SEMINARS and LECTURES

1980Subcellular status of anthocyanins in grape skins
Grape and Wine Centennial Symposium, University of California, Davis, CA

Contents of vacuoles isolated from grape berry subepidermal tissues
American Society of Plant Physiologists, Annual Meeting
Washington State University, Pullman, WA

1981Organizer, Symposium on Cellular and Subcellular Localization in Plant Metabolism, Phytochemical Society of North America , Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., August 9-14.

Tissue specific localization of secondary plant metabolites
Department of Plant Biochemistry, Rijksuniversiteit-Gent, Gent, Belgium

Tissue and subcellular localization of anthocyanins and flavonoids
Department of Botany, University of Cologne, Germany

1982Accumulation and synthesis of flavonoids in peas
Annual Meeting, American Society of Plant Physiologists, University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana

Tissue specific distribution of flavonoids and their biosynthetic enzymes in pea leaves
Annual Meeting, Phytochemical Society of North America, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Subcellular localization of flavonoid biosynthesis
Biology Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY

1983 Are enzyme complexes involved in the biosynthesis of flavonoids in Brassica?
Northeast Section Meeting of ASPP, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Structural transformation of anthocyanins
Annual Meeting, Canadian Society of Plant Physiology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

Endoplasmic reticulum as a site of phenylpropanoid and flavonoid biosynthesis in Hippeastrum
Annual Meeting, American Society of Plant Physiologists, Fort Collins, CO

Association of phenylpropanoid and flavonoid pathway enzymes
in illuminated seedlings of red cabbage
Annual Meeting, American Society of Plant Physiologists, Fort Collins, CO

Biosynthesis of flavonoid compounds
Annual Meeting, Phytochemical Society of North America, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Genetic control of anthocyanin biosynthesis in pea
Cornell University Biotechnology Symposium, Ithaca, NY

1984Synthesis of flavonoids on endoplasmic reticulum associated enzyme complexes
Annual Meeting, Phytochemical Society of North America, Boston University, Boston, MA

Compartmentation of phenolic compounds: sites of synthesis and accumulation
Phytochemical Society of Europe, Rijks-universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium

1985Biosynthesis, sequestration and genetic control of flavonoid compounds
General Foods Co., Tarrytown, NY

Chalcone synthase and the expression of anthocyanin color in flowers of Pisum sativum
Annual Meeting Phytochemical Society of North America, Conference Center, Asilomar, CA

1986Glucosylation of flavonoid compounds in Hippeastrum
JIEP 86, Universite des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier, France

Lecture on flavonoid biosynthesis
Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary

Symposium speaker
Hungarian Forum, Technical University, Budapest, Hungary

Lecture on synthesis, compartmentation and genetic control of anthocyanins
General Foods, Tarrytown, NJ

1987Symposium speaker
National Meeting of the Am. Chem. Soc., Denver, CO.

Lecture on topics in flavonoid chemistry and biochemistry
Westreco, New Milford, CT.

Symposium speaker
Am. Soc. Plant Physiol. St. Louis, MO

1988UCLA Symposium on Molecular Basis of Plant Development
March 26-April 12, Steamboat Springs, Colorado,

Detection and characterization of an isoflavone reductase in CuCl2-stressed garden pea (Pisum sativum).

Molecular analysis of phenylpropanoid and flavonoid enzymes in developing seedlings of Fagopyrum and Brassica.

International Conference of Group Polyphenole
August 15-19, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.

Ultrastructural localization of chalcone synthase, a soluble flavonoid pathway enzyme by immunogold methods.
Chairman of session Polyphenols in Foods.

1989UCLA Symposium on Structural and Organizational Aspects of Metabolic Regulation.

Annual Meeting of the American Association of Plant Physiologists, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 30-August 3.

Isoforms of chalcone synthase in the biosynthesis of anthocyanins in buckwheat.

Induction, purification and characterization of a 2,7'-dihydroxy 4',5'-methylenedioxy isoflavone reductase from pea (Pisum sativum L.) seedlings.

Sites of accumulation and synthesis in aromatic metabolism. Seminar, Department of Microbiology and Cell Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville

1990UCLA Symposium on Molecular Strategies for Crop Improvement. Keystone, CO.

Plant aromatic metabolism Kraft/General Foods Co. Tarrytown, N.Y.

Sites of synthesis and accumulation in aromatic metabolism in plants. Biology Department, Ithaca College, Ithaca ,N.Y.

1991Subcellular localization in aromaric metabolism. Gordon Conference on Structure and Function in Metabolism, Oxnard, CA

Association of enzymes in plant aromatic metabolism with the endoplasmic reticulum. Plant Biology Seminar Series, Cornell University, Ithaca, February 8.

Biosynthesis of Phenolic Compounds. Symposium Speaker, Second North American Tannin Conference, Houghton MI.

Compartmentation in Aromatic Metabolism. Keynote Symposium Speaker , 31th Annual Meeting of the Phytochemical Society of North America, Fort Collins, CO.

Genetic engineering of disease resistance in legumes. Institute of Plant Pathology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, Nov. 20, 1991.

The biosynthesis of pisatin. Department of Horticultural Sciences, Cornell University, Geneva. Dec.9,1991.

1992Role of polygalacturonase in softening of apple. Apple Processing Workshop, Cornell University, NYSAES Geneva , June 3,1992.

Biosynthesis of the raspberry ketone in fruits and tissue cultures. Kraft General Foods Co., Tarrytown, NY, June 6,1992

Prevention of softening in apples by using molecular approaches. NE-103 meeting, Wolfwille, NS. Canada, July 5-8, 1992

Polygalacturonase in apples. 6-th International Cell Wall Meeting, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, August 24-29, 1992

1993Biotechnology in Agriculture. Marist College, Hyde Park, N.Y. 5/19, 1993

Prevention of softening in apples using molecular approaches. NE-103 meeting, Ithaca, NY. 6/18-19, 1993

Compartmentation in phenolic metabolism. Symposium on Natural Phenols in Plant Resistance, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany, 9/13-17, 1993

1995Biotechnology and Food Science: a challenge for the future. Seminar at the Food Science Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. March 25, 1995

Down Regulation of ethylene synthesis in apples using antisense techniques. NE-103 Annual Meeting, Penticton, BC. August 1-3, 1995

Down regulation of ethylene synthesis in Royal Gala seedlings by an antisense ACC synthase construct. Cornell Biotechnology Symposium, Ithaca, N.Y. October 11, 1995

Progress report on prevention of softening of apples by down regulating ethylene synthesis. NYSARDP board meeting, Geneva, N.Y. Nov. 12, 1995.


1996Physiological changes during development and ripening in grape berries - indices to assess ripeness. 25-th New York Wine Industry Workshop, April 3-5,1996, Geneva, N.Y.

A novel aromatic polyketide synthase in Rubus species. Nobel Foundation Symposium on Biochemical and metabolic aspects of 3-Ketoacyl Synthases, Humacao, Puerto Rico, June 1-5, 1996.

1997Keystone Symposium on Metabolic Engineering in Transgenic Plants. April 6-11, Copper Mountain, Colorado