What's on in Plant Sciences

Cancelled-Cross-kingdom RNAi and small RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens

CANCELLED due to travel restrictions by University of California

Prof Hailing Jin (Professor and Cy Mouradick Endowed Chair, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California Riverside, USA) .

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 17 March 2020, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Engineering the Nitrogen Symbiosis for Africa (ENSA): Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and its Nutrient Regulation in Barley

Doris Albinsky, Paszkowski group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing a method for meiotic cell -specific gene expression and chromatin profiling in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Artemis Perraki, Andreuzza group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Cancelled: Understanding drivers and consequences of plant diversity across temporal and spatial scales in an era of rapid global change

This talk is cancelled

Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Minnesota.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Adaptive evolution of meiosis in response to whole genome duplication and habitat

Kirsten Bomblies, ETH Zürich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the cell biology of invasive growth by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

Nick Talbot, Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant puzzle cell shape is an adaptation to a developmental constraint based on mechanical stress and isotropic growth

Richard Smith, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

An unexpected role of the plastidial NAD-dependent malate dehydrogenase in chloroplast development

Tina Schreier, Hibberd group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The roots of change: global change and mycorrhizal symbiosis through the Phanerozoic

Katie Field, University of Leeds.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

What's on in Plant Sciences

Engineering Nitrogen Storage Capacity of Plant to Improve Drought Tolerance

Dr Rajeev Gupta, ICRISAT, India.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 06 December 2019, 13:30-14:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Conserved defences underpin host responses to oomycete infection in liverworts

Philip Carella, SLCU.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Engineering NLR immune receptors to combat rice blast disease

Mark Banfield, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Numerous inputs contribute to the genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Post Doc invited speaker

Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Noisy and dynamic gene regulation in Arabidopsis

James Locke, Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Tales of growth and buckling: Micro-pattern formation on petal surface cells

Carlos Lugo Velez, Glover group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mechanisms conferring seasonal flowering responses in annual and perennial plants

Post Doc invited speaker

George Coupland, Max Plank Institute.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular convergence in the evolution of betalains

Hester Sheehan, Brockington group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

21st Century Crop Science Wo(man)

Alison Bentley, NIAB.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

What's on in Plant Sciences

Retracing the evolution of stress tolerance in plants and animals

Simon "Niels" Groen, New York.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Monday 14 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The evolution of reproductive isolation: multiple hybrid zones in Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae)

Boris Delahaie, Glover group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Escaping Mendel’s laws: Epigenetic insights from the sulfurea paramutation in Solanum Lycopersicum.

Claudia dos Santos Martinho, Baulcombe group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 13:00-13:30

What's on in Plant Sciences

γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a plant signalling molecule

Matthew Gilliham, Professor of Crop Molecular Physiology, University of Adelaide, Australia.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

What's on in Plant Sciences

Delivering 'the promise' of plant science through translation

Seminars on Crop Science - 2 day series

Leon Terry, Cranfield University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 11:00-11:50

What's on in Plant Sciences

Reducing agricultural reliance on inorganic fertilisers

Seminars on Crop Science - 2 day series

Giles Oldroyd, University of Cambridge.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 10:00-10:50

What's on in Plant Sciences

Making fish oils in the field: metabolic engineering the omega-3 LC-PUFA pathway into transgenic plants for enhanced animal and human nutrition

Seminars on Crop Science - 2 day series

Johnathan Napier, Rothamsted Research.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 May 2019, 16:00-16:50

What's on in Plant Sciences

Gene to landscape: cross-disciplinary and translational research to deliver higher crop yields with lower environmental impact

Seminars on Crop Science - 2 day series

Geoffrey Gurr, Charles Sturt University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Monday 20 May 2019, 15:00-13:50

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Dynamics in forest microclimates provide new insights into biodiversity responses to climate change

Florian Zellweger, Coomes group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Arbuscular mycorrhiza development and function

Caroline Gutjahr, Technical University of Munich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CO2 Sensing in Plants and New Insights into Drought-Induced Abscisic Acid Signal Transduction

Julian Schroeder, UCSD.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

What's on in Plant Sciences

Exploiting the extracellular matrix to understand plant stress-adaptive responses

Dr Stephen Chivasa, University of Durham.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Antarctic snow algae blooms – analysing community function from microscopes to satellites

Matt Davey, Smith Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The origins of Neotropical mega-diversity

Alexandre Antonelli, Kew.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Experience in founding Cambridge Glycoscience

This is a CambPlants Industrial talk

Paul Dupree, Biochemistry & Tom Simmons.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Rethinking mechanisms of stomatal response to temperature, drought and VPD

Mike Blatt, Glasgow.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Targeted grafts as a tool to enhance tomato preservation

Sara Lopez-Gomollon, Baulcombe Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Adjusting the valves: fate and flexibility in stomatal development

Dominique Bergmann, Stanford.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sychronized cells as a model for the diel regulation of Rubisco-EPYC1 interactions in the Chlamydomonas CCM

Indu Santhanagopalan, Griffiths lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From start to finish: Emerging functions of the N-end rule pathway of proteolysis in plants

Dan Gibbs, Birmingham.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

REC8-cohesin and chromatin state orchestrate Arabidopsis meiotic recombination

Andy Tock, Henderson Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED-Genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Apologies, due to flight cancellation this talk will be rescheduled

Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University .

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

What's on in Plant Sciences

The GMO Controversy

Kate Creasey, Grow More Foundation.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Monday 26 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

How do betalains evolved? Consequences of a de-regulated enzyme in Caryophyllales

Samuel Lopez, Brockington group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Coordinated approaches to assess the effects of interacting global change drivers on forest composition and function

Kris Verheyen, University of Ghent.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

How the nutrient status of the plant controls its engagement with microorganisms

Giles Oldroyd, Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Reprogramming roots for fungal symbiosis

Leonie Luginbuehl, Hibberd group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Drivers and consequences of pollinator decline: from individuals to landscapes

Jane Stout, Trinity College Dublin.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

What's on in Plant Sciences

An inorganic antioxidant in a living system impacting atmospheric and marine chemistry: Iodide in seaweeds (kelp)

Hosted by CambPlants

Prof. Frithjof C. Kuepper from Oceanlab, University of Aberdeen.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 17 July 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing and Funding a Global System for the Conservation of Crop Diversity in Genebanks

Luigi Guarino, Crop Trust.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A Ser/Thr receptor-like kinase, Ark1, is required to maintain arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in rice

Ronelle Roth, Paszkowski Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Metabolic Clusters – From Genetics to Genomics

Third "Enid MacRobbie Women in Science" lecture

Anne Osbourne, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Multiple macroevolutionary routes to becoming a biodiversity hotspot

Javier Igea, Tanentzap Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Explosive seed dispersal

Angela Hay, Max Planck.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Open tools in Marchantia for plant bioengineering work and as a platform for elucidating morphogenesis

Susana Sauret-Gueto, Haseloff Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unlocking the secrets of medicinal crops: from artemisinin to morphine, why are plants still better than bugs at making these drugs?

