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Invited Speakers and talks

Plant Research Platform: Seminar Series
Irish Network of Developmental Biologists' Meeting: October 16th 2007, UCC
pdf of programme
Paul O Donoghue
Clinical Psychologist,
Head of Psychology Dept.,
Central Remedial Clinic,
Clontarf,
Dublin


Declan Fahy
PhD candidate at Dublin City University,
Teacher on MSc in Science Communication & B.A in Journalism
Date: 1st March 07
Time: 18.00
Location: LG52 Cavanagh Building (Pharmacy)
Titles: “What to believe? Sceptics, cynics and charlatans”
“Celebrity Scientists: Is Stephen Hawking like David Beckham?”
Michael Ott
Executive Director
BIOWA, USA
Date: 18th September 06
Time: 16.00
Location: G18 Kane Building
Title: "Development of Crop Biorefineries in the USA: Forging new synergies between agriculture, energy, chemical & pharma sectors."
Dr. Sinead Drea
Dept of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Yale University, USA
Date: 28th November 05
Time:13.00
Location:BioSciences Institute 1.13
Title: "Plant tissue microarrays and the evo-devo of floral development"

Dr. Karl Schmid
Department of Genetics and Evolution
Max-Planck-Institute of Chemical Ecology
Jena
Germany
Date: 25th October 05
Time:13.00
Location:BioSciences Institute 1.13
Title: "Multilocus analysis of genetic variation to investigate the role of demography and natural selection."

Prof Rodomiro Ortiz
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT)
Mexico
Date: 22nd August 05
Time:11.00
Location:BioSciences Institute 1.13
Title: "Agricultural genetics and biotechnology research for food, nutrition and livelihood security in developing countries - the work of CIMMYT"

Dr. Dianne Nicol
Centre for Law and Genetics
Faculty of Law
University of Tasmania, Australia
Date: 26th July 05
Time:13.00
Location:BioSciences Institute 1.13
Title: "Intellectual Property Management Strategies in Biotechnology Research in Australia"

Dr. Tom Juenger
School of Integrative Biology
University of Texas, Austin, Texas, US
Date: 8th June 05
Time:13.00
Location:BioSciences Institute 1.13
Title: "Quantitative trait genetics of drought adaptation using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana."

Dr. Marie-Stanislas Remigereau
Lab of Ecology, Systematics abd Evolution
Institute of Plant Biotechnology
Universite Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
Date: 3rd June 05
Time:13.00
Location:BioSciences Institute 1.13
Title: "The teosinte branched 1 locus: Comparative evolutionary genetics of cereal domestication."

Dr. Esther Maina
Medical & Molecular Genetics
University of Birmingham, UK
Date: 25th February 05
Time:13.00
Location:BioSciences Institute 1.13
Title: "Novel traget genes of the von Hippel-Lindau tumour suppressor protein (pVHL) identified by expression array analysis "