Complementation of Deconstructed REP- Viral Vectors with REP+ Transgenic Plants as a Step Towards Plant Gene Therapy. Natalie Thompson, Aliya Fathima Anwar, Alba Nava, Michael Ream, Serge Ouedraoo, Garry Sunter, Jane Polston, Wayne R. Curtis.  SIVB (Society of In Vitro Biology), Norfolk, Virginia, June 10-14, 2023. 

Duckweed Gene Expression optimization using Bioluminescent Reporter Genes and Improved Vacuum infiltration. Maia Clipsham, Natalie Thompson, Wayne R. Curtis.  ASPB (American Society of Plant Biologists), University of Maryland, Collee Park, MD, May 24, 2023.  

Development of a ‘Kill Switch’ to Attenuate Virus Proliferation. Natalie Thompson, Rekha Kandaswamy, Alba Nava, Natalia Chaves, Michael Ream, Aliya Fathima, Garry Sunter, Jane Polston, Wayne R. Curtis.  ASPB (American Society of Plant Biologists), University of Maryland, Collee Park, MD, May 24, 2023.  

Axenic Whitefly Tissue Culture Host Range and Preference Studies Towards Biocontainment Virus Transmission Studies.  Yun-Ru Chen, Natalie Thompson, David Krum, Mariela Torres, Marena Trauger, Dalton Strike, Zach Weston, April Hile, Jane Polston, Wayne R. Curtis.  ASPB (American Society of Plant Biologists), University of Maryland, College Park, MD, May 26, 2022.   

Chesapeake watershed protection from dairy runoff: Duckweed gene expression optimization using reporter genes and non-necrotic Agrobacterium. Maia Clipsham, Anna Filipkowski, Natalie Thompson, Nathan Vorodi, and Wayne R. Curtis. ASPB (American Society of Plant Biologists), University of Maryland, College Park, MD, May 26, 2022. 

Advanced Plant Reporter Genes for Transient Expression.  Nathan Vorodi, Natalie Thompson, David Samson, Rekha Kandaswamy, Vijay Sheri, Aliya F. Anwar, Michael Ream, Anna Filipkowski, Maia Clipsham, Sairam Rudrabhatla, and Wayne R. Curtis. SIVB (Society of In Vitro Biology), P-3003 (interactive poster), San Diego, CA, June 4-7, 2022. 

Establishment of an Axenic Whitefly Colony for In Vitro Virus Transmission Studies.  Wayne R. Curtis, Natalie Thompson, David Krum, Yun-Ru Chen, Mariela Torres, Marena Trauger, Dalton Strike, Zach Weston, April Hile, and Jane Polston. SIVB (Society of In Vitro Biology), P-3004 (interactive poster), San Diego, CA, June 4-7, 2022. 

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3. Seminar: To Be Determined. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, April, 14th, 2018.

4. Seminar: Anatomy of An Idea: Algae Biofuels to Electrofuels. University-Based Research in Energy Production from Renewable Resources. Universitai Polytechnica din Bucharesti, Bucharest, Romania, June 13, 2017.

5. Seminar:  28 Years of Plant Propagation from an Engineering Perspective. Biosciences eastern and central Africa - International Livestock Research Institute (BecA - ILRI) Hub, Nairobi, Kenya, June 19, 2017.

6. Seminar: Biomass Cradle to Grave. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Pasco, WA.

7. Seminar Low-Cost Bioreactors & Continuous Culture Systems. Chromatan Corporation Stakeholders Meeting Presentation, University Park, PA.

8. Seminar:  Advanced Technologies to Get Improved Yams in Farmer's Hands. Penn State Research in Africa: Building Synergy within the Community Mini-Symposium Agenda, Febryary 22, 2016. University Park, PA.

