Biology


2006-09-22 13:00: The ABC of auxin transport (Angus Murphy (Purdue University))

2006-09-29 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Warren Bentley)

2006-10-06 13:00: Effects of long term free air ozone fumigation on the cytokinin content of mature beech (Joanna Winwood)

2006-10-12 16:00: Metal cofactor assembly in chloroplasts (Dr Marinus Pilon, Colorado State University)

2006-10-13 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Nadia Bystryakova)

2006-10-19 16:00: Advantages of travelling by tube - explorations of fungal networks (Professor Lynne Boddy, Cardiff University)

2006-10-20 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Kit Wilkins)

2006-10-26 16:00: Population structure and evolution of virulence in plant viruses (Professor Fernando García-Arenal, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)

2006-10-27 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Amanda Cottage)

2006-11-02 16:00: Getting to grips with the metabolic network of Arabidopsis (Dr Lee Sweetlove, University of Oxford)

2006-11-03 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Sabrina Russo)

2006-11-09 16:00: Small RNA-directed pathways in plants (Professor Jim Carrington, Oregon State University)

2006-11-10 13:00: hydrogen production from a photosynthetically driven semi-biological device (Martin Croft)

2006-11-16 16:00: Chloroplast DNA - the case of the vanishing genome (Professor Chris Howe, University of Cambridge)

2006-11-17 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Ulli Seibt)

2006-11-23 16:00: Hormonal control of shoot branching (Professor Ottoline Leyser, University of York)

2006-11-24 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Heather Whitney)

2006-11-30 16:00: Grasses bite back: Silica as an anti-herbivore defence (Professor Susan Hartley, University of Sussex)

2006-12-08 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Lionel Dupuy)

2006-12-15 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Mat Lewsey)

2007-01-19 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Mike Webb, Plant Metabolism)

2007-01-25 16:00: Exploiting Cowpea mosaic virus in bio- and nano-technology: 101 things to do with a plant virus (Dr George Lomonossoff, John Innes Centre)

2007-01-26 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Katrine Bych, Plant Biochemistry)

2007-02-01 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Thilo Weimar, Cell Walls and Trafficking)

2007-02-01 16:00: The first cyanobacterium. A redox switch hypothesis for the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis. (Professor John Allen, Queen Mary, University of   London)

2007-02-02 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Ellen Nisbet, Photosyn & Mol Evolution)

2007-02-09 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Antony Dodd, Signal Transduction)

2007-02-15 16:00: About the importance of molybdenum for life (Dr Florian Bittner, Technische Universität Braunschweig)

2007-02-16 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley, Photosyn & Mol Evolution)

2007-02-22 16:00: The role of fungi in self-organisation of the soil-microbe complex (Professor John Crawford, University of Abertay, Dundee)

2007-03-01 16:00: Are treelines responding to climate change? (Professor Emeritus Robert Crawford, University of St Andrews)

2007-03-02 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Kate Parsley, Mol Physiology)

2007-03-08 16:00: Natural variation in Antirrhinum and Arabidopsis (Dr Andrew Hudson, University of Edinburgh)

2007-03-09 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Matt Lewsey, Mol Virology)

2007-03-15 16:00: The legume toolbox for the Rhizobium root nodule symbiosis (Professor Ton Bisseling, Wageningen University)

2007-03-23 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Christine Newell, Mol Biology)

2007-03-30 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Ma Wei, Plant Metabolism)

2007-04-20 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Diane Lister, Photosyn & Mol Evolution)

2007-04-27 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Neil Macpherson, Ion Transport)

2007-05-03 16:00: Made in the shade: light signals, phytochromes and plant  development (Professor Garry Whitelam, University of Leicester)

2007-05-04 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Sophie Janacek, Mol Physiology)

2007-05-11 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Richard Fu, Mol Virology)

2007-05-25 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Katharine Hubbard, Signal Transduction)

2007-06-01 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Nadexda Bystriakova, Cons & Com Ecology)

2007-06-08 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Diana Marshall, Mol Physiology)

2007-06-15 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Kaushik Saha, Plant Metabolism)

2007-06-22 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Kazunari Yasuhara, Mol Development)

2007-06-29 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Inka Borchers)

2007-07-06 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Laura Spence, Cons & Com Ecology)

2007-07-13 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Monique Surette, Mol Virology)

2007-10-04 16:00: Green light effects on plant growth and development (Professor Kevin Folta, University of Florida)

2007-10-05 13:00: Does the wheat orthologue of the rice cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase 2 (OsCKX2) regulate grain yield in hexaploid wheat? (Sabine Mameaux)

2007-10-11 16:00: Biogenesis and regulation of the photosynthetic apparatus (Professor Jean-David Rochaix, University of Geneva)

2007-10-12 13:00: Stromules and starch granule formation in wheat (Dan Shaw)

2007-10-18 16:00: Community assembly and phylogenies in tropical forest trees (Dr Jérôme Chave, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse)

2007-10-19 13:00: Economic Epidemiology (Martial Ndeffo Mbah, Plant Sciences)

2007-10-25 16:00: 21st century crop science man (Professor Andy Greenland, NIAB)

2007-10-26 13:00: The Barley Circadian Clock (Zoe Rutterford)

2007-11-01 16:00: Asking the plant about what's important in plant-herbivore interactions (Professor Ian T. Baldwin, MPI for Chemical Biology, Jena)

2007-11-08 16:00: Genome- and species-wide analysis of sequence variation and its functional consequences (Professor Detlef Weigel, MPI for Developmental Biology, Tübingen)

2007-11-15 16:00: Cell-to-cell transport of PVX involves novel features of the endomembrane network (Professor Jeanmarie Verchot Lubicz, Oklahoma State University)

2007-11-16 13:00: Development of trichome in tomato and relation with MIXTA gene (Kaz Yasuhara)

2007-11-22 16:00: Epigenetic asymmetry in plant gametes (Dr Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, HRI Warwick)

2007-11-23 13:00: Regulation of vitamin B1 metabolism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Michael Moulin)

2007-11-29 16:00: Plant water-use efficiency and optimisation: From minutes to millennia (Dr Peter J. Franks)

2007-11-30 13:00: Hairpin-induced gene silencing in Arabidopsis (Ben Hunter)

2007-12-14 13:00: Mechanics of Plant and Fungal Movements: Traps, Slingshots, and Catapults (Jacques Dumais from Harvard Biolabs)

2007-12-17 11:00: Functional genomics of salinity tolerance in plants (Prof Mark Tester, University of Adelaide, Australia)

2008-01-18 13:00: Advances in sequencing and mapping technology and multi-locus single molecule PCR (Justin Pachebat, Plant Sciences)

2008-01-24 16:00: Improving wheat for processing and nutrition (Professor Peter Shewry, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden)

2008-01-25 13:00: Interactions between proteins and between organisms (Severin Sasso, Plant Sciences)

2008-01-31 16:00: Recent dynamics and biomass carbon balance in the Amazon forests - what on earth is going on? (Professor O.P. Phillips, University of Leeds)

2008-02-01 13:00: Native-exotic species richness relationships in Mountain Beech forest understorey, New Zealand (Laura Spence, Plant Sciences)

2008-02-07 16:00: How repeatable is evolution? The genetics of parallel architectural evolution in Brassicaceae (Professor David Baum, University of Wisconsin)

2008-02-08 13:00: The D-type cyclin CYCD4;1 controls lateral root density in Arabidopsis (Jeroen Nieuwland, Institute of Biotechnology)

2008-02-14 16:00: Towards an interdisciplinary view of shoot apical meristem function (Professor Jan Traas, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon)

2008-02-15 13:00: Title to be confirmed (iGem Team/Library)

2008-02-21 16:00: Building plant bodies from hair (Professor Liam Dolan, John Innes Centre, Norwich)

2008-02-22 13:00: The iron-sulfur protein IND1 is required for complex I assembly in Yarrowia lipolytica (Katrine Bych, Plant Sciences)

2008-02-25 14:00: Insect Pest Control: overcoming the problems? (Professor Lin Field, Head of Insect Molecular Biology, Rothamsted Research)

2008-02-27 10:00: Induced epigenetic variation and its impact on Arabidopsis phenotype (Dr Brande B H Wulff, Instituto de Biologia Molecular y Celular de Plantas Cuidad Politecnica de la Innovacion Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain)

2008-02-28 16:00: First steps in manipulating cell wall polysaccharide synthesis: functional and industrial implications (Dr Paul Dupree, University of Cambridge)

2008-02-29 13:00: Proteomics analysis of organelle membrane proteins in Arabidopsis (Arnoud Groen, a postdoc in Kathryn Lilley's group)

2008-03-06 16:00: Everything you always wanted to know about potassium (Dr Anna Amtmann, University of Glasgow)

2008-03-13 16:00: To grow or not to grow (Professor Nicholas Harberd, University of Oxford)

2008-03-28 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Raffaele Lafortezza, Plant Sciences)

2008-04-04 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Fernan Federici and James Brown, Plant Sciences)

2008-04-11 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Ericka Havecker, Plant Sciences)

2008-04-18 13:00: A role for inositol hexakisphosphate in the maintenance of basal resistance to pathogens in plants (Alex Murphy, Plant Sciences)

2008-04-25 13:00: Effects of floral surface structures on colour and pollinator behaviour (Heather Whitney)

2008-05-19 16:00: Slicing, Spreading and Copying Silent Heterochromatin with RNAi (Rob Martienssen)

2008-05-23 13:00: Modelling the interactions of circadian clocks with physiology in plants (Neil Dalchau (University of Cambridge))

2008-05-30 13:00: Calcium-permeable cation channel formation by plant annexins (Anuphon Laohavisit, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-05-30 13:30: Demographic analyses of New Zealand forests (David Wright, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-06-05 16:00: Delivering 'born-again' (Virus-Eliminated) sweet potato to half a million small holder farmers in Zimbabwe (Dr Ian Robertson, University of Zimbabwe)

2008-06-06 13:00: Virus accumulation and movement in non-transgenic and transgenic Nicotiana species (Wing-Sham Lee, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-06-06 13:30: Evolution of the ‘beetle daisy’ petal spot: Insights from gene characterisation, development and population genetics (Murphy Thomas, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-06-13 13:00: Characterisation of the GUN1 plastid-to-nucleus signalling pathway in Arabidopsis (Linh Tran, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-06-20 13:00: The role of pyruvate orthophosphate dikinase in remobilisation of nitrogen from senescing leaves (Lucy Taylor, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-06-20 13:30: Cell division and elongation in Arabidopsis root (Fernan Federici, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-06-27 13:30: Phytate mediated basal resistance in plants (Bettina Otto, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-07-04 13:00: Role of sugar in Ca2+ signalling pathways in the Arabidopsis circadian clock (Leon Baek, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-07-11 13:00: Cytokinins and Potato Tuber Dormancy (Jenny Bromley, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-07-11 13:30: Distribution, Function and Regulation of Stromules in Wheat (Dan Shaw, Department of Plant Sciences)

2008-10-16 16:00: Blue light sensing in plants and bacteria: all you need is a little LOV (Dr John Christie, University of Glasgow)

2008-10-17 13:00: Understanding mannan biosynthesis: a key target for biofuel production. (Dr Jenny Mortimer, Dept. Biochemistry)

2008-10-23 16:00: Cajal bodies, the nucleolus and fibrillarin are required for a plant virus systemic infection (Dr Michael Taliansky, SCRI Dundee)

2008-10-24 13:00: Rubisco: no substitution for the pyrenoid in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Moritz Meyer, Dept. Plant Sciences)

2008-10-30 16:00: New Horizons of the Domestication of Crop Plants (Professor Wayne Powell, IBERS Aberystwyth)

2008-10-31 13:00: Misexpression of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in Arabidopsis and tobacco leaves (Anna Leiss, Dept. Plant Sciences)

2008-11-06 16:00: Discovery and analysis of novel riboswitches (Professor Ronald Breaker, Yale University)

2008-11-06 17:30: So you want to be an environmental consultant? (Dr Melissa Barrett (Arthur D. Little) and Dr Nick Betson (RPM))

2008-11-07 13:00: The Concealed Carbon Cycle – Partitioning Tropical Forest Soil co2 efflux (Andrew Nottingham, Dept. Plant Sciences)

2008-11-13 16:00: Getting to the root of developmental networks (Professor Philip Benfey, Duke University)

2008-11-14 13:00: Modelling Epidemics on Realistic Landscapes. (Dr Erik DeSimone, Dept. Plant Sciences)

2008-11-20 16:00: Why equalising trade-offs aren't always neutral (Dr Lindsay Turnbull, ETH Zürich)

2008-11-20 16:30: Biodiversity loss: Mechanisms and consequences (Dr Andy Hector, ETH Zürich)

2008-11-21 13:00: TobEA: An Atlas of Tobacco Gene Expression from Seed to Senescence. (Dr Kieron Edwards, Advanced Technologies (Cambridge))

2008-11-27 16:00: Physical aspects of evolutionary transitions to multicellularity (Professor Ray Goldstein, DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

2008-11-28 13:00: Small RNA directed chromatin changes in Chlamydomonas? (Dr Andrew Bassett, Dept. Plant Sciences)

2008-12-04 16:00: The (micro)diversity of pollination systems in the genus Ceropegia (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae): biogeographic and phylogenetic perspectives (Dr Jeff Ollerton, University of Northampton)

2009-01-15 16:00: Early farming pathways: recent work on the archaeology and genetics of barley and broomcorn millet (Professor Martin Jones - Archeology, Cambridge)

2009-01-22 16:00: RNA degradation and polyadenylation in Arabidopsis thaliana (Dr Dominique Gagliardi - IBMP, Strasbourg)

2009-01-29 16:00: Pollen tube growth: of male gametophytes and the need for models (Professor José Feijó - University of Lisbon)

2009-01-30 13:00: Recombination distributions and epigenetic information (Dr Ian Henderson, Department of Plant Sciences)

2009-02-05 16:00: The European potential to produce Bio-energy: Miscanthus potential for current and future climates (Mr Astley Hastings - University of Aberdeen)

2009-02-06 13:00: RNA silencing in the unicellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Dr Attila Molnar, Department of Plant Sciences)

2009-02-12 16:00: Regulatory role of ribosomes in plant development (Dr Mary Byrne - John Innes Centre, Norwich)

2009-02-13 13:00: Chlorophyll Degradation in Arabidopsis thaliana (Dr Sylvain Aubry, Department of Plant Sciences)

2009-02-19 16:00: Investigating the biology of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (Professor Nicholas Talbot - University of Exeter)

2009-02-20 13:00: Regulation of thiamine metabolism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Dr Michael Moulin, Department of Plant Sciences)

2009-02-26 16:00: Intracellular metabolite transport in C3 and C4 plants (Professor Andreas Weber - University of Düsseldorf)

2009-02-27 13:00: From hops biotechnology to the study of conical cells (Dr Ruben Alvarez-Fernandez, Department of Plant Sciences)

2009-03-05 16:00: Seasonal control of flowering in annual and perennial plants (Professor George Coupland - MPI for Plant Breeding, Cologne)

2009-03-06 13:00: Identification of regulators and targets of circadian calcium signalling (Dr Fiona Robertson, Department of Plant Sciences)

2009-03-12 16:00:  Between a rock and a hard place: metal nutrition in Chlamydomonas (Professor Sabeeha Merchant - UCLA)

2009-03-13 13:00: Membrane association of the Arabidopsis ARF exchange factor GNOM involves interaction of conserved domains (Dr Nadine Anders)

2009-04-24 13:00: Small RNA profiling of tomato towards trait engineering (Dr Padubidri Shivaprasad)

2009-05-01 13:00: A C4 protein that may represent a novel kinase-dephosphorylase (Holly Astley)

2009-05-01 13:30: Spurring the evolution of new species (Matthew Box)

2009-05-08 13:00: Iron-sulphur cluster assembly factors in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (James Godman)

2009-05-08 13:30: Cell-specific transcript accumulation in a model C4 plant Cleome gynandra (Kaisa Kajala)

2009-05-22 13:00: Bundle sheath leakiness in C4 crops (Wanne Kromdijk)

2009-05-22 13:30: Optimal control of SIR epidemics in interconnected regions (Martial Ndeffo Mbah)

2009-05-29 13:00: Expression of vitamin B12 enzymes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplast (Zarina Zainuddin)

2009-05-29 13:30: Cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase 2 (CKX2):a novel potential to increase grain yield in Bread Wheat? (Sabine Mameaux)

2009-06-05 13:00: Salicylic acid biosynthesis in higher plants (Keith Macaulay)

2009-06-05 13:30: The barley circadian clock (Zoe Rutterford)

2009-06-12 13:00: Spurring the evolution of new species (Matthew Box)

2009-06-12 13:30: Community-level changes in fine root traits along a long-term soil chronosequence in New Zealand (Robert Holdaway)

2009-06-19 13:00: "Molecular-genetic analysis of natural variation influencing photoperiodic flowering in arabidopsis thaliana" Daylength perception: a story of balance? (Dr Antonis Giakountis)

2009-10-15 16:00: Between a rock and a hard place - resistance evolution and genetic incompatibility in plants. (Kirsten Bomblies, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University)

2009-10-16 13:00: Super Broccoli & Soggy Tomatoes – IP considerations of plant biotechnology (Anton Hutter)

2009-10-22 16:00: What domestication missed: exploiting wild emmer to improve wheat (Cristobal Uauy, Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre)

2009-10-23 13:00: Plasmodesmata mediated cell-to-cell transport during Arabidopsis embryogenesis (Patricia Zambryski)

2009-10-29 13:00: Cambridge iGEM 2009 (Jim Ajioka, James Brown, Tom Ellis, Jim Haseloff, Gos Micklem, Duncan Rowe Cambridge iGEM Advisors)

2009-10-29 16:00: Getting under the skin: How do plants generate and maintain an effective epidermis? (Gwyneth Ingram, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh)

2009-11-05 16:00: Coordination of homologous recombination the key to accurate chromosome segregation during meiosis in Arabidopsis (Chris Franklin, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham)

2009-11-06 13:00: Immunological analysis of chloroplast-derived HIV-1 antigens (Nuria Gonzalez-Rabade)

2009-11-12 16:00: The secrets of a plant killer: Evolutionary and functional dynamics of Phytophthora infestans effector genes (Sophien Kamoun, The Sainsbury Laboratory)

2009-11-13 13:00: Seeking the Meiotic Trigger in Arabidopsis (Liz Alvey)

2009-11-19 16:00: Signalling pathways that establish symbiotic interactions in plants (Giles Oldroyd, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre)

2009-11-20 13:00: To Cap it All? Root Development, Evolution and the Root Cap (Tom Bennett)

2009-11-26 16:00: Systems analysis of lateral root development: an emerging story… (Malcolm Bennet, Center for Plant Integrative Biology, University of Nottingham)

2009-11-27 13:00: CMV 2b silencing suppressor disrupts jasmonic and salicylic acid signalling (Alex Murphy)

2009-12-01 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Eric Jauniaux, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College London)

2009-12-03 16:00: Long term drivers of aboveground-belowground linkages - evidence from invaders, islands and chronosequences (David Wardle, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

2009-12-04 13:00: Bio-Photovoltaic (BPV) devices: wiring photosynthetic material (Paolo Bombelli)

2009-12-11 13:00: Cucumber mosaic virus influences plant defences against insects and fitness of its transmission vector (Jack Westwood)

2010-01-06 16:30: Regulatory T cells: evolution, pregnancy and therapy (Dr Alexander Betz, Cambridge Immunology)

2010-01-08 13:00: Silencing RNAs are mobile and trigger DNA methylation in distant tissue (Attila Molnar)

2010-01-14 16:00: Basal Sexual Strategies: Sexual differentiation, haploid-diploid transitions, and uniparental inheritance of organelle genome (Ursula Goodenough, University of Washington, St Louis)

2010-01-15 13:00: Transcription profiling of calcium and circadian clock signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana (Sylvain Aubry)

2010-01-21 16:00: Unwinding the circadian clock with systems biology (Andrew Millar, University of Edinburgh)

2010-01-22 13:00: The road to C4 rice (Sarah Covshoff)

2010-01-27 13:00: The liverwort Marchantia polymorpha as an emerging model plant (Kimitsune Ishizaki, Kyoto University)

2010-01-28 16:00: Arabidopsis natural variation: QTL, genes and 'omics' (Maarten Koorneef, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne.)