Ian Graham, University of York.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

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(Epi)genomic Diversity and the Regulatory DNA Landscape

Joe Ecker.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 18 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

(Epi)genomic Diversity and the Regulatory DNA Landscape

Special Seminar

Joe Ecker, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological studies.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 18 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Protein targeting within the chloroplast: a cell-biological view of starch biosynthesis

Sam Zeeman, ETH Zurich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED-Open tools in Marchantia for plant bioengineering work and as a platform for elucidating morphogenesis

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

Susana Sauret-Gueto, Haseloff Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: How and why the growth and biomass varies across the tropics

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

Yadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science, University of Oxford.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phylogenetic hypothesis of the Oleeae tribe (Oleaceae)
 Diversification and molecular evolution patterns in plastid and nuclear ribosomal DNA

Loubab Zedane, Brockington Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants Plant host-pathogen coevolution and exploring local adaptation of an Arabidopsis thaliana complex Resistance gene locus

Jane Parker, MPI Cologne.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From vesicles to responsive artificial tissues

Emma Talbot, Haseloff Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED-Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Warwick University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Using the auxin-inducible degron in yeast to understand the spliceosome cycle

Gonzalo Mendoza, Smith Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: Drivers and consequences of pollinator decline: from individuals to landscapes

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

Jane Stout, Trinity College Dublin.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Towards understanding of photoacclimation in algal photosynthesis – regulation via redox and Ca2+

Michael Hippler, University of Munster.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 December 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Increasing Crop Productivity Sustainably by Bioengineering Improved Photosynthetic Efficiency

Stephen Long, University of Illinois.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Identification of a suppressor of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal symbiosis in rice

Jeongmin Choi, Paszkowski Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant intracellular immune receptors; diversity, deployment and dissection

Jonathan Jones, Sainsbury Lab, Norwich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Not just a pretty flower- an ancestral function for LEAFY in shoot development of non-seed vascular plants

Andrew Plackett, Hibberd Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Managing the global land resource

Pete Smith, University of Aberdeen.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sustainable bioenergy and biofuels from microalgae: a systems biology perspective

Maria Huete Ortega, Smith Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Highlighting industry collaborations in Plant Sciences

This is a CAMBPLANTS Industrial Talk

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Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The surprising evolution of TTG1-WDR proteins

Chiara Airoldi, Glover Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Warwick University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A synthetic biology approach to harness the regulatory potential of miRNAs in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Francisco J. Navarro, Baulcombe group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Towards a General Theory of Lorenz Ordering Applied to Ecological Domiance and Earth Observation Systems of Forest Ecosystems

Ruben Valbuena, Coomes group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CambPlants Industrial Talks

This is a CPPS sponsored seminar

Dr Vitor Verdelo Viera, A4F and Professor Alison Smith, Plant Sciences.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Evaluating ex-situ conservation of threatened plants in the botanic garden network

Ross Mounce, Brockington group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Salicylic acid and its binding proteins at the crossroads of plant and human health

Dan Klessig, Cornell University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Importance of Fluctuations in Light on Plant Photosynthetic Acclimation

Silvere Vialet-Chabrand, Griffiths group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 April 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Endoplasmic reticulum hosts the activities of plant microRNAs

Xuemei Chen, UC Riverside.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Using synthetic biology in algae for the production of designer lipids

Katrin Geisler, Smith Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 March 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Abundant phased siRNAs in plant reproductive organs

Blake Meyers, Donald Danforth Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mathematical modelling of the citrus disease Huanglongbing

Andrew Craig, Gilligan Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Physiology and Development From a Cut Flower Supplier Perspective

CambPlants Industrial Talk

MM Flowers and Beverley Glover.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The role of forests in regulating greenhouse gas emissions from boreal freshwater ecosystems

Erik Szkokan-Emilson, Tanentzap Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Dynamic regulation of gibberellin gradients influencing plant growth patterning

Alexander Jones, SLCU.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Is achieving no net loss of a globally rare species achievable for a mining project in the Caucasus global biodiversity hotspot possible?

Pete Carey, Tanner Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Climate Change and Nature Conservation

Brian Eversham, CEO, BCN Wildlife Trust.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The role of Chrisanthemum virus B p12 in the regulation of plant transcription and supression of RNA silencing.

Nina Lukhovitskaya, Carr Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The global movement of plant pests and pathogens: implications for food security

Sarah Gurr, University of Exeter.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Gene silencing in plant development and disease resistance: lessons from tomato

Zhengming Wang, Baulcombe Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 January 2017, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Light sensing in the Ocean: new perspectives from the study of the diatom photoreceptors

Angela Falciatore, CNRS Paris.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Exploiting natural variation to identify genes that impact nutritional seed traits

Sabrina Gonzalez-Jorge, Henderson Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Engineering Meiosis and Recombination to Unlock Genetic Diversity

CambPlants Industrial Talk

Giacomo Bastianelli, Meiogenix and Ian Henderson.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

What's on in Plant Sciences

Understanding the Biotechnology Industry

Dr Simon Aspland, Acidophil Ltd.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 14:00-15:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Seed size and its rate of evolution correlate with species diversification across angiosperms

Javier Igea, Tanentzap Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:00-13:30

What's on in Plant Sciences

Chaperone Machineries in RuBisCO Biogenesis and Metabolic Repair

Prof. Manajit Hayer-Hartl. Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phytoplankton membrane transport: The big physiological and evolutionary secrets of small cells

Colin Brownlee, Marine Biological Association .

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Biotechnological Exploitation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Doris Gangl, Smith group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Correct behaviour: how plant cells respond appropriately to different symbiotic partners

Martin Parniske, University of Munich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Examining the molecular basis of speciation through flavonoid-tinted glasses

Hester Sheehan, Brockington Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Resolving Conflicts: The Genetic Control of Plant Morphogenesis

Enrico Coen FRS, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

What's on in Plant Sciences

Funder requirements for sharing research? Learn how to easily comply and get the most out of it: Open Access and Data sharing seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 July 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Evolutionary and demographic genetics of polymorphic sexual systems in plants

Spencer Barrett FRS, University of Toronto.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Epigenetic examination of heterosis in tomato

Sebastian Müller, David Baulcombe Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 May 2016, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

In vivo analysis of calcium dynamics in Arabidopsis: tools and applications

Alex Costa, University of Milan.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genes gone wild: Experimental evolution meets synthetic biology

Ralph Bock, Max Planck Institute of Plant Molecular Biology.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Perturbation Analysis of LEAFY in the Floral Transition Network of Arabidopsis thaliana

Gitanjali Yadav, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) New Delhi India.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Pave the road to land: evolution of water-conducting cells in land plants

Bo Xu, Sam Brockington Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The maize leaf – from development to environmental response

Sarah Hake, Director USDA Gene Expression Center.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A three-dimensional approach to community turnover: Pleistocene extinctions, abrupt climate change, and (dis)equilibrium dynamics

Jacquelyn Gill, University of Maine.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Incorporating uncertainty into the optimal development of disease control measures

Ciara Dangerfield, Chris Gilligan Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Effects of fluctuating light on photosynthesis and stomatal behaviour: impacts on carbon gain and water use efficiency

Tracy Lawson, Director of Plant Phenomics, University of Essex.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Integrating phylogenetics, ecology and evo-devo to understand the origin of plant species: the role of spur length evolution in speciation of the genus Linaria

Mario Fernandez-Mazuecos, Beverley Glover Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Symmetry Matters in Gynoecium Development

This is a CPPS Seminar

Lars Ostergaard, Head of Crop Genetics, JIC.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A bird's-eye view of forest ecosystems

Tommaso Jucker, David Coomes Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Big data, local data and global change

Philip Grime, University of Sheffield.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Inter-organellar interactions - known unknowns in metabolic engineering of membrane-spanning pathways in plants

