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	TBA 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	TBA Thelma Madzima Univeristy of Washington, Bothell Host: Madelaine Bartlett 4:00pm Zoom Seminar
Nov 12	TBA Margaret Frank Cornell University Hosts: Ana Caicedo, Michelle Facette, Elsbeth Walker 4:00pm Zoom Seminar
Nov 19	TBA 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	TBA Jaimie Van Norman University of California, Riverside Host: Arif Ashraf 4:00pm Zoom Seminar