Plant Biology (Interdepartmental Graduate Major)

2011 Walter and Helen Parke Loomis Distinguished Lecture and Plant Biology Mini Symposium

Theme: Plant Peptide Hormones and the Receptors
Date: April 21 & 22 (Thursday and Friday), 2011
Venue: Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
Organizer: Dr. Yanhai Yin

Walter and Helen Parke Loomis Distinguished Lecture in Plant Biology (8 pm, Thursday, April 21, 2011)

Dr. June Nasrallah
Professor
Cornell University
Title: To Self or Not To Self: Mating System Diversification in Flowering Plants

Plant Biology Mini-Symposium Speakers
(1-5:30 pm, Friday, April 22, 2011)

Dr. June Nasrallah, Professor
Cornell University
Title: Receptor-ligand signaling in the self-incompatibility responseof the Brassicaceae

Dr. Sheila McCormick, Professor
USDA Plant Gene Expression Center , University of California, Berkeley
Title: Signaling during pollen tube growth

Dr. Steven Clark, Professor
University of Michigan
Title: Peptide ligand signal in plant development and parasitism

Dr. Johannes Stratmann, Associate Professor
University of South Carolina
Title: Alarmin the leaf-systemin signals herbivore attack

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