Seminars

Spring 2013 Applied Plant Sciences Seminar Series Schedule

All Seminars are Mondays 3:30-5:00 pm in 306 Borlaug Hall St. Paul Campus unless noted.
Date	Presenter	Seminar Title
January 28	Gary Reinecciua	"The Food Flavor Challenge"
February 4	Jane Glazebrook	"Plant Immune Signaling, Components, Connections, and Calmodulin"
February 11	Amy Jacobson	"Genome-wide Prediction within Untested and Non-existing Biparental Crosses in Maize"
February 18	Lisa Krchov	Multi-environment Validation Experiments to Assess the Accuracy of Phenotypic and Genome-wide Selection Within Doubled Haploid Maize Breeding Populations"
February 25	Vagner Benedito	"Functional Characterization of Medicago truncatula Membrane Transporters During Nodule Development And Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation"
March 4	Cindy Tong	“Why are ‘Honeycrisp’ Apples, Crisp”?
March 11	Yong Bao	“Genome-wide Dissection and Predictive Modeling for Agronomic Traits and Disease Resistance in a Diverse Panel of Soybean Germplasm"
March 18	No Seminar	Spring Break
March 25	Lian Lian	“Accuracy of Genome-wide Prediction in 1000 Biparental Maize Populations”
April 1	Justin Anderson	“Gene Therapy for Soybeans: New Technologies for Enhancing Disease Resistance”
April 8	Benjamin Campbell	“Utilization of Soybean Mutants for Crop Improvement”
April 15	Andrew Petran	“Cross Species Grafting to Improve Environmental Tolerance of Tomatoes Grown in the Tropics”
April 22	Alison Pawlus	“Using Minnesota Native Plant Extracts as Natural Alternative Preservatives in Personal Care Products: A Collaborative Study with the University of Minnesota and Aveda”
April 29	Jared Goplen	“Crop Rotation Strategies for Management of Herbicide-Resistant Giant Ragweed”
May 6	Kevin Dorn	“Sequencing the Pennycress Genome”

Applied Plant Sciences Seminar Series Archive

2012 Spring APS Seminars Schedule (PDF)

2012 Fall APS Seminar Schedule (PDF)

2013 Spring APS Seminar Schedule (PDF)