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Ithaca, New York
December 4, 2001
Cornell University will host the first
United States-Republic of Korea Joint Seminar on Plant Molecular
Genetics and Breeding Dec. 11 and 12 at the Boyce Thompson
Auditorium on campus. The seminar is free and open to the
public.
The joint seminar is a program developed by the National Science
Foundation and the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation to
enhance cooperation among the science and engineering research
centers in the two countries. The program involves joint
research projects, seminars and scientific exchanges.
The seminar is organized by Cornell's Department of Plant
Breeding, International Programs of Cornell's New York State
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the Center for
Plant Molecular Genetics and Breeding Research at Seoul National
University.
Opening remarks will be made by Ronnie Coffman, chair of the
Department of Plant Breeding and director of International
Programs in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences,
and Byung-Dong Kim, director of the Center for Plant Molecular
Genetics and Breeding Research at Seoul National University.
Cornell-affiliated participants include:
- Susan McCouch, associate
professor of plant breeding;
- Maureen Hanson, Liberty Hyde
Bailey Professor of molecular biology and genetics;
- Dan Klessig, president and
chief executive of Boyce Thompson Institute on the Cornell
campus and an adjunct professor of plant pathology;
- Martha Mutschler, professor of
plant breeding;
- Jocelyn Rose, assistant
professor of plant biology;
- June Nasrallah, professor of
plant biology;
- Elizabeth Earle, professor of
plant breeding;
- James Giovannoni, plant
molecular biologist at the U.S. Department of
Agriculture-Boyce Thompson Institute;
- Molly Jahn, associate
professor of plant breeding;
- Stephen Kresovich, director of
Cornell's Institute for Biotechnology and Life Science
Technologies, and professor of plant breeding and plant
biology; and
- graduate student Amanda Luong.
Contact: Blaine P. Friedlander
Jr.
Office: 607-255-3290
E-mail: bpf2@cornell.edu
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