Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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)

2008-03-06 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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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))

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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))

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

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

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))

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

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))

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

2014-12-04 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)

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

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

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

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))

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

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

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

2015-03-12 13:00: Investigating the O3-induced Ca2+ signalling pathway in Arabidopsis (Katie Wilkins (Davies Lab))

2015-03-19 13:00: An integrated structural biology approach to flower development (Francois Parcy, Grenoble)

2015-03-26 13:00: The mechanism by which calcium affects the circadian clock  (Carmen Marti (Webb Lab))

2015-04-23 13:00: Multiple mechanisms limit meiotic crossovers (Raphael Mercier, Versailles INRA)

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)

2015-05-07 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)

2015-05-21 13:00: Where the bee flies: and why it matters (Juliet Osborne, University of Exeter)

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)

2015-06-04 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)

2015-06-18 13:00: Beta oxidation in signalling and development. What plants can teach us about yeast and animals (Alison Baker, University of Leeds)

2015-06-25 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)

2015-07-09 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)

2015-10-01 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)

2015-10-15 13:00: RNA viruses: comparative genomics and gene expression mechanisms (Andrew Firth, Dept of Pathology)

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)

2015-10-29 13:00: When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica’s climate history (Jane Francis, Director, British Antarctic Survey)

2015-11-05 13:00: Genetic factors controlling meiotic crossover: Lessons from natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana (Piotr Ziolkowski, Ian Henderson Group)

2015-11-12 13:00: The biodiversity value of degraded tropical forests (David Edwards, University of Sheffield)

2015-11-19 13:00: A pioneering imaging approach to arbuscule development in rice (Ronelle Roth, Uta Paszkowski Lab)

2015-11-26 16:00: Phenotyping is an F-word: crop research in Fields, on Farms, with Farmers (Roger Sylvester-Bradley, ADAS)

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)

2015-12-17 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)

2016-01-14 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)

2016-01-28 13:00: Inter-organellar interactions - known unknowns in metabolic engineering of membrane-spanning pathways in plants (Payam Mehrshahi, Alison Smith Lab)

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)

2016-02-25 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)

2016-03-03 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)

2016-03-10 13:00: Incorporating uncertainty into the optimal development of disease control measures (Ciara Dangerfield, Chris Gilligan Lab)

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)

2016-04-21 13:00: The maize leaf – from development to environmental response (Sarah Hake, Director USDA Gene Expression Center)

2016-04-28 13:00: Pave the road to land: evolution of water-conducting cells in land plants (Bo Xu, Sam Brockington Lab)

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)

2016-05-12 13:00: Genes gone wild: Experimental evolution meets synthetic biology (Ralph Bock, Max Planck Institute of Plant Molecular Biology)

2016-05-19 13:00: In vivo analysis of calcium dynamics in Arabidopsis: tools and applications (Alex Costa, University of Milan)

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)

2016-10-13 13:00: Resolving Conflicts: The Genetic Control of Plant Morphogenesis (Enrico Coen FRS, John Innes Centre)

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)

2016-11-03 13:00: Biotechnological Exploitation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Doris Gangl, Smith group)

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)

2016-12-08 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)

2017-01-26 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)

2017-02-23 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)

2017-03-23 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)

2017-04-20 13:00: Importance of Fluctuations in Light on Plant Photosynthetic Acclimation (Silvere Vialet-Chabrand, Griffiths group)

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)

2017-10-05 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)

2017-10-26 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)

2017-11-30 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)

2018-01-25 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)

2018-02-22 13:00: CANCELLED: How and why the growth and biomass varies across the tropics (Yadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science, University of Oxford)

2018-03-01 13:00: CANCELLED-Open tools in Marchantia for plant bioengineering work and as a platform for elucidating morphogenesis (Susana Sauret-Gueto, Haseloff Lab)

2018-03-08 13:00: Protein targeting within the chloroplast: a cell-biological view of starch biosynthesis (Sam Zeeman, ETH Zurich)

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)

2018-04-26 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)

2018-05-03 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)

2018-05-17 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)

2018-10-11 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)

2018-11-08 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)

2018-11-29 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)

2019-01-31 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)

2019-02-28 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)

2019-05-02 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)

2019-05-30 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)

2019-10-17 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)

2019-10-31 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)

2019-11-28 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)

2020-01-23 13:00: An unexpected role of the plastidial NAD-dependent malate dehydrogenase in chloroplast development (Tina Schreier, Hibberd group)

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)

2020-02-20 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)

2020-02-27 13:00: Developing a method for meiotic cell -specific gene expression and chromatin profiling in Arabidopsis thaliana. (Artemis Perraki, Andreuzza group)

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)

2020-04-30 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)

2020-11-26 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.)

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)

2021-02-25 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)

2021-04-29 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)

2021-10-14 13:00: Redox and ROS Signaling During Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress  (Professor Ron Mittler, University of Missouri)

2021-10-21 13:00: Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plant Germlines  (Dr Xiaoqi Feng, John Innes Centre)

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)

2021-11-11 13:00: Defence and Counter-defence in Plant-pathogen Interactions (Professor Wenbo Ma, Sainsbury Laboratory)

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)

2022-02-24 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)

2022-04-06 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)

2022-10-13 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)

2022-10-27 12:15: A climate risk analysis for Earth's forests in the 21st century (Professor William Anderegg, University of Utah, USA)

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)

2023-01-26 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)

2023-02-02 12:15: Soil microbiomes and one Health (Professor Marcel van der Heijden, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

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)

2023-02-23 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)

2023-03-09 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)

2023-05-04 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)

2023-06-01 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)

2023-10-12 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)

2023-11-09 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)

2024-01-25 12:15: Convergent evolution of CO2-fixing liquid-liquid phase separation  (Luke Mackinder, University of York)

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)

2024-02-29 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)

2024-05-02 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)