Payam Mehrshahi, Alison Smith Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Development and evolution of land plant rooting systems

Liam Dolan, University of Oxford.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Two Things Evolution Can Tell Us About Metabolic Engineering

Steven Burgess, Julian Hibberd Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Microbes play a central role in a plant's solutions to ecological problems

Ian Baldwin, Max Planck Institute.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Competition and conjugation: the tale of antibiotic resistance spreading in three colours

Pakpoom Subsoontorn, Jim Haseloff Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Discovery of methylation loci and analyses of differential methylation in Dicer-like mutants of Arabidopsis

Thomas Hardcastle, David Baulcombe Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phenotyping is an F-word: crop research in Fields, on Farms, with Farmers

This is a CPPS Seminar

Roger Sylvester-Bradley, ADAS.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A pioneering imaging approach to arbuscule development in rice

Ronelle Roth, Uta Paszkowski Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The biodiversity value of degraded tropical forests

David Edwards, University of Sheffield.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genetic factors controlling meiotic crossover: Lessons from natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana

Piotr Ziolkowski, Ian Henderson Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica’s climate history

Jane Francis, Director, British Antarctic Survey.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

How our Botanic Gardens Work (and how they can work for you)

Dr Sam Brockington, Cambridge University Botanic Garden Curator.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

RNA viruses: comparative genomics and gene expression mechanisms

Andrew Firth, Dept of Pathology.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Learning from Students to Shape Plant Sciences Teaching for the 21st Century

Katherine Hubbard, Teaching Officer.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Adaptive evolution of meiosis in response to whole genome duplication and habitat

Kirsten Bomblies, Harvard University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Regulation of PSEUDORESPONSE REGULATOR7 by photosynthetically derived sugars in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Alexander Frank, 3rd yr grad.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 July 2015, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Role of phytic acid in plant defence responses

Jacquelyne Poon, 3rd yr grad.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 July 2015, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the biology of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

Nick Talbot, School of Biosciences, University of Exeter.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 July 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Algal-bacterial consortia: towards the commercialisation of microalgae for industrial biotechnology

Christian Ridley, 3rd yr grad.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 25 June 2015, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Beta oxidation in signalling and development. What plants can teach us about yeast and animals

Alison Baker, University of Leeds.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Data Science Society

Insights Into Data Science

Speaker to be confirmed.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 June 2015, 18:00-19:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Effects of sugarcane on the Cerrado biodiversity: land use change, habitat loss and greenhouse gas emissions

Jessica Fonseca Da Silva, 3rd yr grad.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 June 2015, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptome is compressible

Surge Biswas, 1st yr grad.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 June 2015, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Long-distance wound signals in Arabidopsis leaves

Edward Farmer, University of Lausanne.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A vitamin B12 dependent mutualism between a microalga Lobomonas rostrata and a rhizobium – Mesorhizobium loti

Vaibhav Bhardwaj, 3rd yr grad.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Optimize nutrients dynamic in litters to enhance yields and sustainability of traditional cocoa agroforests in a climate change context in Southern Bahia, Brazil

Lauranne Gateau, 1st yr grad.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Where the bee flies: and why it matters

Juliet Osborne, University of Exeter.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular insights into the evolutionary history of plants in Antarctica

Elise Biersma, 3rd yr grad.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Biodiversity conservation within a REDD+ framework: case of victoria-anepahan ranges in Palawan Islands, Philippines

Minerva (Jojo) Singh, 3rd yr grad.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Multiple mechanisms limit meiotic crossovers

Raphael Mercier, Versailles INRA.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The mechanism by which calcium affects the circadian clock

Carmen Marti (Webb Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 March 2015, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

An integrated structural biology approach to flower development

Francois Parcy, Grenoble.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the O3-induced Ca2+ signalling pathway in Arabidopsis

Katie Wilkins (Davies Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Managing Innovation: an oxymoron?

CPPS Seminar

David Lawrence, Syngenta.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Decreasing the oxygenase activity of Rubisco: a synthetic biology approach

Marek Szecowka (Hibberd Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Can genomics impact forestry?

Richard Buggs, Queen Mary University of London.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Evolution of the miRNA-mediated RNA silencing pathway: the plant that wanted to be an animal

Adrian Valli (Baulcombe Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Evolution of Imprinted Gene Expression in Cultivated Rice

Daniel ZIlberman, Berkeley.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Carbon fluxes and biodiversity in Mediterranean landscapes – modelling with airborne lidar

Will Simonson (Coomes Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 January 2015, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Future Directions of Rothamsted Research

Achim Dobermann, Rothamstead.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Inhospitable: early signalling events during cereal symbiosis

Enrico Gobbato (Paszkowski Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 January 2015, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Early events in Arabidopsis bud activation

Maddie Seale, Sainsbury Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 December 2014, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A physiological basis to agronomic development

Celestin Ukozehasi, Griffiths Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 December 2014, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Potential effects of transposable element activation throughout tomato development

Alex Canto Pastor, Baulcombe Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 December 2014, 12:00-12:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Grip, Slip, petals and pollinators

Jonathan Pattrick, Glover Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 December 2014, 11:30-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Using metagenomics to identify emerging viral pathogens, and RNA silencing to combat them

Luke Braidwood, Baulcombe Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 December 2014, 11:00-11:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Identifying microRNAs conditioning strong plant anti-aphid resistance

Deusa Abreu, Carr Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 December 2014, 10:00-10:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigation of natural modifiers of meiotic crossover frequency in Arabidopsis thaliana

Catherine Griffin, Henderson Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 December 2014, 09:30-10:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Study and characterization of MET1 homologues in Arabidopsis thaliana

Christophe Buser, Sainsbury Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 December 2014, 09:00-09:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mixtures or Alternation? Assessing Fungicide Anti-Resistance Strategies

James Elderfield, Cunniffe Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating heat shock signalling pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

David Schoepfer, Sainsbury Laboratory.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Sustainable Farming - making it happen. The Science, delivery and pitfalls of Integrated Farm Management

CPPS Seminar

Caroline Drummond MBE. LEAF Chief Executive.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Dealing with Sudden Oak Death in the UK

Matt Castle, Gilligan Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Elucidating stress signalling response pathways in Arabidopsis and crops

Marc Knight, Durham University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Scum of the Earth?

Matt Davey, Smith Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Chromatin and antisense transcript dynamics in seasonal timing

Enid MacRobbie Woman in Science Lecture

Caroline Dean, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Roles of splicing in plant reproductive development

Chiara Airoldi, Glover Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 October 2014, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mapping Gene Regulatory Networks in Arabidopsis and Tomato Roots

Siobahn Brady, UC Davis.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Sciences Teaching: Inspiration, Innovation and Investigation

Katharine Hubbard, Teaching Associate.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 October 2014, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Genetic Architecture of Natural Ionomic Variation in Arabidopsis thaliana

David Salt, University of Aberdeen.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Do Volatiles Emitted by Virus–Infected Tomato Plants Attract Bumblebees and Enhance Host Reproductive Fitness?

Sanjie Jiang.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 27 June 2014, 13:30-13:55

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Seeing forests from new heights: Applying recently developed satellite imagery analysis technologies to monitor tropical forest protected areas

Gillian Lui.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 27 June 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Exploiting the crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) pathway for sustainable bioenergy production in a changing climate

Nicholas Owen.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 June 2014, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Characterisation of Arabidopsis and Rice Homologues of Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylases

Farhat Nazir.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 June 2014, 16:00-16:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

What controls liverwort size and shape?