2010-01-29 13:00: Golden Rice... Coming soon (Dr Adrian Dubock)

2010-02-03 16:00: Why (and how) did the amino acid cross the placenta? (Dr Rohan Lewis, Institute of Developmental Sciences, University of Southampton)

2010-02-04 16:00: Using Pathogen Effectors to Investigate Host Plant Resistance Mechanisms (Jonathan Jones, The Sainsbury Laboratory)

2010-02-05 13:00: Uniparental expression of PolIV-dependent siRNAs in developing endosperm of Arabidopsis (Becky Mosher)

2010-02-11 16:00: The Evolution and Development of Leaves (Jane Langdale, University of Oxford)

2010-02-12 13:00: Cellular redox homeostasis and regulation in the cell proliferation in relation to stress tolerance (Christine H. Foyer, Centre for Plant Sciences, Faculty of Biology, University of Leeds)

2010-02-18 16:00: Wood mechanics, allometry, and life-history variation in a tropical rain forest tree community (Lourens Poorter, University of Wageningen)

2010-02-19 13:00: Creating a High-Resolution Meiotic Recombination Map in Arabidopsis (Natasha Elina)

2010-02-25 16:00: Unravelling the 50 year old Ph1 puzzle in wheat (Graham Moore, John Innes Centre)

2010-02-26 13:00: Tools for engineering self-organisation and pattern formation in microbes and plants (James Brown)

2010-03-04 16:00: Genetic and environmental factors determine the stability of gene silencing in Arabidopsis (Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid,Gregor Mendel Institute)

2010-03-05 13:00: Annexin function in stress signalling (Anuphon Laohavisit)

2010-03-10 16:00: The regulation of protein synthesis in health and disease (Professor Chris Proud, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton)

2010-03-12 13:00: sRNA-directed heterochromatin formation in Chlamydomonas? (Andrew Bassett)

2010-03-19 13:00: Rapid evolution of the RNA polymerase 3 transcriptome in mammals (Claudia Kutter (CRI))

2010-04-07 16:00: The role of cyclic decidualization of human endometrium in determining pregnancy outcome (Professor Jan Brosens, Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College London)

2010-04-16 13:00: Understanding metabolism for ecological and environmental purposes (Dr Matt Davey)

2010-04-23 13:00: Enabling Genome Biology with the Illumina HiSeq 2000 System TALK IS CANCELLED (Gary P. Schroth, Gene Expression Applications R&D)

2010-04-30 13:00: Assessing the Roles of Parallelism versus Convergence in the Evolution of Floral Diversity (Sam Brockington)

2010-05-05 16:00: Functional role of uterine NK cells in early pregnancy (Dr Judith Bulmer, School of Surgical and Reproductive Sciences, Newcastle University)

2010-05-07 13:00: Regulation of thiamine biosynthesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Zetty Northana Balia Yusof)

2010-05-14 09:00: First Year Graduate Student Seminars I (Various)

2010-05-20 09:00: First Year Graduate Student Seminars II (Various)

2010-05-21 13:00: Evolution of vitamin B12 auxotrophy determined by methionine synthase isoform (Katherine Helliwell)

2010-05-24 16:30: Placental metabolism in early and late onset pre-eclampsia (Matts Olovsson, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Sweden)

2010-05-28 13:00: Identifying molecular determinants of C4 photosynthesis (Ben Tolley)

2010-06-04 13:00: Modelling the Control of Fungal Crop Disease: Challenging traditional assumptions (Matthew Castle)

2010-06-11 13:00: Global vegetation responses to deer: ecosystem changes and recovery (Andrew Tanentzap)

2010-06-18 13:00: What we can learn from deforestation patterns and historical disturbance effects in tropical rain forests of the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park (Shauna-Lee Chai)

2010-06-25 13:00: Clues for Climate Change Concealed in the Canopy - Diversity and Ecophysiology of Bryophytes in Peru (Aline Horwath)

2010-09-01 16:30: The importance of being imprinted in the human placenta (Professor Gudrun Moore, UCL Institute of Child Health)

2010-10-06 16:30: Placental microparticles and exosomes: their role in pre-eclampsia (Professor Ian Sargent, Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Oxford)

2010-10-08 13:00: Functional study of CROWN ROOTLESS1, a AS2/LOB-domain protein essential for crown root development in rice. (Yoan Coudert)

2010-10-14 16:00: UK Molecular plant-microbe-insect interactions (Dr Saskia Hogenhout, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, John Innes Centre)

2010-10-15 13:00: Silencing signals in plants: A big journey for small RNAs (Charles Melnyk)

2010-10-21 16:00: CANCELLED: UK Long-term ecosystem dynamics and environmental (Prof. Kathy Willis, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)

2010-10-22 13:00: Phylogenomic analysis of tobacco; identifying the genes selected during domestication (Kieron Edwards, Applied Molecular Breeding manager of Advance Technologies)

2010-10-28 16:00: From plant-pathogen interactions to plant-microbe communities (Prof. Paul Schulze-Lefert, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany)

2010-10-29 13:00: There's no Business Like Flow Business (Rachael Walker, Stem Cell research department Flow cytometry specialist)

2010-11-03 16:30: Placental Physiology: Coming of Age (Professor Colin Sibley, Maternal & Fetal Health Research Centre, University of Manchester)

2010-11-04 16:00: Design principles in energy and carbon metabolism (Dr Ron Milo, Department of Plant Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

2010-11-05 13:00: The Perennial Plant Clock: Implications for Growth and Winter Survival (Maria Eriksson, Department of Plant physiology - Umea University)

2010-11-11 16:00: Plant membrane transport (Prof. Dale Sanders, John Innes Centre)

2010-11-12 13:00: Using 2nd generation sequencing for delineating relationships between the genome, epigenome, transcriptome and  proteome (Dr Abizar Lakdawalla, Senior product manager for sequencing - Illumina)

2010-11-18 16:00: Structure and function of photosystem-I (Prof. John Golbeck, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University, USA)

2010-11-19 13:00: An Overview of Plant Structural Colour (Murphy Thomas, Beverley Glover group)

2010-11-25 16:00: Cell fate specification guided by hormonal and genetic interplay during fruit development (Dr Lars Ostergaard, Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre)

2010-11-26 13:00: The long and the short of it: dez implicates Zn homeostasis in skotomorphogenesis (Mike Haydon, Alex Webb group)

2010-12-01 16:30: From Stromatolites to Pre-eclampsia (Professor Eric Jauniaux, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College London)

2010-12-02 16:00: Molecular control of flowering-time and vernalization (Prof. Caroline Dean, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre)

2010-12-03 13:00: The mitochondrial ABC transporter ATM3 plays a key role in the biogenesis of cytosolic Fe-S proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana (Delphine Bernard, Janneke Balk group)

2010-12-10 13:00: Sugar beet breeding, bolting resistance and Gibberellins (Helen Holmes, Broom’s Barn)

2011-01-14 13:00: Patterning the Arabidopsis leaf (Sarah Robinson, JIC)

2011-01-20 16:00: Thermosensory mechanisms in plants (Dr Phillip Wigge, Department of Cell & Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre)

2011-01-21 13:00: Cambridge iGEM 2010: E.glowli (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-01-27 16:00: Environmental physiology (Prof. Bill Davies, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lancaster)

2011-01-28 13:00: Extraordinary phenotypes of hybrids are influenced by epigenetics and small silencing RNAs (Padubidri Shivaprasad, David Baulcombe's group)

2011-02-02 16:30: Mechanisms of spiral artery remodelling (Professor Guy Whitley, Division of Basic Medical Sciences, St George’s University of London)

2011-02-03 16:00: New Insights into Starch Metabolism in Arabidopsis and Other Plants (Prof. Sam Zeeman, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

2011-02-04 13:00: Breaking down the (cell) walls: simplifying xylan in Arabidopsis (Jenny Mortimer, Dupree Lab, Biochemistry Dept.)

2011-02-10 16:00: Mating systems, hybridization, polyploidy, and continuing evolution in Senecio (ragworts) and Sorbus (whitebeams) (Prof. Simon Hiscock, School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol)

2011-02-11 13:00: Transient loss of membrane potential in single plant mitochondria (Markus Schwarzlander, University of Oxford)

2011-02-17 16:00: Is there a limit to tomato yield? (Prof. Daniel Zamir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

2011-02-18 13:00: Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in Arabidopsis: a role for small RNAs? (Donna Bond, David Baulcombe's group)

2011-02-22 16:00: The timing of cell divisions underlies developmental patterning in Arabidopsis (Dr Adrienne Roeder, California Institute of Technology)

2011-02-24 16:00: Why study early land plants? (Prof. Dianne Edwards, School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, University of Cardiff)

2011-02-25 13:00: Electrogenic photosynthetic microorganisms: harnessing solar energy in bio-photovoltaic (BPV) systems (Alistair McCormick, Plant Metabolism)

2011-03-02 17:00: Evolution of Placental Function? (Professor Anthony Carter, Faculty of Medicine, University of Odense, Denmark)

2011-03-03 16:00: Shaping the plant endomembrane system (Prof. Chris Hawes, Oxford Brookes University)

2011-03-10 16:00: Epigenetic variation across generations: mechanisms and consequences of DNA methylation in Arabidopsis (Prof. Vincent Colot, Unité de Biologie Moléculaire des Organismes Photosynthétiques, ENS, France)

2011-03-11 13:00: The role of small non-coding RNAs in mouse primordial germ cell specification and epigenetic reprogramming (Delphine Cougot, Gurdon Institute)

2011-03-17 16:00: Polyploidy and epigenetics (Prof. Jeffrey Chen, University of Texas at Austin)

2011-03-18 13:00: The FRIGIDA complex-mediated FLC activation in winter annuals of Arabidopsis thaliana (Kyuha Choi)

2011-03-25 13:00: Algal biodiesel – challenging cell walls (Irmi Horst, Alison Smith’s group)

2011-04-01 13:00: Priming: fine-tuning of plant innate immunity (Jurriaan Ton, Rothamsted Research)

2011-04-06 16:30: Perturbing expression of IC2 imprinted genes to characterise their roles in placental development (Dr Rosalind John, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University)

2011-04-08 13:00: Development of leaf venation in C3 and C4 species (Britta Kuemper)

2011-04-08 13:30: Potential benefits of cultivar mixtures (Joseph Helps)

2011-04-18 16:00: Plant Organs Regeneration: Measuring Self-Organisation (Dr Giovanni Sena, New York University)

2011-04-27 14:00: The Future of Plant Science (Heads of 5 Plant Research Institutes in East Anglia)

2011-04-28 16:00: Molecular determinants of the pyrenoid and carbon concentrating mechanism  in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Madeline Mitchell)

2011-04-28 16:30: Small RNAs and hybridization in the unicellular green algae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Daisy Hessenberger)

2011-05-04 16:30: Maternal signalling to the villous placenta (Professor John Aplin, Maternal and Fetal Health Research Group, the University of Manchester)

2011-05-05 16:00: Regulation of thiamine biosynthesis by riboswitches (Trinh Nguyen)

2011-05-05 16:30: Investigating aspects of algal-bacterial symbiosis (Matthew Cooper)

2011-05-06 13:00: Pol IV in Tomato (Amy Beeken)

2011-05-06 13:30: Title to be confirmed (Elena Kazamia)

2011-05-12 16:00: Is there a role for sRNAs in C4 Photosynthesis? (Ewan Gage)

2011-05-12 16:30: Evolution and Diversity of MIXTA-like genes (Katrina Alcorn)

2011-05-13 13:00: Molecular regulation and morphological development of petal spot evolution (Rachel Walker)

2011-05-13 13:30: The Influence of PPDK on Nitrogen Remobilisation in Wheat during Senescence (Maria Herse)

2011-05-18 17:00: Is Heparin a placental anticoagulant? (Professor John Kingdom, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada)

2011-05-19 16:00: Inositol hexakisphosphate, a key factor controlling plant responses to biotic and abiotic stresses (Ruth Le Fevre)

2011-05-19 16:30: Marchantia polymorpha: A model for developmental biology and a novel chassis for synthetic biology (Nuri Purswani)

2011-05-20 12:30: Interpreting environmental signals from Antarctic peat cores (Jessica Royles)

2011-05-20 13:00: Spanish forest dynamics: Constraining models with data (Emily Lines)

2011-05-20 13:30: A forward genetic approach to elucidate the microRNA and chromatin silencing pathways in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Craig Thompson)

2011-05-26 16:00: RNA Based Mechanism in genetic and epigenetic regulation (Bruno Santos)

2011-05-26 16:30: Plasma membrane electron transport in the green alga Chlamydomonas  reinhardtii (Xander Anderson)

2011-05-27 13:00: Petal Epidermal Patterning and Pollinator Attraction (Alison Reed)

2011-05-27 13:30: Challenging existing paradigms of pathogen dispersal (James Cox)

2011-06-02 16:30: Conservation of stem cell function in land plants (Chris White)

2011-06-03 13:00: Cucumber mosaic virus and its RNA silencing suppressor alter plant odour as perceived by pollinators (Niels Groen)

2011-06-03 13:30: Identification & characterization of CML23 and CML24 in Arabidopsis thaliana circadian clock (Nur Izzati Mohd Noh)

2011-06-09 16:00: Molecular studies of meiotic recombination in Arabidopsis thaliana and Triticum aestivum (Carsten Reinhard)

2011-06-09 16:30: Can Argonautes provide demethylation specificity in Arabidopsis thaliana? (Laura Taylor)

2011-06-10 13:00: Design of Self-Organising Circuits for Multicellular Systems (Tim Rudge)

2011-06-10 13:30: The role of cucumber mosaic virus 2b protein in subverting plant defensive signalling pathways (Trisna Tungadi)

2011-06-16 16:00: Investigating the Spread of Disease at the Landscape Scale (Richard Stutt)

2011-06-16 16:30: Too big to fail? Disease control versus market breakdown (Mathieu Moslonka-Lefebvre)

2011-06-23 16:00: Nutrient cycling and carbon dynamics: the effects of leaf litter manipulation in a tropical lowland forest in Panama (Sara Neihaus)

2011-07-27 16:00: Establishing baseline emissions rates for REDD+ (Beccy Wilebore)

2011-08-15 16:00: Specification of New Cell Populations in Arabidopsis Root (Dr Miguel Moreno-Risueno - Duke University)

2011-08-16 16:00: Imaging Structure and Function in Biological Systems (Dr James A.J. Fitzpatrick, Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center, Salk Institute for Biological Studies)

2011-08-19 16:00: Chemical and Genetic Dissection of ABA Signaling (Dr Sean Cutler, University of California, Riverside, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences)

2011-08-25 10:00: 3D  and  4D  Image  Visualization  &  Analysis - Workshop with IMARIS (Dr Delisa Gracia, Bitplane)

2011-09-05 00:00: The Sainsbury Laboratory Computational Workshop (Speaker to be confirmed)

2011-09-07 16:30: Developmental origins of obesity (Professor Lucilla Poston, Director - Maternal and Fetal Research Unit, St Thomas' Hospital, King’s College London)

2011-09-19 16:00: PINs and Knots: Auxin-transport mediated patterning in the grasses (Devin O’Connor, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology)

2011-10-03 16:00: Building a wall: Genetics of exine formation in Arabidopsis pollen (Dr Anna Dobrista, University of Chicago, Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology)

2011-10-05 09:00: Real-time PCR Training Course (Chris Maddren - LifeTech Field Application Scientist)

2011-10-05 17:00: Imaging in Preeclampsia (Professor Basky Thilaganathan, Director, Fetal Medicine Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology)

2011-10-06 16:00: Comparative genomics: lessons, rationales and perspectives (Jerome Salse, INRA Versailles)

2011-10-07 13:00: Illuminating diverse RNA silencing pathways using the Arabidopsis Argonautes (Ericka Havecker, Gene Silencing Group)

2011-10-10 16:00: Stochastic signal encoding strategies in cells (James Locke, Department of Biology, California Institute of Technology)

2011-10-11 16:00: Exploring the dynamics of stem cell maintenance in the shoot apical meristem through computational models (Vijay Chikarmane, California Institute of Technology)

2011-10-13 16:00: Chromosome structure in the establishment and divergence of polyploids (Andrew Leitch, QMUL)

2011-10-14 13:00: Of water flumes, waxy walls and toilet bowls: trapping strategies of carnivorous pitcher plants (Ulrike Bauer, Forest Ecology & Conservation Group)

2011-10-17 16:00: Evolution of gene content in cellular organisms, viruses and in the Last Universal Common Ancestor (Dr Arcady Mushegian, Director of Bioinformatics Center, Stowers Institute for Medical Research)

2011-10-18 16:00: Similarity measures, similarity searches, and network inferences on genome-wide datasets (Dr Arcady Mushegian, Director of Bioinformatics Center, Stowers Institute for Medical Research)

2011-10-20 16:00: Evolution of C4 grasses: from genes to globe (Colin Osborne, Sheffield)

2011-10-21 13:00: The constraints on growing algae for biofuel (Nic Ross, Plant Metabolism Group)

2011-10-27 16:00: Control of orientated cell division and cell expansion during plant development (Simon Turner, Manchester)

2011-10-28 13:00: Uncovering new abilities of RNA silencing suppressors from viruses of the Potyviridae family (Adrian Valli, Gene Silencing Group)

2011-11-02 16:30: 'Genome wide analysis of placental DNA and RNA in first trimester maternal plasma by massively parallel sequencing: current and future possibilities' (Dr Cees Oudejans, Head of the Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Chemistry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam)

2011-11-03 16:00: From Clone to Clinic- oilseed based bio-pharmaceutical production (Maurice Maloney, IACR Rothamstead)

2011-11-04 13:00: C4 photosynthesis transcriptomics: From Cleome to rice (Sylvain Aubry, Molecular Physiology Group)

2011-11-10 16:00: From Armadillos to Abscisic Acid (Juliet Coates, Birmingham)

2011-11-11 13:00: Fish, Fungus, and Filaments: Cellular Interactions in a Diversity of Systems (Paul Grant, Synthetic Biology Group)

2011-11-17 16:00: Stomatal development and evolution (Julie Gray, Sheffield)

2011-11-24 16:00: The endodermis - a selective and protective interface between plant and soil (Niko Geldner, Lausanne)

2011-11-25 13:00: Pyrenoid formation is associated with RuBisCO small subunit alpha-helices in Chlamydomonas (Moritz Meyer, Physiological Ecology Group)

2011-12-01 16:00: Mycorrhizal fungal power- harnessing photosynthate and transforming the Earth (Jonathon Leake, Sheffield)

2011-12-02 13:00: How to get on with your weedy neighbours? A study of root to root interactions between wheat and black grass (Stephanie Swarbreck, Ion Transport Group)

2011-12-05 16:00: From cell-specific genome expression to specific cell fate determination (Dr Yuling Jiao, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

2011-12-07 16:30: Early embryo environment and implications for health into adulthood' (Professor Tom Fleming, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton)

2012-01-19 16:00: Strigolactone signalling and the control of shoot branching (Ottoline Leyser, SLCU)

2012-01-20 13:00: iGEM Team 2011 (iGEM Team 2011)

2012-01-24 14:00: How to change your fate - The control of flowering time in plants (Dr Katja Jaeger, John Innes Centre)

2012-01-26 16:00: The control of flowering time (Richard Morris, JIC)

2012-01-27 13:00: Crop pioneers across Eurasia: insights from phylogeographic analysis using SSRs (Harriet Hunt, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research)

2012-02-01 16:00: It takes two to tango: Hormones and transcription factors in shoot meristem control (Professor Jan Lohmann)

2012-02-02 16:00: Drought and diversity in tropical rain forests (Patrick Meir, Edinburgh University)

2012-02-03 13:00: Epigenetic remodeling of meiotic crossover frequency in Arabidopsis DNA methyltransferase mutants (Natasha Elina, Epigenetics)

2012-02-09 16:00: How plants survive the night (Alison M. Smith, JIC)

2012-02-10 13:00: Hybrid networks in tomato (Vera Pancaldi, Gene Silencing)

2012-02-15 16:30: Trophoblast invasion and spiral artery transformation in normal pregnancy and pre-eclampsia (Professor Fiona Lyall, Professor of Maternal and Fetal Health Institute of Medical Genetics Yorkhill Glasgow)

2012-02-16 16:00: Hidden Signposts of Plant Development (Enrico Coen, JIC)

2012-02-17 13:00: Structural analysis of Arabidopsis cell wall arabinogalactan polysaccharides (Dora Tryfona, Dupree Lab, Biochemistry)

2012-02-22 16:00: Design of Light Perception Networks: Learning from Nature (Dr Christian Fleck, University of Freiburg)

2012-02-23 16:00: Molecular Pharming gets a green thumbs up (Julian Ma, St. George’s, University of London)

2012-02-24 13:00: Cucumber mosaic virus promotes its transmission by manipulating plant-insect interactions (Jack Westwood, Virology)

2012-03-01 16:00: Molecular tools for the macroalgae (John Bothwell, Queen's University Belfast)

2012-03-02 13:00: Looking at the genes behind Darwin’s abominable mystery (Edwige Moyroud, Molecular Development)

2012-03-06 16:00: RNA Biology of Plant Embryos (Dr Michael Nodine, Whitehead Institute, MIT)

