Seminars

Summer 2020 seminars will be held remotely.  The Zoom link will be emailed to the Plant Biology list-serv. 

In the fall and spring semesters PB seminars are generally held in Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222, Thursdays at 4pm, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments will be served beginning at 3:50pm.
Contact: UMass Seminars IDGP

To find more seminars in the Life Sciences, visit the Graduate Programs in Life Sciences Calendar.

For a listing of seminars offered through the College of Natural Sciences, go to CNS Department and Program Seminars or the CNS calendar, including the Stockbridge School of Agriculture seminars.

Fall 2020 Seminar Schedule

Aug 27

Plant Biology Rotation Talks 

Laura Katz, Smith College
Madelaine Bartlett, UMass Amherst

12:00pm Zoom Seminar
Aug 27

Inter-organellar communication in plant-microbe interactions

Eunsook Park 

University of Wyoming

Host: Sibongile Mafu
4:00pm Zoom Seminar
Sep 3

Plant Biology Rotation Talks

Sibongile Mafu, UMass Amherst
Dong Wang, UMass Amherst
Alice Cheung, UMass Amherst

12:00pm Zoom Seminar
Sep 10

Innovation, conservation and repurposing of gene function in plant root cell type development

Siobhan Brady

University of California, Davis

Hosts: Sam Hazen and Houlin Yu
4:00pm Zoom Seminar 
Sep 17

Regulation of innate immune responses through post-translational modification of nucleic acid-binding proteins

Alisa Huffaker

University of California, San Diego

Host: Sibongile Mafu
4:00pm Zoom Seminar
Sep 24

A dynamic view of nutrient uptake, sensing, and allocation in plants

David Mendoza-Cózatl

University of Missouri

Host: Elsbeth Walker
4:00pm Zoom Seminar
Oct 1

The State of the Graduate Program

Sam Hazen

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

4:00pm Zoom Seminar
Oct 8

How interorganellar communication regulates plant stress responses

Katayoon Dehesh

University of California, Riverside

Host: Sibongile Mafu
4:00pm Virtual Seminar
Oct 15

Natural diversity in highly variable plant NLR immune receptors

Ksenia Krasileva

University of California, Berkeley

Host: Jarrett Man
4:00pm Zoom Seminar
Oct 22

The common-bean - Rhizobium etli nitrogen fixing symbiosis: unraveling novel plant regulators

Georgina Hernández Delgado

National Autonomous University of México

Host: Miriam Hernandez-Romero
4:00pm Zoom Seminar
Oct 29

Polarity factors and regulators in plant asymmetric cell division

Juan Dong

Rutgers University 

Host: Michelle Facette
4:00pm Zoom Seminar
Nov 5

RNA-directed DNA methylation and abiotic stress mediated transcriptional regulation in maize

Thelma Madzima

University of Washington, Bothell

Host: Madelaine Bartlett
4:00pm Zoom Seminar
Nov 12

Graft genomics: from cell-to-cell to organ system interactions

Margaret Frank

Cornell University 

Hosts: Ana Caicedo, Michelle Facette, Elsbeth Walker
4:00pm Zoom Seminar
Nov 19

Solving the mystery of secondary plasmodesmata formation

Tessa Burch-Smith

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Host: Michelle Facette
4:00pm Zoom Seminar
Dec 3

Impacts of temperature stress on clock gene regulation in Arabidopsis

Dawn Nagel

University of California, Riverside

Hosts: Sam Hazen and Kelly Allen
4:00pm Zoom Seminar
Dec 10

Which side are you on? Investigating polar localization and function of IRK in the root endodermis

Jaimie Van Norman

University of California, Riverside

Host: Arif Ashraf
4:00pm Zoom Seminar