News Update: May 31st, 2011

This week is the Working on Walls (WoW) conference at UBC. As part of the NSERC-CREATE collaborative grant, WoW members have organized a plant cell wall conference at UBC. Invited speakers are:

Simon Turner from the University of Manchester

Debra Mohnen from the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center at the University of Georgia

Taku Demura from RIKEN and NAIST

Clint Chapple from Purdue University

Several Samuels Lab members will also be giving talks:

Teagen Quilichini: "A perplexing biopolymer: how autofluorescence is uncovering clues to sporopollenin composition and assembly"

Mathias Schuetz: "Monolignol export and plant cell wall lignification"

Rebecca Smith: "Good neighbours: the co-operative model during lignification"