2012-03-07 16:30: Identification and Targeting of Hypoxia Tolerance Mechanisms - from Critters to Cancer (Professor Thomas Gorr, Head of the Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Clinical Chemistry, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam)

2012-03-08 16:00: Specification of pre-meiotic cells in maize anthers (Virginia Walbot, Stanford University)

2012-03-09 13:00: IND1, a Fe-S protein involved in respiratory complex I biogenesis. From Arabidopsis gametogenesis defects to patients with mitochondrial myopathies (Mateusz Wydro, Plant Biochemistry)

2012-03-15 16:00: Unraveling a Transcriptional Network Involved in Maize Domestication (John Doebley,  University of Wisconsin-Madison)

2012-03-16 13:00: Superoxide anion production in diatoms and its potential role in bio-photovoltaic devices (Anuphon Laohavisit, Plant Metabolism)

2012-04-02 14:30: Indeterminate1: transcriptional and metabolite changes associated with the autonomous floral transition in maize (Viktoriya Coneva, University of Guelph, Canada)

2012-04-04 16:30: The genome-wide hunt for pre-eclampsia genes (Dr Linda Morgan, Division of Clinical Medicine, University of Nottingham)

2012-04-11 16:00: Understanding the mechanical cell wall: Towards a mechano-molecular framework of cell and tissue growth in plants (Dr Siobhan Braybrook, Institute of Plant Sciences, Berne)

2012-04-19 16:00: Clonal deletion analysis and cell death in the root stem cell niche (Guy Wachsman, Technion Institute)

2012-04-20 13:00: Energetics under limiting light: a useful tool to study C4 photosynthesis (Chandra Bellasio)

2012-04-20 13:30: Mechanism of action of strigolactone (Catherine Taylor)

2012-04-24 16:00: Qualitative Analysis of Patterns Induced by Active Transport and Auxin (Dr Etienne Farcot, CIRAD / UMR AGAP, Virtual Plants, Montpellier)

2012-04-26 16:00: The Pathway to C4 Rice (Helen Woodfield)

2012-04-26 16:30: The role of Annexin 1 in [Ca2+]cyt dynamics (Renato Colaco)

2012-04-27 13:00: Developing the microdroplet platform for microalgal biotechnology (Roshni Best)

2012-04-27 13:30: Phenology in a temperate forest: relationships between carbohydrate supply and water limitation (Andres Plaza)

2012-05-01 16:00: Plant pathogen effectors as probes to elucidate plant processes (Dr Sebastian Schornack, Sainsbury laboratory, John Innes Centre Norwich)

2012-05-02 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Tessa van Kempen, Visiting Scholar)

2012-05-03 16:00: Within-field diversity and the effectiveness of crop mixtures at reducing pathogen damage (Joe Helps)

2012-05-03 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Paul Steiner)

2012-05-04 13:00: Identification of ADPR cyclase in Arabidopsis (SM Abdul Awal)

2012-05-04 13:30: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in European forests (Tommaso Jucker)

2012-05-10 16:00: Artificial evolution of the resistance gene, Rx, to enhance activation sensitivity in a broad recognition background (Jake Harris)

2012-05-10 16:30: The Role Of Annexin1 During growth and abiotic stress (Sian Richards)

2012-05-11 13:00: Modelling the biological control of crop disease (Robin Thompson)

2012-05-11 13:30: Title to be confirmed (Tim Rudge)

2012-05-14 12:15: The Arabidopsis immune system and root microbiome (Professor Jeff Dangl, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)

2012-05-17 16:00: A motif present in multiple C4 genes is necessary for mesophyll specificity (Ben Williams)

2012-05-17 16:30: The application of species distribution models to IUCN Red List assessments: an evaluation (Mindy Syfert)

2012-05-18 13:00: Inferring forest stand structure from LiDAR remote sensing data (Rebecca Spriggs)

2012-05-18 13:30: Identification of circadian mutants with an altered response to nicotinamide (Timothy Hearn)

2012-05-22 13:30: How cell walls mechanically control growth (Dr Siobhan Braybrook, University of Bern)

2012-05-22 14:10: Finding love: Intercellular communication during plant reproduction (Dr Sharon Kessler, University of Zurich)

2012-05-22 14:50: DNA methylation dynamics during sexual reproduction in Arabidopsis thaliana (Dr Pauline Jullien, ETH Zürich)

2012-05-22 15:50: Plant pathogen effectors as probes to elucidate plant processes (Dr Sebastian Schorack, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich)

2012-05-22 16:30: Positional information by differential endocytosis splits auxin response to drive Arabidopsis root meristem growth (Dr Emanuele Scacchi, University of Lausanne)

2012-05-23 09:00: Can we make Arabidopsis into Striga? (Dr Yuichiro Tsuchiya, University of Toronto)

2012-05-23 09:40: A novel carotenoid-derived molecule functions in periodic root branching (Dr Jaimie van Norman, Duke University)

2012-05-23 10:20: Smoke and mirrors: The curious connection between post-fire germination and shoot branching regulation (Dr David Nelson, University of Georgia)

2012-05-23 11:20: Hormonal networks in plant development: Fundamentally simple? (Dr Tom Bennett, University of Cambridge Department of Plant Sciences)

2012-05-23 12:00: Quantifying leaf morphology: perspectives on development, environmental regulation, and natural variation in leaf shape and size (Dr Daniel Chitwood, University of California, Davis)

2012-05-23 13:30: Adaptation to the environment in Arabidopsis thaliana (Dr Angela Hancock, University of Vienna)

2012-05-23 14:10: The footprint of mating system shift and colonization on the genome of a young species (Dr Daniel Koenig, Max Planck Institute)

2012-05-23 14:50: Scratching the surface: Evolutionary developmental genetics of the land plant cuticle (Dr Sam Brockington, University of Cambridge Department of Plant Sciences)

2012-05-24 16:00: Use of airborne lidar to model vegetation structure and plant species composition of Mediterranean oak forests (Will Simonson)

2012-05-24 16:30: Defining the role of NAD+ metabolism in circadian clock function in Arabidopsis thaliana (Laura Bell)

2012-05-25 13:00: Dichotomous branching in the common liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha (Jeremy Solly)

2012-05-25 13:30: Regulation of gene expression in C4 metabolism (Ivan Reyna-Llorens)

2012-05-31 15:30: The influence of salicylic acid and jasmonic acid on expression of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase 1 in Arabidopsis (Lydia Hunter)

2012-05-31 16:00: Identification and characterisation of triacylglycerol biosynthesis genes in Phaeodactylum tricornutum (Jit Ern Chen)

2012-05-31 16:30: The contributions of RNA-dependent RNA polymerase 6 and alternative oxidase in resistance to potato virus X (Zheng Li)

2012-06-01 13:00: The role of gibberellin in bolting in sugar beet (Helen Holmes)

2012-06-01 13:30: The Evolution of MIXTA Gene Function in Angiosperms and Bryophytes (Lin Taylor)

2012-06-07 16:00: Improving uniformity of potato crops (Simon Smart)

2012-06-07 16:30: Environmental drivers of tropical peat swamp forest vegetation patterns (Beatrice Wedeux)

2012-06-08 13:00: Using a new model to understand C4 gene regulation (Christopher John)

2012-06-08 13:30: Understating the role of small RNAs in gene regulatory networks (Bruno Santos)

2012-06-12 14:30: The role of temperature and HOS1 in seed dormancy control (Sarah Kendall, University of Exeter, Penfield lab)

2012-06-14 16:00: The extended phenotype of the cucumber mosaic virus genome in insect transmission (Niels Groen)

2012-06-14 16:30: The roles of cucumber mosaic virus proteins in modifying plant-aphid interactions in tobacco (Trisna Tungadi)

2012-06-15 13:00: Pyrenoid formation and impact on photosynthetic supply side energetics in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Oliver Caspari)

2012-06-15 15:00: The Same or Different? Control of flowering time in the model legume Medicago (Professor Jo Putterill, University of Auckland)

2012-06-18 14:30: The impact of heritable DNA methylation (Sandra Cortijo, Université Paris Sud 11, V. Colot lab)

2012-06-21 16:00: Setting reference levels for REDD+ (Beccy Wilebore)

2012-06-21 16:30: Chlamydomonas reinhardtii NADPH Oxidases as potential electron transporters for biophotovoltaic devices. (Xander Anderson)

2012-06-22 13:00: A System Dynamics approach to model carbon assimilation in plants that exhibit Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) (Nicholas Owen)

2012-06-22 13:30: The evolution of floral morphology in the Antirrhineae and its relationship with pollinator shifts (Celilia Martinez-Perez)

2012-07-12 16:00: Functions for some evolutionarily conserved transcription regulators in rice inflorescence and flower development (Dr. Usha Vijayraghavan, Department of Microbiology & Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

2012-07-26 16:00: Towards a quantitative mechanical model of plant cells and tissues (Richard Smith, University of Bern Department of Plant Sciences)

2012-08-21 09:00: Computational Biology Workshop (Jill Harrison, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge)

2012-08-21 10:00: Computational Biology Workshop (Vijay Chickarmane, Caltech)

2012-08-22 09:00: Computational Biology Workshop (Julio Saez-Rodriguez, EBI)

2012-08-22 10:00: Computational Biology Workshop (Richard Morris, JIC)

2012-08-23 09:00: Computational Biology Workshop (Markus Grebe, UPSC)

2012-08-23 10:00: Computational Biology Workshop (Malcolm Bennett, Nottingham)

2012-08-24 09:00: Computational Biology Workshop (Enrico Scarpella, U Alberta)

2012-08-24 10:00: Computational Biology Workshop (Przemek Prusinkiewicz, Calgary)

2012-08-27 09:15: Computational Biology Workshop (Phil Wigge, SLCU, Cambridge)

2012-08-27 10:15: Computational Biology Workshop (James Locke, SLCU, Cambridge)

2012-08-28 09:15: Computational Biology Workshop (Petros Koumoutsakos, ETH Zurich)

2012-08-28 10:15: Computational Biology Workshop (Olivier Hamant, ENS-Lyon)

2012-08-29 09:15: Computational Biology Workshop (Christophe Godin, INRIA and Jan Traas, ENS-Lyon)

2012-08-29 10:15: Computational Biology Workshop (Richard Smith, Bern)

2012-08-30 09:15: Computational Biology Workshop (Eric Mjolsness, UCI)

2012-08-30 10:15: Computational Biology Workshop (Alistair Middleton, Heidelberg)

2012-08-31 09:15: Computational Biology Workshop (Jim Haseloff, Plant Sciences, Cambridge)

2012-08-31 10:15: Computational Biology Workshop (Ray Goldstein, DAMTP, Cambridge)

2012-09-05 16:30: Endocrine-immune interactions in the human endometrium: implications for reproductive function (Prof. Hilary Critchley, MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh)

2012-10-05 13:00: Photosynthetic entrainment of the Arabidopsis circadian clock (Mike Haydon, Signal Transduction)

2012-10-10 16:00: Connecting sugar-sensing with Arabidopsis meristem activation (Professor Xuelin Wu, University of Southern California, LA)

2012-10-10 16:30: Chromosome aneuploidy in the human preimplantation embryo (PROFESSOR ALAN HANDYSIDE The London Bridge Fertility, Gynaecology and Genetics Centre)

2012-10-11 13:00: Genetic dissection of cell death and signalling between endosperm and embryo during seed development (Justin Goodrich,	Edinburgh University)

2012-10-12 13:00: Riddle of the Sphinx: Sphingolipid glycosylation - a possible role in plant immunity? (Jenny Mortimer, Dupree Lab (Department of Biochemistry))

2012-10-18 13:00: Implementation of analog arithmetic division for control of reserve utilization in plants (Martin Howard, JIC)

2012-10-19 13:00: Investigating biodiversity responses to climate change: the benefits of hindsight ( Francisco Rodriguez-Sanchez, Forest Ecology and Conservation)

2012-10-25 13:00: Sequencing/genotyping the wheat genome (Keith Edwards, Bristol University)

2012-10-26 13:00: The substrate and function of mitochondrial ABC transporters involved in Fe-S metabolism  (Theresia Schaedler, Plant Biochemistry)

2012-10-29 16:00: Epigenetic reprogramming during sexual reproduction in plants (Fred Berger, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore)

2012-11-01 13:00: Making new molecules (Anne Osbourn, JIC)

2012-11-02 13:00: C4 Rice: Pathways and prospects (Sarah Covshoff, Molecular Physiology)

2012-11-07 16:00: Grass Cell Walls: Investigating the Molecular Mechanism of (1,3;1,4)-β- Glucan Biosynthesis etcetera (Professor Tony Bacic, The University of Melbourne)

2012-11-07 17:00: Recent advances in gestational trophoblastic disease (Prof. Neil Sebire, Professor of Paediatric and Developmental Pathology, Great Ormond Street Hospital / Institute of Child Health)

2012-11-08 13:00: The deep evolutionary origins of stomata and stomatal physiology (David Beerling,	Sheffield University)

2012-11-09 11:00: Integrated Circuits in Plants (Prof Ben J.G. Scheres, Plant Systems Biology Group,  Wageningen University & Research Centre)

2012-11-09 13:00: Unravelling the evolutionary forces that shape the B12 requirements of algae (Katherine Helliwell, Plant Metabolism)

2012-11-15 13:00: The art and design of harmony - molecular genetics of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in cereals (Uta Paszkowski, Department of Plant Sciences)

2012-11-16 13:00: The moss sporophyte: A starting point for the evolution of plant architecture  (Yoan Coudert, Evolution of Plant Body Plans)

2012-11-16 15:00: The LKB1-AMPK signalling pathway and the regulation of breathing by hypoxia: metabolic control at the whole body level? (Professor A. Mark Evans, Centre for Integrative Physiology, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh)

2012-11-21 16:00: Characterising receptor complexes and endosomal proteomes during plant defence responses (Dr Alex Jones,The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park)

2012-11-22 13:00: Chemical and Physical Signals Interact to Create Pattern in Plant Development (Elliot Meyerowitz, Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge University)

2012-11-23 13:00: Engineering morphology in plants and microbes (Fernan Federici, Synthetic Biology)

2012-11-29 13:00: Genetics of speciation in Petunia (Cris Kuhlemeirer, Bern University)

2012-11-30 13:00: The role of auxin transport in bud activation (Madeline Seale from the Sainsbury Lab)

2012-11-30 13:30: Purine nucleoside phosphorylases in plants (Farhat Nazir, Developmental Botany)

2012-12-12 16:00: Regulation of cellulose synthesis - the cytoskeleton, trafficking and beyond (Dr Staffan Persson, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology)

2012-12-12 16:30: ALL WELCOME!  A genome search for maternal factors conferring resistance to hypoxia-associated fetal growth restriction: update from the Andes  (Professor Lorna Moore, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Colorado Denver )

2012-12-13 14:00: A novel regulator of shoot stem cell proliferation in Arabidopsis (Dr Christoph Schuster, Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg)

2012-12-13 16:00: All-atom Monte Carlo approach to protein dynamics and interactions (Steffan Wallin,  Assistant Professor Computational Biology and Biological Physics, Lund University)

2013-01-18 13:00: Crop improvement and evaluation of water use efficiency by wheat: an integrated approach using stable isotopes (Celestin Ukozehasi)

2013-01-18 13:30: Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, mycoheterotrophic plants, and long-term organic and inorganic fertilisation in a lowland tropical forest  (Merlin Sheldrake)

2013-01-24 13:00: The geometric basis of morphogenesis (Przemek Prusinkiewicz, Calgary University)

2013-01-25 13:00: Sporduino: Parts for a Reliable and Field Ready Biosensing Platform (iGEM Team 2012)

2013-01-31 13:00: Turning over phytate: enzymic and structural perspectives (Charles Brearley, UEA)

2013-02-01 13:00: Big Trees for Big Problems (Sam Brockington, Molecular Development)

2013-02-06 16:30: ALL WELCOME!  Horses, camels, giraffe and elephants: they are big and they breed in their own funny ways (Professor Twink Allen, The Paul Mellon Laboratory of Equine Reproduction, Newmarket.)

2013-02-07 13:00: Plant Metabolomics- an update (Alisdair Fernie, Max-Planck-Institute, Golm)

2013-02-08 13:00: To be or not to be… plastic.     Shoot branching plasticity in Arabidopsis is linked to life-history strategy (Maaike De Jong, Sainsbury Lab)

2013-02-14 16:00: Linkages between plants, soil microbes, and the carbon cycle (Richard Bardgett, Lancaster Environment Centre)

2013-02-15 13:00: How genetic polymorphism shapes meiotic crossover frequency in Arabidopsis thaliana (Piotr Ziolkowski, Epigenetics)

2013-02-21 13:00: Putting things in perspective: multiscale integration of stomatal development  (Dominique Bergmann, Stanford University and HHMI)

2013-02-22 13:00: Mobile silencing RNAs (Attila Molnar, Gene Silencing)

2013-02-28 13:00: What can plants tell us about the evolution of sex chromosomes? (Deborah Charlesworth, Edinburgh University)

2013-03-01 13:00: Dispersion, growth and symbiosis of swimming algae and bacteria (Otti Croze, Plant Metabolism)

2013-03-06 16:30: ALL WELCOME! The placental renin-angiotensis system: an old system with a new look (Professor Broughton Pipkin, Emeritus Professor of Perinatal Physiology, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, City Hospital, Nottingham)

2013-03-07 13:00: Plastic Fantastic (Sinead Collins, Edinburgh University)

2013-03-08 13:00: C4 photosynthesis transcriptomics: From big data to the gene (Sylvain Aubry, Molecular Physiology)

2013-03-14 13:00: Membrane biology in plant-microbe interactions (Silke Robatek, JIC)

2013-03-15 13:00: sRNAs: Initiators of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in Arabidopsis thaliana (Donna Bond, Gene Silencing)

2013-03-27 14:00: Beyond symmetry and asymmetry: Complexity and the stability of ecological networks (Dr Anje-Margriet Neutel, Biosphere Complexity Analyst, British Antarctic Survey)

2013-04-03 14:00: Microbial pathogen effectors modulate plant development and plant-insect interactions (Dr Saskia A. Hogenhout, Department of Disease and Stress Biology, The John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park)

2013-04-03 16:30: All Welcome!  Models and modelling approaches for pregnancy research (Professor Michael Taggart, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University)

2013-04-10 14:00: The plant circadian clock in the lab and the field (Dr Seth Davis, Department of Plant Developmental Biology, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research)

2013-04-16 16:00: Epigenetics and transgenerational inheritance (Prof Jerzy Paszkowski, Laboratory of Plant Genetics, University of Geneva)

2013-04-19 14:00: Mechanics dictates the differentiation switch in the heart: how to choose between the muscle and blood vessel? (Andre Levchenko, Johns Hopkins University )

2013-04-24 14:00: Life on the edge: transcription factors that regulate organ boundaries in Arabidopsis (Patricia Springer,  Department of Botany and Plant Sciences,  Center for Plant Cell Biology,  University of California Riverside)

2013-04-25 16:00: High resolution imaging and characterisation of a simple plant system: Marchantia polymorpha (Nuri Purswani)

2013-04-25 16:30: Characterization of function of Calmodulin-like (CML) 23 and CML24 in the regulation of the Arabidopsis thaliana circadian clock (Nur Izzati Mohd Noh)

2013-04-26 12:00: Microbial consortia - a way forward for the commercialisation of microalgae for industrial biotechnology? (Chris Ridley)

2013-04-26 12:30: Phytic acid and plant defence responses (Jacquelyne Poon)

2013-05-01 14:00: Jasmonates from top to bottom – functions in development and biotic interactions of plants  (Bettina Hause, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle, Germany)

2013-05-02 16:00: Phyt or Blight  (Ruth Le Fevre)

2013-05-02 16:30: UK Ash Dieback: Quantifying the Risk of Airborne Spore Incursion (James Alexander Cox)

2013-05-03 12:00: Title to be confirmed (Juheon Lee)

2013-05-08 14:00: From gravitropism to dynamical posture control: proprioception in plants (Bruno Moulia, Research Director, INRA)

2013-05-09 14:00: Regulation of the carbon concentrating mechanism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by CO2 and light  (Madeline Mitchell)

2013-05-09 14:30: Transgenerational inheritance of small RNAs in the unicellular green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardttii (Daisy Hessenberger)

2013-05-10 12:00: How do plant viruses affect plant-pollinator interactions?  (Stephanie Unna)

2013-05-10 12:30: Understanding alga-microbe symbiosis (Vaibhav Bhardwaj)

2013-05-15 14:00: Modelling Notch-mediated cellular decision making (Professor Nick Monk, University of Sheffield)

2013-05-16 16:00: Crossover frequency mapping across resistance gene clusters in Arabidopsis thaliana and Triticum aestivum  (Carsten Reinhard)

