Second Biennial PGP Charley Rick Symposium, March 13 & 14, 2008

Symposium Program:

T h u r s d a y,  M a r c h  1 3:

5:00-5:30pm    OPENING RECEPTION

5:30pm    INTRODUCTION:  Pamela Ronald, Plant Genomics

               Program Chair, Professor of Plant Pathology, UC Davis

5:35pm    Associate Dean Jim Macdonald

5:45pm     KEYNOTE ADDRESS:  Paul Schulze-Lefert, Director,  

                Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Köln

F r I d a y,  M a r c h   1 4:

8:30         Coffee / Reception

9:00         INTRODUCTION:  Jorge Dubcovsky, Professor of

               Plant Sciences, UCD, Symposium Committee Chair 

9:10         Gitta Coaker, Plant Pathology, UC Davis

9:40         Michael Thomashow, MSU-DOE Plant Research

               Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing

10:10       BREAK      

10:30       Janet Braam, Biochemistry & Cell Biology, Rice University

11:00       Eduardo Blumwald, Plant Sciences, UC Davis

11:30       Xinnian Dong, Dept. of Biology, Duke University

12:00       LUNCH

1:30         Julian Schroeder, Center for Molecular Genetics,

               UC San Diego

2:00         Jean Greenberg, Biomedical Sciences Cluster,

               University of Chicago

2:30         BREAK

3:00         Shou-Wei Ding, Center for Plant Cell Biology,

               UC Riverside

3:30         Barbara Valent, Plant Pathology, Kansas State University

4:00         END

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