Plant Metabolism Mini-Symposium

Anyone in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN area is welcome to attend the
following mini-symposium on PLANT METABOLISM.

Coming up: May 20, 2008 at the University of Minnesota
Mini-Symposium*, 105 Cargill Bldg
1500 Gortner Avenue, St. Paul, MN
“Plant Metabolism – Good Things Made in Plants”
Organizer: M. David Marks

11 AM Rob Last
Prof, Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State U.
“Hairy Genomics: Understanding biochemical pathways in tomato
trichomes”

12 PM David Gang
Assoc Prof, Depts of Plant Sciences and Biochemistry & Molecular
Biophysics, U. of Arizona
“Medicinal plant metabolism and metabolic engineering”

Lunch Break

3 PM Lloyd Sumner
Assoc Scientist, and Head, Biological Mass Spectrometry, Plant
Biology Division, Noble Foundation
“Metabolomics: Large-scale and high resolution biochemical phenotyping for
discovery and mechanistic insight into secondary metabolism”

4 PM Rick Dixon
Senior VP, and Plant Biology Division Director, Noble Foundation
“Engineering of plant metabolite pathways”