Monday, February 6, 2012

News Update: February 6th, 2012

Today, the Working on Walls Network is hosting a mini-symposium at the MSL. The featured speakers are:

Simon Southerton from CSIRO Plant Industry Australia: “Exploring genes and alleles influencing wood development in eucalypts”

Björn Sundberg from the Umeå Plant Sciences Centre at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences: High throughput Py-GC/MS in screens for cell wall mutants”

Harry Brumer from Michael Smith Laboratories at UBC: “New aspects of the evolution of plant glycoside hydrolase family 16 (GH16) enzymes: XETs, XEHs, and beyond”

Check it out and learn something about cell walls!