2013-05-16 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Richard Stutt)

2013-05-17 12:00: Improving pollination in the field bean Vicia faba (Emily Bailes)

2013-05-17 12:30: Investigating temperature signalling pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana and Saccharomyces cerevisiae (David Schoepfer)

2013-05-21 13:10: The “Endless Forms”: Genetics, Development, and Evolution of Flower Colour and Shape (Dr Yaowu Yuan, University of Connecticut)

2013-05-21 13:50: Uncovering the genomic landscape of speciation through population-level resequencing of two Aquilegia species (Dr Daniele Filiault, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology)

2013-05-21 14:30: Adaptation and its genetic basis in plants  (Dr Marco Todesco, University of British Columbia)

2013-05-21 15:30: The blossoms and the roots of developmental evolution in genotype-phenotype maps (Dr Ulises Rosas, New York University)

2013-05-21 16:10: Genome-wide association study of drought tolerance in A.thaliana  (Dr Artur Korte, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology)

2013-05-21 16:50: Shifting protein-protein interactions in the evolution of the grasses: when, how, and why?  (Dr Madelaine Bartlett, Brigham Young University)

2013-05-22 09:30: Using evolutionary sequence variation to make inferences about protein structure and function (Dr Lucy Colwell, Harvard University)

2013-05-22 10:10: Rewiring cell fate decisions to uncover MAPK specificity in the stomatal lineage (Dr Diego Wengier, Stanford University)

2013-05-22 11:10: Applying system metabolism to improve synthetic metabolism (Dr Arren Bar-Even, Weizmann Institute of Science)

2013-05-22 11:50: Mechanical regulation of morphogenesis at the shoot apex (Dr Naomi Nakayama, ENS, Lyon)

2013-05-22 13:30: Stochasticity and regulation in plant tissue growth  (Dr Karen Alim, Harvard University)

2013-05-22 14:10: Endodermal cell responses and size control regulate lateral root formation (Dr Joop Vermeer, University of Lausanne)

2013-05-22 14:50: Morphogenetic mechanisms underlying germinal and somatic fate acquisition in maize anthers (Tim Kelliher, Stanford University)

2013-05-22 15:50: Unravelling the calcium machinery responsible for the nucleoplasmic calcium oscillation in legume symbioses  (Dr Myriam Charpentier, John Innes Centre)

2013-05-22 16:30: Intracellular Protein Transport in Plants  (Dr Michael Sauer, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna)

2013-05-23 16:00: CLE genes are evolutionarily ancient regulators of stem cell maintenance in land plants (Chris White)

2013-05-23 16:30: Algae, bacteria and B vitamins  (Matt Cooper)

2013-05-24 12:00: Identifying temperature perception mutants of Arabidopsis (Patrick Dickinson)

2013-05-24 12:30: Using transcriptomic analysis to understand C4 in wetland conditions. (Richard Smith)

2013-05-29 14:00: Tipping Points in Social, Economic and Biological Systems (Dr Philip Garnett, Tipping Points Project, Department of Anthropology, Durham University)

2013-06-05 14:00: The SnRK1 signaling pathway – connecting environmental stress and plant growth (Dr Elena Baena González, Plant Stress Signaling, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal )

2013-06-06 16:00: Development of leaf anatomy in C3 and C4 Flaveria (Britta Kuempers)

2013-06-06 16:30: Petal Surface Structures & Pollinator Attraction (Alison Reed)

2013-06-07 11:30: Drilling down from stand to leaf level: application of airborne remote sensing for studying biomass, leaf chemistry and the impact of tree diseases in British woodlands  (Minerva Singh)

2013-06-07 12:00: Regulation of PSEUDORESPONSE REGULATOR 7 expression by sucrose in Arabidopsis thaliana (Alexander Frank)

2013-06-07 12:30: Title to be confirmed (Quentin Gouil)

2013-06-12 14:00: Bioimaging across scale: from cells to embryos (Dr. Lars Hufnagel, European Molecular Biology Laboratory - EMBL )

2013-06-13 15:30: Investigating a mechanism for epiallele establishment in plants. (Laura Taylor)

2013-06-13 16:00: The role of gibberellins in the control of bolting and flowering in sugar beet  (Helen Holmes)

2013-06-13 16:30: Maize acclimation to changing light quality (Chandra Bellasio)

2013-06-20 15:30: Evolutionary History of the Antarctic Flora (Elise Biersma)

2013-06-20 16:00: Carbon uptake, water and light use in a temperate forest: growing season phenology. (Andres Plaza)

2013-06-20 16:30: TPP riboswitches: to Chlamydomonas and beyond (Trinh Nguyen)

2013-06-21 11:30: Sugarcane in the Brazilian “Cerrado”: effects on biodiversity and greenhouse gases emissions (Jessica Fonseca Da Silva)

2013-06-21 12:00: Tree diversity of coffee agroforestry systems across three zones of Potential Natural Vegetation (William Lynman)

2013-06-28 11:30: A Simple System for Morphogenetic Engineering  (Anton Kan)

2013-06-28 12:00: Controlling the distribution of signaling molecules in synthetic patterning (Judith Savitskaya)

2013-06-28 12:30: The CLV/RPK2 pathway is necessary for the transition from two to three-dimensional growth in moss  (Joseph Cammarata)

2013-07-10 14:00: Structural variability in plant genomes. The case of Cucurbits. (Professor Pere Puigdomènech. Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics. CSIC-IRTA-UAB_UB. Barcelona. Spain)

2013-07-17 16:00: OPDA perception and signalling - a novel plant regulatory network (Dr Andrea Chini, Department of Plant Molecular Genetics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

2013-07-31 14:00: Universal mechanisms mediating the early response of plant roots to environmental stresses (Professor Xu Jian)

2013-08-01 16:00: Understanding plant development - a computational morphodynamics approach (Henrik Jönsson, Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics Lund University)

2013-08-19 14:00: Title to be confirmed (David Rand, University of Warkick)

2013-08-19 15:15: A novel gradient forming mechanism for the PLT gradient mantains stable root zonation dynamics during fast tropic responses (Kirsten ten Tusscher)

2013-08-20 09:15: Specificity and cross-talk in the cytokinin perception network (Vijay Chickarmane, California Institute of Technology)

2013-08-20 10:00: Compressible components reveal network architectures (Sebastian Ahnert (University of Cambridge))

2013-08-20 11:15: Transcriptional regulation of lineage commitment: computational mdeling on the stochastic nature of cell fate decisions (Jose Teles, University College London)

2013-08-21 09:15: Reduced models of circadian clock networks (Ozgur Akman, University of Exeter)

2013-08-21 10:00: Using large dataset analysis to reveal temperature  and light dependent changes in clock  network topology (Anthony Hall, University of Liverpool )

2013-08-21 11:15: An update model of the Arabidopsis circadian clock (Carl Troein, Lund University)

2013-08-22 09:15: Modeling stem cell population dynamics in the C. elegans germline (Hillel Kugler, Microsoft Research)

2013-08-22 10:00: Programming languages for synthetic biological systems (Andrew Phillips, Microsoft Research )

2013-08-22 11:15: Plant reprogramming using DNA binding domains with custom sequence specificity (Sebastian Schornack (University of Cambridge))

2013-08-23 09:15: Auxin signalling and transport in leaf venation (Enrico Scarpella University of Alberta)

2013-08-23 10:00: Adding a dimension to embryogenesis: the role of auxin in cell division (Pierre Barbier de Reuille, University of Bern)

2013-08-23 11:15: The rewardsand pitfalls of computational modelling (Graeme Mitchison, University of Cambridge)

2013-08-26 14:00: The Vleaf plataform for modelling the molecular and mechanistic basis of organ growth regulation (Gerrit Beemster, University of Antwerp)

2013-08-26 15:30: Cytokinin signaling in shoot and root of Arabidopsis thaliana (Christian Fleck, Wageningen UR)

2013-08-27 09:15: The mechanical identity of stem cells in Arabidopsis (Arezki Boudaoud, ENS-Lyon)

2013-08-27 10:00: Modeling plant cells in 3D (Richard Smith, Max Planck Institute Cologne)

2013-08-27 11:15: Biomechanical analysis of stalk failure in maize (Douglas Cook, NYU Abu Dhabi)

2013-08-28 09:15: The groovy side of biomechanics (Olivier Hamant, ENS-Lyon)

2013-08-28 10:00: Why are they fractal? The interplay between geometry and physics in the development of plant form (Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, University of Calgary)

2013-08-28 11:15: Title to be confirmed (Jan Trass, ENS-Lyon/Christophe Godin INRIA)

2013-08-29 09:15: Modeling the mechanics of cellular expansion (Rosemary Dyson, University of Birmingham)

2013-08-29 10:00: Modelling multicellular mechanics in root growth (Oliver Jensen, University of Manchester)

2013-08-29 11:15: Multiscale Cell Based Modelling of Tissues (James Osborne, University of Oxford )

2013-08-30 09:15: The mechanics of growth in walled cell (KC Huang, Stanford University)

2013-08-30 10:00: Material properties and higher-order structure of the cell nucleus define new stem cell phenotypes (Kevin Chalut, university of Cambridge)

2013-08-30 11:15: Title to be confirmed (Eric Mijolsness, University of California Irvine)

2013-09-09 16:00: The role of RNA silencing in Arabidopsis defence against the fungal pathogen Verticillium (Mireille van Damme- Postdoc at Wageningen UR)

2013-09-10 16:00: Investigating the molecular bases of plant quantitative disease resistance using Arabidopsis natural variation (Sylvain Raffaele (INRA, Toulouse))

2013-09-11 13:00: 'Post-transcriptional regulation of effector molecules in T cells' (Monika Wolkers, Sanquin Blood Supply)

2013-09-12 16:00: Genetic control of vascular development in plants (Prof Ykä Helariutta, Research Director, University of Helsinki )

2013-09-16 16:00: New Insights into Shade Avoidance and Gene Expression Evolution in Arabidopsis and Tomato (Dr Julin Maloof, University of California-Davis)

2013-09-17 16:00: A clockwork green: understanding the plant circadian clock and its outputs (Dr Stacey Harmer, University of California-Davis)

2013-09-20 14:00: Two penetration-specific RXLR effectors from Phytophthora parasitica interfere with plant development and hormone physiology (E. Evangelisti, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis)

2013-10-08 18:00: Launch of the Global Food Futures Year (Dr Camilla Toulmin, Director of the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED))

2013-10-17 13:00: The genotype-phenotype map in Arabidopsis (Magnus Nordborg (The Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna))

2013-10-21 16:00: Light and hormonal control of plant development: Application of the knowledge gained in Arabidopsis to crops. (Salomé Prat Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology (Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CNB))

2013-10-21 18:00: Sustainable Energy - from academia to Whitehall (Prof David MacKay ( Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change))

2013-10-24 13:00: Global change and life on Earth: reciprocal effects in a walk from genes to biosphere (Josep Penuelas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona))

2013-10-25 13:00: Non-redundant Control of Rice Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis by two Phosphate Transporters (Dr Shu-Yi Yang)

2013-10-31 16:00: Addressing the wheat yield plateau (Tina Barsby (National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge))

2013-11-01 13:00: AP2-type transcription factors regulate stem cell fate in the moss Physcomitrella patens (Dr Tsuyoshi Aoyama)

2013-11-01 13:30: Open Microscope (Chris McNicol, David Purdie, James Ritchie, Thomas Roddick and Marco Selvi)

2013-11-04 16:00: The Plant Immune System and Root Microbiome (Prof. Jeff L. Dangl.John N. Couch Professor.HHMI and Dept. of Biology.Carolina Center for Genome Sciences)

2013-11-04 19:30: The CSAR Debate (Speakers to be announced)

2013-11-06 13:00: On time delivery - the challenge of intracellular transport logistics (Anja Geitmann, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Montreal)

2013-11-07 13:00: Strategies of microorganisms to conquer plant tissues (Sebastian Schornack (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge))

2013-11-08 13:00: How to spot a Daisy (Gregory Mellers)

2013-11-08 13:30: Mesophyll conductance: a route to improve wheat photosynthesis. (Luis Robledo Arratia)

2013-11-14 13:00: Recognition of "self": receptor-ligand interactions and signalling networks that trigger Programmed Cell Death in self-incompatible Papaver pollen (Noni Franklin-Tong (University of Birmingham))

2013-11-15 13:00: Molecular analysis of potato tuber dormancy (Luke Browning)

2013-11-15 13:30: Virus-mediated interactions between aphids and beans (Francis Wamonje)

2013-11-15 14:00: Escaping the fossil fuel trap – functional characterisation of microalgal diacylglycerol acyltransferases (Alexander Litvinenko)

2013-11-15 14:30:  Inversion and perversion in biomechanics: from microscopic anisotropy to macroscopic chirality (Professor Alain Goriely, OCCAM, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford)

2013-11-15 14:30:  Inversion and perversion in biomechanics: from microscopic anisotropy to macroscopic chirality (Professor Alain Goriely, University of Oxford)

2013-11-21 13:00: Molecular breeding of medicinal crops and discoveries along the way (Ian Graham (University of York))

2013-11-21 16:30: The love of plants: from love to sex in the history of botany (Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University))

2013-11-22 13:00: The cell wall and morphogenesis at the shoot apical meristem (Dr Ray Wightman (SLCU))

2013-11-25 11:00: Minimum Seeking for Unstable Unmodeled Systems (Professor Miroslav Krstic, University of California, San Diego)

2013-11-27 19:00: Fat fish are a forest product (Dr Andrew Tanentzap (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge))

2013-11-28 13:00: Phylogenetic shadowing guided by the cycling transcriptomes of two distantly related Brassicaeae species reveals the atlas of cis-regulatory elements of daytime-specific and daytime-unspecific pathways (Korbinian Schneeberger (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Cologne))

2013-11-29 09:00: Applications for Synthetic Biology in Industrial Biotechnology  (Professor Robert Edwards , Chief Scientist, The Food and Environment Research Agency)

2013-11-29 13:00: The substrate and function of mitochondrial ABC transporters involved in Fe-S metabolism (Dr Theresia Schaedler (Balk Group, JIC))

2013-12-03 11:00: Plant - microbe interactions: when evolution joins the party (Pierre-Marc Delaux, University of Wisconsin, Madison; USA)

2013-12-04 16:30: Making a fetus grow and the consequences of getting it wrong (Dr Jacqueline Wallace Rowett Institute of Health and Nutrition, University of Aberdeen )

2013-12-05 13:00: Understanding and manipulating antibiotic production in actinomycetes (Mervyn Bibb (John Innes Centre, Norwich))

2013-12-06 13:00: The mechanism of action of strigolactone (Catherine Taylor)

2013-12-11 14:00: Cake and Careers BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-01-10 13:00: Selective logging leaves persistent effects on the canopy structure of a West Africa forest (Rafi Kent (Coomes Group))

2014-01-14 20:00: Synthetic Biology: New Technologies and Sustainable Solutions (Dr Jim Haseloff, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge)

2014-01-16 13:00: Epigenetic contribution to transgenerational inheritance (Jerzy Paszkowski (SLCU))

2014-01-17 13:00: A Division in PIN-Mediated Auxin Patterning During Organ Initiation in Grasses (Devin O'Connor (Leyser Group))

2014-01-22 16:30: Remodeling the prepartum cervix: do macrophages open the gate for parturition? (Professor Steve Yellon Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor Centre for Reproductive Health University of Edinburgh,  Professor of Physiology and Associate Director Center for Perinatal Biology, Loma Linda University School of Medicine )

2014-01-23 12:00: Commercialising your research via consultancy (Cambridge Enterprise and Engineering Department)

2014-01-23 13:00: How biotrophic fungi manipulate their hosts: new functions of effectors (Regina Kahmann (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg))

2014-01-24 13:00: The Rice Npc Transporter Mediates Recognition Of Novel Essential Am Symbiotic Signal (Marina Nadal (Paszkowski Group))

2014-01-28 20:00: Grasses bite back! The role of silicon-based defences in the interactions between plants and herbivores (Prof Sue Hartley, University of York)

2014-01-28 21:00: When is a controlled experiment not a controlled experiment? (Richard Jennings)

2014-01-30 13:00: Circadian regulation of chloroplasts (Antony Dodd (University of Bristol))

2014-01-31 13:00: Synthetic Spatial Patterning Using Two-Channel Quorum-Sensing Signalling (Paul Grant (Haseloff Group))

2014-02-05 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Ralf Dechend, Experimental and Clinical Research Center, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and the Charité Medical Faculty, Berlin)

2014-02-06 13:00: CANCELLED: Striga, the scourge of Africa: Understanding the molecular basis of resistance in cereals to the parasitic witchweeds (Julie Scholes (University of Sheffield))

2014-02-06 13:00: Manipulating plant cell wall polysaccharide synthesis to understand cell wall architecture for biorefining and bioenergy (Paul Dupree, Department of Biochemistry)

2014-02-06 13:10: Cassandra's Climate (Michael Sheppard, Emeritus Schlumberger Fellow, Schlumberger)

2014-02-07 13:00: Three ancient hormonal cues coordinate shoot branching in a moss (Yoan Coudert (Harrison Group))

2014-02-12 17:30: Hasn’t the time come for some brave new thinking on food management? (Dr Andrew MacMillan, former Director of Field Operations at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations)

2014-02-13 13:00: CANCELLED: Planetary predictions from anywhere: Food, carbon, forests, biodiversity, plankton, roads... (Matt Smith (Microsoft Research, Cambridge))

2014-02-14 13:00: Experimental evolution reveals rapid streamlining of vitamin metabolism in chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Katherine Helliwell (Smith Group))

2014-02-14 17:30: Plagues, Populations & Survival (Professor Stephen J O'Brien, St Petersburg State University)

2014-02-19 16:00: Plant steroids act as Decision-Making molecules at the interface of growth and defences  (Youssef Belkhadir, Atlas Genomics)

2014-02-20 13:00: Regulation of early receptor kinase-mediated innate immune signalling (Cyril Zipfel (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich))

2014-02-26 17:00: Hybrid corn and endangered maize: historical perspectives on the conservation of plant genetic resources (Dr Helen Curry; Department of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)

2014-02-27 08:00: Innovation Leaders Conference (Innovation Forum Cambridge)

2014-02-27 13:00: The Genetic and Epigenetic Basis of Fruit Ripening – Science Discovery into Commercial Practice (Graham Seymour (University of Nottingham))

2014-02-28 13:00: Effects of litter manipulation on fine root dynamics in lowland tropical forest in Panama (Chadtip Rodtassana 1st Year Graduate Students)

2014-02-28 13:30: Improving uniformity of potato crops (Simon Smart)

2014-02-28 14:00: The micro-fluid mechanics of synthetic swimming (Dr Eric Lauga, DAMTP, Cambridge)

2014-03-05 13:00: The evolution of branching patterns in plants (Jill Harrison (University of Cambridge))

2014-03-05 16:30: Role of uterine natural killer cells and macrophages in spiral artery remodeling in early human pregnancy (Dr Gendie Lash, School of Surgical and Reproductive Sciences, Newcastle University)

2014-03-06 13:00: Sympatric speciation on islands (Vincent Savolainen (Imperial College, London))

2014-03-06 19:00: Quantum effects in biology and organic materials: photosynthesis, solar cells and nanomachines. (Dr. Alex Chin, University of Cambridge)

2014-03-07 13:00: Under the rainbow : understanding how plants build microscopic structures to produce iridescence (Edwige Moyroud (Glover Group))

2014-03-13 13:00: Message ends: How alternative polyadenylation of mRNAs affects plant gene expression and development (Gordon Simpson (James Hutton Institute, Dundee))

2014-03-14 13:00: Exploiting synthetic communities for cultivation of microalgae (Elena Kazamia (Smith Group))

2014-03-20 16:00: Wheat breeding for sustainable productivity, an oxymoron waiting to happen? (Richard Summers (RAGT))

2014-03-21 13:00: Aquatic carbon concentrating mechanisms as a source of genes for improving terrestrial C3 photosynthesis (Moritz Meyer (Griffiths Group))

2014-03-21 19:30: Scientific wine tasting with Luke Webster (Luke Webster)

2014-03-26 16:00: Pattern recognition receptors: From the cell surface to endosomal trafficking (Silke Robatzke, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park)

2014-03-27 16:00: Structure and function of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii pyrenoid: delivering CO2 and beyond (Oliver Caspari)

2014-03-27 16:30: The evolution of floral traits in the Antirrhineae (Cecilia Martinez Perez)

2014-03-28 13:00: Mechanisms generating bundle sheath-specificity in C3 and C4 plants	 (Jana Knerova)

2014-03-28 13:30: Understanding the role of hydrophysiology in adaptive diversification in the Bromeliaceae (Jamie Males)

