| Plant Biology Division: Activities Archive 2003 |
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| Presentations By and Activities of Plant Biology Staff | |
| 2003 | |
| January 10 | Marilyn Roossinck presented a seminar at the University of California, Irvine, CA. |
| January 11-15 | Greg May, Jian Yang and Yuanji Zhang presented posters at the Plant and Animal Genome XI Conference, San Diego, CA. |
| January 13-14 | Groups from Forage genetics International and the US Dairy and Forage Research Center (Madison, WI) held the first of several planned collaborative meetings with Noble Plant Biology and Forage Biotechnology scientists to discuss the re-engineering of alfalfa for improved forage quality (Ardmore). |
| February 2-5 | Steve Cox attended a "Radiation Safety Training" re-certification course, Las Vegas, NV. |
| February 2-7 | Marilyn Roossinck was an invited speaker at the 8th International Congress of Plant Pathology, Christchurch, New Zealand. |
| February 23-26 | Robert Gonzales attended the 26th Annual Southeast Deer Study Group Meeting, Chattanooga, TN. |
| March 4 | Rick Dixon, Bettina Deavours, Chang-Jun Liu, Deyu Xie and Shashi Sharma visited the University of Mississippi for research discussions. Rick Dixon presented a research seminar. |
| March 6 | Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. |
| March 7 | Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. |
| March 13 | Rick Dixon, Joe Bouton and Mike Cawley visited Plant Biology Non-Resident Fellow Ralph Quatrano at Washington State University, St. Louis, MO, for research discussions. |
| March 15-17 | Elison Blancaflor will present at the Southern Section of the American Society of Plant Biologists meeting, Denton, TX. He will also serve as one of the judges for the student poster competition during the meeting. |
| March 20-21 | Oklahoma Plant Molecular Biology Symposium, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater. Many of the Plant Biology and FBG staff and postdocs attended and presented talks or posters. |
| March 26-28 | Marilyn Roossinck was an invited speaker at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL. |
| April 1-2 | Rick Dixon was a speaker at the Society of Experimental Biology Meeting, Southampton, UK. |
| April 2-7 | Marilyn Roossinck hosted collaborators Drs. Rusty Rodriguez and Regina Redman. |
| April 3-4 | Rick Dixon visited the University of York, UK, for research discussions. |
| April 4-6 | The Noble Foundation Virology Mini-Retreat was held on campus. All researchers from Drs. Nelson and Roossinck attended plus forty researchers from around the region and world. |
| April 6-9 | Rick Dixon was a speaker at the Phytochemical Society of Europe meeting on Phytochemistry and Biology of Lignans, Bonn, Germany. |
| April 9-11 | Lloyd Sumner participated in a Review Panel for NSF-BIO-MRI (Major Research Instrumentation), Washington, DC. |
| April 10-15 | Ping Xu presented a poster at the Keystone Symposia, Snow Bird Utah. |
| April 15 | Rick Dixon and Bettina Deavours presented a poster at the Annual OK Health Research Conference, Langston University, OKC. |
| April 25-28 | Lloyd Sumner was an Invited Chair and Tony Duran and David Huhman presented posters at the 2nd International Conference on Plant Metabolomics, Potsdam, Germany. |
| May 1 | Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at Dionex/LC-Packings Applications Symposium, Dallas, TX. |
| May 7-9 | Hugh Aljoe, Joe Bouton, Rick Dixon and Matt Mattox participated in an interdivisional planning retreat, Taos, NM. |
| May 12-13 | Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at the NIEHS Systems Biology: Cell-Chemical Speak through Bioinformatics, Washington, DC. |
| May 13-16 | Lahoucine Achnine participated in the Terpnet 2003 Meeting, Lexington, KY. |
| May 15 | Lloyd Sumner and Greg May were invited speakers at the NSF-EPSCoR Genomics-Nanotechnology Meeting, Stillwater, OK. Jarrod Steele and Ann Harris attended. |
| May 18-22 | Shu-jun Yang presented at the American Society for Microbiology Meeting, Washington, DC. |
