Plant Biology Graduate Group Seminar Series

Dr. Kenneth Birnbaum, Professor, New York University, presents "Partners in Repair: New Tools to Infer Combinatorial Control of Repatterning in Plant Regeneration".

Dr. Lotus Lofgren, Ph.D., Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, presents "Conifer-Associated Ectomycorrhizal Nitrogen Use Under Global Change".

Dr. Binglian Zheng, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, presents "Intronic lariat RNA turnover in plants".

Kolby Jardine, Staff Scientist, Molecular Ecology and Biogeochemistry Department, Climate and Ecosystems Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, presents "C1 metabolism in plants and microbes".

Arnold Bloom, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Davis, presents “A new paradigm for vascular plant photosynthesis and respiration”.

Elliot Meyerowitz, Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology, presents “From Stem Cell to Tissue: Development at the Plant Shoot Apical Meristem”.

Niko Geldner, Professor, presents "Mechanisms driving the spatial structure of root bacterial colonisation".

Patrick Shih, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, presents “Redesigning plants with synthetic biology: from carbon fixation to natural products”.

Todd Michael, Research Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, presents "The future of plant genomes".

Siobhan Brady, HHMI & University California, Davis, presents "Uncovering Cell  Type Differentiation  and its Response to  the Environment".