National Academy of Sciences Lectureship Series

2008
Hugo Dooner
Professor
Department of Plant Biology & Pathology at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Waksman Institute of Microbiology
Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
"Genome structure variation and meiotic recombination in maize"
April 23, 2008

Jeffrey Bennetzen
Giles Professor of Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics
Department of Genetics
University of Georgia
“Hyper-instability and site directed recombination in otherwise highly unstable plant genomes”
February 7, 2008

2007
Roger Beachy
President, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
St. Louis, MO
"Searching for the Achilles heel in virus replication and genetic engineering to reduce disease in plants"
December 7, 2007

Michael F. Thomashow
Director, MSU-DOE Plant Resarch Laboratory
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences
Department of Microbiology
Michigan State University
“Gene Regulons and Regulatory Networks Involved in Plant Cold Acclimation”
November 30, 2007

Roy Curtiss, III
Professor of Life Sciences, School of Life Sciences
Co-Director, Center for Infectious Diseases & Vaccinology
Arizona Biodesign Institute
Arizona State University
“Genetic design and manipulation of Salmonella for delivery of protective antigens to immunized animal and human hosts”
April 24, 2007

Eugene Nester
Professor
Department of Microbiology
University of Washington
“Salicylic acid: More than just aspirin in Agrobacterium-plant interactions”
March 8, 2007

2006
Marc Van Montagu
Emeritus Professor
Department of Molecular Biology
Founder & Chair of the Institute of Plant Biotechnology for Developing Countries
Ghent University, Belgium
President of the European Federation of Biotechnology
“The GM-Plant Dispute”
June 6, 2006

James Tiedje
University Distinguished Professor of Microbiology
Director of the Center for Microbial Ecology
Michigan State University
“Genomic windows into the diverse microbial world”
April 18, 2006

E. Peter Greenberg
Professor and Chair
Department of Microbiology
University of Washington
“The Sociomicrobiology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa”
March 2, 2006

2005
Bob Goldberg
Professor
Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
University of California-Los Angeles
“Using genomics to dissect plant embryo development in research and undergraduate education”
April 20, 2005

Todd Klaenhammer
Director
Southeast Dairy Foods Research Center
North Carolina State University
“A light in the tract …genomic views of intestinal lactobacilli”                      
March 16, 2005   

James Womack
Distinguished Professor
College of Veterinary Medicine
Texas A&M University      
“Status of bovine genomics: Sequencing and beyond”
February 10, 2005

2004
Chris Somerville
Director of the Department of Plant Biology
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Professor of Biological Sciences
Stanford University
“Genetic dissection of cell wall structure and function”
March 19, 2004

2003
Charles Arntzen
Co-Director
Center for Infectious Diseases & Vaccinology
Arizona Biodesign Institute
Arizona State University
“Using the power of plant biotechnology to prevent infectious disease: The science of plant-derived vaccines”
December 16, 2003

Christopher T. Walsh
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School
"Antibiotic maturation by action of tailoring glycosyltransferases”
October 6, 2003

Paul R. Ehrlich
Center for Conservation Biology
Stanford University
“Biology and the environment: A 2003 perspective”
March 18, 2003

Brian J. Staskawicz
Head of Section for Plant-Biotic Interactions
Department of Plant Biology
University of California-Berkeley
“Bacterial proteins conferring disease immunity in plants”
February 27, 2003

2002
Susan R. Wessler
Research Professor of Botany and Genetics
University of Georgia
“Transposable elements: From genetics to genomics”
Dec 12, 2002

Leading Edge Technologies Series

Kurt Heidrich
Regional Account Manager, Midwest
Illumina, Inc., San Diego, CA
“Illumina’s Genome Analyzer Technology: Sequencing Applications Using Massively Parallel Sequencing Technology”
October 24, 2007

Todd Holt
Field Application Scientist
LI-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, NE
and
Gordon Hunter
Sales Consultant
LI-COR Biosciences, Lincoln, NE
“ODYSSEY^TM  Infrared Imaging System”
October 22, 2007

2006
Robi Mitra
Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics
Washington University - Genome Sequencing Center
St. Louis, MO
“Single molecule amplification and analysis of nucleic acids”
May 31, 2006

2005
Colin Dykes
Exec.VP-Corporate Development & Chief Scientific Officer
Opgen, Inc., Madison, WI
“Optical Mapping: A novel system for comparative genomics”
October 25, 2005

Ajay Royyuru
Senior Manager, Computational Biology Center
IBM Research - T.J. Watson Research Center
“Computational Biology Research at IBM”
February 1, 2005

2004
Michael Snyder
Lewis B. Cullman Professor, and
Chair, Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and
Professor, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University
"Analyze this and that: Genomes and Proteomes”
Sept. 9, 2004

David C. Schwartz
Professor, Departments of Genetics and Chemistry
Director, Genomic Sciences Training Program
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Single Molecule Approaches for the New Biology”
January 8, 2004

2003
Michael Sussman
Professor, Department of Biochemistry
Director - Biotechnology Center
University of Wisconsin
"A knockout for every gene and a chip for every purpose in Arabidopsis thaliana”
October 13, 2003