Seminars

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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. For seminars noted as remote, the Zoom link will be emailed to the Plant Biology list-serv.

Refreshments will be served beginning at 3:50pm.

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

Fall 2023 Seminar Schedule

Sep 14	A career in stress: from chaperones to mitochondria Elizabeth Vierling University of Massachusetts Amherst 222 Morrill II Host: Li-Jun Ma
Sep 21	The role of heatwaves and novel host plants on caterpillar disappearance Mariana Abarca Smith College 222 Morrill II Host: Ana Caicedo
Sep 28	Life on the edge: how to survive without water and other lessons from resurrection plants Rose Marks Michigan State University 222 Morrill II Host: Sam Hazen
Oct 5	Looking back to look forward: understanding morphological diversity for agricultural improvement Madelaine Bartlett University of Massachusetts Amherst 222 Morrill II Host: Michelle Facette
Oct 12	Identifying the root causes of bitter pit in apple Lee Kalcsits Washington State University Cranberry Station Host: Giverson Mupambi
Oct 21	18th Symposium in Plant Biology - Biology of Mitochondria and Plastids Maureen Hanson, Cornell University Maria Maldonado, University of California, Davis Daniel Sloan, Colorado State University Kris Niyogi, University of California, Berkeley Jeeyon Jeong, Amherst College Integrated Science Building
Oct 26	Plant strategies in response to nutrient limitation in tropical and temperate forests Michelle Wong Yale University 222 Morrill II Host: Rachel Hestrin
Nov 2	Fungal and oomycete populations and the boundaries of species in the scope of genomics Javier Tabima Clark University 222 Morrill II Host: Kelly Allen
Nov 9	Botany and Geogenomics: constraining geological hypotheses with large-scale genetic data derived from plants Ana Maria Bedoya Louisiana State University 222 Morrill II Host: Madelaine Bartlett
Nov 16	Multi-omics investigation of peroxisomal quality control DurreShahwar (Durre) Muhammad Rice University 222 Morrill II Host: Elizabeth Vierling
Nov 30	Tangled up in blue: Understanding carbon movement in trees during water stress Jessica Gersony Smith College 222 Morrill II Host: Ana Caicedo
Dec 7	Symplastic, not a simplistic, path: new insights into the role and structural properties of plasmodesmata cell walls Yoselin Benetiz Alfonso University of Leeds Zoom Host: Sibongile Mafu

Seminars

Undergraduate Students! To sign-up for announcements, please click the registration link, and we will review your request:Registration Request Form

UMass PB Community members can nominate a speaker by clicking HERE

Fall 2023 Seminar Schedule

A career in stress: from chaperones to mitochondria

The role of heatwaves and novel host plants on caterpillar disappearance

Life on the edge: how to survive without water and other lessons from resurrection plants

Looking back to look forward: understanding morphological diversity for agricultural improvement

Identifying the root causes of bitter pit in apple

18th Symposium in Plant Biology - Biology of Mitochondria and Plastids

Plant strategies in response to nutrient limitation in tropical and temperate forests

Fungal and oomycete populations and the boundaries of species in the scope of genomics

Botany and Geogenomics: constraining geological hypotheses with large-scale genetic data derived from plants

Multi-omics investigation of peroxisomal quality control

Tangled up in blue: Understanding carbon movement in trees during water stress

Symplastic, not a simplistic, path: new insights into the role and structural properties of plasmodesmata cell walls

Undergraduate Students! To sign-up for announcements, please click the registration link, and we will review your request:
Registration Request Form