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
 

Spring 2021 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.

Spring 2021 Seminar Schedule

Jan 28

From stress-sensors to putative developmental controllers, using large-scale transcriptomics and comparative genomics to identify functional long non-coding RNAs in the mustards

Andrew Nelson

Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University

Host: Ahmet Bakirbas
Virtual Seminar
Feb 4

Topological data analysis for quantifying plant morphology

Dan Chitwood

Michigan State University 

Host: Amber DeNeve
Virtual Seminar
Feb 18

BTP Symposium: Plants the Future of Food and Medicine

Elizabeth Sattely - Stanford University
Zach Lippman - Cold Spring Harbor
Yisheng Wu - Conagen Inc
Devin O'Connor - Pairwise

Hosts: Sibongile Mafu and Madelaine Bartlett
Virtual Symposium
Thursday Feb. 18, 2020 (12:00 - 5: 00 pm EST)
Feb 25

Unexpected diversity in grass abscission zones

Toby Kellogg

Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Hosts: Rachel Tavares and Xiang Li
Virtual Seminar
Mar 4

Regulation of HD-ZIPIII transcription factors by deeply-conserved START domains

Aman Husbands

The Ohio State University 

Host: Madelaine Bartlett
Vitrual Seminar
Mar 11

Microbial endophytes for sustainable crop production

María Julissa Ek Ramos

Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

Host: Miriam Hernandez-Romero
Virtual Seminar
Mar 25

Genomics of environmentally dependent selection in a host-microbe (legume-rhizobia) symbiosis

Peter Tiffin

University of Minnesota

Host: Ana Caicedo
Vitrual Seminar
Apr 1

Linking proteotype to phenotype during root development

Dior Kelley

Iowa State Univeristy 

Hosts: Michelle Facette and Madelaine Bartlett
Virtual Seminar
Apr 8

Membrane remodeling in plant endosomal trafficking

Marissa Otegui

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Host: Michelle Facette
Virtual Seminar
Apr 15

Cancelled
Getting to the root of cytoskeletal-endomembrane crosstalk in plants

Elison Blancaflor

Noble Research Institute

Hosts: Michelle Facette and Alice Cheung
Vitrual Seminar
Apr 15

Cotton without agriculture: perspectives and opportunities

Jarrett Man

Galy 
Host: Sam Hazen
Virtual Seminar
Apr 22

There are always flowers for those who want to see them

Verónica Di Stilio

University of Washington

Host: Madelaine Bartlett
Virtual Seminar
Apr 29

DEI Panel
Dismantling racism in plant biology

Aman Husbands - The Ohio State University 
Maria Moreno - Yale University 
Chelsea Specht - Cornell University 

Hosts: Erin Patterson and Miriam Hernandez-Romero
Virtual Seminar