The LeTourneau Lectureship in Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

List of Distinguished Speakers and Lecture Titles

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Speakers
(Year)

 Affiliations

 Titles of Lectures

1

Dr. Jan Miernyk
(1993)

USDA/ARS

“The Stress-70 Proteins as Molecular Chaperones for the Membrane Translocation of Plant Precursor Proteins”

2

Dr. James H. Tumlinson
(1994)

USDA/ARS

“How Parasitoids and Predators Find Their Host and Prey: Chemistry of Eavesdropping, Alarm and Deceit”

3

Dr. Elizabeth Bernays
(1996)

Univ. of Arizona

“The Benefits of Plant Secondary Metabolites to Insect Herbivores”

4

Dr. Robert L. Last
(1997)

Cornell University

“Using Genetics to Understand Stress Adaptation Mechanisms in Plants”

5

Dr. Milton Zaitlin
(1998)

Cornell University

“Tobacco Mosaic Virus: 100 Years of Contributions to Virology”

6

Dr. Anthony Cashmore
(1999)

U. or Pennsylvania

“Cryptochromes: Blue Light Photoreceptors For Both Plants and Animals”

7

Dr. Jonathan Gershenzon
(2000)

Max Planck Institute
Germany

“Glucosinolates: Model Plant Defense Compounds in a Model Plant”

8

Dr. Michael Thomashow
(2001)

Michigan State Univ.

“Molecular Switches that Control Plant Stress Tolerance”

9

Dr. Ian Baldwin
(2002)

Max Planck Institute
Germany

“Answering Ecological Questions with the Tools of Plant Molecular Biology in Nicotiana attenuata”

10

Dr. Gary Felton
(2003)

Pennsylvania State
University

“Salivary Signals from Caterpillars: Role in Evasion of Host Plant Defense”

11

Dr. Jorge M. Vivanco
(2005)

Colorado State
University

“How Plants Communicate Using the Underground Chemical Info Superhighway"

12

Dr. Kirsi-Marja Oksman-Caldentey
(2006)

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

“A Functional Genomics Approach Towards the Understanding of Plant Secondary Metabolism"

13

Dr. Richard Flavell
(2007)

Ceres, Inc., California

"Moving the Frontiers of Genomics to Help Plant Biology and Breeding"

14

Dr. Nigel Halford
(2008)

Rothamsted Research Centre, UK

“Acrylamide in Everyday Foods is a Plant and Agronomic Science Issue”

15

Dr. Richard Sayre
(2009)

Danforth Plant Sci. Center, St. Louis, MO

“The Promise of Plant Biotechnology; Innovations for Global Health and Renewable Energy”

16

Dr. Gregory Martin
(2014)

Cornell University

“Protein Structures at the Interface of Pathogen Effectors and the Plant Immune System and How They Impact the Host Response”

17

Dr. Jorge Dubcovsky
(2016)

University of California, Davis

“A Collection of 10 Million Sequenced Mutations Provides New Tools to Dissect Flowering Pathways in Wheat”

18

Dr. Michael J. Havey
(2019)

USDA-ARS and University of Wisconsin, Madison

“Breeding Onion for Insect Resistance: 80 Years of Effort”