The JIC has a very active programme of seminars and lectures,
including a series of Named
Lectures, given by external, invited speakers, which is managed
by the site seminar committee.These
are open to the scientific community.
Below is a list of lectures & seminars held at JIC over the last 5 years.
| 11-May-2012 |
Professor Sir David Baulcombe
(Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge) |
The Darlington Lecture - RNA silencing and genome defense of plants |
| 20-Apr-2012 |
Professor Karen Garrett
(Dept of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University) |
Climate change and plant disease |
| 30-Mar-2012 |
Professor Barbara Imperiali
(Department of Biology, MIT) |
Protein glycosylation: Pathways, processes and potential virulence targets |
| 23-Mar-2012 |
Professor José Luis Riechmann
(Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Barcelona, Spain) |
Gene regulatory networks in Arabidopsis flower development |
| 09-Mar-2012 |
Professor Frank Julicher
(Max Planck Institute, Dresden) |
Dynamic organization of epithelia |
| 02-Mar-2012 |
Professor Jan Leach
(Plant Pathology, Colorado State University, USA) |
Wading through murky paddies: clarifying broad spectrum resistance in rice |
| 24-Feb-2012 |
Professor Tom Beeckman
(VIB Dept Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University) |
CANCELLED - The root apex as headquarter for root branching |
| 10-Feb-2012 |
Dr Gerry Wright
(Dept Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University) |
The Hopwood Lecture - Resistance guided antibiotic discovery |
| 03-Feb-2012 |
Professor Jan Lohmann
(Department of Stem Cell Biology, University of Heidelberg) |
It takes two to tango: Hormones and transcription factors in shoot meristem control |
| 27-Jan-2012 |
Professor Dolf Weijers
(Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University) |
First time for everything: specification of stem cells in the early plant embryo |
| 20-Jan-2012 |
Professor Marcel Dicke
(Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University) |
Induced plant defences: from transcriptomics to community dynamics |
| 13-Jan-2012 |
Professor Ian Graham
(Director of CNAP, Department of Biology, University of York) |
Molecular breeding of high value chemicals in novel crops: from hemp to artemisia |
| 09-Dec-2011 |
Dr Abdelhafid Bendahmane
(Vice Director, URGV, France) |
Cloning and characterization of gene of agronomic importance from crops |
| 02-Dec-2011 |
Professor Thomas Mitchell-Olds
(Biology Dept, Duke University) |
Phenotypes phirst: Complex traits in complex environments |
| 25-Nov-2011 |
Professor Tâm Mignot
(CNRS, France) |
Social movements in bacteria: mechanisms and evolution from genetics and cell biology |
| 11-Nov-2011 |
Professor Venkatesan Sundaresan
(College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis, USA) |
Patterning the female gametophyte of flowering plants, or How plants lay eggs |
| 04-Nov-2011 |
Professor Philip Benfey
(Duke University, USA) |
The Bateson Lecture - Development rooted in interwoven networks |
| 28-Oct-2011 |
Professor Simon Levin
(Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University) |
The Haldane Lecture - Crossing Scales |
| 21-Oct-2011 |
Professor David S Guttman
(Depts of Cell & Systems Biology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biol, Toronto Un) |
Dissecting the co-evolutionary arms race (full title below) |
| 07-Oct-2011 |
Professor Frederic Berger
(Temasek Life Sciences Lab) |
More than a scaffold, HISTONES, master regulators of the genome activity |
| 30-Sep-2011 |
Professor Christine Jacobs-Wagner
(Dept of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University) |
Inside bacterial cells: Where both chaos and order are actively pursued |
| 23-Sep-2011 |
Professor Jennifer Doudna
(Dept Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA) |
CANCELLED - Mechanisms of RNA-mediated viral defense in bacteria |
| 09-Sep-2011 |
Dr Cristina Ferrandiz
(Institute for Plant Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMCP)) |
The secrets of a long life: FRUITFULL controls reproductive meristem arrest in Arabidopsis |
| 08-Jul-2011 |
Professor Jorge Galan
(Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine) |
Type III secretions machines: bacterial devices for protein delivery into eukaryotic cells |
| 17-Jun-2011 |
Professor Jon Clardy
(Dept of Bio Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School) |
Bacterial symbionts and the discovery of new molecules |
| 10-Jun-2011 |
Professor Christian Hardtke
(Director, Dept Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne) |
The ABCs of BRX - from natural genetic variation to mesoscopic modelling of root meristem growth |
| 27-May-2011 |
Professor Jay Keasling