| May 18-23 | Rick Dixon presented the Keynote lecture at the Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf 2003 Meeting, Dallas, TX. Lloyd Sumner, Lahoucine Achnine, Srinivasa Reddy, Fang Chen, De-Yu Xie and Shashi Sharma presented posters. |
| May 18-23 | Marilyn Roossinck was an invited speaker at the Gordon Research Conference on "Viruses And Cells," Barga, Italy. |
| May 28-31 | Marilyn Roossinck was an invited speaker at the EMBO Workshop on "Genomic Approaches in Plant Virology," Keszthely, Hungary. |
| June 18-22 | Rick Dixon was on sabbatical leave at the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products, University of York, UK. |
| June 18-22 | Lloyd Sumner, Victor Asirvatham and Zhaoyang Liu attended the American Society for Mass Spectrometry Meeting, Montreal, Canada. |
| June 18-22 | Greg May presented a seminar at Utah State University, Logan, Utah, detailing Medicago genomic activities at the Noble Foundation. |
| June 18-22 | Lloyd Sumner was an invited speaker at Analysdagarna; 17th Conference of the Analytical Divisions of the Swedish and Norwegian Chemical Societies, Chalmers, Göteborg, Sweden. |
| June 18-22 | Elison Blancaflor participated in the 2003 Quantitative Fluorescent Microscopy Course, Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME. |
| June 18-22 | Marilyn Roossinck was on sabbatical leave working on the "Biodiversity of Viruses"at the Area Conservacion de Guanacaste (ACG) in Northwestern Costa Rica. . |
| June 18-22 | Rujin Chen and Heungsop Shin attended the 14th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. |
| June 18-22 | Rick Dixon attended the International Society for Plant Molecular Biology Meeting, Barcelona Spain, as a member of the ISPMB Board and session chair/invited speaker. XinShun Ding attended and presented a poster. |
| July 4 | Rick Dixon presented a seminar at the University of Lancaster, UK. |
| July 7 | Rick Dixon presented a seminar in the Department of Biology, University of York, UK. |
| July 11-14 | Lloyd Sumner gave an invited presentation at the American Society of Pharmacognosy Meeting, Chapel Hill, NC. |
| July 11-16 | Rick Nelson and Ping Xu were speakers -Hongye Li and Saeed Irian presented posters at the American Society for Virology Annual Meeting, Davis, CA. |
| July 16-19 | Bob Gonzales attended the Biotechnology Conference 2003, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. |
| July 16-20 | Tom Wallace attended the 2003 Association of Education and Research Greenhouse Curators Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO. |
| July 18-26 | Kiran Mysore gave a poster presentation at the XI International Congress of Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia. |
| July 20-25 | Elison Blancaflor was an invited speaker at the Gordon Research Conference, "Mechanotransduction & Gravity Signaling in Biological Sytems," New London, CT. |
| July 25-30 | Guichuan Hou, Deyu Xie, Zeji Du, Jian-zhong Liu, Bonnie Watson, Shelly Carter, Aaron Elmer, Liangjiang Wang, Xiaoqiang Wang and Rujin Chen attended the American Society for Plant Biologists, Honolulu, HI. |
| August 9-13 | Gail Shadle, Lisa Jackson, Bettina Deavours, Corey Broeckling, Jack Blount, Srinu Reddy and Naveed Aziz presented posters at the Phytochemical Society of North American Annual Meeting, Peoria, IL. |
| August 11-13 | Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the Phytochemical Society of North American Annual Meeting, Peoria, IL. |
| August 25-27 | Rick Dixon, Lloyd Sumner and Pedro Mendes (VBI) hosted a Metabolomics workshop in association with the NSF Plant Genome Award at the Noble Foundation. |
| August 27-31 | Shashi Sharma attended the Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription Course, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. |
Aug. 28-Sept. 5 |
Rick Nelson was a session chair at the Phloem 2003 meeting, Bayreuth, Germany. |
| September 9-13 | Plant Biology Non-Resident Fellows were in Ardmore to review the Plant Biology Division programs. |
| September 11-13 | Elison Blancaflor participated in a grant review panel for NASA Fundamental Space Biology Program, Washington, DC. |
| October 3 | Rick Dixon presented a research seminar at Texas A&M University, Commerce, TX |