2014-03-31 16:00: Understanding and engineering salinity tolerance in crop plants (Mark Tester, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia)

2014-04-01 11:00: Reorientations of polarity fields during the generation of 3D outgrowths (Katie Abley, JIC)

2014-04-02 16:00: A quantitative biodiversity theory in the lab: r, K, niches, trade-offs, bacteria ignoring the competitive exclusion principle…and antimicrobials. (Robert Beardmore, Exeter University)

2014-04-02 16:30: Maternal growth factor regulation of trophoblast function (Dr Melissa Westwood, University of Manchester)

2014-04-09 16:00: Talking with the neighbours: Understanding spatial accommodation in plant development ( Joop E.M. Vermeer, Department of Plant Molecular Biology (DBMV), University of Lausanne)

2014-04-16 16:00: To grow or not to grow - auxin-dependent differential growth regulation (Jürgen Kleine-Vehn, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU))

2014-04-23 16:00: ABC Transporters involved in phytohormone transport  (Enrico Martinoia, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland)

2014-04-24 16:00: Individual cell studies of microalgae – evaluating stochasticity within populations (Roshni Best (Smith Lab))

2014-04-24 16:30: Evolutionary convergence of cell specific gene expression in independent lineages of C4 grasses (Christopher John (Hibberd Lab))

2014-04-25 13:00: Directing Crossover During Meiosis Using TALENs (Patrick Diaz (Henderson Lab))

2014-04-25 13:30: The role of polar auxin transport in bud activation (Martin Van Rongen (Leyser Lab))

2014-04-29 13:00: GSI Research Seminar Series - When and how will human society collapse? (Dr Aled Jones,  Director of the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI))

2014-04-30 16:00: On the origins of mycorrhizal symbioses (Martin Bidartondo, Division of Biology, Imperial College London & The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)

2014-05-01 16:00: Optimal control of epidemics (Martin Vyska (Gilligan lab))

2014-05-01 16:30: Plant surface texture: investigating R2R3 MYB subgroup 9 gene function in Marchantia and Nicotiana (Lin Taylor (Glover lab))

2014-05-02 13:00: Systems biology view of mutualistic interactions (Ulrich Johan Kudahl)

2014-05-02 13:30: Mechanism and function of stochastic pulse regulation (Stephanie Unna)

2014-05-07 16:00: Seeing the invisible - UV-B perception and signalling in plants (Roman Ulm, Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva)

2014-05-08 16:00: Inferring forest stand structure from LiDAR remote sensing data (Rebecca Spriggs (Coomes lab))

2014-05-08 16:30: Stabilizing effects of diversity on aboveground wood production in forest ecosystems: from patterns to processes  (Tommaso Jucker (Coomes lab))

2014-05-09 13:00: Employing RAM2-mediated root resistance against a leaf pathogen (Stuart Fawke (Schornack Lab))

2014-05-09 13:30: Design of a synthetic transcriptional AND gate in the chloroplast of Marchantia polymorpha (Christian Boehm (Haseloff lab))

2014-05-12 14:00: Sustainable Agriculture Development Seminar (Dr Willem Stoop (University of Wageningen) and Dr Amir Kassam (FAO and Reading University) )

2014-05-14 16:00: Evolution and development of early land plant rooting systems (Prof Liam Dolan, Sherardian Professor of Botany, University of Oxford)

2014-05-14 17:00: RESCHEDULED - The Devil's in the Detail: Designing Instruments, Incentives and Institutions for Stewardship Initiatives on Private Land (Dr Andrew Knight; Imperial College London)

2014-05-15 19:00: 2050: Sustainable UK? (Dr John Emsley)

2014-05-16 13:00: Genetic and epigenetic diversity of maize: A plant breeding perspective (Antoni Rafalski, DuPont-Pioneer, Wilmington, Delaware, USA)

2014-05-16 16:00:  Food Security, Biotechnology and Genetic Modification-A Mature Conversation (Professor Ottoline Leyser (Director of the Sainsbury Laboratory) Professor Andy Stirling (Professor of Science and Technology Policy, University of Sussex) Doctor Emmanuel Okogbenin (Director of Technical Operations, African Agricultural Technology Founda)

2014-05-17 14:00: The Transformational Role of Plants in Meeting the Zero Hunger Challenge (Professor M S Swaminathan)

2014-05-21 16:00: RNA: self vs non-self (Eric Miska, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)

2014-05-28 16:00: Light, temperature and plant development (Keara Franklin, University of Bristol)

2014-06-03 20:30: Hotspots of Disease Resistance Evolution in Plants (Carsten Reinhard)

2014-06-04 16:00: Microtubule array patterning in the axially growing hypocotyl cell (Sidney Shaw, Indiana Molecular Biology Institute, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington)

2014-06-05 16:00: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, mycoheterotrophic plants, and long-term fertilisation in a tropical forest (Merlin Sheldrake)

2014-06-05 16:30: Conserved and recurrent Cis elements regulate decarboxylation related genes in C4 photosynthesis (Ivan Reyna-Llorens)

2014-06-06 09:30: Global Food Security - Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives (Chair: Professor Chris Gilligan, Global Food Security Strategic Initiative)

2014-06-06 13:00: Analysis of the C. reinhardtii THI4 riboswitch expression platform  (Devinn Lambert)

2014-06-06 13:30: Detecting asymptomatic infection is necessary for real-time forecasting of major outbreaks of disease (Robin Thompson)

2014-06-10 16:00: Taking QTL mapping in multiparental populations to the next dimension: searching for epistasis ( Dr Emma Huang, CSIRO, Australia)

2014-06-11 16:00: Manipulating plant cell wall polysaccharide synthesis to understand cell wall architecture  (Paul Dupree, Biochemistry, University of Cambridge)

2014-06-12 16:00: Identification of ADP-ribosyl cyclase in Arabidopsis thaliana (S M Abdul-Awal)

2014-06-13 09:00: Climate Change & Food Security Marketplace  (Dame Barbara Stocking, President of Murray Edwards College; Sir Jonathan Porritt, Founder of Forum for the Future)

2014-06-13 13:00: Investigating the diversification of RNA silencing pathways in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Claire Agius)

2014-06-13 13:30: Genetic variation of symbiosis-associated phosphate transporter (PHT1) genes in maize   (Clement Quan)

2014-06-18 16:00: Morphodynamics of lateral root formation in Arabidopsis thaliana (Alexis Maizel, University of Heidelberg)

2014-06-19 13:00: Drought-Induced Abscisic Acid Signaling Specificity and Atmospheric CO2 Sensing in Plants (Prof. Julian Schroeder (University of California at San Diego))

2014-06-19 14:30: Engineering crops for resistance to disease and tolerance of environmental stress (Pamela C. Ronald, The Genome Center, University of California, Davis)

2014-06-19 16:00: Impact of logging in a Bornean peat swamp forest (Beatrice Wedeux)

2014-06-19 16:30: Forward and reverse genetic identification of mutants linking [Ca2+]cyt to the Arabidopsis thaliana circadian clock (Timothy Hearn)

2014-06-19 17:00: IPCC Climate Change 2014: Key Findings on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability in Asia and the Role of the Asian Network on Climate Science and Technology (Prof. Joy Pereira, Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Initiative, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)

2014-06-20 12:30: Genetic analysis of the effect of circadian clock genes on yield components in wheat (T. aestivum) (Lukas Wittern)

2014-06-20 13:00: myb gene determinants of air chamber formation in Marchantia polymorpha  (Bernardo Pollak)

2014-06-20 13:30: What controls liverwort size and shape? (Jeremy Solly)

2014-06-23 17:30: Meditation Session at the Botanic Gardens  (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-06-25 16:00: Redox sensing and communication, synchronizing two genomes in response to light (Åsa Strand, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University)

2014-06-26 09:00:  People and Plants: Material and Immaterial Transactions (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-06-26 14:00: Garden Tour of Wolfson College  (Wolfson College)

2014-06-26 16:00: Characterisation of Arabidopsis and Rice Homologues of Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylases (Farhat Nazir)

2014-06-26 16:30: Exploiting the crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) pathway for sustainable bioenergy production in a changing climate (Nicholas Owen)

2014-06-27 13:00: Seeing forests from new heights: Applying recently developed satellite imagery analysis technologies to monitor tropical forest protected areas (Gillian Lui)

2014-06-27 13:30: Do Volatiles Emitted by Virus–Infected Tomato Plants Attract Bumblebees  and Enhance Host Reproductive Fitness? (Sanjie Jiang)

2014-07-02 16:00: License to kill: The acquisition of cell death competency during plant development (Moritz K. Nowack, VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University)

2014-07-09 16:00: Epigenetic regulation by trxG and PcG in Arabidopsis (Professor Zinmay Renee Sung, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley)

2014-07-16 16:00: Epigenetic control of cellular reprogramming in Arabidopsis (Keiko Sugimoto, Cell Function Research Team Leader, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science)

2014-07-22 14:20: Steering (or not) towards light: Flagellar photoresponse in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Kyriacos Leptos, University of Cambridge)

2014-07-22 15:05: Resource-aware auxin signalling in Arabidopsis? (Micha Hersch, University of Lausanne)

2014-07-22 16:10: Computational modelling of growth regulation by auxin responses during gravitropism (John Fozard, Nottingham University)

2014-07-22 16:55: A simple model of the interaction between tropisms and perceptions (Renaud Bastien, Harvard University)

2014-07-23 09:30: Root microbiome assembly: the search for host modulation factors (Sur Herrera Paredes, University of North Carolina)

2014-07-23 10:35: Extending Plants - a novel method to understand the mechanics of development (Sarah Robinson, University of Bern)

2014-07-23 11:20: Mechanotransductive activation of mesoderm invagination triggered by stochastic apex cell pulsations in early Drosophila embryos (Démosthène Mitrossilis, Institut Curie, Paris)

2014-07-23 13:30: Quantitative Investigation of Transcription Dynamics in Development and Growth (Adam Corrigan, University College, London)

2014-07-23 14:15: Transcription Factor Kinetics in Living Cells (Petter Hammar, Uppsala University)

2014-07-23 15:20: A theoretical approach to investigate how boundaries are shaped in developing tissues (Maryam Aliee, ENS-Lyon)

2014-07-30 16:00: Planar and outer membrane polarity in the Arabidopsis root epidermis (Markus Grebe,  Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam)

2014-08-05 09:45: A Direct Coupling Coherent Quantum Observer (Petersen, I (UNSW Canberra, at ADFA))

2014-08-19 16:00: Cell-type resolution epigenomes reveal a unique DNA methylation state within the Arabidopsis root meristem (Ryan Lister, The University of Western Australia)

2014-09-15 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Dr Dave Natale, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Calgary)

2014-10-01 16:00: Plant cell biology: endocytosis and cell signalling (Dr Clara Sanchez Rodriguez, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology)

2014-10-02 13:00: The Genetic Architecture of Natural Ionomic Variation in Arabidopsis thaliana (David Salt, University of Aberdeen)

2014-10-02 14:00: Horizon 2020 Opportunities in Big Data (Renata Schaeffer, European Policy Manager, Research Operations Office)

2014-10-09 13:00: Plant Sciences Teaching: Inspiration, Innovation and Investigation (Katharine Hubbard, Teaching Associate)

2014-10-15 16:00: Self organising developmental systems and evolution (Dr Tom Bennett, Sainsbury Laboratory University of Cambridge)

2014-10-16 13:00: Mapping Gene Regulatory Networks in Arabidopsis and Tomato Roots (Siobahn Brady, UC Davis)

2014-10-21 18:30: Sir Hermann Bondi lecture: life on the edge - the coming of age of quantum biology  (Jim Al Khalili)

2014-10-23 13:00: Roles of splicing in plant reproductive development (Chiara Airoldi, Glover Lab)

2014-10-27 16:00: A close look at the master regulators: imaging phytohormones at high-resolution in vivo (Dr Alexander Jones, Carnegie Institution for Science)

2014-10-30 13:00: Chromatin and antisense transcript dynamics in seasonal timing (Caroline Dean, John Innes Centre)

2014-11-05 10:00: Dynamics of stem cell signalling pathways in plant meristems (Professor Rüdiger Simon, Heinrich-Heine University)

2014-11-05 16:00: Ad-ab boundaries: Organisers of plant development (Dr Marcus Heisler, European Molecular Biology Laboratory)

2014-11-06 13:00: Scum of the Earth? (Matt Davey, Smith Lab)

2014-11-12 16:00: Science from a sheet of paper (Dr Tadashi Tokieda, University of Cambridge)

2014-11-13 13:00: Elucidating stress signalling response pathways in Arabidopsis and crops (Marc Knight, Durham University)

2014-11-14 16:00: Preeclampsia research and follow-up in Utrecht (Professor Arie Franx, Head of Obstetrics, University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands)

2014-11-18 18:15: Exploring and Exploiting the RNA World in Plants and Animals (Prof. David Baulcombe (Plant Sciences))

2014-11-20 13:00: Dealing with Sudden Oak Death in the UK (Matt Castle, Gilligan Lab)

2014-11-21 14:00: MAPK networks in Arabidopsis cell fate decisions: should I stay or should I go? (Dr Diego Wengier, Stanford University)

2014-11-25 16:00: From proteins to plants: Using algorithmic information theory to study biological evolution and development (Dr Sebastian Ahnert, Cavendish Laboratory University of Cambridge)

2014-11-25 18:00: 26th Epigenetics Club Seminar (Dr Déborah Bourc'his; Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus)

2014-11-27 13:00: Fossil pollen and algae reveal Antarctica’s climate as the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago (Vanessa Bowman (British Antarctic Survey))

2014-11-27 16:00: Sustainable Farming - making it happen. The Science, delivery and pitfalls of Integrated Farm Management (Caroline Drummond MBE.  LEAF Chief Executive)

2014-11-28 18:15: How bees find the right flowers (Dr Gregory Sutton)

2014-12-02 16:00: Greenhouse Algae: The Calcifying Phytoplankton during Cenozoic Warm Climates (Tom Dunkley Jones, University of Birmingham)

2014-12-02 21:00: Sex and Death: Recombination and Immunity in Arabidopsis (Dr Ian Henderson (University of Cambridge))

2014-12-03 16:00: 3D power Doppler ultrasound: applying image processing to assess placental function in the first trimester (Gordon Stephenson)

2014-12-04 13:00: Investigating heat shock signalling pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana and Saccharomyces cerevisiae (David Schoepfer, Sainsbury Laboratory)

2014-12-04 13:30: Mixtures or Alternation? Assessing Fungicide Anti-Resistance Strategies (James Elderfield, Cunniffe Lab)

2014-12-11 09:00: DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH DAY (Various)

2014-12-12 09:00: Study and characterization of MET1 homologues in Arabidopsis thaliana (Christophe Buser, Sainsbury Lab)

2014-12-12 09:30: Investigation of natural modifiers of meiotic crossover frequency in Arabidopsis thaliana (Catherine Griffin, Henderson Lab)

2014-12-12 10:00: Identifying microRNAs conditioning strong plant anti-aphid resistance (Deusa Abreu, Carr Lab)

2014-12-12 11:00: Using metagenomics to identify emerging viral pathogens, and RNA  silencing to combat them (Luke Braidwood, Baulcombe Lab)

2014-12-12 11:30: Grip, Slip, petals and pollinators (Jonathan Pattrick, Glover Lab)

2014-12-12 12:00: Potential effects of transposable element activation throughout tomato development (Alex Canto Pastor, Baulcombe Lab)

2014-12-18 13:00: A physiological basis to agronomic development (Celestin Ukozehasi, Griffiths Lab)

2014-12-18 13:30: Early events in Arabidopsis bud activation  (Maddie Seale, Sainsbury Lab)

2015-01-09 09:00: Biomimetics: from nature to applications - ONE DAY MEETING (Organiser: Dr Silvia Vignolini)

2015-01-15 13:00: Inhospitable: early signalling events during cereal symbiosis (Enrico Gobbato (Paszkowski Lab))

2015-01-20 17:30: Sustainable Intensification: An Oxymoron? (Chair: Professor Howard Griffiths, University of Cambridge)

2015-01-21 16:30: Maternal vitamin D status and childhood body composition (Professor Cyrus Cooper, University of Southampton, )

2015-01-22 13:00: The Future Directions of Rothamsted Research  (Achim Dobermann, Rothamstead)

2015-01-23 18:15: Structure of the DNA Replication Machinery (Julian Conrad, MRC-LMB, Cambridge)

2015-01-26 15:00: Seasonal flowering in annual and perennial plants (Professor George Coupland (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research))

2015-01-29 13:00: Carbon fluxes and biodiversity in Mediterranean landscapes – modelling with airborne lidar (Will Simonson (Coomes Lab))

2015-02-04 16:30: Between Scylla and Charybdis: the sensitivity of the obstetric dilemma to short- and long-term ecological trends  (Professor Jonathan Wells, Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health )

2015-02-05 13:00: The Evolution of Imprinted Gene Expression in Cultivated Rice (Daniel ZIlberman, Berkeley)

2015-02-12 13:00: Evolution of the miRNA-mediated RNA silencing pathway: the plant  that wanted to be an animal (Adrian Valli (Baulcombe Lab))

2015-02-16 17:00: The transition to a forested planet: Devonian forest ecosystems in New York and Svalbard (Dr Chris Berry (University of Cardiff))

2015-02-18 13:00:  Feeding the world without costing the earth (Professor Andrew Balmford, Professor of Conservation Science, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2015-02-19 13:00: Can genomics impact forestry? (Richard Buggs, Queen Mary University of London)

2015-02-24 14:00: Cellulose: the plant kingdom's strong material (Dr Michael Jarvis, Glasgow University)

2015-02-26 13:00: Decreasing the oxygenase activity of Rubisco: a synthetic biology approach (Marek Szecowka (Hibberd Lab))

2015-02-27 14:00: Quantitative high spatiotemporal resolution imaging of biological processes (Dr Melike Lakadamyali, NEST fellow, ICFO, Barcelona)

2015-03-02 13:30: Molecular dissection of CLE signaling pathways in Arabidopsis (Professor Shinichiro Sawa, Kumamoto University)

2015-03-04 13:00:  Food Wastage and Global Food Security (Dr Tim Fox, Head of Energy and Environment, Institute of Mechanical Engineers)

2015-03-04 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Professor Bo Jacobsson, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,  University of Gotenburg Sweden)

2015-03-05 16:00: Managing Innovation: an oxymoron? (David Lawrence, Syngenta)

2015-03-05 19:30: Scrub clearance and chalk grassland restoration (Peter Grubb)

2015-03-09 13:00: Oil Palms, Alkenes, SCIs and Ozone: New measurement approaches to sidestep atmospheric chemical complexity (Bill Bloss (Birmingham))

2015-03-11 13:00:  Resource competition: Supporting a growing population whilst reducing greenhouse gas emissions (Dr Astley Hastings, Research Fellow, The School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen)

2015-03-12 13:00: Investigating the O3-induced Ca2+ signalling pathway in Arabidopsis (Katie Wilkins (Davies Lab))

2015-03-19 10:00: Algae Around the World Symposium (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-03-19 13:00: An integrated structural biology approach to flower development (Francois Parcy, Grenoble)

2015-03-19 19:30: The flora & lizards of the Canary Islands (Peter Payne)

2015-03-25 16:00: Control of Arabidopsis Petal Growth (Professor Vivian Irish, Yale University)

2015-03-26 13:00: The mechanism by which calcium affects the circadian clock  (Carmen Marti (Webb Lab))

2015-04-01 16:30: Role of vascular growth factors in pre-eclampsia (Professor David Bates, Division of Cancer and Stem Cells, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham  )

2015-04-20 18:00: Café Synthetique (Sarah O'Connor and Stephanie Brown (John Innes Centre, Norwich), Pakpoom Subsoontorn (University of Cambridge))

2015-04-22 13:00: Smallholder agriculture and food security: examining the routes for diversifying and sustaining rural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa (Dr. Shailaja Fennell ( Lecturer in Development Studies, Department of Land Economy))

2015-04-23 13:00: Multiple mechanisms limit meiotic crossovers (Raphael Mercier, Versailles INRA)

2015-04-28 16:00: Mechanisms for encoding integrated calcium signatures in plants (Dr Myriam Charpentier, John Innes Centre)

2015-04-29 16:00: The genomics of adaptation in plants: moving from model to non-model species (Dr Daniele Filiault, Gregor Mendel Institute)

2015-04-29 16:30: The History of Millet in Southern Caucasus: A Stable Isotope Perpsective (Dr. Estelle Herrscher (Aix Marseille University, CNRS, LAMPEA - UMR 7269, France))

2015-04-30 09:30: Evolution of plant breeding systems: Male form and function in the nightshade family.  (Gwendolyn Davis, 1st yr grad)

2015-04-30 10:00: Mobilizing terrestrial primary production into aquatic food webs (Chloe Orland, 1st year grad)