Jeremy Solly.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 20 June 2014, 13:30-13:55

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

myb gene determinants of air chamber formation in Marchantia polymorpha

Bernardo Pollak.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 20 June 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Genetic analysis of the effect of circadian clock genes on yield components in wheat (T. aestivum)

Lukas Wittern.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 20 June 2014, 12:30-12:55

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Forward and reverse genetic identification of mutants linking [Ca2+]cyt to the Arabidopsis thaliana circadian clock

Timothy Hearn.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Impact of logging in a Bornean peat swamp forest

Beatrice Wedeux.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 16:00-16:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Genetic variation of symbiosis-associated phosphate transporter (PHT1) genes in maize

Clement Quan.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 June 2014, 13:30-13:55

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Investigating the diversification of RNA silencing pathways in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Claire Agius.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 June 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Identification of ADP-ribosyl cyclase in Arabidopsis thaliana

S M Abdul-Awal.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 16:00-16:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Detecting asymptomatic infection is necessary for real-time forecasting of major outbreaks of disease

Robin Thompson.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 06 June 2014, 13:30-13:55

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Analysis of the C. reinhardtii THI4 riboswitch expression platform

Devinn Lambert.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 06 June 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Conserved and recurrent Cis elements regulate decarboxylation related genes in C4 photosynthesis

Ivan Reyna-Llorens.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, mycoheterotrophic plants, and long-term fertilisation in a tropical forest

Merlin Sheldrake.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 16:00-16:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Design of a synthetic transcriptional AND gate in the chloroplast of Marchantia polymorpha

Christian Boehm (Haseloff lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 09 May 2014, 13:30-13:55

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Employing RAM2-mediated root resistance against a leaf pathogen

Stuart Fawke (Schornack Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 09 May 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Stabilizing effects of diversity on aboveground wood production in forest ecosystems: from patterns to processes

Tommaso Jucker (Coomes lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Inferring forest stand structure from LiDAR remote sensing data

Rebecca Spriggs (Coomes lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 16:00-16:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Mechanism and function of stochastic pulse regulation

Stephanie Unna.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 02 May 2014, 13:30-13:55

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Systems biology view of mutualistic interactions

Ulrich Johan Kudahl.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 02 May 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Plant surface texture: investigating R2R3 MYB subgroup 9 gene function in Marchantia and Nicotiana

Lin Taylor (Glover lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Optimal control of epidemics

Martin Vyska (Gilligan lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 16:00-16:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The role of polar auxin transport in bud activation

Martin Van Rongen (Leyser Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 25 April 2014, 13:30-13:55

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Directing Crossover During Meiosis Using TALENs

Patrick Diaz (Henderson Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 25 April 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Evolutionary convergence of cell specific gene expression in independent lineages of C4 grasses

Christopher John (Hibberd Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Individual cell studies of microalgae – evaluating stochasticity within populations

Roshni Best (Smith Lab).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 April 2014, 16:00-16:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Understanding the role of hydrophysiology in adaptive diversification in the Bromeliaceae

Jamie Males.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 28 March 2014, 13:30-13:55

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Mechanisms generating bundle sheath-specificity in C3 and C4 plants

Jana Knerova.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 28 March 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The evolution of floral traits in the Antirrhineae

Cecilia Martinez Perez.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 March 2014, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Structure and function of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii pyrenoid: delivering CO2 and beyond

Oliver Caspari.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 March 2014, 16:00-16:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Aquatic carbon concentrating mechanisms as a source of genes for improving terrestrial C3 photosynthesis

Moritz Meyer (Griffiths Group).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 21 March 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Wheat breeding for sustainable productivity, an oxymoron waiting to happen?

This is a CPPS seminar - note the time change

Richard Summers (RAGT).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Exploiting synthetic communities for cultivation of microalgae

Elena Kazamia (Smith Group).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 14 March 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Message ends: How alternative polyadenylation of mRNAs affects plant gene expression and development

Gordon Simpson (James Hutton Institute, Dundee).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Under the rainbow : understanding how plants build microscopic structures to produce iridescence

Edwige Moyroud (Glover Group).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 07 March 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Improving uniformity of potato crops

Simon Smart.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 28 February 2014, 13:30-13:55

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Effects of litter manipulation on fine root dynamics in lowland tropical forest in Panama

Chadtip Rodtassana 1st Year Graduate Students.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 28 February 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Genetic and Epigenetic Basis of Fruit Ripening – Science Discovery into Commercial Practice

Graham Seymour (University of Nottingham).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Regulation of early receptor kinase-mediated innate immune signalling

Graduate-invited lecture

Cyril Zipfel (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Experimental evolution reveals rapid streamlining of vitamin metabolism in chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Katherine Helliwell (Smith Group).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 14 February 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: Planetary predictions from anywhere: Food, carbon, forests, biodiversity, plankton, roads...

Cancelled due to illness

Matt Smith (Microsoft Research, Cambridge).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Three ancient hormonal cues coordinate shoot branching in a moss

Yoan Coudert (Harrison Group).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 07 February 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: Striga, the scourge of Africa: Understanding the molecular basis of resistance in cereals to the parasitic witchweeds

This talk has been replaced

Julie Scholes (University of Sheffield).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 06 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Manipulating plant cell wall polysaccharide synthesis to understand cell wall architecture for biorefining and bioenergy

Paul Dupree, Department of Biochemistry.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 06 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Synthetic Spatial Patterning Using Two-Channel Quorum-Sensing Signalling

Paul Grant (Haseloff Group).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 31 January 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Circadian regulation of chloroplasts

Antony Dodd (University of Bristol).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 30 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The Rice Npc Transporter Mediates Recognition Of Novel Essential Am Symbiotic Signal

Marina Nadal (Paszkowski Group).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 24 January 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

How biotrophic fungi manipulate their hosts: new functions of effectors

Regina Kahmann (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

A Division in PIN-Mediated Auxin Patterning During Organ Initiation in Grasses

Devin O'Connor (Leyser Group).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 17 January 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Epigenetic contribution to transgenerational inheritance

Jerzy Paszkowski (SLCU).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Selective logging leaves persistent effects on the canopy structure of a West Africa forest

Rafi Kent (Coomes Group).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 10 January 2014, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The mechanism of action of strigolactone

Catherine Taylor.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 06 December 2013, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Understanding and manipulating antibiotic production in actinomycetes

Mervyn Bibb (John Innes Centre, Norwich).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 December 2013, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The substrate and function of mitochondrial ABC transporters involved in Fe-S metabolism

Dr Theresia Schaedler (Balk Group, JIC).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 29 November 2013, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Phylogenetic shadowing guided by the cycling transcriptomes of two distantly related Brassicaeae species reveals the atlas of cis-regulatory elements of daytime-specific and daytime-unspecific pathways

Korbinian Schneeberger (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The cell wall and morphogenesis at the shoot apical meristem

Dr Ray Wightman (SLCU).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 22 November 2013, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular breeding of medicinal crops and discoveries along the way

Ian Graham (University of York).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Escaping the fossil fuel trap – functional characterisation of microalgal diacylglycerol acyltransferases

Alexander Litvinenko.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 15 November 2013, 14:00-14:25

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Virus-mediated interactions between aphids and beans

Francis Wamonje.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 15 November 2013, 13:30-13:55

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Molecular analysis of potato tuber dormancy

Luke Browning.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 15 November 2013, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Recognition of "self": receptor-ligand interactions and signalling networks that trigger Programmed Cell Death in self-incompatible Papaver pollen

Enid MacRobbie Women in Science seminar

Noni Franklin-Tong (University of Birmingham).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Mesophyll conductance: a route to improve wheat photosynthesis.

