2011 Plant Science Seminar Series
Speakers are hosted by the indicated division or by the Noble Foundation:
Forage Improvement 
Plant Biology 
Foundation-wide
Monday, January 10, 2011- Phenotypic and Genetic Characterization of Legumes and Grasses
- Dr. Kishor Bhattarai
Utah State University
11AM Forage Improvement 1st Floor Large Conference Room
- Thursday, January 13, 2011
- Biological Functions of Transcription Factors for the Formation of Barley Spikes
- Dr. Takao Komatsuda
National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan
2PM Kruse Auditorium
Thursday, February 10, 2011- ROS signaling: The New Wave?
- Dr. Ron Mittler
University of North Texas
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Monday, February 14, 2011
- Join the Green Gene Revolution/Molecular Technologies and Digital Phenotyping for Crop Improvement
- Mark van Haaren
KeyGene, Inc.
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, March 03, 2011
- Application of Protein Microarrays to Construct Networks and Pathways
- Dr. Heng Zhu
John Hopkins
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, March 10, 2011
- Heterosis, Protein Metabolism and Energy Efficiency: How Cyberinfrastructure Can Be Applied
- Dr. Stephen A. Goff
iPlant Collaborative
BIO5 Institute
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, March 17, 2011
- Dr. Xiaoqiang Wang
The Noble Foundation
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Monday, March 21, 2011
- Functional Analysis of Key Transcription Factors Involved in Rice Cell Wall Biosynthesis
- Dr. Mao-Feng Chai
Department of Plant Pathology
Ohio State University
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, April 07, 2011
- Development of a Genomic Selection Program for Fusarium Head Blight Resistance in Barley
- Dr. Aaron Lorenz
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Department of Agronomy & Horticulture
8:30AM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, April 07, 2011
- NO, Nitrite and Hyponitrite: Unexpected Heme-NOx Conformations
- Dr. George Richter-Addo
University of Oklahoma
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, April 28, 2011
- Dr. Michael Udvardi
The Noble Foundation
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, April 28, 2011
- Dr. Xiaoqiang Wang
The Noble Foundation
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, May 05, 2011
- Advances with Grass Fungal Endophytes in Agriculture
- Dr. Carolyn Young
The Noble Foundation
2PM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, May 05, 2011
- Dr. Krzysztof Szczyglowski
University of Western Ontario
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, May 26, 2011
- Life of Death: Tapping Fungi for Agronomic Gain or Killing Them if They Won't Help
- Dr. Kelly Craven
The Noble Foundation
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Tuesday, June 07, 2011
- Evolution of Medicago (alfalfa and allied forages) with Special Reference to the Model Genomic Species Medicago truncatula
- Dr. Ernest Small
National Program on Environmental Health-Biodiversity
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Wednesday, June 22, 2011
- Cyanogenesis and the Genetics of Adaption in White Clover (Trifolium repens L.)
- Dr. Ken Olsen
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
11AM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, June 23, 2011
- Dr. Yanqi Wu
Assistant Professor, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences
Oklahoma State University
2PM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, June 30, 2011
- Molecular Breeding of Forages in a Climate of Change
- Dr. German Spangenberg
Department of Primary Industries
Victorian AgriBiosciences Centre
La Trobe University
3PM Kruse Auditorium
- Monday, July 11, 2011
- Genetic Dissection of Systemic Nitrogen Signalling in Arabidopsis thaliana
- Thomas Widiez
Rutgers University
1:30PM Kruse Auditorium
- Wednesday, August 17, 2011
- Grass is Greener on the Other Side - Biotechnology and Gene Containment for Genetic Improvement of Perennials
- Dr. Hong Luo
Department of Genetics and Biochemistry
Clemson University
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, September 01, 2011
- ENOD16 is Required for Infection Thread Development and Symbiosome Formation in M. truncatula root nodules
- Dr. Janine Sherrier
University of Delaware
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, September 15, 2011
- A Dynamic Microtubule Network for Plant Cell Growth
- Bo Liu
University of California, Davis
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Monday, October 03, 2011
- Understanding and Manipulating Salinity Tolerance in Wheat and Barley
- Professor Mark Tester
Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics
University of Adelaide
1:30PM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, October 06, 2011
- Mapping the Seed: Global Dissection of Gene Activity During Seed Development
- Professor John Harada
Department of Plant Biology
University of California, Davis
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, October 20, 2011
- The Arabidopsis Membrane Protein Interactome
- Dr. Wolf B. Frommer
Carnegie Institution for Science
1PM Kruse Auditorium
- Tuesday, October 25, 2011
- Microfluidic Chips with Mass Spectrometry for Proteomics
- Dr. Jeonghoon Lee
Washington State University
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Wednesday, October 26, 2011
- Elucidating matrix protein import and ß-oxidation pathways in plant peroxisomes
- Dr. Bibi Rafeiza Khan
Department of Biology
University of Missouri-St. Louis
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, October 27, 2011
- Mechanisms of attack and defense in the tomato - Pseudomonas syringe interaction
- Dr. Gregory Martin
Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology
Cornell University
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Tuesday, November 01, 2011
- Necrotrophic Effectors: Small Proteins with a Significant Role in the Stagonospora nodorum-Wheat Disease Interaction
- Zhaohui Liu
Department of Plant Pathology
North Dakota State University
1:30PM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, November 03, 2011
- Exploiting the Model Grass Brachypodium for Biological Improvement of Grass Crops
- Dr. David Garvin
Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics
University of Minnesota
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, November 10, 2011
- Dynamics and Consequences of Mutualistic Symbioses: Investigating Fungal Endophytes in Grasses
- Dr. Jennifer Rudgers
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Rice University
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, November 17, 2011
- From the hidden world of plant cells to plants colonizing other worlds: A decade of plant cell biology research at the Noble Foundation
- Dr. Elison Blancaflor
The Noble Foundation
1:30PM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, November 17, 2011
- Role of Nudix hydrolases in oxidative signaling
- Dr. Mahalingam Ramamurthy
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Oklahoma State University
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Friday, November 18, 2011
- Information Discovery from Plant and Bacterial Omic Data
- Dr. Ying Xu
Regents – Georgia Research Alliance
Eminent Scholar and Professor
University of Georgia
9:45AM Kruse Auditorium
- Wednesday, December 07, 2011
- Wheat Improvement at Texas A&M University
- Dr. Amir Ibrahim
Department of Soil and Crop Sciences
Texas A&M University
9AM Kruse Auditorium
- Thursday, December 15, 2011
- Applied and Basic Plant Virology to Understand Host and Virus Gene Function
- Dr. Rick Nelson
Plant Biology Division
The Noble Foundation
10AM Kruse Auditorium
- Wednesday, December 21, 2011
- Chloroplast Genetic Engineering - Concepts and Applications
- Dr. Henry Daniell
Department of Molecular Biology & Microbiology
University of Central Florida College of Medicine
10AM Kruse Auditorium
If you are interested in attending a seminar, please contact Charlotte Pool, email: crpool@noble.org, telephone: 580.224.6808 (Forage Improvement) or Scotty Phelps, email: sbphelps@noble.org, telephone: 580.224.6602 (Plant Biology) to verify the date and time. Kruse Auditorium is located on the Noble Foundation campus, Ardmore, Okla.