2015-04-30 11:00: Understanding morphogenesis  and wall mechanics in brown algae (Marina Linardic, 1st yr grad)

2015-04-30 11:30: ~ From Carrots to Sticks ~   Conserving threatened avifauna with ecosystem management and market-based instruments (Alexandra Bell, 1st yr grad)

2015-04-30 12:00: Fifty shapes of maize (Rozi Vofely, 1st yr grad)

2015-04-30 14:00: Discovery of genetic elements determining the C4 photosynthetic phenotype using introgression lines from C3-C4 hybrids (Gregory Reeves, 1st yr grad)

2015-04-30 14:30: Molecular genetics of autistic: the arbuscular mycorrhizal mutant of maize (Darius Riahy, 1st yr grad)

2015-04-30 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Alexander Blackwell, 1st yr grad)

2015-05-01 09:30: Risk of long-distance airborne spread of infectious plant diseases  (Marcel Meyer, 1st yr grad)

2015-05-01 10:00: A forward genetic screen for Arabidopsis gene(s) that control meiotic recombination   (Divyashree Nageswaran, 1st yr grad)

2015-05-01 11:00: Identification of effectors from Rhizophagus irregularis and their role in arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis establishment.  (Clement Quan, 1st yr grad)

2015-05-01 11:30: Engineering riboswitches to enable rational control of transgene expression (Christopher Finch, 1st yr grad)

2015-05-01 12:00: Paramutation in tomato (Quentin Gouil, 3rd yr grad)

2015-05-01 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Patrick Dickinson, 3rd yr grad)

2015-05-01 14:30: Title to be confirmed (Juheon Lee, 3rd yr grad)

2015-05-01 15:00: Improving the pollination of the field bean (Vicia faba L.) (Emily Bailes, 3rd yr grad)

2015-05-06 13:00: Can GM crops help to feed the world? (Professor Sir Brian Heap)

2015-05-06 16:30: Life Study –   identifying pathways to health in early life (Professor Carol Dezateux, Scientific Director and Principal Investigator of the Life Study, UCL Institute of Child Health)

2015-05-07 13:00: Understanding plant root developmental plasticity using cell type-specific genomics (Miriam Gifford, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick)

2015-05-14 13:00: Biodiversity conservation within a REDD+ framework: case of victoria-anepahan ranges in Palawan Islands, Philippines  (Minerva (Jojo) Singh, 3rd yr grad)

2015-05-14 13:30: Molecular insights into the evolutionary history of plants in Antarctica (Elise Biersma, 3rd yr grad)

2015-05-15 16:30: The Future of Sustainable Agriculture:Land Share or Land Sparing? (Panel discussion)

2015-05-16 14:00: Feeding the world without costing the eart: How can agriculture and biodiversity coexist? (Professor Andrew Balmford (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge))

2015-05-21 13:00: Where the bee flies: and why it matters (Juliet Osborne, University of Exeter)

2015-05-21 16:00: The Evolution of RNA Polymerases IV and V: Understanding the Rise of Silencing in Plants (Rebecca Mosher, University of Arizona)

2015-05-27 16:00: Root Growth: fixed processes, flexible boundaries (Professor Tobias Baskin, UMass Amherst)

2015-05-28 13:00: Optimize nutrients dynamic in litters to enhance yields and sustainability of traditional cocoa agroforests in a climate change context in Southern Bahia, Brazil (Lauranne Gateau, 1st yr grad)

2015-05-28 13:30: A vitamin B12 dependent mutualism between a microalga Lobomonas rostrata and a rhizobium – Mesorhizobium loti (Vaibhav Bhardwaj, 3rd yr grad)

2015-05-29 14:00: Molecular mechanisms of phenotypic variation and evolvability (Dr Christine Queitsch, University of Washington)

2015-06-01 19:30: Finding Patterns in Genes and Proteins (Dr Sarah Teichmann, Sanger Institute/EMBL)

2015-06-04 13:00: Long-distance wound signals in Arabidopsis leaves (Edward Farmer, University of Lausanne)

2015-06-11 13:00: The Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptome is compressible (Surge Biswas, 1st yr grad)

2015-06-11 13:30: Effects of sugarcane on the Cerrado biodiversity: land use change, habitat loss and greenhouse gas emissions (Jessica Fonseca Da Silva, 3rd yr grad)

2015-06-17 16:00: Connecting Biology to Mathematics by way of Symbolic Computing (Professor Eric Mjolsness, Leverhulme visiting Professor)

2015-06-18 13:00: Beta oxidation in signalling and development. What plants can teach us about yeast and animals (Alison Baker, University of Leeds)

2015-06-24 16:00: Hormonal control of growth and patterning in the plant embryo (Professor Dolf Weijers)

2015-06-25 13:00: Algal-bacterial consortia: towards the commercialisation of microalgae for industrial biotechnology (Christian Ridley, 3rd yr grad)

2015-07-02 13:00: Investigating the biology of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (Nick Talbot, School of Biosciences, University of Exeter)

2015-07-05 09:00: Ignite 2015 (Various speakers and contributors)

2015-07-08 18:30: How to make your research reproducible (5 selfish reasons to work reproducibly) (Florian Markowetz & Gordon Brown (Cancer Research UK) & Stephen Eglen (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics))

2015-07-09 13:00: Role of phytic acid in plant defence responses (Jacquelyne Poon, 3rd yr grad)

2015-07-09 13:30: Regulation of PSEUDORESPONSE REGULATOR7 by photosynthetically derived sugars in Arabidopsis thaliana. (Alexander Frank, 3rd yr grad)

2015-07-20 16:00: Making the right connections: graft formation in Arabidopsis (Charles Melnyk, Sainsbury Laboratory)

2015-07-23 16:00: Genes lost and found: Comparative developmental genetics in Brachypodium and Arabidopsis (Devin O'Connor)

2015-07-30 09:30: Translational Funders Day (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-08-24 14:30: Cell complexes: A general mathematical framework for modelling development in 1, 2 and 3 dimensions (Professor Przemyslaw Prusinkiwicz (Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary))

2015-08-24 15:30: The emergence of positional information in ensembles of mouse ES cells (Professor Alfonso Martinez Arias ( Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge))

2015-08-25 09:00: Systematic approaches to the design and modelling of plant growth (Dr Jim Haseloff (University of Cambridge))

2015-08-25 10:00: Cell-based patterning in developing tissues (Professor Marta Ibanes (University of Barcelona))

2015-08-25 13:00: Spatial and temporal control in cell cycle regulation (Dr Silvia Santos (Imperial College London))

2015-08-25 14:00: The interplay between cell morphology and cell-cell signaling (Dr David Sprinzak (Tel Aviv University))

2015-08-26 09:00: Integrated models of cytoskeleton driven morphogenetic processes  (Dr Francois Nedelec ( EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany))

2015-08-26 10:00: The long and the short of it: modelling cytoskeletal dynamics in plants and beyond (Professor Bela Mulder (Amsterdam University))

2015-08-26 11:00: “Chemical Arms Race at Sea”: The role of virally-encoded auxiliary metabolic genes in shaping the marine environment (Assaf Vardi. Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)

2015-08-26 13:00: The endoplasmic reticulum acts as a gatekeeper to control nuclear auxin uptake (Professor Christian Fleck (Wageningen University))

2015-08-27 09:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Henrik Jonsson (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge))

2015-08-27 10:00: The importance of cellular variability in generating regular plant organs (Professor Adrienne Roeder)

2015-08-27 13:00: Molecular control of cellular collectives  (Dr Hyun Youk (Delft University of Technology))

2015-08-27 14:00: Spatio-temporal organization of bacterial biofilms (Dr Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona))

2015-08-28 09:00: Separation of activation and repression in transcriptional networks  (Dr Carl Troein)

2015-08-28 10:00: Geometry of universal unfoldings and development: a case study after Corson and Siggia and discussion (Professor David Rand (University of Warwick))

2015-09-03 14:30: Interaction of plant cell wall matrix polysaccharides with bacterial cellulose (Dr Mike Gidley, University of Brisbane)

2015-09-30 16:00: Unlocking plant intercellular channels: towards a mechanistic understanding of cell wall regulation around plasmodesmata (Yoselin Benitez Alfonso, University of Leeds)

2015-10-01 13:00: Adaptive evolution of meiosis in response to whole genome duplication and habitat (Kirsten Bomblies, Harvard University)

2015-10-08 13:00: Learning from Students to Shape Plant Sciences Teaching for the 21st Century (Katherine Hubbard, Teaching Officer)

2015-10-12 18:00: Dicing with Fate; the statistical physics of cell biology (Professor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics)

2015-10-15 13:00: RNA viruses: comparative genomics and gene expression mechanisms (Andrew Firth, Dept of Pathology)

2015-10-16 19:30: Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably (Professor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds)

2015-10-22 13:00: How our Botanic Gardens Work (and how they can work for you) (Dr Sam Brockington, Cambridge University Botanic Garden Curator)

2015-10-28 17:00: The challenge of feeding 9-10 billion people without losing most biodiversity (Charles Godfray, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)

2015-10-29 13:00: When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica’s climate history (Jane Francis, Director, British Antarctic Survey)

2015-11-04 16:00: From bud set to bud break: molecular regulators of winter dormancy in trees (Isabel Marta Allona Alberich, Technical University of Madrid)

2015-11-04 16:00: Placental adaptation: the role of fetal nutrient demand (Dr Mark Dilworth, University of Manchester)

2015-11-05 13:00: Genetic factors controlling meiotic crossover: Lessons from natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana (Piotr Ziolkowski, Ian Henderson Group)

2015-11-09 18:00: 29th Epigenetics Club Seminar (Prof. Steven Henikoff (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA); Prof. Craig Pikaard (Dept of Biology & Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA))

2015-11-10 11:00: Mathematical modelling of a cereal killer: Modelling plant cell invasion by the rice blast fungus (Styles, V (University of Sussex))

2015-11-11 14:00: Systems approaches towards understanding temperature signalling in plants (Dr Philip Wigge, Sainsbury Laboratory.)

2015-11-11 14:00: Visiting African Fellows Research Showcase (in association with Hughes Hall, Cambridge) (Five researchers from Uganda and Ghana (see programme at http://africanshowcasenov11.eventbrite.co.uk))

2015-11-11 17:00: Commonness and conservation: should we bother about the rare stuff? (Sandy Knapp, Life Science Plants Division, Natural History Museum)

2015-11-12 12:00: Analysis of stochastic polymer models and reconstruction of chromatin organization in cell nucleus (Prof David Holcman ( IBENS Ecole Normale Superieure))

2015-11-12 13:00: The biodiversity value of degraded tropical forests (David Edwards, University of Sheffield)

2015-11-18 14:00: Talk Cancelled (was 'Synthetic Biology') (Dr. Jim Haseloff - Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2015-11-18 17:00: Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias:  lessons from plants that don’t stay put (Christian Kull, Institut de géographie et durabilité, Université de Lausanne)

2015-11-19 13:00: A pioneering imaging approach to arbuscule development in rice (Ronelle Roth, Uta Paszkowski Lab)

2015-11-23 13:00: Spicing up Mauritius' gardens: informal empire and the hybridity of knowledge and plant exchange in the East Indies, 1740s to 1770s (Dorit Brixius (European University Institute))

2015-11-23 18:00: Café Synthetique (Veronica Grieneisen (John Innes Centre), Lewis Tanner (Isomerase Therapeutics Ltd))

2015-11-25 16:00: Non-genetic inheritance of phenotype in mammals (Anne Ferguson-Smith (University of Cambridge))

2015-11-26 16:00: Phenotyping is an F-word: crop research in Fields, on Farms, with Farmers (Roger Sylvester-Bradley, ADAS)

2015-11-30 10:00: Selling for researchers (Marcel Dissel)

2015-12-03 13:00: Discovery of methylation loci and analyses of differential methylation in Dicer-like mutants of Arabidopsis (Thomas Hardcastle, David Baulcombe Lab)

2015-12-03 19:00: DIY Evolution - A Historian's Guide to Amateur Plant Breeding (Helen Anne Curry, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge)

2015-12-17 13:00: Competition and conjugation: the tale of antibiotic resistance spreading in three colours (Pakpoom Subsoontorn, Jim Haseloff Lab)

2016-01-07 13:00: Microbes play a central role in a plant's solutions to ecological problems (Ian Baldwin, Max Planck Institute)

2016-01-13 16:00: "Although the holes were rather small/ They had to count them all": An integrative analysis of cellular architecture and leaf function (Andrew Flemming, University of Sheffield (Sabbatical visitor at SLCU))

2016-01-14 13:00: Two Things Evolution Can Tell Us About Metabolic Engineering (Steven Burgess, Julian Hibberd Lab)

2016-01-21 13:00: Development and evolution of land plant rooting systems (Liam Dolan, University of Oxford)

2016-01-27 16:00: Remodeling root cells for AM symbiosis’ (Maria Harrison, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research)

2016-01-28 13:00: Inter-organellar interactions - known unknowns in metabolic engineering of membrane-spanning pathways in plants (Payam Mehrshahi, Alison Smith Lab)

2016-02-03 16:00: Therapeutic manipulation of angiogenic factors for treatment of fetal growth restriction (Dr Anna David, UCL Institute for Women's Health)

2016-02-03 16:00: Genetic and epigenetic control of mobilomes : exploring the diversity of extrachromosomal circular DNA in plants  (Marie Mirouze, University of Perpignan, France)

2016-02-04 13:00: Big data, local data and global change (Philip Grime, University of Sheffield)

2016-02-11 13:00: A bird's-eye view of forest ecosystems (Tommaso Jucker, David Coomes Lab)

2016-02-18 16:00: Symmetry Matters in Gynoecium Development (Lars Ostergaard, Head of Crop Genetics, JIC)

2016-02-24 16:00: Expression homeostasis during DNA replication (Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science)

2016-02-25 10:00: Brassinosteroids, stem cell development and the power of Modulate Quiescence in Plants (Ana Caño Delgado, CRAG-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)

2016-02-25 13:00: Integrating phylogenetics, ecology and evo-devo to understand the origin of plant species: the role of spur length evolution in speciation of the genus Linaria (Mario Fernandez-Mazuecos, Beverley Glover Lab)

2016-02-25 14:00: Green Labs Workshop @ Plant Sciences ( Martin Howes Department of Plant Sciences Energy Co-ordinator)

2016-03-03 13:00: Effects of fluctuating light on photosynthesis and stomatal behaviour: impacts on carbon gain and water use efficiency (Tracy Lawson, Director of Plant Phenomics, University of Essex)

2016-03-09 16:00: Noise and periodic patterns of morphogenesis in phyllotaxis. (Teva Vernoux, ENS Lyon)

2016-03-10 13:00: Incorporating uncertainty into the optimal development of disease control measures (Ciara Dangerfield, Chris Gilligan Lab)

2016-03-16 14:00: Mapping main and interacting QTLs within the arabidopsis multiparent RIL (AMPRIL) population (Dr Korbinian Schneeberger, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany)

2016-03-17 13:00: A three-dimensional approach to community turnover: Pleistocene extinctions, abrupt climate change, and (dis)equilibrium dynamics (Jacquelyn Gill, University of Maine)

2016-03-23 16:00: Evolution of sequence-specific anti-silencing by transposable elements in Arabidopsis (Tetsuji Kakutani, National Institute of Genetics)

2016-03-30 16:00: Unraveling chromatin dynamics during development (Miguel de Lucas, Durham University)

2016-04-05 09:00: Biology and bioengineering tools in the treatment of H2020 age-related diseases (Speakers and their affiliation have been listed in the program below.)

2016-04-18 13:00: Stressed! How plants cope through dynamic growth responses (Jose Dinneny, Carnegie Institution for Science)

2016-04-20 10:30:  Enhancing nanopore sensing with DNA nanotechnology (Ulrich F. Keyser, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge	)

2016-04-21 13:00: The maize leaf – from development to environmental response (Sarah Hake, Director USDA Gene Expression Center)

2016-04-27 16:00: Legume-Rhizobia symbiosis:microbial signalling tacked on to root developmental program (Simona Radutoiu, Aarhus University)

2016-04-28 13:00: Pave the road to land: evolution of water-conducting cells in land plants (Bo Xu, Sam Brockington Lab)

2016-04-29 14:00: Temperature sensing in plant development (Dr Philip Wigge ( Sainsbury Laboratory))

2016-05-05 13:00: Perturbation Analysis of LEAFY in the Floral Transition Network of Arabidopsis thaliana (Gitanjali Yadav, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) New Delhi India)

2016-05-11 16:00: Symmetry breaking and multi-functionality – artificial vs. biological morphogenesis (Stoyan Smoukov (University of Cambridge))

2016-05-12 13:00: Genes gone wild: Experimental evolution meets synthetic biology (Ralph Bock, Max Planck Institute of Plant Molecular Biology)

2016-05-17 16:00: “Programmable” Ecosystems: Engineered Environments for the Study of Biosystems Development (Ludovico Cademartiri, Iowa State University)

2016-05-18 16:00: MscS-Like Mechanosensitive Ion Channels as Modular Sensors and Reporters of Membrane Tension (Elizabeth Haswell, Washington University in St. Louis (SLCU Sabbatical Visitor))

2016-05-19 13:00: In vivo analysis of calcium dynamics in Arabidopsis: tools and applications (Alex Costa, University of Milan)

2016-05-25 16:00: Supergenes, Sex and Sociality (Laurent Keller, University of Lausanne)

2016-05-26 13:00: Epigenetic examination of heterosis in tomato (Sebastian Müller, David Baulcombe Lab)

2016-06-02 13:00: Evolutionary and demographic genetics of polymorphic sexual systems in plants (Spencer Barrett FRS, University of Toronto)

2016-06-20 13:00: The endodermis as a checkpoint for nutrients (Marie Barberon, University of Lausanne)

2016-06-24 14:00: CANCELLED Circadian clock function and organisation in Arabidopsis thaliana (Paloma Mas, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG-CSIC))

2016-07-21 18:30: Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - FULLY BOOKED (Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden)

2016-09-23 16:00: Zinc is essential for normal placental morphogenesis and function and maternal haemodynamic changes to pregnancy in a mouse model of dietary zinc restriction. (Dr Rebecca Wilson University of Adelaide)

2016-09-28 16:00: Live and let die – Arabidopsis interactions with fungal pathogens (Volker Lipka, Georg-August-University Goettingen)

2016-10-03 16:00: Trophoblast generated from human pluripotent stem cells: evaluation of a pre-eclampsis phenotype and susceptibility to Zika Virus (Professor R. Michael Roberts)

2016-10-05 16:00: New approaches to imaging angiogenesis and oxidaative stress in living systems (Dr Sarah Bohndiek, Lecturer in Biomedical Physics,University of Cambridge)

2016-10-13 13:00: Resolving Conflicts: The Genetic Control of Plant Morphogenesis (Enrico Coen FRS, John Innes Centre)

2016-10-19 16:00: Elucidating and re-wiring gene regulatory networks mediating plant defence (Professor Katherine Denby, University of York)

2016-10-20 13:00: Examining the molecular basis of speciation through flavonoid-tinted glasses (Hester Sheehan, Brockington Group)

2016-10-27 13:00: Correct behaviour: how plant cells respond appropriately to different symbiotic partners (Martin Parniske, University of Munich)

2016-11-01 14:00: Beyond the rainbow: understanding the multiscale mechanisms of petal patterning  (Edwige Moyroud, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-02 16:00: The art and design of harmony: communication in intimate plant-fungal symbioses (Dr Uta Paszkowski, Department of Plant Sciences,University of Cambridge)

2016-11-03 13:00: Biotechnological Exploitation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Doris Gangl, Smith group)

2016-11-03 14:00: The influence of flowering behaviour on plant architecture in perennials  (Maria Albani, Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne)

2016-11-08 14:00: Building and maintaining memory: transcriptional repressors and chromatin modifiers in plant developmental switches (Julia Questa, John Innes Centre, Norwich)

2016-11-10 10:00: Deciphering the role of cell wall signalling in plant development  (Sebastian Wolf, Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University)

2016-11-10 13:00: Phytoplankton membrane transport:  The big physiological and evolutionary secrets of small cells (Colin Brownlee, Marine Biological Association )

2016-11-17 13:00: Seed size and its rate of evolution correlate with species diversification across angiosperms (Javier Igea, Tanentzap Group)

2016-11-24 13:00: Engineering Meiosis and Recombination to Unlock Genetic Diversity (Giacomo Bastianelli, Meiogenix and Ian Henderson)

2016-12-01 13:00: Exploiting natural variation to identify genes that impact nutritional seed traits (Sabrina Gonzalez-Jorge, Henderson Group)

2016-12-07 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Topun  Austin   Addenbrooke's Hospital)