Luis Robledo Arratia.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 08 November 2013, 13:30-13:55

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

How to spot a Daisy

Gregory Mellers.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 08 November 2013, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Strategies of microorganisms to conquer plant tissues

Sebastian Schornack (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Open Microscope

Chris McNicol, David Purdie, James Ritchie, Thomas Roddick and Marco Selvi.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 01 November 2013, 13:30-13:55

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

AP2-type transcription factors regulate stem cell fate in the moss Physcomitrella patens

Dr Tsuyoshi Aoyama.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 01 November 2013, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Addressing the wheat yield plateau

CPPS seminar to be held at 4pm, with tea-room networking afterwards.

Tina Barsby (National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Non-redundant Control of Rice Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis by two Phosphate Transporters

Dr Shu-Yi Yang.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 25 October 2013, 13:00-13:25

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Global change and life on Earth: reciprocal effects in a walk from genes to biosphere

Josep Penuelas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

sRNAs: Initiators of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in Arabidopsis thaliana

Donna Bond, Gene Silencing.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 15 March 2013, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Membrane biology in plant-microbe interactions

Silke Robatek, JIC.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

C4 photosynthesis transcriptomics: From big data to the gene

Sylvain Aubry, Molecular Physiology.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 08 March 2013, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plastic Fantastic

Sinead Collins, Edinburgh University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Dispersion, growth and symbiosis of swimming algae and bacteria

Otti Croze, Plant Metabolism.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 01 March 2013, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Mobile silencing RNAs

Attila Molnar, Gene Silencing.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 22 February 2013, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Putting things in perspective: multiscale integration of stomatal development

Dominique Bergmann, Stanford University and HHMI.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

How genetic polymorphism shapes meiotic crossover frequency in Arabidopsis thaliana

Piotr Ziolkowski, Epigenetics.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 15 February 2013, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Linkages between plants, soil microbes, and the carbon cycle

CPPS seminar

Richard Bardgett, Lancaster Environment Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

To be or not to be… plastic. Shoot branching plasticity in Arabidopsis is linked to life-history strategy

Maaike De Jong, Sainsbury Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 08 February 2013, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Metabolomics- an update

Alisdair Fernie, Max-Planck-Institute, Golm.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Big Trees for Big Problems

Sam Brockington, Molecular Development.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 01 February 2013, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Sporduino: Parts for a Reliable and Field Ready Biosensing Platform

iGEM Team 2012.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 25 January 2013, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The geometric basis of morphogenesis

Przemek Prusinkiewicz, Calgary University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, mycoheterotrophic plants, and long-term organic and inorganic fertilisation in a lowland tropical forest

Merlin Sheldrake.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 18 January 2013, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Crop improvement and evaluation of water use efficiency by wheat: an integrated approach using stable isotopes

Celestin Ukozehasi.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 18 January 2013, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Purine nucleoside phosphorylases in plants

Farhat Nazir, Developmental Botany.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 30 November 2012, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The role of auxin transport in bud activation

Madeline Seale from the Sainsbury Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 30 November 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genetics of speciation in Petunia

Cris Kuhlemeirer, Bern University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Engineering morphology in plants and microbes

Fernan Federici, Synthetic Biology.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 23 November 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The moss sporophyte: A starting point for the evolution of plant architecture

Yoan Coudert, Evolution of Plant Body Plans.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 16 November 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The art and design of harmony - molecular genetics of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in cereals

Uta Paszkowski, Department of Plant Sciences.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Unravelling the evolutionary forces that shape the B12 requirements of algae

Katherine Helliwell, Plant Metabolism.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 09 November 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The deep evolutionary origins of stomata and stomatal physiology

David Beerling, Sheffield University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

C4 Rice: Pathways and prospects

Sarah Covshoff, Molecular Physiology.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 02 November 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Making new molecules

Anne Osbourn, JIC.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The substrate and function of mitochondrial ABC transporters involved in Fe-S metabolism

Theresia Schaedler, Plant Biochemistry.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 26 October 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Investigating biodiversity responses to climate change: the benefits of hindsight

Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez, Forest Ecology and Conservation.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 19 October 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Implementation of analog arithmetic division for control of reserve utilization in plants

Martin Howard, JIC.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Riddle of the Sphinx: Sphingolipid glycosylation - a possible role in plant immunity?

Jenny Mortimer, Dupree Lab (Department of Biochemistry).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 October 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genetic dissection of cell death and signalling between endosperm and embryo during seed development

Justin Goodrich, Edinburgh University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Photosynthetic entrainment of the Arabidopsis circadian clock

Mike Haydon, Signal Transduction.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 05 October 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The evolution of floral morphology in the Antirrhineae and its relationship with pollinator shifts

Celilia Martinez-Perez.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 22 June 2012, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

A System Dynamics approach to model carbon assimilation in plants that exhibit Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM)

Nicholas Owen.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 22 June 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii NADPH Oxidases as potential electron transporters for biophotovoltaic devices.

Xander Anderson.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 June 2012, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Setting reference levels for REDD+

Beccy Wilebore.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 June 2012, 16:00-16:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Pyrenoid formation and impact on photosynthetic supply side energetics in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Oliver Caspari.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 15 June 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The roles of cucumber mosaic virus proteins in modifying plant-aphid interactions in tobacco

Trisna Tungadi.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 June 2012, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The extended phenotype of the cucumber mosaic virus genome in insect transmission

Niels Groen.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 June 2012, 16:00-16:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Understating the role of small RNAs in gene regulatory networks

Bruno Santos.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 08 June 2012, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Using a new model to understand C4 gene regulation

Christopher John.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 08 June 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Environmental drivers of tropical peat swamp forest vegetation patterns

Beatrice Wedeux.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Improving uniformity of potato crops

Simon Smart.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 June 2012, 16:00-16:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The Evolution of MIXTA Gene Function in Angiosperms and Bryophytes

Lin Taylor.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 01 June 2012, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The role of gibberellin in bolting in sugar beet

Helen Holmes.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 01 June 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The contributions of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase 6 and alternative oxidase in resistance to potato virus X

Zheng Li.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Identification and characterisation of triacylglycerol biosynthesis genes in Phaeodactylum tricornutum

Jit Ern Chen.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 16:00-16:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The influence of salicylic acid and jasmonic acid on expression of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase 1 in Arabidopsis

Lydia Hunter.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 May 2012, 15:30-16:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Regulation of gene expression in C4 metabolism

Ivan Reyna-Llorens.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 25 May 2012, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Dichotomous branching in the common liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha

Jeremy Solly.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 25 May 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Defining the role of NAD+ metabolism in circadian clock function in Arabidopsis thaliana

Laura Bell.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 May 2012, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Use of airborne lidar to model vegetation structure and plant species composition of Mediterranean oak forests

Will Simonson.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 May 2012, 16:00-16:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Identification of circadian mutants with an altered response to nicotinamide

Timothy Hearn.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 18 May 2012, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Inferring forest stand structure from LiDAR remote sensing data

Rebecca Spriggs.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 18 May 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The application of species distribution models to IUCN Red List assessments: an evaluation

Mindy Syfert.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

A motif present in multiple C4 genes is necessary for mesophyll specificity

Ben Williams.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 16:00-16:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Tim Rudge.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 11 May 2012, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Modelling the biological control of crop disease

Robin Thompson.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 11 May 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The Role Of Annexin1 During growth and abiotic stress

Sian Richards.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Artificial evolution of the resistance gene, Rx, to enhance activation sensitivity in a broad recognition background

Jake Harris.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 16:00-16:30

Plant Sciences 'ABC' Seminars

Introduction to Metabolomics

Dr Matthew Davey, Plant Metabolism Group, Department of Plant Sciences..