9. Seminar: Biomass: Cradle to Grave. Invited plenary talk. Arkansas Annual Research Symposium; July, Arkansas Center for Plant-Powered Production. Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, AR. July 2014

10. Seminar: My Sabbatic/Post-Doc/PTSD: From Algae Oil and Paper-Eating Bacteria to Functional Transmembrane Protein expression in an Anaerobic Photo-heterotroph Penn State University, Dept. Chemical Engineering, University Park, PA, December 2, 2008.

11. Seminar: True Green Engineering: Photosynthetic Biochemical Production Platforms, Utah State University, Center for Integrated Biosystems, October 2, 2008.

12. Seminar: Bioreactor Design & Operation: From Plant Propagation to Plant Deconstruction Pioneer (DUPONT), Wilmington, DE, October 7, 2008.

13. Seminar: Green Chemistry in Disposable Bioreactors. "Genentech", Process Development, San Francisco, CA 11/8/07.

14. Seminar: Trickle Down Economics for Biofuels. Harvard Medical School, Genetics Department, Boston, MA, 4/30/2007.

15. Seminar: Rapid Protein Expression in Plants (and other Cool Stuff). WPI (Worchester Polytechnic Institute), Worchester, MA, 12/6/06.

16. SEMINARS .... There is about a bazillion missing here I need to dig up someday to update this.... 

17. Seminar: "Biological Solutions to Bioprocessing Problems in Plant Biotechnology", University of Delaware, Newark, DE, April 13, 2001.

18. Seminar: "Chemical Productin in Cultured Plant Tissues", Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY, March 9, 2000.

19. Seminar: "Plant tissues in bioreactors as a platform for manipulating plant biochemistry", University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus, Baltimore, MD, 2/28/00.

20. Seminar: "Examining Sesquiterpene Phytoalexin Metabolism in Solonaceous Plants in the Context of Pathway Metabolic Engineering Issues", Monsanto, St. Louis, 4/14/99.

21. Seminar: "Reactor Design and Operation for Pilot-Scale Growth of Plant Tissue Culture", Monsanto, Madison WI, 4/13/99.

22. Seminar: "Chemical Reaction Engineering using Plant Tissue Culture as the Catalyst", University of Massachusetts, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Amherst, Mass, 11/5/98.

23. Seminar: " Industrial Herbal Medicine (A non-Paradox)", Alumni Huddle with the Faculty, Penn State Alumni Association, University Park, PA, 10/17/98.

24. Seminar: "Bioconversion", Mobil Technology Corporation, Dallas, TX, 2/25/98.

25. Seminar: "Reaction Engineering and Genetic Engineering of Chemical Production in Plant Tissue Culture", Penn State, Dept. of BioEngineering, University Park, PA, 1/15/98.

26. Seminar: "Design and Operational stategies for large-scale plant suspension culture" followed by "Chemical Production from Plant Root Culture: Reactor design and scale-up", Sam Yang Research and Development (Taxol Production group), Taejon, KOREA, 8/29/97.

27. Seminar: "Chemical Production from Plant Root Culture: Reactor design and scal-up", Kyung-Hee University, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Kyunggi-Do, KOREA, 8/28/97.

28. Seminar: "Chemical Plants, Genetic Engineering and other Equivocations", Penn State University, Plant Physiology Seminar Series, March 26, 1997.

29. Seminar: "Chemical Plants, Genetic Engineering and other Equivocations", Dupont: Central Research, Wilmington, DE, March 24, 1997.

30. Seminar: "Chemical production from plant tissue culture", U.C. Davis, Davis, CA, Feb. 24, 1997.

31. Seminar: "Biochemical and engineering aspects of secondary metabolite production in plant tissue culture", Pfizer Central Research, Groton, CT, August 26, 1996.

32. Seminar: Institute of Applied Biochemistry, University of Tskuba, Tsukuba-City, Japan, July 25, 1995.

33. Seminar: Bioscience Laboratory, Mitsui Sekka, Mitsui Petrochemical Industries, Ltd., Yamaguchi, Japan, July 24, 1995.