2016-12-08 13:00: Light sensing in the Ocean: new perspectives from the study of the diatom photoreceptors (Angela Falciatore, CNRS Paris)

2017-01-12 13:00: Gene silencing in plant development and disease resistance: lessons from tomato (Zhengming Wang, Baulcombe Group)

2017-01-19 13:00: The global movement of plant pests and pathogens: implications for food security (Sarah Gurr, University of Exeter)

2017-01-25 16:00: Molecular mechanisms of MADS-domain transcription factor function- an integrated approach  (Dr Chloe Zubieta (Biosciences and Biotechnology Institute of Grenoble))

2017-01-26 13:00: The role of Chrisanthemum virus B p12 in the regulation of plant transcription and supression of RNA silencing. (Nina Lukhovitskaya, Carr Group)

2017-02-02 13:00: Climate Change and Nature Conservation (Brian Eversham, CEO, BCN Wildlife Trust)

2017-02-09 13:00: Is achieving no net loss of a globally rare species achievable for a mining project in the Caucasus global biodiversity hotspot possible? (Pete Carey, Tanner Group)

2017-02-16 13:00: Dynamic regulation of gibberellin gradients influencing plant growth patterning (Alexander Jones, SLCU)

2017-02-22 16:00: Small RNAs as morphogen-like signals in plant development (Professor Marja Timmermans (University of Tuebingen))

2017-02-23 13:00: The role of forests in regulating greenhouse gas emissions from boreal freshwater ecosystems (Erik Szkokan-Emilson, Tanentzap Group)

2017-03-02 13:00: Plant Physiology and Development From a Cut Flower Supplier Perspective (MM Flowers and Beverley Glover)

2017-03-09 13:00: Mathematical modelling of the citrus disease Huanglongbing (Andrew Craig, Gilligan Group)

2017-03-16 13:00: Abundant phased siRNAs in plant reproductive organs (Blake Meyers, Donald Danforth Centre)

2017-03-20 11:00: Understanding nodulation for engineering nitrogen fixing cereals (Prof. Giles Oldroyd (John Innes Centre))

2017-03-22 16:00: CANCELLED Thorsten Hamman (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)- Cell wall surveillance: How do plant cells monitor integrity? (Thorsten Hamman (Norwegian University of Science and Technology))

2017-03-23 13:00: Using synthetic biology in algae for the production of designer lipids (Katrin Geisler, Smith Group)

2017-03-30 13:00: Endoplasmic reticulum hosts the activities of plant microRNAs (Xuemei Chen, UC Riverside)

2017-04-19 16:00: Flower development: from morphodynamics to morphomechanics. (Prof Jan Traas (ENS Lyon))

2017-04-20 13:00: Importance of Fluctuations in Light on Plant Photosynthetic Acclimation (Silvere Vialet-Chabrand, Griffiths group)

2017-04-26 16:00: The evolution of meiosis in response to genome duplication and environment in Arabidopsis arenosa  (Kirsten Bomblies (John Innes Centre))

2017-04-27 13:00: Salicylic acid and its binding proteins at the crossroads of plant and human health (Dan Klessig, Cornell University)

2017-05-04 13:00: Evaluating ex-situ conservation of threatened plants in the botanic garden network (Ross Mounce, Brockington group)

2017-05-11 13:00: CambPlants Industrial Talks (Dr Vitor Verdelo Viera, A4F and Professor Alison Smith, Plant Sciences)

2017-05-18 13:00: Towards a General Theory of Lorenz Ordering Applied to Ecological Domiance and Earth Observation Systems of Forest Ecosystems (Ruben Valbuena, Coomes group)

2017-06-01 13:00: A synthetic biology approach to harness the regulatory potential of miRNAs in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Francisco J. Navarro, Baulcombe group)

2017-06-28 16:00: Cellular Dynamics and Signaling Molecules in Pollen Tube Guidance (Dr Tetsuya Higashiyama, Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University Japan)

2017-06-29 11:00: Histone variants are essential for transmission of epigenetic information (Dr Frederic Berger, The Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna)

2017-07-26 16:00: New technologies to characterize bacterial two-component systems and repurpose them as sensors for synthetic biology applications (Jeff Tabor (Rice University))

2017-10-05 13:00: CANCELLED: Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants (Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Warwick University)

2017-10-12 13:00: The surprising evolution of TTG1-WDR proteins (Chiara Airoldi, Glover Lab)

2017-10-19 13:00: Highlighting industry collaborations in Plant Sciences (CINTRIN)

2017-10-25 16:00: Katie Field - Symbiotic options for the conquest of land (Dr Katie Field, University of Leeds)

2017-10-26 13:00: Sustainable bioenergy and biofuels from microalgae: a systems biology perspective (Maria Huete Ortega, Smith Lab)

2017-11-02 13:00: Managing the global land resource (Pete Smith, University of Aberdeen)

2017-11-09 13:00: Not just a pretty flower- an ancestral function for LEAFY in shoot development of non-seed vascular plants (Andrew Plackett, Hibberd Lab)

2017-11-16 13:00: Plant intracellular immune receptors; diversity, deployment and dissection (Jonathan Jones, Sainsbury Lab, Norwich)

2017-11-23 13:00: Identification of a suppressor of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal symbiosis in rice (Jeongmin Choi, Paszkowski Lab)

2017-11-29 16:00: The evolution of photosynthetic efficiency (Steve Kelly (University of Oxford))

2017-11-30 13:00: Increasing Crop Productivity Sustainably by Bioengineering Improved Photosynthetic Efficiency (Stephen Long, University of Illinois)

2017-12-14 13:00: Towards understanding of photoacclimation in algal photosynthesis – regulation via redox and Ca2+ (Michael Hippler, University of Munster)

2018-01-11 13:00: CANCELLED: Drivers and consequences of pollinator decline: from individuals to landscapes (Jane Stout, Trinity College Dublin)

2018-01-18 13:00: Using the auxin-inducible degron in yeast to understand the spliceosome cycle (Gonzalo Mendoza, Smith Lab)

2018-01-24 16:00: CANCELLED - Evolution discovers routes to exploit Brownian motion, thermal noise and structural fluctuations in protein signalling and allostery (Professor Tom McLeish (Durham University))

2018-01-25 13:00: CANCELLED-Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants (Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Warwick University)

2018-02-01 13:00: From vesicles to responsive artificial tissues (Emma Talbot, Haseloff Lab)

2018-02-08 13:00: Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants   Plant host-pathogen coevolution and exploring local adaptation of an Arabidopsis thaliana complex Resistance gene locus (Jane Parker, MPI Cologne)

2018-02-15 13:00: Phylogenetic hypothesis of the Oleeae tribe (Oleaceae)
 Diversification and molecular evolution patterns in plastid and nuclear ribosomal DNA (Loubab Zedane, Brockington Lab)

2018-02-19 09:30: Dynamics of Microbial Communities (Knut Drescher (MPI))

2018-02-22 13:00: CANCELLED: How and why the growth and biomass varies across the tropics (Yadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science, University of Oxford)

2018-02-26 09:30: Genotype-phenotype maps: from abstract models to protein structure and plant development (Sebastian Ahnert (SLCU))

2018-02-27 09:15: Theory of Cytoskeleton-driven Mechanisms (Francois Nedelec (EMBL Heidelberg))

2018-02-28 16:00:  Auxin and cytokinin regulation of root architecture - antagonism or synergy (Eva Benkova (IST Austria))

2018-03-01 13:00: CANCELLED-Open tools in Marchantia for plant bioengineering work and as a platform for elucidating morphogenesis (Susana Sauret-Gueto, Haseloff Lab)

2018-03-05 09:30: Uncoupling the processes of development (Dr Sarah Robinson, University of Bern)

2018-03-07 16:00: Evolution and Engineering of Plant-Microbe Symbioses (Jean-Michel Ané (University of Wisconsin - Madison))

2018-03-08 13:00: Protein targeting within the chloroplast: a cell-biological view of starch biosynthesis (Sam Zeeman, ETH Zurich)

2018-03-14 09:00: Deciphering the stochastic kinetics of gene regulation (Ido Golding (Baylor College of Medicine))

2018-04-18 11:00: (Epi)genomic Diversity and the Regulatory DNA Landscape ( Joe Ecker, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological studies)

2018-04-25 16:00: Auxin, glucosinolates, and drought tolerance: What's the connection? (Mark Estelle (University of California - San Diego) )

2018-04-26 13:00: Unlocking the secrets of medicinal crops: from artemisinin to morphine, why are plants still better than bugs at making these drugs? (Ian Graham, University of York)

2018-04-30 13:00: Extracellular Vesicles as Key Mediators of Plant-Microbe Interactions (Roger Innes (Indiana University))

2018-05-03 13:00: Open tools in Marchantia for plant bioengineering work and as a platform for elucidating morphogenesis (Susana Sauret-Gueto, Haseloff Lab)

2018-05-10 13:00: Explosive seed dispersal (Angela Hay, Max Planck)

2018-05-11 14:00: Making a pore: Signaling and transcription-factor control of stomatal development (Keiko Torii (University of Washington))

2018-05-17 13:00: Multiple macroevolutionary routes to becoming a biodiversity hotspot (Javier Igea, Tanentzap Lab)

2018-05-24 13:00: Plant Metabolic Clusters – From Genetics to Genomics (Anne Osbourne, John Innes Centre)

2018-05-31 13:00: A Ser/Thr receptor-like kinase, Ark1, is required to maintain arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in rice (Ronelle Roth, Paszkowski Lab)

2018-06-07 13:00: Developing and Funding a Global System for the Conservation of Crop Diversity in Genebanks (Luigi Guarino, Crop Trust)

2018-09-12 13:30: Evo-devo origami: using carnivorous plants to understand 3D morphogenesis (Dr Christopher Whitewoods (John Innes Centre))

2018-09-14 11:00: Uncoupling the processes of development  (Dr Sarah Robinson (University of Bern) )

2018-09-24 11:00: Mechanics and dynamics of cell to cell adhesion in plants (Dr Stéphane Verger (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France))

2018-09-25 15:15: Balancing acts in the control of plant cell reprogramming (Dr Momoko Ikeuchi (RIKEN Centre for Sustainable Resource Science))

2018-09-26 16:00: Harnessing sexual and asexual seed formation for increased seed yield (Dr Anna Koltunow (CSIRO Agriculture and Food))

2018-10-02 12:30: Understanding the Evolution of Seed Plant Reproductive Adaptations Through a Fern (Dr Andrew Plackett (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge))

2018-10-11 13:00: Drivers and consequences of pollinator decline: from individuals to landscapes (Jane Stout, Trinity College Dublin)

2018-10-18 13:00: Reprogramming roots for fungal symbiosis (Leonie Luginbuehl, Hibberd group)

2018-10-25 13:00: How the nutrient status of the plant controls its engagement with microorganisms (Giles Oldroyd, Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge)

2018-10-31 16:00: Thermomorphogenesis signaling - Translation of temperature stimuli into plant growth (Dr Marcel Quint (MLU Halle-Wittenberg))

2018-11-08 13:00: Coordinated approaches to assess the effects of interacting global change drivers on forest composition and function (Kris Verheyen, University of Ghent)

2018-11-22 13:00: How do betalains evolved? Consequences of a de-regulated enzyme in Caryophyllales (Samuel Lopez, Brockington group)

2018-11-28 16:00: Cellular Trajectories in Root Regeneration (Professor  Kenneth D. Birnbaum, New York University)

2018-11-29 13:00: CANCELLED-Genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening (Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University )

2019-01-17 13:00: REC8-cohesin and chromatin state orchestrate Arabidopsis meiotic recombination (Andy Tock, Henderson Lab)

2019-01-24 13:00: From start to finish: Emerging functions of the N-end rule pathway of proteolysis in plants (Dan Gibbs, Birmingham)

2019-01-24 16:00: A resurrected scenario: single gain and massive loss of nitrogen-fixing root nodules (Dr ir. René Geurts, Wageningen University & Research)

2019-01-31 13:00: Sychronized cells as a model for the diel regulation of Rubisco-EPYC1 interactions in the Chlamydomonas CCM (Indu Santhanagopalan, Griffiths lab)

2019-02-07 13:00: Adjusting the valves: fate and flexibility in stomatal development  (Dominique Bergmann, Stanford)

2019-02-14 13:00: Targeted grafts as a tool to enhance tomato preservation (Sara Lopez-Gomollon, Baulcombe Lab)

2019-02-21 13:00: Rethinking mechanisms of stomatal response to temperature, drought and VPD (Mike Blatt, Glasgow)

2019-02-27 16:00: Root damage and immune responses at cellular resolution (Niko Geldner (Université de Lausanne))

2019-02-28 16:00: Experience in founding Cambridge Glycoscience (Paul Dupree, Biochemistry & Tom Simmons)

2019-03-07 13:00: The origins of Neotropical mega-diversity (Alexandre Antonelli, Kew)

2019-03-14 13:00: Antarctic snow algae blooms – analysing community function from microscopes to satellites (Matt Davey, Smith Lab)

2019-03-15 13:00: Mechanistic studies of purinergic signaling in plants (Professor Gary Stacey, University of Missouri)

2019-03-27 16:00: If walls could talk: the evolution and adaptations of plant and algal cell walls (Dr Zoë Popper, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Environment, Marine and Energy, NUI Galway)

2019-04-24 16:00: A rule based approach to Development (Kim Sneppen (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen))

2019-05-02 13:00: CO2 Sensing in Plants and New Insights into Drought-Induced Abscisic Acid Signal Transduction (Julian Schroeder, UCSD)

2019-05-09 13:00: Arbuscular mycorrhiza development and function (Caroline Gutjahr, Technical University of Munich)

2019-05-16 13:00: Dynamics in forest microclimates provide new insights into biodiversity responses to climate change (Florian Zellweger, Coomes group)

2019-05-29 16:00: Reprogramming plant cells for endosymbiotic infection (Fernanda de Carvalho-Niebel (The Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interactions, INRA-CNRS, Toulouse))

2019-05-30 13:00: Escaping Mendel’s laws: Epigenetic insights from the sulfurea paramutation in Solanum Lycopersicum. (Claudia dos Santos Martinho, Baulcombe group)

2019-06-13 13:00: The evolution of reproductive isolation: multiple hybrid zones in Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae) (Boris Delahaie, Glover group)

2019-07-03 16:00: Host-induced gene silencing vs RNA silencing suppressors - another battleground in host-pathogen arms race (Wenbo Ma (UC Riverside))

2019-07-24 16:00: Live imaging of nascent mesoderm across gastrulation highlights cell-environment interdependence (Dr Isabelle Migeotte, IRIBHM, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

2019-07-31 16:00: Swarm Engineering Across Scales: From Nanoparticles to Robots (Dr Sabine Hauert, University of Bristol)

2019-08-19 13:00: Symposium on CRISPR/CAS editing in crops (Professor Kan Wang (Iowa State University), Prof Wendy Harwood (John Innes), Dr Emma Wallington (NIAB))

2019-09-25 14:00: Calculating Timescales in Evolution: Optimisation, Ergodicity and Genotype-Phenotype Maps (Professor Thomas McLeish (University of York))

2019-10-17 13:00: 21st Century Crop Science Wo(man) (Alison Bentley, NIAB)

2019-10-24 13:00: Molecular convergence in the evolution of betalains (Hester Sheehan, Brockington group)

2019-10-30 14:00: The genetic basis for leaf development and diversity: from understanding to reconstructing  ( Prof Miltos Tsiantis (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research))

2019-10-31 13:00: Mechanisms conferring seasonal flowering responses in annual and perennial plants  (George Coupland, Max Plank Institute)

2019-11-07 13:00: Tales of growth and buckling: Micro-pattern formation on petal surface cells (Carlos Lugo Velez, Glover group)

2019-11-14 13:00: Noisy and dynamic gene regulation in Arabidopsis (James Locke, Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University)

2019-11-21 13:00: Numerous inputs contribute to the genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening (Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute)

2019-11-27 14:00: Learning new biology from genome-wide maps of regulatory elements (Shao-shan Carol Huang (New York University))

2019-11-28 13:00: Engineering NLR immune receptors to combat rice blast disease (Mark Banfield, John Innes Centre)

2019-12-05 13:00: Conserved defences underpin host responses to oomycete infection in liverworts (Philip Carella, SLCU)

2020-01-16 13:00: The roots of change: global change and mycorrhizal symbiosis through the Phanerozoic (Katie Field, University of Leeds)

2020-01-22 14:00: Cryptic variation and evolvability in a simple molecular system (Professor Andreas Wagner (University of Zurich))

2020-01-23 13:00: An unexpected role of the plastidial NAD-dependent malate dehydrogenase in chloroplast development (Tina Schreier, Hibberd group)

2020-01-28 14:00: Rapid auxin responses get their due, and other hormone tales (Professor Mark Estelle (University of California San Diego))

2020-01-30 13:00: Plant puzzle cell shape is an adaptation to a developmental constraint based on mechanical stress and isotropic growth (Richard Smith, John Innes Centre)

2020-02-06 13:00: Investigating the cell biology of invasive growth by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae (Nick Talbot, Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich)

2020-02-13 13:00: Adaptive evolution of meiosis in response to whole genome duplication and habitat (Kirsten Bomblies, ETH Zürich)

2020-02-17 09:00: How do plants sense temperature? (Dr Rea L. Antoniou-Kourounioti (JIC))

2020-02-18 09:00: Overcoming Bottlenecks in Plant Gene Editing (Professor Dan Voytas (Minnesota State University). This seminar is organised on behalf of the Plant Sciences Department.)

2020-02-20 13:00: Cancelled: Understanding drivers and consequences of plant diversity across temporal and spatial scales in an era of rapid global change (Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Minnesota)

2020-02-26 14:00: Principles of biochemical computations at criticality (Dr Aneta Koseska (Max Planck Institute))

2020-02-27 10:30: Adapting shoot morphology to seasons and climates (Jo Hepworth (JIC))

2020-02-27 13:00: Developing a method for meiotic cell -specific gene expression and chromatin profiling in Arabidopsis thaliana. (Artemis Perraki, Andreuzza group)

2020-02-27 15:30: Coordination of root development via shoot-derived light and temperature signals (Dr Kasper van Gelderen (Utrecht University))

2020-03-12 13:00: Engineering the Nitrogen Symbiosis for Africa (ENSA): Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and its Nutrient Regulation in Barley (Doris Albinsky, Paszkowski group)

2020-03-12 15:00: Reading Epigenetic Marks: Downstream of DNA Methylation and Beyond (Dr Jake Harris, UCLA)

2020-03-13 10:00: How is vegetative maturation coordinated between the shoot apical meristem and leaf primordia? (Dr Jim Fouracre, University of Pennsylvania)

2020-03-25 14:00: CANCELLED: Can cell wall polysaccharide structure influence plant development? (Prof Paul Dupree (University of Cambridge, Department of Biochemistry))

2020-04-30 13:00: Spatial regulationof D14L signaling in AM symbiosisof rice (An-Shan Hsiao, Paszkowsi group)

2020-05-07 13:00: Breaking the species barrier to allow hybridization of C3 and C4 cereals (Greg Reeves, Hibberd group)

2020-05-14 13:00: Deciphering control of centromeric recombination in Arabidopsis (Joiselle Ferndandes, Henderson group)

2020-06-04 13:00: Light harvesting complexes in oxygenic photosynthesis (Dr Julia Walter, Kromdijk group)

2020-10-15 13:00: A bipartite transcription factor module controls bundle sheath preferential expression in Arabidopsis (Patrick Dickinson, Hibberd group)

2020-10-22 13:00: Evolutionary legacies on ecosystem function and implications for global change: new insights from spectral biology (Jeannine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota)

2020-10-29 13:00:  Does stress lead to wrinkles?. The case of petal cuticles (Carlos Lugo Velez, Glover group)

2020-11-05 13:00: Defying Mendel’s laws: epigenetic insights from the sulfurea paramutation in Solanum Lycopersicum (Claudia Dos Santos Martinho, Baulcombe group)

2020-11-12 13:00: Translation research in plant breeding, can we finish the job! (Abdel Bendahmane, UMR Université Paris Sud )

2020-11-19 13:00: Innovation, Conservation and Repurposing in Root Cell Type Development (Prof Siobhan Brady, UC Davis)

2020-11-23 16:45: Fighting climate change using plants: It takes a global village to solve a global problem (Joanne Chory (Salk Institute for Biological Studies))

2020-11-25 14:00: Modelling GA dynamics in growing plant organs (Leah Band (University of Nottingham) )

2020-11-26 13:00: Assembling and recombining the Arabidopsis centromeres (Matthew Naish, Henderson Group)

2020-12-03 16:00: Celebrating the FAO International Year of Plant Health: A forward looking perspective on tackling the grand challenges in plant health to transform agriculture sustainably. (Dr Richard Harrison - Director of Cambridge Crop Research, NIAB.)