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 04 May 2012, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in European forests

Tommaso Jucker.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 04 May 2012, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Identification of ADPR cyclase in Arabidopsis

SM Abdul Awal.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 04 May 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Paul Steiner.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 May 2012, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Within-field diversity and the effectiveness of crop mixtures at reducing pathogen damage

Joe Helps.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 May 2012, 16:00-16:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Phenology in a temperate forest: relationships between carbohydrate supply and water limitation

Andres Plaza.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 27 April 2012, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Developing the microdroplet platform for microalgal biotechnology

Roshni Best.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 27 April 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The role of Annexin 1 in [Ca2+]cyt dynamics

Renato Colaco.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 April 2012, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The Pathway to C4 Rice

Helen Woodfield.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 April 2012, 16:00-16:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Mechanism of action of strigolactone

Catherine Taylor.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 20 April 2012, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Energetics under limiting light: a useful tool to study C4 photosynthesis

Chandra Bellasio.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 20 April 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences 'ABC' Seminars

A Step-by-Step Guide to Phylogenetic Analysis

Sebastian Mueller.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 21 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Superoxide anion production in diatoms and its potential role in bio-photovoltaic devices

Anuphon Laohavisit, Plant Metabolism.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 16 March 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unraveling a Transcriptional Network Involved in Maize Domestication

This is a Kenneth Sporne Lecture

John Doebley, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

IND1, a Fe-S protein involved in respiratory complex I biogenesis. From Arabidopsis gametogenesis defects to patients with mitochondrial myopathies

Mateusz Wydro, Plant Biochemistry.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 09 March 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Looking at the genes behind Darwin’s abominable mystery

Edwige Moyroud, Molecular Development.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 02 March 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular tools for the macroalgae

John Bothwell, Queen's University Belfast.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Cucumber mosaic virus promotes its transmission by manipulating plant-insect interactions

Jack Westwood, Virology.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 24 February 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular Pharming gets a green thumbs up

This is a CPPS Seminar

Julian Ma, St. George’s, University of London.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Structural analysis of Arabidopsis cell wall arabinogalactan polysaccharides

Dora Tryfona, Dupree Lab, Biochemistry.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 17 February 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Hidden Signposts of Plant Development

Enrico Coen, JIC.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Hybrid networks in tomato

Vera Pancaldi, Gene Silencing.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 10 February 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Epigenetic remodeling of meiotic crossover frequency in Arabidopsis DNA methyltransferase mutants

Natasha Elina, Epigenetics.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 03 February 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Drought and diversity in tropical rain forests

Patrick Meir, Edinburgh University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Crop pioneers across Eurasia: insights from phylogeographic analysis using SSRs

Harriet Hunt, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 27 January 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The control of flowering time

Richard Morris, JIC.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

iGEM Team 2011

iGEM Team 2011.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 20 January 2012, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Strigolactone signalling and the control of shoot branching

Ottoline Leyser, SLCU.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

How to get on with your weedy neighbours? A study of root to root interactions between wheat and black grass

Stephanie Swarbreck, Ion Transport Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 02 December 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mycorrhizal fungal power- harnessing photosynthate and transforming the Earth

Jonathon Leake, Sheffield.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Pyrenoid formation is associated with RuBisCO small subunit alpha-helices in Chlamydomonas

Moritz Meyer, Physiological Ecology Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 25 November 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The endodermis - a selective and protective interface between plant and soil

Niko Geldner, Lausanne.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Fish, Fungus, and Filaments: Cellular Interactions in a Diversity of Systems

Paul Grant, Synthetic Biology Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 11 November 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From Armadillos to Abscisic Acid

Juliet Coates, Birmingham.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

C4 photosynthesis transcriptomics: From Cleome to rice

Sylvain Aubry, Molecular Physiology Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 04 November 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From Clone to Clinic- oilseed based bio-pharmaceutical production

This is a CPPS Seminar

Maurice Maloney, IACR Rothamstead.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Uncovering new abilities of RNA silencing suppressors from viruses of the Potyviridae family

Adrian Valli, Gene Silencing Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 28 October 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Control of orientated cell division and cell expansion during plant development

Simon Turner, Manchester.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The constraints on growing algae for biofuel

Nic Ross, Plant Metabolism Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 21 October 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Of water flumes, waxy walls and toilet bowls: trapping strategies of carnivorous pitcher plants

Ulrike Bauer, Forest Ecology & Conservation Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 14 October 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Chromosome structure in the establishment and divergence of polyploids

Andrew Leitch, QMUL.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Illuminating diverse RNA silencing pathways using the Arabidopsis Argonautes

Ericka Havecker, Gene Silencing Group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 07 October 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Comparative genomics: lessons, rationales and perspectives

Jerome Salse, INRA Versailles.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 06 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Establishing baseline emissions rates for REDD+

Beccy Wilebore.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 27 July 2011, 16:00-16:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Nutrient cycling and carbon dynamics: the effects of leaf litter manipulation in a tropical lowland forest in Panama

Sara Neihaus.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 23 June 2011, 16:00-16:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Too big to fail? Disease control versus market breakdown

Mathieu Moslonka-Lefebvre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 June 2011, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Investigating the Spread of Disease at the Landscape Scale

Richard Stutt.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 16 June 2011, 16:00-16:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The role of cucumber mosaic virus 2b protein in subverting plant defensive signalling pathways

Trisna Tungadi.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 10 June 2011, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Design of Self-Organising Circuits for Multicellular Systems

Tim Rudge.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 10 June 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Can Argonautes provide demethylation specificity in Arabidopsis thaliana?

Laura Taylor.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 June 2011, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Molecular studies of meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana and Triticum aestivum

Carsten Reinhard.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 09 June 2011, 16:00-16:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Identification & characterization of CML23 and CML24 in Arabidopsis thaliana circadian clock

Nur Izzati Mohd Noh.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 03 June 2011, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Cucumber mosaic virus and its RNA silencing suppressor alter plant odour as perceived by pollinators

Niels Groen.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 03 June 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Conservation of stem cell function in land plants

Chris White.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 June 2011, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Challenging existing paradigms of pathogen dispersal

James Cox.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 27 May 2011, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Petal Epidermal Patterning and Pollinator Attraction

Alison Reed.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 27 May 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Plasma membrane electron transport in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Xander Anderson.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 May 2011, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

RNA Based Mechanism in genetic and epigenetic regulation

Bruno Santos.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 May 2011, 16:00-16:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

A forward genetic approach to elucidate the microRNA and chromatin silencing pathways in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Craig Thompson.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 20 May 2011, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Spanish forest dynamics: Constraining models with data

Emily Lines.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 20 May 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Interpreting environmental signals from Antarctic peat cores

Jessica Royles.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 20 May 2011, 12:30-13:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Marchantia polymorpha: A model for developmental biology and a novel chassis for synthetic biology

Nuri Purswani.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Inositol hexakisphosphate, a key factor controlling plant responses to biotic and abiotic stresses

Ruth Le Fevre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 May 2011, 16:00-16:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The Influence of PPDK on Nitrogen Remobilisation in Wheat during Senescence

Maria Herse.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 May 2011, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Molecular regulation and morphological development of petal spot evolution

Rachel Walker.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 May 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Evolution and Diversity of MIXTA-like genes

Katrina Alcorn.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 May 2011, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Is there a role for sRNAs in C4 Photosynthesis?

