Department of Botany & Plant Sciences
250 Seminar Series – Winter 2012
Mondays from 4:10 - 5:00 PM, Engineering 2 Room 138
Date
Speaker
Jan 11
Dr. Eric Stockinger
Dept. of Horticulture & Crop
Ohio State University
Jan 18
Dr. Kanwarpal S. Dhugga
Dupont Agricultural Biotechnology
Jan 25
Feb 1
Dr. Robert Krueger
Title
“CBF gene copy number in wheat and barley and
its association with freezing tolerance”
“Biochemical and genetic approaches to improve
nitrogen-use efficiency maize”
TBA-Applicant for C.E. Specialist in Subtropical Horticulture
Curator, USDA-ARS National
Germplasm Repository for Citrus &
Dates, Riverside CA
Dr. S. Kaan Kurtural
TBA- Applicant for C.E. Specialist in Subtropical Horticulture
Bronco Wine Co, Viticulture
Research Chair, Dept. of Viticulture
California State University, Fresno
Feb 8
Feb 15
Dr. Timothy Close
“Advancing the barley Genome”
University of California, Riverside
TBA
TBA
No seminar. Seminar will be held on Thursday, Feb. 23rd
Feb 22
Thurs. Feb 23
Dr. Kelly Dawe
University of Georgia
Yuanyuan Zhao
Feb 29
University of California,
Riverside
Thursday, Join the Biology Seminar. “Structure, function
and evolution of centromeres-the “black holes” of the
maize genome” (Genomics Auditorium)
“Identification of a nucleotidyltransferase gene in
miRNA tailing and degradation in Arabidopsis”
March 7
TBA
TBA
March 14
TBA
TBA
Instructor: Giles Waines (951) 827-3706
(giles.waines@ucr.edu)