2020-12-11 09:00: Origin and evolution of the alternation of generations in land plants (John Bowman (Monash University))

2020-12-14 13:00: The Fourth Perspective: Evolution and Organismal Agency (Johannes Jaeger (D'Alembert Research Chair 2020/21, Institut d'Études Avancées (IEA) Paris; Associate Faculty, Complexity Science Hub (CSH) Vienna))

2021-01-15 10:00: Evolutionary dynamics of innovation  (Enrico Colizzi (Origins Centre and Mathematical Institute Leiden University) )

2021-01-18 10:00: High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Imaging of Clathrin Mediated Endocytosis Accessory Proteins in Arabidopsis (Alex Johnson Institute of Science and Technology, Austria)

2021-01-19 15:30: Molecular bonsai and synthetic virology: How a new class of RNA virus-based vectors can enable rapid reprogramming of plants  (Arjun Khakhar (University of Minnesota))

2021-01-21 10:00: Modelling the evolution of developmental processes  (Renske Vroomans (Utrecht University))

2021-01-21 13:00: Multitrophic metabolism underlies plant-nematode interactions (Frank C. Schroeder, Cornell University)

2021-01-28 13:00: From Antarctica to East Anglia: interpreting environmental signals in mosses (Dr Jessica Royles, Griffiths group)

2021-02-04 13:00: A thorny question: tinkering to evolve a novel mode of plant stem cell arrest (Vivian Irish, Yale University)

2021-02-11 13:00: Encounters: Rethinking ‘equality and diversity’ in Plant Sciences (Dr Sharon Walker, Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning)

2021-02-18 15:00: Soil fungi for us (Maarja Öpik, University of Tartu, Estonia)

2021-02-24 13:00: Chemical-biology approaches to control small-molecules in plants (Roy Weinstain (Tel Aviv University))

2021-02-25 15:00: Phenomics of stomata and WUE in bioenergy sorghum (John Ferguson, Kromdijk group)

2021-03-04 15:00: Understanding and improving regulation of photosynthesis (Krishna Niyogi, Berkeley)

2021-03-11 16:00: Postponed - Protecting the Environment (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-03-18 13:00: Cross-Kingdom RNAi and extracellular vesicle-mediated small RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens (Prof Hailing Jin, UCR Riverside)

2021-03-31 13:00: Selective autophagy mediated cellular quality control in plants (Yasin Dagdas - GMI - Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology)

2021-04-28 13:00: Adding a piece to the leaf epidermis puzzle: towards a better understanding of cell shape acquisition (Stéphanie Robert - Umea Plant Science Centre - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences)

2021-04-29 13:00: CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar (Kumari Billakurthi, Hibberd group)

2021-05-06 13:00: Light Regulation of Plant Development: From Mechanisms to Applications  (Prof Kerry Franklin, University of Bristol)

2021-05-13 13:00: CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar (Chris Lambing, Henderson group)

2021-05-20 16:00: CANCELLED - Growing a sustainable bioeconomy (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-06-09 13:00: Electrical signalling in a wounded plant (Professor Edward Farmer (University of Lausanne))

2021-08-23 13:00: Mechanism and Models of Stomata/Mesophyll Form and Function (Professor Andrew Fleming, Chair of Plant Science, University of Sheffield)

2021-10-14 13:00: Redox and ROS Signaling During Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress  (Professor Ron Mittler, University of Missouri)

2021-10-20 13:00: Anionic phospholipids across scales: from plasma membrane nanodomains to plant development  (Yvon Jaillais - ENS Lyon)

2021-10-21 13:00: Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plant Germlines  (Dr Xiaoqi Feng, John Innes Centre)

2021-10-21 13:00:  Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plant Germlines (Dr Xiaoqi Feng (JIC))

2021-10-27 15:00: The 4th dimension of transcriptional networks: TIME (Professor Gloria Coruzzi, Center for Genomics & Systems Biology (New York University))

2021-10-28 09:30: Cellular dynamics and regulation of cambium stem cells during plant secondary Growth (Dongbo Shi, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan)

2021-10-28 13:00: Functional Macroevolution of Transcription Factors in Land Plants (Dr Facundo Romani, Department of Plant Sciences)

2021-11-04 13:00: Investigating the Origin of Nanostructures on Flowers (Dr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences)

2021-11-08 13:00: Predictive models of plant cell division and expansion (Jacque Dumais (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez))

2021-11-10 13:00: Flattening the Curve: Mechanoperception in Plant Cell and Developmental Biology (Elizabeth Haswell (Washington University in St. Louis))

2021-11-11 13:00: Defence and Counter-defence in Plant-pathogen Interactions (Professor Wenbo Ma, Sainsbury Laboratory)

2021-11-12 13:00: How plant cells measure themselves, and why it matters (Robert Sablowski (John Innes Centre))

2021-11-18 13:00: Decoupling Photoprotective Roles of Carotenoids in the PSII Light Harvesting Complexes for Improved Plant Growth (Dr Julia Walter, Department of Plant Sciences)

2021-11-25 13:00: Recoding Regulation - Synthetic Expansions of Plant Metabolism (Dr Nicola Patron, Earlham Institute)

2021-12-02 13:00: Endogenous Pararetroviruses Regulate Gene Expression in Hybrids (Dr Sara Lopez Gomollon, Department of Plant Sciences)

2022-01-27 13:00: Uncovering Mechanisms of Cell-type-specific Gene Expression in Rice  (Dr Leonie Luginbuehl, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2022-02-03 13:00: Entangled Lives: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures (Dr Merlin Sheldrake, Independent Scholar)

2022-02-10 13:00: Understanding Transcriptional Regulation of C4 Photosynthesis  (Dr Pallavi Singh, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences  )

2022-02-17 13:00: Identification of Potential CCM Candidates in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Dr Indu Santhanagopalan, Physiological Ecology Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2022-02-23 15:00: A stylish story of carpel evolution. (Cristina Ferrandiz, Institute for Plant Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMCP))

2022-02-24 13:00: Mechano-eco-evo of the Common Dandelion: What the Notorious Weed Tells Us About Plant Dispersal Strategies (Dr Naomi Nakayama, Imperial College London)

2022-03-03 13:00: Who Cares About Hornworts? (Dr Eftychios Frangedakis, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2022-03-10 13:00: Enhancing Rubisco Catalysis Improves Plant Growth (Professor Spencer Whitney, Australian National University)

2022-03-16 10:30: Crop Science Seminar: Dissection of Wheat-Septoria Interactions (Dr Kostya Kanyuka, Head of Pest & Pathogen Research, NIAB)

2022-03-23 10:30: Crop Science Seminar: Pre-breeding, food security and net zero: so much to do, so little time and money (Phil Howell, Head of Cereals Pre-Breeding, NIAB  )

2022-03-23 10:30: Crop Science Seminar: Improving the mycorrhizal symbiosis in spring barley – lab and field studies (Dr Tom Thirkell, Head of Pest & Pathogen Research, CSC)

2022-03-31 13:00: The dependence of plant cell wall assembly and function on polysaccharide structure (Professor Paul Dupree (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge))

2022-04-06 10:30: Crop Science Seminar: Revealing the “box” code: the spatial and temporal regulation of plant-parasitic nematode pathogenicity (Clement Pellegrin, Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Fellow, Crop Science Centre)

2022-04-06 10:30: Crop Science Seminar: Combining multi-scale phenotyping, AI-powered analysis with genetic mapping studies to connect lab-based plant research with in-field crop improvement (Ji Zhou, Head of Data Science, NIAB)

2022-04-27 10:30: Genotypic variation in maize influences rates of soil organic matter mineralisation and gross nitrification (Dr Lumbani Mwafulirwa, Research Associate, Department of Plant Sciences and Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, NIAB)

2022-04-27 10:30: Characterising the epistatic relationship between signalling pathways for AM symbiosis in rice (Raffy Hull, PhD student, Paszkowski group, Crop Science Centre)

2022-05-05 13:00: Host Age-dependent Evolution of a Plant RNA Virus (Professor Santiago F. Elena, Instituto de Biologia Integrativa de Sistemas)

2022-05-11 10:30: Crop Science Seminar: Ensembl Plants - An Overview (Guy Naamati, Ensembl Plants Project Leader)

2022-05-12 13:00: Stomatal evolution and using knowledge of stomatal function to breed more resilient crops (Professor Alistair Hetherington, University of Bristol )

2022-05-18 10:30: Crop Science Seminar: Root System Architecture Traits Supporting High Yielding Winter Wheat (Eric Ober)

2022-05-18 10:30: Crop Science Seminar: NSP2 and the Regulation of the Symbiotically Permissive State (Darius Zarrabian, Oldroyd Lab, Crop Science Centre)

2022-05-19 13:00: Belowground Microbial Community Responses to Climate Change: Resistance, Resilience, and Alternative States  (Professor Richard Bardgett, University of Manchester)

2022-05-26 13:00: Small RNA-directed Reprogramming of Gene Expression During Host-bacteria Interactions (Professor Lionel Navarro, IBENS)

2022-06-09 13:00: Exploring Cell-to-Cell Connectivity in C4 Photosynthesis (Dr Tina Schreier, Department of Plant Sciences)

2022-06-16 13:00: Understanding Transcriptional Cross-regulation Between Hormone Response Pathways (Professor Mathew Lewsey, La Trobe University)

2022-09-13 14:30: The Evo-Devo of Multicellularity.  (Karl Niklas (Cornell University))

2022-10-13 12:15: Protein import into chloroplasts and its regulation by the ubiquitin-proteasome system (R. Paul Jarvis, Section of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biology, University of Oxford )

2022-10-20 12:15: Regulatory networks controlling carpel (and petal) development (Dr. Humberto Herrera-Ubaldo, Evolution & Development Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2022-10-26 14:30: The End –– and the innumerable ways to reach it (Yaowu Yuan, University of Connecticut)

2022-10-27 12:15: A climate risk analysis for Earth's forests in the 21st century (Professor William Anderegg, University of Utah, USA)

2022-10-27 13:00: Understanding genome regulation during seed germination (Mathew G. Lewsey (Centre for AgriBioscience at La Trobe University))

2022-10-31 13:00: Active Matter and Transport in Living Cells (Michael Shelley (Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute))

2022-11-03 12:15: Developing Parasite-Resistant Systems in Tomatoes to Control Infestations of Cuscuta campestris (Dr Min-Yao Jhu, Sustainable Crop Nutrition Group, Crop Science Centre)

2022-11-10 12:15: Developing platforms for the production of diterpenoids (Dr Edith Forestier, Synthetic Biology for Engineering Plant Growth, Department of Plant Sciences)

2022-11-17 12:15: The molecular basis of sexual deception in Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae) (Dr Roman Kellenberger, Evolution and Development, Department of Plant Sciences)

2022-11-24 12:15: The ins and outs of root meristem shape and function (Professor Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel)

2022-12-01 12:15: Breaking the red limit: photosynthesis in far-red light (Professor Roberta Croce, Free University, Netherlands)

2023-01-10 11:00: Arrested development. Stomatal patterning during embryogenesis and the developmental blocks that prevent progress. (Margot Smit (Stanford, HHMI))

2023-01-16 10:00: How do Cell Walls Drive Growth and Development (Henry Temple (University of Cambridge))

2023-01-17 11:00: Deciphering Molecular and Cellular Dynamics of Invasive Growth Across Developmental Contexts (Dorothee Stoeckle (University of Zurich))

2023-01-20 10:00: Getting to the root of symbiotic nodule developments in legumes (Katharina Schiessl (SLCU))

2023-01-25 10:00: Should I stay or should I grow? Coordinating hormones to make decisions (Annalisa Rizza (SLCU))

2023-01-26 12:15: Alternative meristems: mapping the expression landscape of transcription factor in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha  (Dr Facundo Romani, Haseloff Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2023-01-27 11:00: Plant development in complex environments (Scott Hayes (Wageningen University & Research))

2023-02-02 12:15: Soil microbiomes and one Health (Professor Marcel van der Heijden, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2023-02-06 15:00: Publishing in Communications Biology and other journals in the Nature Portfolio (David Favero, Nature Communications)

2023-02-09 12:15: Molecular insights into abiotic and biotic factors shaping diatom ecophysiology and signalling (Dr Katherine Helliwell, University of Exeter, UK)

2023-02-16 12:15: Bumblebees' floral preferences are shaped by rapid valuation of sensory nectar properties (Dr Fei Peng, Visiting Researcher, Glover Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2023-02-17 11:00: Scaling the wall in leaf development: from structure to function  (Andrew Fleming (The University of Sheffield))

2023-02-23 12:15: CANCELLED: Circadian regulation of sunflower development (Professor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA)

2023-03-02 12:15: Unravelling the molecular mechanism of petal spot initiation in sexually deceptive South African daisy Gorteria diffusa. (Dr Udhaya Ponraj, Glover Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2023-03-03 11:00: Auxin - an universal synchronizer in plants and beyond. (Krzysztof Wabnik (UPM))

2023-03-09 12:15: Considering B vitamin metabolism in plants, and for food and nutritional security   (Professor Teresa Fitzpatrick, University of Geneva, Switzerland)

2023-03-16 12:15: Unraveling the molecular evolution of betalain-producing enzymes to boost their industrial application  (Dr Alejandra Guerrero Rubio, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2023-03-29 14:00: Exploring the regulatory universe of Retinoblastoma function in DNA damage response (Arp Schnittger (University of Hamburg))

2023-05-04 12:15: The Cambridge quest to solve Darwin’s abominable mystery (Professor Richard Buggs, Queen Mary University London and Royal Botanic Garden Kews, UK)

2023-05-11 12:15: Circadian regulation of sunflower development (Professor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA)

2023-05-18 12:15: Immunity activation and execution in plants: a biochemical perspective (Professor Jane Parker, Max Planck Institute, Germany)

2023-05-25 12:15: Rubisco activity and the response of crop leaf photosynthesis to shade (Dr Samuel Taylor, University of Lancaster)

2023-05-31 14:00: Decision Making in Plant Roots: a role for microtubules in sugar sensing and salt stress (Geoffrey Wasteneys (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada))

2023-06-01 12:15: Role of Mechanics in Coordination of Cell Behaviour in Plants (Professor Enrico Coen, John Innes Centre, UK)

2023-06-08 12:15: TLWD scaffold proteins sustain circadian rhythms in Arabidopsis (Dr Eva Herrero Serrano, Department of Plant Sciences)

2023-07-11 14:00: Ground rules for flexible leaf development (Dominique Bergmann (Stanford University))

2023-10-05 14:00: Not all that is repetitive is a clock; Elucidating early steps of lateral root formation (Professor Kirsten ten Tusscher, Utrecht University, Netherland)

2023-10-12 12:15: Beyond Campus: Industry Expert Seminar - Enhancing the sustainability of the food system through SEEDesignTM (Dr Mike Nuccio, Senior Director of AI at Inari, USA)

2023-10-19 12:15: Increasing the rice bundle sheath chloroplast compartment by manipulating brassinosteroid signalling (Dr Lee Cackett, Plant Physiology and Symbiosis Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2023-10-26 12:15: A symplastic, not a simplistic, path: new insights into the role and structural properties of the plasmodesmata cell wall (Dr Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, University of Leeds)

2023-11-02 12:15: RR-Myb related transcription factors, novel regulators of chloroplast biogenesis (Dr Eftychios Frangedakis, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2023-11-06 14:00: Single-Cell and Spatial Dissection of Plant-Microbe Interactions  (Tatsuya Nobori, PhD Salk Institute for Biological Studies)

2023-11-09 12:15: Chasing the ghost behind germination and starvation: the unidentified hormone ‘KL’ (Dr Thomas Irving, Cereal Symbiosis Group, Crop Science Centre, Department of Plant Sciences.)

2023-11-16 12:15: Mining the medicinal plant treasures of a biodiversity hotspot using biotechnological tools (Professor Nokwanda Makunga, Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

2023-11-23 12:15: The timing and nature of early land plant evolution (Professor Philip Donoghue, University of Bristol)

2023-11-30 12:15: Sleeping giant – opening access to the untapped scientific data held in the Cambridge University Herbarium (Dr Anne Dubéarnès, Cambridge University Herbarium, Department of Plant Sciences)

2023-12-13 14:00: Understanding Transcription in Plants (Professor Lucia Strader)

2024-01-25 12:15: Convergent evolution of CO2-fixing liquid-liquid phase separation  (Luke Mackinder, University of York)

2024-01-26 13:00: Branching Out Seminar Series: Lewis Dartnell - 'Astrobiology and Science Writing' (Lewis Dartnell)

2024-02-01 12:15: Plant Sciences Seminar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-02-08 12:15: FF Blackman Memorial Lecture in Plant Physiology (Alex Costa, University of Milan, Italy)

2024-02-15 12:15: Plant Sciences Seminar (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-02-22 12:15: Kenneth Sporne Lecture: Uncovering the drivers of complexity in vascular plants, new insights from fossils and genes  (Sandy Hetherington, University of Edinburgh)

2024-02-22 13:00: Branching Out Seminar Series: Darren Croft (Darren Croft)

2024-02-28 14:00: Dr Angela Hay - Creating an Explosion (Dr Angela Hay)

2024-02-29 12:15: Plant Sciences Seminar (Rhett Harrison, CIFOR)

2024-03-07 12:15: Deciphering the molecular basis of cell-surface immune signaling  (Cyril Zipfel, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2024-03-14 12:15: Plant Sciences Seminar (Jiafu Tan, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences)

2024-03-14 13:00: Branching Out Seminar Series - The curse of scale, more cells more rouges, and the impossibility of whales: somatic evolution across the tree of life (Alex Cagan)

2024-03-27 14:00: Evolution of multisensory integration in plants (Prof. Miguel A. Blázquez - Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (CSIC-UPV))

2024-04-24 14:00: On using mathematical 'snakes' to study the effects of cell divisions on auxin patterning in plant roots (Etienne Farcot- University of Nottingham)

2024-05-02 12:15: Enid MacRobbie Women in Science Lecture (Philippa Borrill, John Innes Centre)

2024-05-16 12:15: Plant Sciences Seminar (Xinnian Dong, Duke University, USA)

2024-08-12 10:00: Supercharging the Soil: Harnessing the Phytomicrobiome for Plant Health (Samuel Martins)

2024-11-27 14:00: Molecular Signals in and from Parasitic Plants (Dr Thomas Spallek Plant Biotic Interactions Group, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute, University of Göttingen, Germany)

2024-12-06 13:00: Branching Out Seminar Series - Feeding the world without costing the earth (Andrew Balmford - University of Cambridge, Professor of Conservation Science)

2025-03-19 14:00: Cell edges: from polarity to growth control (Dr Charlotte Kirchhelle - ENS de Lyon)

2025-04-30 14:00: Unravelling the complexity of root stem cell niche regulation through multi-scale models (Dr Monica Garcia Gomez, Assistant Professor, Utrecht University)

2025-06-25 14:00: Stomatal mechanics: the role of wall structure and shape in cell function (Professor Andrew Fleming, University of Sheffield)

2025-07-21 14:00: Starve or Share? Legume phosphate status is fundamental for root nodule symbiosis (Dr Oswaldo Valdes-Lopez, Functional Genomics of Legumes UNAM. Mexico)

2025-09-24 14:00: Advancing Neuroinclusion: Best Practices Round Table (  Dr Kelsey J.R.P Byers (John Innes Centre), Dr Amanda Brunton (CCTL, University of Cambridge), Dr Julie Bailey (University of Cambridge) and Dr Kate Hughes (Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge))

2025-10-29 14:00: Sensing light direction in flowering plants (Professor Christian Fankhauser, University of Lausanne)

2025-11-26 14:00: Hormonal diversity drives pea pod development (Lars Østergaard, Oxford University)

2026-01-28 14:00: Friends, neighbours and enemies: cell-to-cell communication in times of stress (Professor Christine Faulkner, John Innes Centre)

2026-02-04 14:00: What controls the cleavage pattern of the Fucus embryo? (Dr Bénédicte Charrier, Institute of Functional Genomics at Lyon (IGFL))

2026-02-18 14:00: Cell fate specification and tissue patterning through the lens of cell to cell communication (Professor Magdalena Bezanilla, Dartmouth College)

2026-04-29 14:00: External Seminar - Michael Raissig TBC (Professor Michael Raissig, University of Bern)

2026-05-27 14:00: External Seminar - Hilde Nelissen TBC (Hilde Nelissen, Ghent University)

2026-06-17 14:00: External Seminar - Fay-Wei Li TBC (Fay-Wei Li, Cornell University)

2026-10-21 14:00: External Seminar - Jenn Brophy TBC (Jenn Brophy, Stanford University)

 : Title to be confirmed (Dr Mark Dilworth, MRC Research Fellow, University of Manchester)