2011 Orientation

Orientation

Incoming Students:

Beth Fallon, Mandy Waters, Nagrendra Palani, Vai Lor, Erin Treiber, Stephanie Erlandson, Yuan Xu and Margaret Taylor

Lab Modules:

Dr. David Marks- “Use of Reporter Genes and Fusion-Proteins to Determine Gene Expression Patterns and the Sub-cellular Localization of Proteins”
Dr. Georgiana May & Roseanne Healy-“Fungi-Seeing the Hidden Diversity”
Dr. Alan Smith & Dr. Carrie Eberle- “In vitro pollen tube growth”
Dr. Peter Morrell- Zhou Fang “Computing for Next Generation Biology”

Research Talks:

Dr. Dan Voytas- “Precise engineering of plant genomes”
Dr. Fumiaki Katagiri- “How can we study a complex signaling network and why is the plant immune signaling network so complex?”
Dr. Carolyn Silflow- “Chlamydomonas: A model system for studying eukaryotic cilia and centrioles”
Dr. Jerry Cohen- “Proteome and metabolome-wide analysis of flux using whole organism stable isotope labeling"

Activities:

Lake Itasca Pontoon Tour- John Ross
Land Bog Fieldtrip- David Biesboer
Floating Bog Fieldtrip- Jessica Biever
Barbecue