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Teaching Tools
IN PLANT BIOLOGY
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Free subscriber feature in The Plant Cell
Customizable “off-the-shelf ” modules
Unrestricted use of materials
Peer reviewed by leaders in the field
Updated as new developments arise
The first six tools are free to all
“Teaching Tools in Plant Biology” is an online-only feature from
The Plant Cell. Each month a new set of teaching materials on a
different theme—such as Leaf Development or Epigenetics—is added
to the journal website. Each Teaching Tool includes a short essay
introducing the topic, a PowerPoint lecture with notes, and suggested
further readings. Tools are “off-the-shelf ” modules but easily
customizable by the instructor. They are designed with an audience
of upper-level undergraduates in mind, but subsets of slides can be
incorporated into lectures designed for introductory biology courses,
public lectures, or even graduate-level courses. We are creating most
of the artwork ourselves to allow subscribers unrestricted use of the
materials.
Plant
Biology
2011
Minneapolis
Augu st 6-10
The materials are peer reviewed by leaders in the field to ensure
accuracy, like all the material in The Plant Cell. Unlike a conventional
teaching textbook, these electronic lectures will be regularly updated
as new developments arise. We will also solicit contributions from
researchers and teachers that we will format and edit for continuity.
We hope that these resources help plant biologists teach and
communicate about plant biology. Look for Teaching Tools at
www.plantcell.org/teachingtools/. The first six tools are free to
everyone. Tools added since April 2010 are available only to
subscribers to The Plant Cell.
This resource is being developed by Mary Williams, PhD, who taught
plant biology to undergraduates at Harvey Mudd College. Feedback is
always appreciated at [email protected].
Check Out Teaching Tools at www.plantcell.org
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Plant Physiology Focus Issue on
Nuclear Architecture and Dynamics
Deadline for Submission: September 5, 2011
To submit an article, please go to http://submit.plantphysiol.org.
Plant Physiology is pleased to announce a Focus Issue on Nuclear Architecture and Dynamics, to
be published in January 2012. The issue will be co-edited by Alice Cheung and Anireddy Reddy.
This issue will focus on recent advances in and emerging understanding of nuclear architecture
and dynamics in plant cells and their potential relevance to developmental and physiological
processes. Research aimed at the broadly deÀned area of nuclear architecture and dynamics
including, but not limited to, chromatin dynamics, biogenesis and dynamics of nuclear bodies
involved in gene expression, and nuclear/cytoplasmic shuttling of proteins will be considered.
Please contact Alice Cheung ([email protected]) or Anireddy Reddy
([email protected]) for additional information.
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Teaching Tools
IN PLANT BIOLOGY
Ideas to grow on
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•
•
•
™
Free subscriber feature in The Plant Cell
Customizable “off-the-shelf ” modules
Unrestricted use of materials
Peer reviewed by leaders in the field
Updated as new developments arise
The first six tools are free to all
“Teaching Tools in Plant Biology” is an online-only feature from
The Plant Cell. Each month a new set of teaching materials on a
different theme—such as Leaf Development or Epigenetics—is added
to the journal website. Each Teaching Tool includes a short essay
introducing the topic, a PowerPoint lecture with notes, and suggested
further readings. Tools are “off-the-shelf ” modules but easily
customizable by the instructor. They are designed with an audience
of upper-level undergraduates in mind, but subsets of slides can be
incorporated into lectures designed for introductory biology courses,
public lectures, or even graduate-level courses. We are creating most
of the artwork ourselves to allow subscribers unrestricted use of the
materials.
Plant
Biology
2011
Minneapolis
Augu st 6-10
The materials are peer reviewed by leaders in the field to ensure
accuracy, like all the material in The Plant Cell. Unlike a conventional
teaching textbook, these electronic lectures will be regularly updated
as new developments arise. We will also solicit contributions from
researchers and teachers that we will format and edit for continuity.
We hope that these resources help plant biologists teach and
communicate about plant biology. Look for Teaching Tools at
www.plantcell.org/teachingtools/. The first six tools are free to
everyone. Tools added since April 2010 are available only to
subscribers to The Plant Cell.
This resource is being developed by Mary Williams, PhD, who taught
plant biology to undergraduates at Harvey Mudd College. Feedback is
always appreciated at [email protected].
Check Out Teaching Tools at www.plantcell.org
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VOLUME 23
NUMBER 4
APRIL 2011
THE PLANT CELL
Rob Last (chair)
Michigan State University
Caren Chang
University of Maryland
Georg Jander
Boyce Thompson Institute
Rob McClung
Dartmouth College
Harvey Millar
University of Western Australia
Keiko Torii
University of Washington
Doris Wagner
University of Pennsylvania
The board is overseeing all new content development as well as updates
to existing articles to keep TAB the
most comprehensive and current
work on Arabidopsis.
Glutathione
Graham Noctor, Guillaume Queval, Amna Mhamdi, Sejir Chaouch, and
Christine H. Foyer
February 14, 2011. Edited by Harvey Millar.
Histidine Biosynthesis
Robert A. Ingle
February 2, 2011. Edited by Georg Jander.
Proline Metabolism and Its Implications for Plant-Environment
Interaction
Paul E. Verslues and Sandeep Sharma
November 3, 2010. Edited by Georg Jander.
The Arabidopsis Nuclear Pore and Nuclear Envelope
Iris Meier and Jelena Brkljacic
October 7, 2010. Edited by Rob Last.
The Cryptochrome Blue Light Receptors
Xuhong Yu, Hongtao Liu, John Klejnot, and Chentao Lin
September 23, 2010. Edited by Rob McClung.
PAGES 1187 TO 1682
Dan Kliebenstein
University of California, Davis
Dorothea Tholl and Sungbeom Lee
April 6, 2011. Edited by Georg Jander.
APRIL 2011
The current editorial board is working hard to continue TAB’s ongoing
expansion:
Terpene Specialized Metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana
NUMBER 4
Founded by Chris Somerville and
Elliot Meyerowitz, TAB now has
more than 80 articles online and
received over 82,000 full-text
downloads in 2010.
The Arabidopsis Book
Posts New Content!
VOLUME 23
The American Society of Plant Biologists has published The Arabidopsis
Book (TAB) as a free online compendium since 2002. ASPB is providing
funds for the production of TAB as a
public service.
Progress and Promise in Using Arabidopsis to Study
Adaptation, Divergence and Speciation
Ben Hunter and Kirsten Bomblies
September 23, 2010. Edited by Dan Kliebenstein.
TAB is hosted in partnership with BioOne
(www.bioone.org) in HTML and PDF formats.
Photos courtesy of The Arabidopsis Information Resource and the RIKEN Plant Science Center.
EVOLUTION OF FLOWERING: EXPLORING LFY AND ITS TARGET GENES
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