Ewan Gage.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 May 2011, 16:00-16:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Elena Kazamia.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 06 May 2011, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Pol IV in Tomato

Amy Beeken.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 06 May 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Investigating aspects of algal-bacterial symbiosis

Matthew Cooper.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 May 2011, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Regulation of thiamine biosynthesis by riboswitches

Trinh Nguyen.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 May 2011, 16:00-16:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Small RNAs and hybridization in the unicellular green algae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Daisy Hessenberger.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Molecular determinants of the pyrenoid and carbon concentrating mechanism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Madeline Mitchell.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 April 2011, 16:00-16:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Potential benefits of cultivar mixtures

Joseph Helps.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 08 April 2011, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Development of leaf venation in C3 and C4 species

Britta Kuemper.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 08 April 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Priming: fine-tuning of plant innate immunity

Jurriaan Ton, Rothamsted Research.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 01 April 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Algal biodiesel – challenging cell walls

Irmi Horst, Alison Smith’s group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 25 March 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The FRIGIDA complex-mediated FLC activation in winter annuals of Arabidopsis thaliana

Kyuha Choi.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 18 March 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Polyploidy and epigenetics

Prof. Jeffrey Chen, University of Texas at Austin.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The role of small non-coding RNAs in mouse primordial germ cell specification and epigenetic reprogramming

Delphine Cougot, Gurdon Institute.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 11 March 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Epigenetic variation across generations: mechanisms and consequences of DNA methylation in Arabidopsis

Prof. Vincent Colot, Unité de Biologie Moléculaire des Organismes Photosynthétiques, ENS, France.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Shaping the plant endomembrane system

Prof. Chris Hawes, Oxford Brookes University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Electrogenic photosynthetic microorganisms: harnessing solar energy in bio-photovoltaic (BPV) systems

Alistair McCormick, Plant Metabolism.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 25 February 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Why study early land plants?

Prof. Dianne Edwards, School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, University of Cardiff.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in Arabidopsis: a role for small RNAs?

Donna Bond, David Baulcombe's group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 18 February 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Is there a limit to tomato yield?

Cambridge Partnership in Plant Sciences Seminar

Prof. Daniel Zamir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Transient loss of membrane potential in single plant mitochondria

Markus Schwarzlander, University of Oxford.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 11 February 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Mating systems, hybridization, polyploidy, and continuing evolution in Senecio (ragworts) and Sorbus (whitebeams)

Prof. Simon Hiscock, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Breaking down the (cell) walls: simplifying xylan in Arabidopsis

Jenny Mortimer, Dupree Lab, Biochemistry Dept..

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 04 February 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

New Insights into Starch Metabolism in Arabidopsis and Other Plants

Prof. Sam Zeeman, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Extraordinary phenotypes of hybrids are influenced by epigenetics and small silencing RNAs

Padubidri Shivaprasad, David Baulcombe's group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 28 January 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Environmental physiology

Blackman Lecture

Prof. Bill Davies, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lancaster.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 27 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Cambridge iGEM 2010: E.glowli

Speaker to be confirmed.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 21 January 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Thermosensory mechanisms in plants

Dr Phillip Wigge, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Patterning the Arabidopsis leaf

Sarah Robinson, JIC.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 14 January 2011, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Sugar beet breeding, bolting resistance and Gibberellins

Helen Holmes, Broom’s Barn.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 10 December 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The mitochondrial ABC transporter ATM3 plays a key role in the biogenesis of cytosolic Fe-S proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana

Delphine Bernard, Janneke Balk group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 03 December 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Molecular control of flowering-time and vernalization

Prof. Caroline Dean, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 02 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The long and the short of it: dez implicates Zn homeostasis in skotomorphogenesis

Mike Haydon, Alex Webb group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 26 November 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Cell fate specification guided by hormonal and genetic interplay during fruit development

This is a Cambridge Partnership in Plant Sciences Seminar

Dr Lars Ostergaard, Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 25 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

An Overview of Plant Structural Colour

Murphy Thomas, Beverley Glover group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 19 November 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Structure and function of photosystem-I

Prof. John Golbeck, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, USA.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Using 2nd generation sequencing for delineating relationships between the genome, epigenome, transcriptome and proteome

Dr Abizar Lakdawalla, Senior product manager for sequencing - Illumina.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 November 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant membrane transport

Prof. Dale Sanders, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The Perennial Plant Clock: Implications for Growth and Winter Survival

Maria Eriksson, Department of Plant physiology - Umea University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 05 November 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Design principles in energy and carbon metabolism

Dr Ron Milo, Department of Plant Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

There's no Business Like Flow Business

Rachael Walker, Stem Cell research department Flow cytometry specialist.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 29 October 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

From plant-pathogen interactions to plant-microbe communities

Prof. Paul Schulze-Lefert, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Phylogenomic analysis of tobacco; identifying the genes selected during domestication

Kieron Edwards, Applied Molecular Breeding manager of Advance Technologies.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 22 October 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: UK Long-term ecosystem dynamics and environmental

Prof. Kathy Willis, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Silencing signals in plants: A big journey for small RNAs

Charles Melnyk.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 15 October 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

UK Molecular plant-microbe-insect interactions

Dr Saskia Hogenhout, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Functional study of CROWN ROOTLESS1, a AS2/LOB-domain protein essential for crown root development in rice.

Yoan Coudert.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 08 October 2010, 13:00-13:30

What's on in Plant Sciences

Improving Standards in Real-Time PCR

Dr Rob Powell.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 July 2010, 12:00-13:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Clues for Climate Change Concealed in the Canopy - Diversity and Ecophysiology of Bryophytes in Peru

Aline Horwath.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 25 June 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

What we can learn from deforestation patterns and historical disturbance effects in tropical rain forests of the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park

Shauna-Lee Chai.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 18 June 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Global vegetation responses to deer: ecosystem changes and recovery

Andrew Tanentzap.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 11 June 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Modelling the Control of Fungal Crop Disease: Challenging traditional assumptions

Matthew Castle.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 04 June 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Identifying molecular determinants of C4 photosynthesis

Ben Tolley.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 28 May 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Evolution of vitamin B12 auxotrophy determined by methionine synthase isoform

Katherine Helliwell.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 21 May 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

First Year Graduate Student Seminars II

Various.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 20 May 2010, 09:00-12:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

First Year Graduate Student Seminars I

Various.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 14 May 2010, 09:00-12:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Regulation of thiamine biosynthesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Zetty Northana Balia Yusof.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 07 May 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Assessing the Roles of Parallelism versus Convergence in the Evolution of Floral Diversity

Sam Brockington.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 30 April 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Enabling Genome Biology with the Illumina HiSeq 2000 System TALK IS CANCELLED

Gary P. Schroth, Gene Expression Applications R&D.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 23 April 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Understanding metabolism for ecological and environmental purposes

Dr Matt Davey.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 16 April 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Rapid evolution of the RNA polymerase 3 transcriptome in mammals

Claudia Kutter (CRI).