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley) |
POSTPONED - The 2011 Chatt Lecture by Professor Jay Keasling |
| 20-May-2011 |
Professor Mark Estelle
(Cell & Developmental Biology, UCSD, USA) |
The Woolhouse Lecture - How does auxin do everything? |
| 13-May-2011 |
Professor Jeff Long
(Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute) |
Building an embryo from the bottom up |
| 06-May-2011 |
Professor Steven Lindow
(Dept Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA) |
Microbial life on a leaf: Interactions of bacteria with themselves and the plants on which they live |
| 08-Apr-2011 |
Professor Nancy Moran
(Dept of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University) |
The Hopwood Lecture - Evolution and genomics of beneficial symbionts in insects |
| 01-Apr-2011 |
Professor Suzanne Eaton
(Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics) |
CANCELLED - Stress-induced cell flows reorient planar polarity in the wing epithelium of Drosophila |
| 25-Mar-2011 |
Dr Matthew Freeman
(MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) |
Rhomboids and iRhoms: intramembrane proteolysis and its regulation |
| 18-Mar-2011 |
Dr Pascal Genschik
(Director, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS) |
CUL4-DDB1 is required to maintain epigenetic gene repression |
| 04-Mar-2011 |
Professor Andreas Wagner
(Dept of Biochemistry, University of Zurich) |
The origins of evolutionary innovations |
| 25-Feb-2011 |
Professor Pascale Cossart
(Pasteur Institute) |
The bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes: a model or a reference? |
| 18-Feb-2011 |
Professor Thomas Lahaye
(Institute of Genetics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich) |
Xanthomonas TAL effectors in fundamental and applied research |
| 11-Feb-2011 |
Professor Herbert Waldmann
(Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology) |
Chemical-biological analysis of dynamic biological systems |
| 04-Feb-2011 |
Professor Ben Scheres
(Dept of Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands) |
Plant development: rooting shoots or shooting roots? |
| 21-Jan-2011 |
Professor Malcolm Bennett
(Plant & Crop Sciences Div, University of Nottingham) |
Lateral root development: an emerging story...... |
| 14-Jan-2011 |
Professor Fernando Garcia-Arenal
(Director, Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas UPM - INIA) |
Integration of environmental signals in host-pathogen co-evolution |
| 10-Dec-2010 |
Professor Neil Gow
(Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen) |
Immune recognition of fungi: the taste of a fungus |
| 03-Dec-2010 |
Professor Sheng-Yang He
(DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University) |
Pathogenesis as a probe of innate immunity, jasmonate signaling, and vesicle traffic in Arabidopsis |
| 26-Nov-2010 |
Professor Elizabeth Sockett
(School of Biology, University of Nottingham) |
Predatory biology of Bdellovibrio- invader of other Gram negative bacteria |
| 19-Nov-2010 |
Professor Bernard Dujon
(Dept Genomes & Genetics, Institut Pasteur, France) |
Yeasts: models to study the evolution of eukaryotic genomes |
| 12-Nov-2010 |
Professor Ben Davis
(Dept of Chemistry, University of Oxford) |
Sugars and proteins |
| 05-Nov-2010 |
Professor Sean Cutler
(Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California) |
Chemical and genetic dissection of abscisic acid signaling |
| 29-Oct-2010 |
Professor Philippe Sansonetti
(Unité de pathogénie microbienne moléculaire, INSERM U786) |
Pathogens and commensals at epithelial surfaces: the Yin and the Yang of innate immunity |
| 22-Oct-2010 |
Professor Joan Steitz
(Yale University) |
The Bateson Lecture - Viral noncoding RNAs: Master manipulators of RNA decay |
| 08-Oct-2010 |
Professor Marc Knight
(School of Bio & Biomedical Sciences, University of Durham) |
The role of calcium, SFR6 and OXI1 in plant stress signalling |
| 01-Oct-2010 |
Dr Olivier Loudet
(INRA, National Institute for Agricultural Research, Versailles) |
Natural variation for growth and response to the environment in Arabidopsis thaliana |
| 24-Sep-2010 |
Professor Eddy Rubin
(Director, Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) |
The Darlington Lecture by Professor Eddy Rubin |
| 10-Sep-2010 |
Professor Hans-Georg Sahl
(Institute of Microbiology & Biotechnology, University of Bonn) |
From insect and plant defensins to lipopeptides and lantibiotics - natural compounds for antibiotics |
| 06-Jul-2010 |
(Antoine Peraldi) |
Brachypodium distachyon: a new model for Fusarium Head Blight in wheat |
| 29-Jun-2010 |
Simone Altmann
() |
Remember yesterday – a plant cellular memory as factor for adaptation to environmental stress? |
| 25-Jun-2010 |
Professor Michael Elowitz
(California Institute of Technology ) |
