Presentations By And Activities Of Plant Biology Staff
2002
January 11
Rick Dixon attended the National Science Foundation Plant Genome Program
Grant Awardees meeting, San Diego, CA.
January 12-16
Greg May was an invited speaker at the Plant and Animal Genome Conference,
San Diego, CA. Lloyd Sumner, Chuansheng Mei, Angela Scott, Naveed Aziz and
Liangjiang Wang attended and presented posters.
January 14-15
Drs. Mark McCaslin and Stephen Temple, Forage Genetics Inc., and Daneel
Ferriera, University of Mississippi, visited the Plant Biology Division
for discussions on lignin and tannin engineering projects in the Dixon and
Paiva labs.
January 16-17
Maria Harrison was an invited speaker at the “Frontiers in Microbiology:
Microbial Ecophysiology and Bioinformatics” symposium at the Max Planck
Institute, Marburg, Germany.
January 21-22
Maria Harrison was an invited speaker at the John Innes Centre, Norwich,
UK.
January 24-25
Rick Dixon visited the John Innes Center, Norwich, UK, for research discussions.
February 4-5
Maria Harrison presented a seminar at Vermont University, Burlington,
Vermont.
February 7-8
Maria Harrison presented a seminar at the Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca,
New York.
February 12
Marilyn Roossinck presented a seminar at the University of Arkansas,
Fayetteville, Arkansas.
February 20-22
Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at the University of Manitoba,
Winnipeg, Canada.
February 21-26
Rick Nelson, Xinshun Ding and Shujun Yang presented at the Keystone Symposium,
"RNA Interference, Cosuppression and Related Phenomena," Taos, New Mexico.
March 6
Nancy Paiva served as a member of the External Advisory Board of the
UCLA Center for Dietary Supplement Research: Botanicals in Westwood, CA.
March 7-8
Nancy Paiva served on a PhD thesis committee, and presented a research
seminar in the Plant Pathology Department, University of Arizona, Tucson,
AZ.
March 9-13
Victor Asirvatham attended and presented at the Association of Biomolecular
Resource Facilities meeting in Austin, TX.
March 13
Rick Dixon and Mike Cawley visited the Danforth Center, St. Louis, MO,
for discussions on inter-institutional collaborations. Rick Dixon presented
a seminar.
March 15
Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at Royal Holloway, University
of London, UK.
March 26-27
Lloyd Sumner presented at Waters Corp. Symposium on Metabolomics in Milford,
MA.
March 27
Marilyn Roossinck presented a seminar at Montana State University, Bozeman,
MT.
April 3
Rick Dixon gave a seminar at the Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan
State University, East Lansing, MI.
April 3-8
Maria Harrison attended a New Phytologist Editorial Board meeting, London,
UK.
April 5
Lloyd Sumner visited and presented a seminar a Plant Research International,
Wageningen, The Netherlands.
April 7-10
Robert Gonzales and Robbin Hunter attended a Radiation Safety Seminar,
Fort Lauderdale, FL.
April 7-11
Lloyd Sumner presented at the First International Congress on Plant Metabolomics,
Wageningen, The Netherlands.
April 9-11
Marilyn Roossinck attended a meeting in Washington DC on genomics of
plant microbes.
April 11
Rick Dixon gave a seminar at the Fraunhofer Center for Molecular Biology,
Newark, Delaware.
April 12
Rick Dixon gave a seminar at the Agricultural Biotechnology Center, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
April 12
Lloyd Sumner visited Metanomics, Berlin, Germany.
April 12
Lloyd Sumner visited and presented at the Max Planck Institute, Potsdam,
Germany.
April 12-14
Marilyn Roossinck hosted and organized the Eleventh Annual Noble Virology
Retreat.
April 22
Rick Dixon received an award at the Experimental Biology meeting, New
Orleans, for being among the top 15 most cited authors in the plant and
sciences, 1991-2001.
April 24-28
Maria Harrison attended a Medicago truncatula Genomics workshop,
Davis, CA.
April 30-May 1
Nancy Paiva presented a seminar at the Dupont Experiment Station, Wilmington,
DE.
May 5-11
Steve Cox attended the National Safety Council Course, Fundamentals
of Industrial Hygiene, Reno, NV.
May 7-8
Robert Gonzales participated in the graduate oral examination for Randy
DeYoung at Mississippi State University, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries,
Mississippi State, MS.
May 16
Lloyd Sumner, Rick Dixon and Greg May attended the NSF EPScor Annual
Conference at OSU on Functional Genomics & Network for Nonostructured
Materials.
May 21
Greg May presented a seminar at Pioneer Hi-Bred, Des Moines, Iowa.
June 2-6
Rick Dixon presented a keynote lecture at the International Conference
on Legume Genomics and Genetics, Minneapolis, MN; Maria Harrison was a symposium
speaker; Greg May was a Plenary Session Chair; and Rick Nelson was an invited
speaker. Jinyuan Liu, Srinivasa Reddy, Hideyuki Suzuki, Deyu Xie, Chang
Jun Liu, XianZhi He and Liangjiang Wang presented posters.
June 2-6
Lloyd Sumner, Tony Duran, Victor Asirvatham and Zhaoyang Liu participated
in the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference, Orlando, FL.
June 5-7
Marilyn Roossinck visited the labs of Lynda Ciuffetti and Tom Wolpet
at Oregon State University.
