Seminars / Symposia

Danforth Center Seminar Series

All seminars are in the AT&T Auditorium at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.  For Center contact information, please visit our Contact page. 


Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 3:45 PM
Location: Library Conference Space

Diacylglycerol Acyltransferase As a Target for Modification of Seed Oil Biosynthesis
Randall J Weselake
Professor & Tier 1 Canada Res. Chair
Dept of Agricultural, Food & Nutritional Sci, U of Alberta, Edmonton



Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 3:45 PM
Location: Library Conference Space

Phosphoproteomic Analysis of Seed Development - From Discovering Phosphorylation Sites to Identifying Kinase Clients
Jay Thelen
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry, Interdisciplinary Plant Group, Univ. of MO-Columbia



Wednesday, October 20, 2010 - 3:45 PM
Location: Library Conference Space

Genomics-Based Breeding in Forest Trees
David B Neale
Professor of Plant Sciences
University of Calif-Davis



Wednesday, October 27, 2010 - 2:45 PM
Location: Library Conference Space

Roots of the Second Green Revolution
Jonathan Lynch
Professor of Plant Nutrition, Dept. of Horticulture
Penn State University



Wednesday, November 03, 2010 - 3:45 PM
Location: Library Conference Space

Tom Brutnell
Scientist
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY



Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 3:45 PM
Location: Library Conference Space

Frankenstein and Scientific Ethics
Ira J. Kodner, M.D.
Surgery, Colon & Rectal Cntr for Study of Ethics & Human Values
Washington University School of Medicine



Wednesday, November 17, 2010 - 3:45 PM
Location: Library Conference Space

Lisa Ainsworth
Asst Professor of Plant Biology
University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign



Wednesday, December 01, 2010 - 3:45 PM
Location: Library Conference Space

Dr Oliver Yu
Assoc. Member & Principal Investigator
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St Louis, MO



Wednesday, December 08, 2010 - 3:45 PM
Location: Library Conference Space

Potential of Castor as a Major Source of Global Biofuels
Dick Auld
Rockwell Chair, Plant & Soil Science
Texas Tech University, Texas AgriLife Res., Lubbock, TX



Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 3:45 PM
Location: Library Conference Space

Sterols, START Domains and HD-Zip Transcription Factors of the Plant World
Kathrin Schrick
Assistant Professor, Dept of Plant Genomics & Molecular Biology
Kansas State University in Manhattan



Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - 3:45 PM
Location: Library Conference Space

Daniela Nicastro
Assistant Professor of Biology
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA



Wednesday, April 06, 2011 - 3:45 PM
Location: Library Conference Space

Ramin Yadegari
Associate Professor, Plant Sciences
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ



Wednesday, April 27, 2011 - 3:45 PM
Location: Library Conference Space

TBA
Sona Pandey
Asst Member & PI
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center