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 19 March 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

sRNA-directed heterochromatin formation in Chlamydomonas?

Andrew Bassett.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 March 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Annexin function in stress signalling

Anuphon Laohavisit.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 05 March 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Genetic and environmental factors determine the stability of gene silencing in Arabidopsis

Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid,Gregor Mendel Institute.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Tools for engineering self-organisation and pattern formation in microbes and plants

James Brown.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 26 February 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unravelling the 50 year old Ph1 puzzle in wheat

This is a CPPS Seminar

Graham Moore, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 25 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Creating a High-Resolution Meiotic Recombination Map in Arabidopsis

Natasha Elina.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 19 February 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Wood mechanics, allometry, and life-history variation in a tropical rain forest tree community

Lourens Poorter, University of Wageningen.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Cellular redox homeostasis and regulation in the cell proliferation in relation to stress tolerance

Christine H. Foyer, Centre for Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biology, University of Leeds.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 February 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The Evolution and Development of Leaves

Jane Langdale, University of Oxford.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Uniparental expression of PolIV-dependent siRNAs in developing endosperm of Arabidopsis

Becky Mosher.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 05 February 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Using Pathogen Effectors to Investigate Host Plant Resistance Mechanisms

Jonathan Jones, The Sainsbury Laboratory.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Golden Rice... Coming soon

Dr Adrian Dubock.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 29 January 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Arabidopsis natural variation: QTL, genes and 'omics'

Maarten Koorneef, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne..

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 28 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha as an emerging model plant

Kimitsune Ishizaki, Kyoto University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The road to C4 rice

Sarah Covshoff.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 22 January 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unwinding the circadian clock with systems biology

Andrew Millar, University of Edinburgh.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Transcription profiling of calcium and circadian clock signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana

Sylvain Aubry.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 15 January 2010, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Basal Sexual Strategies: Sexual differentiation, haploid-diploid transitions, and uniparental inheritance of organelle genome

This is a Sporne Lecture

Ursula Goodenough, University of Washington, St Louis.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 14 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Silencing RNAs are mobile and trigger DNA methylation in distant tissue

Attila Molnar.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 08 January 2010, 13:00-13:30

What's on in Plant Sciences

Plant Sciences Variety Show

Howard Griffiths.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 11 December 2009, 16:30-19:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Cucumber mosaic virus influences plant defences against insects and fitness of its transmission vector

Jack Westwood.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 11 December 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Bio-Photovoltaic (BPV) devices: wiring photosynthetic material

Paolo Bombelli.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 04 December 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Long term drivers of aboveground-belowground linkages - evidence from invaders, islands and chronosequences

David Wardle, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

CMV 2b silencing suppressor disrupts jasmonic and salicylic acid signalling

Alex Murphy.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 27 November 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Systems analysis of lateral root development: an emerging story…

Malcolm Bennet, Center for Plant Integrative Biology, University of Nottingham.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

To Cap it All? Root Development, Evolution and the Root Cap

Tom Bennett.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 20 November 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Signalling pathways that establish symbiotic interactions in plants

Giles Oldroyd, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Seeking the Meiotic Trigger in Arabidopsis

Liz Alvey.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 November 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The secrets of a plant killer: Evolutionary and functional dynamics of Phytophthora infestans effector genes

Sophien Kamoun, The Sainsbury Laboratory.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Immunological analysis of chloroplast-derived HIV-1 antigens

Nuria Gonzalez-Rabade.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 06 November 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Coordination of homologous recombination the key to accurate chromosome segregation during meiosis in Arabidopsis

Chris Franklin, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Getting under the skin: How do plants generate and maintain an effective epidermis?

Gwyneth Ingram, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Cambridge iGEM 2009

NOTE: This talk is on a Thursday

Jim Ajioka, James Brown, Tom Ellis, Jim Haseloff, Gos Micklem, Duncan Rowe Cambridge iGEM Advisors.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 October 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Plasmodesmata mediated cell-to-cell transport during Arabidopsis embryogenesis

Patricia Zambryski.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 23 October 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

What domestication missed: exploiting wild emmer to improve wheat

This is a CPPS seminar (http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/CPPS/)

Cristobal Uauy, Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Super Broccoli & Soggy Tomatoes – IP considerations of plant biotechnology

Anton Hutter.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 16 October 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Between a rock and a hard place - resistance evolution and genetic incompatibility in plants.

Kirsten Bomblies, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

"Molecular-genetic analysis of natural variation influencing photoperiodic flowering in arabidopsis thaliana" Daylength perception: a story of balance?

Dr Antonis Giakountis.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 19 June 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Community-level changes in fine root traits along a long-term soil chronosequence in New Zealand

Robert Holdaway.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 June 2009, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Spurring the evolution of new species

Matthew Box.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 June 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

The barley circadian clock

Zoe Rutterford.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 05 June 2009, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Salicylic acid biosynthesis in higher plants

Keith Macaulay.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 05 June 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase 2 (CKX2):a novel potential to increase grain yield in Bread Wheat?

Sabine Mameaux.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 29 May 2009, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Expression of vitamin B12 enzymes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast

Zarina Zainuddin.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 29 May 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Optimal control of SIR epidemics in interconnected regions

Martial Ndeffo Mbah.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 22 May 2009, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Bundle sheath leakiness in C4 crops

Wanne Kromdijk.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 22 May 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Cell-specific transcript accumulation in a model C4 plant Cleome gynandra

Kaisa Kajala.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 08 May 2009, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Iron-sulphur cluster assembly factors in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

James Godman.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 08 May 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Spurring the evolution of new species

Matthew Box.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 01 May 2009, 13:30-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

A C4 protein that may represent a novel kinase-dephosphorylase

Holly Astley.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 01 May 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Small RNA profiling of tomato towards trait engineering

Dr Padubidri Shivaprasad.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 24 April 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Membrane association of the Arabidopsis ARF exchange factor GNOM involves interaction of conserved domains

Dr Nadine Anders.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 March 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Between a rock and a hard place: metal nutrition in Chlamydomonas

Professor Sabeeha Merchant - UCLA.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Identification of regulators and targets of circadian calcium signalling

Dr Fiona Robertson, Department of Plant Sciences.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 06 March 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Seasonal control of flowering in annual and perennial plants

Professor George Coupland - MPI for Plant Breeding, Cologne.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

From hops biotechnology to the study of conical cells

Dr Ruben Alvarez-Fernandez, Department of Plant Sciences.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 27 February 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Intracellular metabolite transport in C3 and C4 plants

Professor Andreas Weber - University of Düsseldorf.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Regulation of thiamine metabolism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Dr Michael Moulin, Department of Plant Sciences.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 20 February 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Investigating the biology of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

Professor Nicholas Talbot - University of Exeter.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Chlorophyll Degradation in Arabidopsis thaliana

Dr Sylvain Aubry, Department of Plant Sciences.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 February 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Regulatory role of ribosomes in plant development

Dr Mary Byrne - John Innes Centre, Norwich.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

RNA silencing in the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Dr Attila Molnar, Department of Plant Sciences.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 06 February 2009, 13:00-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The European potential to produce Bio-energy: Miscanthus potential for current and future climates

This is a CPPS seminar http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/CPPS/

Mr Astley Hastings - University of Aberdeen.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 February 2009, 16:00-17:00