June 10-24
Marilyn Roossinck worked in the USGS Biological Services Lab in Seattle,
Washington.
June 21
Rick Dixon attended a planning meeting for the Center for Novel Agricultural
Products, York, UK.
June 22-28
Naveed Aziz and Srinivasa Reddy participated in the Microarray Workshop,
California State University, San Marcos, CA.
June 23-27
Robert Gonzales participated in a NSF/USDA Microbial Genome Sequencing
Panel, Washington, DC.
June 23-28
Ping Xu and Chang Jun Liu attended the 10th International Association
for Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology Congress, Orlando, FL.
June 28
Nancy Paiva visited ProdiGene, Inc. in College Station, TX, for research
discussions.
July 7-12
Shashi Sharma participated in a Gordon Research Conference, Plymouth,
NH.
July 19-24
Rick Nelson, Ping Xu, Martin Yassi, Mark Taylor and Stephanie Rogers
attended and presented at the American Society for Virology Conference,
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
July 20-24
Rick Dixon was a session chair and Parvathi Kota and Lahoucine Achnine
presented posters at the Phytochemical Society of North America annual meeting,
Merida, Mexico.
July 24-27
Tom Wallace attended the Association of Education and Research Greenhouse
Curators annual meeting, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
July 27-31
Nancy Paiva presented two research seminars at the North America Alfalfa
Improvement Conference, Sacramento, CA.
July 27-Aug 1
Rick Nelson and Marilyn Roossinck presented at the International Congress
of Virology, Paris, France.
July 30
Rick Dixon traveled to OMRF for research discussions and grant application
planning.
August 3-7
The following presented at the American Society of Plant Biologists Annual
Meeting, August 3-7, Denver, CO: Bonnie Watson, Shashi Sharma, Jack Blount,
XianZhi He, Fang Chen, Shu Jun Yang, Elison Blancaflor, Parvathi Kota, Deepti
Mohamalawari, Guichuan Hou, Zeji Du, Deyu Xie and Laura Blaylock.
August 3-7
Jinyuan Liu presented at the Botany 2002 Conference, Madison, WI.
August 26-28
The Plant Biology Division Non-Resident Fellows were in Ardmore for a
scientific review of the division.
September 6-8
Marilyn Roossinck was an invited speaker at the Fungal Biology meeting,
Seattle, Washington.
September 9-13
Rick Dixon, Gail Shadle, and Lahoucine Achnine attended an International
Symposium on Plant Polyphenols, Marrakech, Morocco. Rick Dixon was a plenary
speaker, Lahoucine Achnine a session speaker, and Gail Shadle presented
a poster.
September 16-19
XinShun Ding attended the International Rice Research Congress, Beijing,
China.
September 25
Marilyn Roossinck presented a seminar at OSU on Virus evolution for the
Entomology and Plant Path. Department, Stillwater, OK.
September 26-27
Steve Rhines, Rick Dixon and Joe Bouton visited Forage Genetics International,
West Salem, Wisconsin, for research and collaboration discussions.
September 29-Oct 3
Maria Harrison was an invited speaker at the Plant European Genomics
Meeting, Berlin, Germany.
October 3-6
Marilyn Roossinck hosted the Virus Evolution Workshop, Noble Foundation.
October 4
Rujin Chen gave a talk on plant biotechnology at the Department of Industrial
Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI.
October 6-8
Rick Nelson visited Dr. Andrew Maule, the John Innes Centre, Norwich,
United Kingdom, for research discussions.
October 8-11
Aaron Elmer & Zhentian Lei attended the Applied Biosystems training,
Foster City, CA.
October 9-10
Rick Dixon and Rick Nelson visited the Frauhofer Institute, University
of Delaware, for research discussion on virus-induced gene silencing.
October 14-17
Elison Blancaflor was an invited speaker at the 34th Committee on Space
Research (COSPAR) meeting, Houston, TX.
October 19
Rick Dixon attended the Editorial Board meeting of Annual Review of Plant
Biology, New York City.
October 22-25
Maria Harrison was a co-organizer and speaker at the New Phytologist
Symposium called Genomics of Plant-microbe interactions in Nancy, France.
October 27-Nov 1
Maria Harrison was an invited speaker at the 1st EPSO Conference "Networks
in Plant Biology" in Brunnen, Switzerland.
October 30
Rick Dixon and Xiaoqiang Wang visited Dr. Joe Noel, Salk Institute, San
Diego, for research discussions.
November 1-3
Kiran Mysore attended the 23rd Crown Gall Conference, University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN.
November 5-8
Judy Grider, Janie Gallaway, Chris Petruka and Karen Flowers attended
the Floriculture College of Knowledge Courses in Lansing, MI.
November 10-14
Maria Harrison was an invited plenary session speaker at the 1st Australian
Medicago truncatula Workshop, Perth, Western Australia.
November 15
Elison Blancaflor presented a research seminar at the Biology Department,
Texas Woman?s University, Denton, TX.
November 18
Rick Dixon was an invited seminar speaker and consultant at Renessen,
Davis, CA.
December 14-19
JianZhong Liu and Shujun Yang presented posters at the American Society
for Cell Biology 42nd Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
December 16
Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the Plant Metabolomics Workshop,
International Systems Biology Conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
