Plant Biology Seminars
"Plant Biology Seminars" provide Plant Biology post docs, grad students, faculty, techs, MS students with the opportunity to show what they have done and where they are going with their research. Two 25 minute talks + 5 min discussion for each month.
To be added to the schedule, please contact Alyona Bobkova at ebobkova@ucsd.edu.
We welcome talks by graduate students, post-docs, or any visiting scientist. We encourage work at all levels of development, including work still in progress! Newly arrived scientists to UCSD are encouraged to volunteer to present talks from their previous institutes.
Upcoming
June
13
Receptor-like Protein Kinases Regulate Root Development and Stress Adaptation Seminar
Jia Li
Professor & Dean, School of Life Sciences Lanzhou University, China
WHEN: 10:00 AM
WHERE: 1103 Muir Biology Bldg
June
21
“Visualization of Signaling Molecules in Arabidopsis"
Dr. Rainer Waadt
Plant Development Biology, Centre for Organismal Studies (COS)
University of Heidelberg, Germany
WHEN: 12:00 PM
WHERE: 1103 Muir Biology Bldg
June
22
“The Role of Lipids in Plant Membrane Transport
and Does Transpiration really play a Role in Long Distance Transport?"
Prof. Widmar Tanner
Cell Biology and Plant Physiology,
University of Regensburg, Germany
WHEN: 4:00 PM
WHERE: 1103 Muir Biology Bldg
2017
Mar
24
Peizhu Guan
UC San Diego
“Nitrate Signaling and Regulation of Root Growth and Development"
Wolfgang Busch
SALK Institute
“Approaching The Genetic And Molecular Bases Of Environmental Regulation Of Root Growth"
WHEN: 9:30 AM
WHERE: 1103 Muir Biology Bldg
Mar
20
Dave Berger
Professor, University of Pretoria, South Africa
“Systems genetics and targeted metabolite profiling in the corn-gray leaf spot pathosystem"
WHEN: 11:00 AM
WHERE: 1103 Muir Biology Bldg
Jan
13
Stefan Rensing
Professor, Plant Cell Biology, University of Marburg, Germany
“Comparative genomics of algae and land plants: about the evolution of transcriptional regulation and complexity"
WHEN: 9:30AM
WHERE: 1103 Muir Biology Bldg
Jan
12
Gloria Muday
Director, Center for Molecular Signaling, Wake Forest University
“Kinetic analyses of auxin and ethylene-regulated transcriptomes that modulate root development"
WHEN: 9:30AM
WHERE: 1103 Muir Biology Bldg
2016
Dec
7
Susanne Kjemtrup-Lovelace
Adj. Professor North Carolina State University
“Phenomics: an industry perspective to identify promising germplasm "
WHEN: 1:30PM
WHERE: 1103 Muir Biology Bldg
Nov
18
Jiyoung Park
(Schroeder Lab)
“Chemical genetics screening identifies a Lectin Receptor Kinase involved in biotic-to-abiotic interference signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana"
Prateek Tripathi
(Kay Lab, TSRI)
“Novel circadian players in photoperiodic flowering”
WHEN: 9:30AM
WHERE: 1103 Muir Biology Bldg
OCT
21
Wan Shi
(Estelle/Yanofsky Labs)
“Functional Characterization of Putative Rab geranylgeranyltransferase Subunits in Arabidopsis thaliana”
Yezhang Ding
(Schmelz Lab)
“Biochemical and Genetic Dissection of the Maize Defense Metabolome”
WHEN: 9:30AM
WHERE: 1103 Muir Biology Bldg
OCT
5
Joseph Piechura
Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University
“Responses to natural light fluctuations interact with circadian systems to regulate gene expression in cyanobacteria”
WHEN: 10:00AM
WHERE: 1103 Muir Biology Bldg
SEP
30
Professor Wolf B. Frommer
Director, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Plant Biology, Stanford University
“Sugar Allocation: From The Field To Atomic Structures and Back”
WHEN: 9:30AM
WHERE: 1103 Muir Biology Bldg
AUG
24
Professor Dan Voytas
Center of Genome Engineering, University of Minnesota
“Precise Engineering of Plant Genomes”
WHEN: 10:00AM
WHERE: Muir Biology Bldg
JUN
14
Professor Eliot Herman
School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona
