Recent Talks by Dr. Bird

2003

“Genome wide approaches to nematode diagnostics.” Mediterranean Society of Plant Pathology, Calabria, Italy, November 17-23, 2003.

From bug to worm and back: Cross-species gene flow and the evolution of parasitism.” Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK, September 9, 2003.

“From bug to worm and back: Cross-species gene flow and the evolution of parasitism.” ICAPB, University of Edinburgh, UK, September 8, 2003.

“Bacterial pathogens and symbionts of nematodes, and their role in the evolution of parasitism.” American Phytopathological Society, Charlotte, NC, August 9-13, 2003.

“Cross-species gene flow, and the evolution of parasitism in nematodes” as the inaugural Alan Bird Memorial Lecture to the Royal Society of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 10 July, 2003.

“Genomic analyses of plant-parasitic nematodes.” Joint CPP/CG meeting on Nematode Management Research, DuPont Inc, Wilmington DE, May 1, 2003.

“Using C. elegans for analysis of plant-parasitic nematode ESTs.” NSF Medicago genomics project annual meeting, Minneapolis, MN, April 11-13 2003.

“Genomic analyses of plant-parasitic nematodes” UK Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs conference on Nematology Research in the UK, Harpenden, UK, March 18-19, 2003.

“Model systems to dissect nematode parasitism: Genomics and cell biology of symbiosis in the rhizosphere.” 8th International Congress of Plant Pathology, Christchurch, New Zealand, February 3-7, 2003.

2002

“Model systems to control nematode parasites: Genomics and cell biology of symbiosis in the root ecosystem.” The Perth Medicago Workshop, Rottnest Island, Australia, November 10-13, 2002.

“Genomics and cell biology of symbiosis in the root ecosystem.” Bioinformatics seminar series, NCSU, October 24, 2002.

“Model systems to dissect nematode parasitism: Genomics and cell biology of symbiosis in the rhizosphere.” International conference on Molecular and Cellular Biology of Helminth Parasites, Hydra, Greece, September 15-19, 2002.

“What does a worm want with 20,000 genes? The evolution of parasitism, and the essential-gene conundrum.” Milwaukee, WI, July 27-31, 2002.

"Model systems to dissect nematode parasitism: Genomics and cell biology of symbiosis in the rhizosphere." CSIRO Division of Plant Industries, Canberra, Australia, April 30, 2002.

"A model systems approach to nematode parasitism: Genomics and cell biology of symbiosis in the root ecosystem." The Danforth Center, St. Louis MO, April 16, 2002.

"Root-knot nematodes and rhizobia: Genomics and cell biology of symbiosis in the root ecosystem." BASF Corp., RTP, NC, March 6, 2002.

2001

"Conversazioni Biochimiche: Genomics and cell biology of symbiosis in the root ecosystem." Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Bari, Italy, December 10, 2001.

"Root-knot nematodes and rhizobia: Genomics and cell biology of symbiosis in the root ecosystem." John Innes Centre/Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK, December 7, 2001.

"Root-knot nematodes and rhizobia: Genomics and cell biology of symbiosis in the root ecosystem." Department of Biology, NCA&T University, Greensboro, NC, December 3, 2001.

"From Genome to Cells: High throughput localization of gene transcripts in tissue sections." National Society for Histotechnology Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC September 25, 2001.

"Model systems to dissect nematode parasitism: Genomics and cell biology of symbiosis in the root ecosystem." Department of Genetics, NCSU, September 10, 2001.

"Model systems to dissect nematode parasitism: Genomics and cell biology of symbiosis in the root ecosystem." Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, September 5, 2001.

"Model systems to dissect nematode parasitism: Genomics and cell biology of symbiosis in the root ecosystem." The Plant Science Centre, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, July 25, 2001.

"Caenorhabditis elegans, a model rhizosphere organism." Symposium on Rhizosphere control points: Molecules to Food Webs, UC-Davis, Davis CA, June 1-3, 2001.

"Genomics to solve agricultural problems: Nematodes." Pickle Packers International Conference on 21st Century Technologies for the Pickled Vegetable Industry, Raleigh NC, April 10, 2001.

"Signal transduction in the nematode-plant interaction: genomics meets cell biology." UC-Riverside seminar series on Genomics/Bioinformatics/Proteomics, Riverside CA, Feb. 12, 2001.

"Genetics, genomics and cell biology of host responses to parasitic nematodes: The power of plants as tractable models." Keystone Symposium on Molecular Heminthology: An Integrated Approach, Taos NM, Jan. 20-25, 2001.

"Genetic, genomic and cellular approaches to understanding soybean cyst nematode." Annual joint conference, NC Small Grain, Soybean and Corn Producers Associations, RTP, NC, Jan 16, 2001.

2000

"Signal transduction in the nematode-plant interaction: genomics meets cell biology." Association of Applied Biologists, Royal Linnean Society, London, England, Dec. 12, 2000.

"Signal transduction in the nematode-plant interaction and the role of horizontal gene transfer: genomics meets cell biology." The Sanger Center: Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge, England, Dec. 11, 2000.

"The biology of nematode parasitism; habitats, hormones and horizontally-acquired genes." Department of Biology, UNC-Chapel Hill, Nov. 27, 2000.

"The biology of nematode parasitism." National Science Foundation, Washington DC, Nov. 14, 2000.

"Overlapping plant signal transduction pathways in parasitic-nematode and rhizobial endosymbioses." Department of Biology, NCA&T University, Greensboro NC Oct. 30, 2000.

Presented "Signal transduction in the nematode-plant interaction: genomics meets cell biology." Department of Plant Pathology, NCSU, Sept. 25, 2000.

"Genomic analysis of a nematode-plant interaction: A tool to study plant biology." NSF-Plant Genome Conference, Washington DC, Sept. 21, 2000.

"Are mechanisms of parasitism catholic?" Department of Zoology, NCSU, Sept. 7, 2000.

"Gene expression in nematode feeding sites; parallel development of nodules and knots." INRA, Toulouse, France, July 31, 2000.

"Phantastically knotted feeding sites: the link between transcription factors and phytohormones in giant cell formation." Society of Nematologists Meeting, Quebec, Canada, June 26, 2000.

"Functional analysis of gene expression in giant cells." European Society of Nematologists Meeting, Israel, April 3, 2000.

 

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