Plant Biology (Interdepartmental Graduate Major)

2010 Walter and Helen Parke Loomis Distinguished Lecture and Plant Biology Mini Symposium

Theme: Plant Evolution
Date: April 22 & 23 (Thursday and Friday), 2010
Venue: Gallery Room, Memorial Union
Organizer: Dr. Jonathan Wendel

Walter and Helen Parke Loomis Distinguished Lecture in Plant Biology (7 pm, Thursday, April 22, 2010)

Dr. Loren Rieseberg
Professor
Indiana University, Bloomington
Title: The Origin and Evolution of Plant Species

Plant Biology Mini-Symposium Speakers
(1-5 pm, Friday, April 23, 2010)

Dr. Neelima Sinha, Professor
University of California, Davis
Title: The Genetic regulation of leaf shape

Dr. Loren Rieseberg, Professor
Indiana University, Bloomington
Title: The Evolutionary Genetics of Sunflower Domestication

Dr. Kirsten Bomblies, Assistant Professor
Harvard University
Title: To be announced

Dr. John Doebley, Professor
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Title: Unraveling a developmental pathway involved in maize domestication

Sponsors:

• IPB 2009 Invited Speakers

  Dr. Scott Peck
  
  (Oct 7, 2009)
  Title: Proteomic Analysis of Host-Pathogen Interactions: From Signaling to Secretion
  
  Dr. Chi-lien Cheng
  
  (Oct 14, 2009)
  Title: Alternation of Generations in Ceratopseris richardii
  

• 2010 Loomis Lecture and Plant Biology Mini Symposium

• 2009 IPB Faculty/Student Retreat

• IPB 2009 Fall Seminar Series

• Major name change approved

• IPB Invited Speakers

• Loomis and IPB mini symposium

• IPB seminar series (PLBIO 696)

• IPB Annual Retreats

• IPB Sledding Photos January 24, 2009
• IPB Halloween Party October 28, 2006