“Remodeling the Soybean Seed Proteome -its Biology and Biotechnology”
WHEN: 9:30AM
WHERE: 1103 Muir Biology Bldg
MAY
20
Paula Doblas Ibanez
(Smith Lab)
Characterization of increased Pantoea stewartii resistance in maize pan1 mutants
Alexandre de Saint Germain
(Chory Lab)
The characterization of Strigolactone perception
Hosted by Aaron Stephan and Julian Schroeder
WHEN: 9:30AM
WHERE: 1103 Muir Biology Bldg
FEB
26
Tom Brutnell
Danforth Center
“A genetic dissection of C4 photosynthesis through comparative genomics and emerging model systems”
WHEN: 9:30AM
WHERE: 1103 Muir Biology Bldg
FEB
8
Ted Turlings
Université de Neuchâtel
“Tri-trophic interactions in the rhizosphere”
WHEN: 3PM
WHERE: 1103 Muir Biology Bldg
JAN
15
Keini Dressano
Huffaker & Zhao Labs
“BAK1 mediates the AtRALF1-induced inhibition of root cell expansion”
Po-Kai Hsu
Schroeder Lab
“The role of NRT1.11/NRT1.12 in nitrate transport”
WHEN:9:30AM
WHERE:1103 Muir Biology
2015
DEC
11
Renhou Wang
(Estelle lab)
HSP90 Regulates Temperature-Dependent Seedling Growth by Stabilizing the Auxin Receptor F-box Protein TIR1
Jesse Woodson
(Chory lab)
Ubiquitin Facilitates a Quality Control Pathway That Removes Damaged Chloroplasts
WHEN:9:30AM
WHERE:1103 Muir Biology
NOV
13
Adrienne Roeder
Cornell University
Department of Plant Biology “The importance of variability in generating regular plant organs”
One of the biggest mysteries in developmental biology is how growing organs can sense their size and know when to stop growing. Within a species, the size of an organ is generally highly reproducible, yet the growth of the cells making up that organ is often highly variable. The Arabidopsis sepal, the outermost green leaf-like floral organ, is a great system for examining this apparent paradox because each flower has four consistently sized sepals, but those sepals are formed by cells with a huge variability in size. Prof. Roeder will focus on two questions, how cell size variability generated and how organ size is uniformity maintained?
JUN
19
Tamar Shemer (Schroeder lab)
Guard Cell Photosynthesis and Leaf Starch Biosynthesis: Their Roles in Turgor Production and in CO2- and ABA-Induced Stomatal Closing
Philipp Weckwerth (Huffaker lab)
ZmCPK1, a Calcium-Independent Protein Kinase, is Involved in Cold Stress Signaling
APR
17
Ana Marie Palanca (Law lab)
Methyl-Binding Domain Proteins and Alpha-crystallin Domain Proteins Regulate Gene Expression in Arabidopsis thaliana
Brian Crawford (Yanofsky lab)
Genetic Control of Embryo Patterning
FEB
20
Ronan O’Malley (Ecker lab)
Toward Comprehensive Annotation of Plant Gene Regulatory Space
Ben Rubin (Golden lab)
Exploring Cyanobacteria’s Essential Gene Set
2014
Nov
21
Aaron Stephan (Schroeder Lab)
Potentiation of osmo-sensory responses in Arabidopsis
Liang Song (Ecker Lab)
An Integrative understanding of the dynamic transcriptional responses to ABA in Arabidopsis thaliana
Jun
13
Yangbin Gao (Zhao Lab)
Ribosome-based CRISPR System and its Applications in Plants
Youngxia Guo (Estelle Lab)
Mechanistic Basis of Plant Specialized Enzyme Evolution
May
9
Zuyu Zheng (Chory lab)
Metabolic regulation of hormone homeostasis
Chongyuan Luo (Ecker lab)
Resolving the complexity of genomic and epigenomic variations in Arabidopsis
Apr
11
Cawas Engineer (Schroeder Lab)
Roles for EPF2 and CRSP in CO2 Control of Stomatal Development
Dior Kelley (Estelle Lab)
Protein Dynamics During Auxin Signaling
Mar
7
Henning Kunz (Schroeder Lab)
New Insights into the Ion Homeostasis of the Plant Chloroplast
Charles Stewart (Noel Lab)
Evolution and Exploitation of Plant Polyketide Synthases for Biorenewable Future
Feb
14
Putative SCAR/WAVE complex subunits promote asymmetric cell division and polarization of Pan1 and PAN2 receptor-like kinases
Benjamin Brandt (Schroeder lab)
Calcium specificity mechanism
within ABA-dependent signal transduction
