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NRC - PBI is located at: Directions:From the corner of College Drive and Preston Ave., head West along College. Turn right (heading North) on to Campus Drive. Gymnasium Place is the 2nd left. |
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September 2006
Wednesday, September 20
"Chloroplast genomics and genetic engineering for biopharmaceuticals, vaccines & agronomic traits"
Dr. Henry Daniell
University of Central Florida
Orlando, USA
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
August 2006
Wednesday, August 30
"An integrated approach to the comprehensive analysis of polar and non-polar metabolites in plants and micro-organisms"
Dr. Brian McCarry and David Guevara
McMaster University
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
(Note: seminar changed from August 31 to August 30)
Monday, August 28
"Towards an understanding of the biosynthesis of medically important lignans"
Dr. Elisabeth Fuss
University of Düsseldorf,
Germany
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
Friday, August 4
"A systems biological approach to better understand fungal lignin degradation mechanisms"
Prof. Hiroyuki Wariishi
Department of Forest and Forest Products Sciences,
Kyushu University, Japan
10:00 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
Thursday, August 3
"Canola breeding progress and priorities for Australia – challenges and future priorities"
Dr. Phil Salisbury
Agriculture Victoria
Vermont, Australia
3:00 p.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
July 2006
Wednesday, July 12
"Gibberellin (GA) mutants of barley: useful tools for investigating growth regulation”
Dr. Peter Chandler
CSIRO
Canberra, Australia
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
May 2006
Wednesday, May 24
"Structural biology of Pseudomonas syringae virulence"
Dr. Darrell Desveaux
Botany Department
University of Toronto
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
Wednesday, May 17
"Comparative analysis of alkaloid and gene expression profiles in Papaver species"
Dr. Joerg Ziegler
Institute of Plant Biochemistry
Halle, Germany
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
April 2006
Wednesday, April 26
"Upstream components of ABA signal transduction"
Dr. Robert Hill
Plant Science Department
University of Manitoba
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
Wednesday, April 19
"Raising the BAR for Arabidopsis research: Using large-scale data sets for hypothesis generation"
Dr. Nicholas Provart
Department of Botany
University of Toronto
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
March 2006
Wednesday, March 22
“Using social network analysis to predict performance in research networks: a case base analysis of Genome Prairie projects”
Cami Ryan
Interdisciplinary Studies (Knowledge Management & Innovation) University of Saskatchewan
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
Wednesday, March 15
“Probing sphingolipid function in plants by analysis of Arabidopsis mutants with altered sphingolipid content and composition”
Dr. Edgar Cahoon
USDA-ARS & Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
Wednesday, March 1
"Calmodulin-binding proteins in Arabidopsis: Functional analysis of two novel calmodulin-binding proteins"
Dr. A.S.N. Reddy
Department of Biology
Colorado State University
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
February 2006
Wednesday, February 15
"Metal-binding properties of synthetic metalloproteins"
Dr. Olesya Kharenko
PBI Protein Research Group
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
Wednesday, February 8
"Quantitative proteomics approaches to investigating molecular control of ripening initiation in wine grapes"
Dr. Steven Lund
Wine Research Centre, Faculty of Land and Food Systems,
University of British Columbia
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
Wednesday, February 1
"Gene expression profiling of microspore embryogenesis in Brassica napus"
Dr. Meghna Malik
PBI Cell Technologies Group
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
January 2006
Wednesday, January 25
"Analogs of abscisic acid inhibit hepatitis C virus by modulating host-cell pathways"
Bojana Rakic
NRC Steacie Institute of Molecular Sciences
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
Wednesday, January 18
"From shrub to bug: Production of the plant anti-malarial terpene artemisinin in E.coli"
Dr. Vincent Martin
Department of Biology
Concordia University
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
December 2005
Wednesday, December 21
"Applications of X-ray absorption spectroscopy in plant science - From isolated bio-molecules to intact tissues"
Dr. Graham George
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Saskatchewan
10:00 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
Wednesday, December 14
"A study of tropane alkaloid biosynthesis using functional genomics"
Dr. Rong Li
PBI Plant Natural Products Group
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
November 2005
Wednesday, November 30
"The plant cuticle: Biosynthesis of wax components in Arabidopsis thaliana"
Dr. Owen Rowland
Department of Biology
Carleton University
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
October 2005
Thursday, October 27
"Arabidopsis seeds: endosperm development and embryo filling"
Dr. Matthew Hills
John Innes Centre
Norwich, UK
3:00 p.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
Wednesday, October 19
"Gene silencing in plants: mechanisms and applications"
Dr. Peter Waterhouse
CSIRO
Canberra, Australia
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
September 2005
Wednesday, September 28
"Ureide degradation in soybean: Implications for drought tolerant nitrogen fixation"
Dr. Chris Todd
Department of Biology
University of Saskatchewan
10:30 a.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
Wednesday, September 14
"Diaminopimelate and lysine biosynthesis: An antimicrobial target in bacteria and a puzzle in plants"
Dr. John Vederas
Department of Chemistry
University of Alberta
2:30 p.m.
PBI 1st Floor Boardroom
