2008 Seminars

Dr. Laurent Nussaume

• Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement des Plantes, UMR6191 CEA/CNRS/Université Aix-Marseille-II, CEA Cadarache, France
  
  Title: Genetics to unravel phosphate sensing and responses in Arabidopsis thaliana
  
  Friday, May 16, 2008 10:00 A.M.
  
  BTI Auditorium
• Host, Maria Harrison (mjh78@cornell.edu, 607-254-6472)

Ji-Young Lee

• Assistant Scientist
• Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
• Title: Stem cell regulation of plant vascular tissue development
  Friday, February 29, 2008 11:15 AM
  404 Plant Science

Biofuels and Bioenergy:

Developing The Infrastructure for Global Change

• A mini-symposium sponsored by the Boyce Thompson Institute
  
  Friday, December 14, 2007
  9:00 am - 11:00 am
  BTI Auditorium
• 9:00 - 9:05
  Introduction: Tom Brutnell (BTI)
• 9:05 – 9:15
  Wolf Frommer (Carnegie Institute of Science) “The JBEI Consortium”
  
• 9:20 – 9:30
  Jocelyn Rose (Plant Biology) “The Cornell Initiative for Sustainable Bioenergy Crops”
  
• 9:35 – 9:45
  Seth Murray (Plant Breeding and Genetics; Institute for Genomic Diversity) “Sorghum Genetic Resources for Biofuels”
  
• 9:45 – 9:55
  Edward Buckler (Plant Breeding and Genetics) “Developing Molecular Markers for Switchgrass Association Studies”
  
• 9:55 - 10:02
  Donald Viands (Plant Breeding and Genetics) “Production and Evaluation of Biofuel Feedstocks in New York”
  
• 10:05 - 10:15
  Peter Woodbury (Department of Crop and Soil Sciences) “Geospatial Modeling of Sustainable Biomass Feedstock Production”
  
• 10:15 - 10:25
  Michael Hoffman (Director, Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station) “Sustainable bioenergy: An opportunity for the Agricultural Experiment Stations”
  
• 10:25 - 10:35
  Joel Landry (Applied Economics and Management) “Current Research on the Economics of Biofuels”
  
• 10:35 - 10:50
  Open Discussion