Tenative Meeting Time: Tuesday 7 - 9 PM (can be altered if this is an inconvenient time for a lot of students)
Meeting Location:  316 PSN (Conference Room)

Seminar Topic:  This seminar will utilize current research literature that addresses recent advances that have been made in our understanding of auxin biology.

Seminar Format:  Students will volunteer to lead seminars on research papers during the course of the semester.  Expectations of the student leader will be that they provide a summary of the main objectives and findings of the research paper.  This will be followed by the student leader conducting an organized discussion on a critical analysis of the research, as well as, on the implications of the research toward future elucidation of the topic.

Guidelines and Grade Information for Participants

Instructor:      Roger D. Meicenheimer
Office:           358 PSN
Phone #:        529-7012
Office Hours:  M,W  9:00-12:00, or by appointment
Email:            MeicenRD@MUOhio.edu
Internet Home Page:  http://www.cas.muohio.edu/~meicenrd
 

Biographical Information:

     Native of eastern Oregon
     BA (1975) - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
     MS (1978) - Washington State University, Pullman, WA
     Ph.D. (1980) - Washington State University, Pullman, WA
     Postdoctoral Position (1980) - North Central Forest Experiment Station, Rhinelander, WI
     Assistant Professor (1981); Associate Professor (1987); Professor (1992) - Miami University, Oxford, OH

Research Interests:

     Developmental Plant Morphology and Plant Anatomy.
     Emphasison stem, leaf, and vascular components of the plant.
      Expert Systems

Focus Research Articles for Discussion include:
 

• McCarty, D. R. and J. Chory. 2000.  Conservation and Innovation in Plant Signaling Pathways. Cell.130:201-210.

The articles below are in Journal of Plant Growth Regulation. Volume 20, Number 3, 2001 (This special issue explores the role of auxin in plant growth and development.) NB. Miami subscribes to the on-line version of this journal, but this issue had not become available as of 23 April 2002.
 

•     Keeping the Momentum in Auxin Research

    Alan M. Jones
 
•     Inputs to the Active Indole-3-Acetic Acid Pool: De Novo Synthesis, Conjugate Hydrolysis,

    and Indole-3-Butyric Acid B-Oxidation.
    Bonnie Bartel, Sherry LeClere, M6nica Magidin, and Bethany K. Zolman
 
•     Quick on the Uptake: Characterization of a Family of Plant Auxin Influx Carriers

    Geraint Parry, Alan Marchant, Sean May, Ranjan Swarup, Kamal Swarup, Nick James,
    Neil Graham, Trudie Allen, Tony Martucci, Antony Yemm, Richard Napier, Ken Manning,
    Graham King, and Malcolm Bennett
 
•     Auxins and Tropisms

    Gloria K. Muday
 
•     Models of Auxin Binding

    Richard M. Napier
 
•     Dual Auxin Signaling Pathways Control Cell Elongation and Division

    Jin-Gui Chen
 
•     Auxin Signaling Involves Regulated Protein Degradation by the

    Ubiquitin - Proteasome Pathway
    Sally P. Ward and Mark Estelle                                            I
 
•     Molecular Links Between Light and Auxin Signaling Pathways

    Qing Tian and Jason W. Reed
 
•     Auxin Response Factors

    Tom J. Guilfoyle and Gretchen Hagen
 
•     The Role of Auxin in Apical-Basal Pattern Formation during

    Arabidopsis Embryogenesis
    Thorsten Hamann

I will be adding additional discussion papers to this list during the summer