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Spring Seminars, 2012
January 17, 2012
Biomolecule Analysis Using MALDI-TOF, LC-MS,CE and CE-MS
Dr. Xiuli Lin, Department of Chemistry, Wake Forest University
Host: Dr. Deyu Xie
January 24, 2012
Phylogenies, functional trait evolution and community assembly: perspectives from plant-mycorrhizal interactions
Dr. Hafiz Maherali, Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph.
Host: Dr. Bill Hoffman
January 31, 2012
Effects of fire on nutrient availability and limitation in Florida scrub ecosystems
Dr. Jennifer Schafer, Department of Plant Biology, NCSU.
Host: Dr. Bill Hoffman
February 7, 2012
Unraveling the Wizardry of Terpene Metabolism in Plants
Dr. Joe Chappell, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky.
Host: Dr. Deyu Xie
While many mechanistic features of terpene biochemistry have been elucidated over the last 100+ years, much remains to be learned about how the terpene biosynthetic enzymes control and orchestrate such elegant chemical outcomes. The molecular gymnastics get even more complex when considered in the context of how things are coordinated within a cell and when comparisons between these mechanisms in prokaryotes versus eukaryotes are made. In this presentation, I will focus on one example of this complexity for the biosynthesis of compounds consisting of a triterpene scaffold and our success in manipulating this metabolism in plants for a variety of applications.
February 21, 2012
Evolutionary processes in Hawaiian angiosperms: a case study with
endemic Hawaiian Viola
Dr. Chris Havran
Host: Dr. Alexander Krings
February 28, 2012
Ecohydrological Patterns and Processes in Complex Landscapes
Dr. Ryan Emanuel, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, NCSU
Host: Dr. Bill Hoffman
March 13, 2012
Throwing open the "window of speciation"
Dr. David Baum, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Host: Dr. Jenny Xiang
The seminar will tentatively be presented as two vignettes. One will be on the use of concordance analysis to make sense of the genealogical patterns that arise very early in the process of lineage divergence, and the other on the use of transgenomics to isolate genes that have the potential to explain reduced fitness in hybrids.
March 6, 2012
Spring Break
March 20, 2012
TBA
Dr. Anjali Iyer-Pascuzzi, Biology Department, Duke University.
Host: Dr. Terri Long
March 27, 2012
TBA
Dr. Steve Clouse, Department of Horticulture, NCSU
Host: Dr. Marcela Rojas-Pierce
April 3, 2012
TBA
Dr. Jon Davis, Department of Plant Biology, NCSU
Host: Dr. Candace Haigler
April 10, 2012
TBA
Dr. Sirius Li, Department of Plant Biology, Kannapolis Campus, NCSU
Host: Dr. Deyu Xie
April 17, 2012
TBA
Dr. Cynthia Hemenway, Department of Molecular and Structural Biochemistry, NCSU.
Host: Dr. Deyu Xie
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