GRADUATE CLASS PLANT POSTGENOMICS AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY – BGGN 227 Winter Quarter 2007 Mondays 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM Muir Biology Building Room 1129 As part of our new Graduate Training Program in Plant Systems Biology (see: http://biology.ucsd.edu/psbigert), this new class is being offered. Graduate Students and M.S. can sign up for this class. For Questions and late add ons Contact: Elena Bobkova (ebobkova@ucsd.edu) or Julian Schroeder (julian@biomail.ucsd.edu) During lectures, in addition to the presentations, recent pertinent literature will be discussed that will be posted prior to lectures. Monday – January 8th 2006 Jeff Long, Salk Institute Pattern Formation during Embryo Development Monday – January 22nd Yunde Zhao, UCSD Auxin Synthesis and Signaling Networks Monday – January 29th Steve Kay, TSRI Genetics and Genomics of Plant Circadian Clocks Monday – February 5th Joe Ecker, Salk Institute Functional Genomics in Arabidopsis Monday – February 12th Joe Ecker, Salk Institute Ethylene Signaling Pathway Monday – February 26th Jim Umen, Salk Institute The Plant Cell Cycle in Growth and Development Monday – March 5th Joel Kreps, Diversa Corporation Biotechnology and Renewable Biofuels for the Next Century Monday – March 12th Julian Schroeder, UCSD Abscisic Acid Signal Transduction Network and Dynamics