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SEMINAR SCHEDULES
CROP SCIENCE | PLANT PHYSIOLOGY | SOIL SCIENCE | KTRDC
Crop Science Seminar Series, Fall 2006. Fridays at 2pm in the Cameron Williams Lecture Hall.
September 1 - Open
September 8 - Grains Extension Programs in Kentucky: A four year review -
Dr. Chad Lee, Assist. Ext. Prof.
September 12* (3pm Tuesday)- International Opportunities for Agriculture Faculty and Staff - Dr. Mike Reed, Dir., International Programs *rescheduled date
September 15 - No seminar – Ag Roundup
September 22 - Departmental Seminar (3pm) –
Invited by Plant Phys
September 29 - Tobacco Extension Programs in Western Kentucky: A four year review - Dr. Andy Bailey, Assist. Ext. Prof., Princeton, KY
October 6 - Fall Break - no seminar
October 13 - Open
October 20 - Departmental Seminar (3pm) - S. H. Phillips No-Tillage – Experiences with No-Tillage Farming and Equipment in Western KY - Howard Martin, Farmer, Todd County, KY
October 27 - Tall Fescue Removal from Kentucky Bluegrass and Orchardgrass Horse Pastures - Dr. Bill Witt, Prof
November 3 - Departmental Seminar (3pm) – Nutrigenomics Alltech’s new initiatives bridging genomics and animal nutrition - Dr. Karl Dawson, Alltech Biotech Center Nicholasville, KY
November 10 - ALS inhibiting herbicides and turfgrass establishment - Sara Carter, Grad Student
November 17 - Open
November 24 - Thanksgiving Holiday - no seminar
December 1 - The Footing for Kentucky's Billion Dollar Horse Industry: UK's Pasture Evaluation Program - Dr. Ray Smith, Forage Extension Specialist
December 8 - Inoculation – How important for maximum soybean yield? - Dr. Joe Omielan, Post Doctoral Res. Assoc.
Plant Physiology Seminar Series, Fall 2006. Fridays at 9 am, Cameron Williams Lecture Hall
September 8 - Open
September 15 - Nicotine-Containing Tobacco: An Unlikely Coincidence? - Balazs Siminszky
September 22 - Departmental Seminar (3pm) - Dr. Guo-liang Wang, Ohio State University
September 29 - Glucosyltransferases in plant metabolism - Lahoucine Achnine GenApps
October 6 - Adventures in gene expression - Arthur Hunt
October 13 - Studies of mRNA polyadenylation in plants - Lavanya Dampanaboina, Graduate student, Hunt lab
October 20 - Departmental Seminar (3pm) - invited by Crop Science
October 27 - tba - Brian Hilker
November 3 - Departmental Seminar (3pm)– Nutrigenomics Alltech’s new initiatives bridging genomics and animal nutrition - Dr. Karl Dawson, Alltech Biotech Center Nicholasville, KY
November 10 - Mapping Binding Sites for the MADS-factor AGL15: a Custom ChIP-chip Approach - Yumei Zheng, Graduate student, Perry lab
November 17 - Departmental Seminar (3pm)
November 24 - Thanksgiving Holiday - no seminar
December 1 - Building more useful plant oils - Dave Hildebrand
December 8 - Functional domains of the bHLH transcription factors - Ling Yuan
Soils Science Seminar Series, Fall 2006. Fridays at 3:15 pm except as noted below, Cameron Williams Lecture Hall.
September 1 - International Opportunities for Agriculture Faculty and Staff -
Dr. Mike Reed, Director of International
Programs for Agriculture
September 15 - No seminar – Ag Roundup
September 22 - Departmental Seminar (3pm)
September 29 - Application of Metal Speciation to Risk, Remediation, and Bioavailability- Dr. Kirk Scheckel, US EPA,
Cincinnati, OH
October 6 - Fall Break - no seminar
October 13 - Interactions between N and P Cycles and Microbial Communities in Northern Hardwood Forests - Matt Weand, Ph.D. Student
October 20 - Departmental Seminar (3pm) - S. H. Phillips No-Tillage – Experiences with No-Tillage Farming and Equipment in Western KY - Howard Martin, Farmer, Todd County, KY
October 27 - Soils Extension Programs: A four year review - Dr. Greg Schwab, Extension Soils Specialist
November 3 - Carbon Sequestration Processes in Agricultural and Forest Soils of KY - Caitlin KovzeloveM.S. student
November 10 - Proposal seminar - Paul Shumaker, M.S. student
November 17 - Open
November 24 - Thanksgiving Holiday - no seminar
December 1 - An Interactive Approach to Teaching and Program Evaluation -
Amanda Abnee Gumbert, Doug McClaren, Department of Forestry, Stephanie Jenkins, KWRRI
December 8 - TBA - Soraya Alvarado,
Ph.D. student
KTRDC Biotech Lab-meeting schedule for the Fall 2006. Day and Time: Wednesday, 12-1 PM. Meeting Place: KTRDC Conference Room
August 23 - TBA
September 6 - Dr. Robert Houtz,
Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, UK.
September 20 - Dr. David Zaitlin,
KTRDC, College of Agriculture, UK
October 4 - Dr. Bruce Webb,
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, UK
October 18 - Dr. Jan Smalle,
Dept. Plant & Soil Sciences, KTRDC, College of Agriculture, UK
November 1 - Dr. Hongyan Zhu,
Dept. Plant & Soil Sciences, KTRDC, College of Agriculture, UK
November 15 - Dr. Baochun Li,
KTRDC, College of Agriculture, UK
November 29 - Dr. Arthur Hunt,
Dept. Plant & Soil Sciences, College of Agriculture, UK
December 13 - Dr. John Littleton
Naprogenix, KTRDC, Dept. Pharmacology, UK