Seminars

PB seminars are held in 222 Morrill Science Center South, Thursdays at 4pm, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments will be served beginning at 3:50pm.

The 15th Annual Plant Biology Symposium will be held on Saturday, October 14, 2017 and will honor Emeritus Professor Peter K. Hepler.

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.

Spring 2017 Seminar Schedule

Jan 26

Intracellular iron homeostasis in plants

Jeeyon Jeong

Department of Biochemistry-Biophysics, Department of Biology, Amherst College

HOST: Alice Cheung
Feb 2

Changes in root and shoot architecture occur in concert with changes in developmental phase

Marta Laskowski

Oberlin College

HOST: Tobias Baskin
Feb 9

CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER - Multi-scale leaf growth phenotyping and statistical modelling to decipher leaf growth control at the cellular scale

Christine Granier

French National Institute for Agricultural Research

HOST: Sam Hazen
Feb 16

Taking a walk on the wild side: combining ecology and genomics to deduce the function of legume-microbe interactions in natural and agricultural systems

Douglas Cook

University of California, Davis

HOST: Dong Wang
Feb 23

"A great & curious blunder in dame nature” evo-devo and Darwin's exclamation

Pamela Diggle

University of Connecticut

STUDENT HOSTS: Harry Klein, Kelly Allen

Mar 2

The interconnected rhizosphere

Mary Firestone

University of California, Berkeley

CO-SPONSOR: Stockbridge School of Agriculture

HOST: Marco Keiluweit
Mar 9

Formation and function of the plant cuticle:  Views through the lens of cell type-specific genomics

Jocelyn K.C. Rose

Cornell University

HOST: Alice Cheung
Mar 23

Say it with monkeyflowers (Mimulus): Hybrid vigor, pattern formation, and morphological innovation

Yaowu Yuan

University of Connecticut

HOST: Madelaine E. Bartlett
Mar 30

Changes in the root microbiome due to nitrogen deficiency and water deficit in corn and sorghum

Daniel Schachtman

University of Nebraska–Lincoln

HOSTS: Kristen DeAngelis and Klaus Nüsslein
Apr 6

Chloroplast protein maturation and degradation in Arabidopsis thaliana

Klaas van Wijk

Cornell University

HOST: Elizabeth Vierling
Apr 13

Catching the wave - systemic stress signaling in Arabidopsis

Simon Gilroy

University of Wisconsin-Madison

STUDENT HOST: CJ Bascom
Apr 14

Special Seminar Co-Sponsored by OEB and PB Graduate Programs:

Genetic diversity and adaptation strategies of Arabidopsis thaliana along the Yangtze River, China

Hongya Gu

College of Life Sciences, Peking University

Location: Life Science Laboratories Building, Room S330
TIME: 10:00 AM

HOST: Alice Cheung
Apr 14

PB Special Seminar:

Male-female communications in plant reproduction

Lijia Qu

College of Life Sciences, Peking University

Friday Seminar
Location: Life Science Laboratories Building, Room S330
TIME: 11:00 AM

 

HOST: Dong Wang
CO-SPONSOR: Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program
Apr 20

CANCELLED: Mosaics, megabases, and matryoshki: a leaf-to-landscape perspective on the symbiotic renaissance

A. Elizabeth (Betsy) Arnold

University of Arizona

STUDENT HOST: Kelly Allen