34. Seminar: Dept. of Bioproduction Science, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan, July 21, 1995.

35. Seminar: Dept. of Biological Sciences & Technology, Tokai Universtiy, Shizouka, Japan, July 19, 1995.

36. Seminar: Dept. of Chemical & Biological Sciences, Japan Woman s University, Tokyo, Japan, July 14, 1995.

37. Seminar: Plant Breeding and Genitics Research Laboratory, Japan Tobacco, Inc., Iwata, Shizuoka-ken, JAPAN, July 12, 1995.

38. Seminar: Dept. of Biotechnology, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, July 11, 1995.

39. Seminar: Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan, July 11, 1995.

40. Seminar: Food Color Laboratory Division, San-Ei Gen F.F.I., Inc., Osaka, JAPAN, July 6, 1995.

41. Seminar: International Center for Cooperative Research in Biotechnology, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, July 6, 1995.

42. Seminar: Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, July 6, 1995.

43. Seminar: Laboratory of Plant Cell Physiology, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan, July 5, 1995.

44. Seminar: Dept. of Applied Science, Okayama Universtiy of Science, Okayama, Japan, July 3, 1995.

45. Seminar: Dept. of Applied Biological Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, June 30, 1995.

46. Seminar: Research and Education Center for Genetic Information., Nara Instutute of Science & Technology, Nara, Japan, June 28, 1995.

47. Seminar: Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, June 23, 1995.

48. Seminar: "Reactor Design for Plant Tissue Culture", Department of Biotechnology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, Nov. 8, 1994.

49. Seminar: "Chemical production from plant tissue culture", Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences Seminar Series, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA, April 8, 1994.

50. Seminar: "Use of sesquiterpene induction in the study of reactor design and operation", Salk Institute, San Diego, March 17, 1994.

51. Seminar: "Penn State's Biotechnology Institute and Industrial Bioprocessing Resource Center", Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, New Delhi, INDIA, Nov. 30, 1993.

52. Seminar: "Design and operation of reactors for the production of chemicals from plant tissue culture", Lecture in short course at Department of Biochemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.) New Delhi, INDIA, Nov. 29, 1993.

53. Seminar: "Scale-up of chemical production from plant tissue culture", United Breweries; Research Division, Bangalore, INDIA, Nov. 25, 1993.

54. Seminar: "Design and operation of reactors for the production of chemicals from plant tissue culture", Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, INDIA, Nov. 24, 1993.

55. Seminar: "Penn State's Biotechnology Institute and Industrial Bioprocessing Resource Center", University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, INDIA, Nov. 23, 1993.

56. Seminar: "Chemical plants - the green ones", in Chemical Engineering Department at Penn State University, Sept. 7, 1993.

57. Seminar: "Design and scale-up of reactors for root culture", Purdue University, 9/8/92.

58. Seminar: "Chemical production from plant tissue culture", at Merck, Rahway, NJ., 3/9/92.

59. Seminar: "Reactor design for plant tissue culture," at USDA/ARS Philadelphia, 3/24/92.

60. Seminar: "Techniques of enhancing chemical production from plant tissues in culture", Rohm & Haas Co., Spring House, PA, Sept. 1991.

61. Seminar: "Research opportunities in chemical engineering," at City College of New York, 12/90. at Lincoln University, 4/10/91. at Seton Hill College, 3/3/92. at Lincoln University, 3/24/92.

62. Seminar: "Enhancing chemical production from plant tissue culture", PSU Plant Physiology Seminar Series, 2/20/91.

63. Seminar: "Bioreactor design and operation for the production of chemicals from plant tissue culture", University of Kentucky, February 8, 1991.

64. Seminar: "Application of engineering principles to plant physiology", PSU Plant Physiology Seminar Series, Spring 1989.

65. Seminar: "Modeling phosphorous limited growth kinetics of opium poppy culture", University of Virginia, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, spring 1988