| October 5-10 | Kiran Mysore and Choong-Min Ryu attended the 6th International PGPR Workshop, Calicut, India with Choong-Min giving an oral presentation. |
| October 6 | Rick Dixon met with representatives of Forage Genetics International (FGI) to discuss progress of FGI-funded projects in his lab, Minneapolis, MN |
| October 7 | Rick Dixon and Greg May attended a meeting to discuss relationships between Medicago truncatula genomics and alfalfa research, Minneapolis, MN. |
| October 9-11 | Marilyn Roossinck participated in a NIH Study Section, Washington, DC. |
| October 11 | Rick Dixon attended the Editorial Board meeting of Annual Review for Plant Biology, Palo Alto, CA. |
| October 13 | Kiran Mysore was an invited speaker at the Biotechnology Society of Bangalore, Bangalore, India. |
| October 13-14 | Marilyn Roossinck hosted Dr. Roger Chetelat, Invited Seminar Speaker. |
| October 14 | Kiran Mysore presented a seminar at the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India. |
| October 15-19 | Lloyd Sumner gave an invited presentation at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Bansko, Bulgaria. |
| October 20-21 | The Noble Foundation Plant Biology and Forage Biotechnology Divisions hosted a workshop on endophytes and their uses in agriculture, Ardmore. |
| October 21 | Xinshun Ding presented a seminar at the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, China. |
| October 21-22 | The Agricultural, Forage and Plant Biology divisions held a planning retreat, Fort Worth, TX (Rick Dixon, Joe Bouton, Hugh Aljoe, Matt Mattox). |
| October 24 | Xinshun Ding presented a seminar at the Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, China. |
| October 24-26 | Marilyn Roossinck attended the Fungal Genetics Workshop, Noble Foundation. |
| October 27-28 | Greg May attended a Scientific Advisory Board Meeting: Legume Information Systems, Santa Fe, NM. |
| November 2-4 | Representatives from the Noble Foundation and the University of York met at the Noble Conference Center. |
| November 2-7 | Bettina Deavours was an invited speaker at the National Congress of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants, Acapulco, Mexico. Corey Broeckling also attended. |
| NNovemberov 4 | Rick Dixon was an invited speaker at the CSSA Meeting, Denver, CO. |
| November 5-6 | Judy Grider and Karen Flowers attended the Floriculture College of Knowledge, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. |
| November 6-9 | Marilyn Roossinck attended the Genomics and Pathogenesis, AAM Meeting, Key Largo, FL. |
| November 9-21 | Marilyn Roossinck worked on the “Biodiversity of Viruses”
at the Area Conservacion de Guanacaste (ACG) in Northwestern Costa Rica. |
| November 7 | Elison Blancaflor gave an oral presentation at the joint fall meeting of the Oklahoma Microscopy Society and Oklahoma Academy of Sciences. |
| November 11 | Rick Dixon was keynote speaker at the International Vanilla Biotechnology meeting, Princeton, NJ. |
| November 12-16 | Elison Blancaflor attended and presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology, Huntsville, AL. |
| November 21-22 | Rick Dixon presented a seminar at Chromatin Inc., Chicago, IL, and attended the Chromatin Scientific Advisory Board meeting. |
| November 21-23 | Kiran Mysore, Ajith Anand and Choong-Min Ryu attended the 24th Crown Gall Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. |
| December 2 | Marilyn Roossinck taught at Oklahoma State University as a guest lecturer in a Plant Biotechnology course, Stillwater, OK. |
| December 2 | Elison Blancaflor presented a seminar at Texas A&M University, Biology Department, College Station, TX. |
| December 3 | Rick Dixon presented a seminar at the National Grasslands Meeting, Nashville, TN. |
| December 8-9 | Fang Chen attended the Cambridge Healthtech Institute Course – Metabolic Profiling: Pathways in Discovery, Princeton, NJ. |
| December 13-17 | Christy Motes and Yuh-Shuh Wang attended and presented posters at the American Society of Cell Biology meeting, San Francisco, CA. |
| December 15 | Rick Dixon presented a seminar at the University of Alabama Medical Center, Birmingham, AL. |
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