia, PA. |
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| August 12-16 |
Rick Nelson, XinShun Ding, Shelly Carter and Rodolfo Acosta-Leal
attended the American Phytopathological Society Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
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| August 13-19 |
Maria Harrison was a plenary session speaker at the Third International
Congress on Symbiosis, Marburg, Germany. |
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| August 24 |
Greg May participated in scientific research discussions at
the National Center for Genome Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
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August 28 -
September 1 |
Marilyn Roossinck visited the laboratory of collaborator, Rusty
Rodriguez, at the Northwest Biological Sciences Center, Seattle, Washington.
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| 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". |
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| 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. |
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| September 13-15 |
Rick Dixon was a Keynote Speaker at the Meeting of the Cereal
Grains Consortium, Kansas City, MO. |
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| September 20-22 |
The Plant Biology Division's Non-Resident Fellows were in Ardmore
for a review of the Division's programs. |
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| September 25-27 |
Steve Cox attended a Radiation Safety Training Symposium, New
Orleans, LA. |
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| October 5 |
Lloyd Sumner presented a research seminar at the Department
of Botany and Microbiology, Oklahoma University. |
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| 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. |
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| October 7 |
Noble/OU/OSU hosted the Molecular Plant Biology Conference
for researchers at the Myriad Convention Center, Oklahoma City. |
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| October 16 |
The IAAP Executive Appreciation Luncheon was hosted by Noble
members at the Pavilion. Donna Windel was featured as the guest speaker. |
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| October 20 |
Maria Harrison presented a research seminar at National Center
for Genome Research, Santa Fe, NM. |
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| October 20 |
Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at the University of
Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR. |
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| October 26 |
Rick Dixon, Greg May, Nancy Paiva and Lloyd Sumner visited
the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, for research discussions.
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| 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. |
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| November 2 |
Robert Gonzales attended the Biotechnology Program Advisory
Board for Oklahoma City Community College in OKC. |
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| November 2-3 |
Rick Dixon visited Professor Charlie Arntzen, Arizona State
University, for discussions on nutraceutical research. |
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| November 4-19 |
Ignacio Maldonado-Mendoza and Melina Lopez-Meyer from CIIDIR,
Sinaloa, Mexico, conducted research work in Plant Biology. |
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| November 13 |
Marilyn Roossinck presented a seminar at University of California
at Davis. |
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| November 15 |
Marilyn Roossinck presented a seminar at University of California
at Berkeley. |
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| November 17 |
Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at University of North
Texas, Denton. |
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| 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. |
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| November 29-30 |
Chloe Zubieta, Structural Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute,
visited Rick Dixon's group for research discussions. |
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| December 3 |
Maria Harrison was an Invited Speaker at the International
Symposium of the Mycological Society of Japan, Tokyo. |
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| December 1-7 |
Marilyn Roossinck presented at the International Conference
on double-stranded RNA viruses, Aruba. |
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| December 6-8 |
Rick Dixon attended the Akkadix Scientific Advisory Board Meeting,
LaJolla, CA. |
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| 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. |
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| December 13 |
Rick Dixon visited the Danforth Center, St. Louis, MO, for
research discussions. |
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| December 22 |
Rick Dixon visited Professor Edward Cocking, University of
Nottingham, UK, for collaborative research discussions. |
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