2007 Plant Molecular Biology and Biochemistry

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Plant = Biology

Interlab Research Meetings

Lehman College and The New York Botanical Garden=

3^rd Thursday each month &= nbsp; 3-4 pm Davis Hall 223 Lehman College

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Date	Research Presenter 30 minutes + discussion	Topic	Hosting Lab
Jan 17 200= 8	Faqiang (Justin) Li	Carotenoid biosynthesis in maize: Characterization of the PSY Gene family and genetic definition of a new biosynthetic step in higher plants= =	Wurtzel
Feb 21	Elli Wurtz= el	Open discussion on the process of publishing research in peer-reviewed journal= s	Wurtzel
Mar 20	Hanbin Dan	A genetic approach to identifying genes critical for carbon and sulfur nutrient cross-talk in Arabidopsis	Zheng<= /span>
April 17	Ken Karol =	Genes, Gyrogonit= es and Genomes: What they reveal about the evolution of green plants<= span style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";mso-bidi-font-famil= y: Arial'>	Karol
May 15	James Lyle= s	LC-MS for beginners	Kennelly
June 19	Phil Feinberg	Use of a Glutamate receptor agonist (BMAA) to study the function of GluR signaling components within Arabidopsis tha= liana	Brenner<= /o:p>
July 17	= NO meeting	---------------	= ;
Aug 21	Jiabu Ye = ;	T= he development of symbiotic nitrogen fixing alfalfa root nodules require bacterial genes	Cheng
Sept 18	Abeer Mohamed	Functional evolution of a floral development regulator	Litt
Oct 16	Damon Litt= le	Do universally amplifiable and variab= le DNA barcode loci exist?"	Little
Nov 20	= ;	= ;	Zheng
Dec 18	= ;	= ;	Kennelly

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*Coordinator: Elli Wurtzel 718-960-8643 wurtze= l@lehman.cuny.edu Bring PowerPoint Files on CD, flas= h

drive or laptop (preferably for a “PC”) Suggested 30 slides max/ 30’ = talk

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