Events  
January 2009 Dave Skibbe gives an invited presentation at the PAG meeting in San Diego CA. 
March 2009 Ginny speaks at Cold Spring Harbor meeting on Plant Genomes. 
April - June 2009 Gunther Doehlemann visits the lab to participate in Ustilago maydis experiments, funded by an EMBO travel fellowship. 
February 21 - March 3, 2010 Ginny attends the Molecular Basis of Plant Development conference in Vienna and presents a seminar at the MPI-Marburg while visitng Gunther Doehlemann and his lab group. 
March 18-21, 2010 Dave Skibbe, John Fernandes, Tim Kelliher, and Ginny attend the Maize Genetics Conference in Riva del Garda, Italy. We had a great time at the meeting and as tourists in Rome. 
June - September 2010 Julia Qüesta -- currently a Ph.D. student in Paula Casati's group in Rosario, Argentina -- will visit the lab to study Mu reactivation by UV-B radiation. 
February 2011 Aloha! Kelliher and Ginny Walbot on Moloka’i pollinating corn. 
May - September 2011 Visiting Ph.D. student David Schuler joins the lab to learn about corn – Ustilago maydis interaction; David is training in Jörg Kämper’s lab in Germany. 
June - September 2011 Summer corn field season with students Stephanie Wang, Jason Cheng, Francis Ge, Stephen Han, Hamda Khan, Blaine Marchant, Graham Marchant, and Maia Pierce. 
August 2011 - August 2012 Sabbatical professor Gao Li joins the lab to analyze corn – Ustilago maydis interaction. 
October 2011 Ginny makes a seminar visit at Purdue University. 
March 2012 Ginny makes a seminar visit at Cambridge University, UK. 
March 2012 Maize Genetics meeting in Portland, Oregon.