Date

Speaker

Topic

Jan 20

Jozef Bujarski

Plant Stress, a General Overview

Jan. 27

Joel Stafstrom

Abiotic Stress Journal Club. "Plant Stress Granules and mRNA Processing Bodies are Distinct from Heat Stress Granules."

Feb. 3

Melvin Duvall

Abiotic Stress - "C4 Adaptations Evolved in Parallel Among Diverse Lineages of Grasses in Response to Falling CO2 During the Oligocene."

Feb. 10

Gabriel Holbrook

Abiotic Stress - "Water Stress Effects on Drought-Sensitive Plants, and Molecular Mechanisms of Tolerance Found in Wild Species."

Feb. 17            

Thomas Sims

Abiotic Stress - "Effects of Heat Stress, Carbon Dioxide, and Light Regime on the Breakdown of Gametophiytic Self-Incompatibility."

Feb. 24

Jozef Bujarski

Biotic Stress - "Viruses as Plant Stressing Agents."

Mar. 3

Ana Calvo

Biotic Stress - Fungi - "Role of the VeA System in Aspergillus and Fusarium Pathogenesis."

Mar 10

SPRING BREAK

Mar. 17

Stuart Hill

Biotic Stress - Bacteria - "The Role of Microorganisms in Coral Health, Disease and Evolution."

Mar. 24

Anni Moore

Angiosperm Genome Size, Dynamics and Evolution - Does Size Predict Stress Tolerance?

Mar. 31

Cheryl Coop / Jeremy Lederhouse

Macrophyte Flight: How Duckweeds Use Turions to Escape Abiotic Stress

Apr. 7  

Jessica Olson / Sam Jones

How Plants Cope with Complete Sumergence

Apr. 14 

Pratima Shrestha / Judy Luke

Distinctive Responses to Adverse Environmental Conditions in Zea mays

Apr. 28

Elizabeth Karczynski

Denise Tombolato

Heat-tolerant Flowering Plants of Active Geothermal Areas in Yellowstone Park

Emerging Concepts in Effector Biology of Plant-Associated Organisms