POSTPONED - The Haldane Lecture - Signal encoding at the single-cell level |
| 22-Jun-2010 |
David Prince
() |
Functional genomics of aphid candidate effectors |
| 18-Jun-2010 |
Professor Harry Gilbert
(University of Georgia) |
CANCELLED - Approaches to identifying novel plant cell wall metabolizing enzymes |
| 11-Jun-2010 |
Professor Eric Richards
(Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University) |
Epigenetics and nuclear organization |
| 04-Jun-2010 |
Professor Nina Fedoroff
(Science & Technology Advisor to Secretary of State, US Dept of State ) |
Science and technology in 21st century diplomacy |
| 28-May-2010 |
Dr Yuval Eshed
(Dept of Plant Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science) |
Scheduling developmental events and its impact on plant form |
| 21-May-2010 |
Professor Jonathan Widom
(Northwestern University) |
A genomic code for nucleosome positioning from archaebacteria to man |
| 14-May-2010 |
Professor Beat Keller
(Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich) |
Function, diversity & evolution of Pm3-based disease resistance in wheat-powdery mildew pathosystem |
| 07-May-2010 |
Professor Regine Hengge
(Faculty of Biology - Department of Microbiology, Freie University Berlin) |
Cyclic di-GMP signalling in bacterial life-style switching |
| 30-Apr-2010 |
Professor Donald Ort
(Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois) |
Crops FACE the future |
| 23-Apr-2010 |
Dr Jan Lowe
(Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council, Cambridge ) |
Molecular mechanism of plasmid segregation by ParMRC |
| 16-Apr-2010 |
Dr Jon Lis
(Cornell University, USA) |
New views of transcription regulation in vivo |
| 09-Apr-2010 |
Professor Peter Langridge
(University of Adelaide, Australia) |
The Biffen Lecture - Miserable but worth the trouble: Genomics, wheat and difficult environments |
| 26-Mar-2010 |
Professor Bruce McDonald
(Institute of Integrative Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) |
The origins of plant pathogens in agro-ecosystems |
| 19-Mar-2010 |
Professor Wendy Bickmore
(Chromosomes & Gene Expression Section, MRC Human Genetics Unit) |
Is there more to epigenetic gene repression than just histone modifications? |
| 12-Mar-2010 |
Dr Jeff Bennetzen
(Dept of Genetics, University of Georgia) |
Mechanisms, rates and outcomes of local genome evolution in the grasses |
| 05-Mar-2010 |
Professor Jane Langdale
(Dept Plant Sciences, University of Oxford) |
CANCELLED - Evolution of shoot development |
| 26-Feb-2010 |
Dr. Ravi Prakash Singh
(Global Wheat Program, CIMMYT) |
Spring bread wheat improvement at CIMMYT to enhance productivity and sustainability of wheat in Asia |
| 12-Feb-2010 |
Professor Regine Kahmann
(Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology) |
How smut fungi colonize plants: a tale of effectors |
| 05-Feb-2010 |
Dr Stephane Genin
(INRA France) |
Subversion of plant cellular pathways by Ralstonia solanacearum type III effectors |
| 29-Jan-2010 |
Professor Julia Vorholt
(Institute of Microbiology, EH Zurich) |
Community proteogenomics reveals new insights into bacterial life on leaf surfaces |
| 22-Jan-2010 |
Professor Joerg Vogel
(Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology) |
Discovery and mechanisms of small RNAs in bacterial pathogens |
| 08-Jan-2010 |
Professor Ben Scheres
(Utrecht University) |
CANCELLED: Plant development: rooting shoots or shooting roots? |
| 04-Dec-2009 |
Dr Cameron Currie
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) |
Evolution of ancient agriculture and antibiotic use in ants |
| 27-Nov-2009 |
Professor Andy Johnston
(School of Biosciences, University of East Anglia) |
The remarkable diversity of the genes, the pathways and the microbes that make the smell of the seas |
| 20-Nov-2009 |
Professor Fraser Stoddart
(Dept of Chemistry, Northwestern University, USA) |
The Chatt Lecture - Radically enhanced molecular recognition |
| 13-Nov-2009 |
Prof Miltos Tsiantis
(University of Oxford) |
Using comparative development to understand diversification of leaf shape |
| 06-Nov-2009 |
Professor David Sherratt
(Dept Biochemistry, University of Oxford) |
The Darlington Lecture - Linking chromosome replication and segregation |
| 30-Oct-2009 |
Professor Ian T Baldwin
(Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology) |
Training a new type of biologist: the genome-enabled field biologist |
| 02-Oct-2009 |
Professor Jonathon Howard
(Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics) |
Molecular control of cellular size: regulation of microtubule length by depolymerizing kinesins |
| 10-Jul-2009 |
Dr Salome Prat
(Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Spain) |
DELLA-PIFs interaction: shedding light on control of hypocotyl elongation |
| 26-Jun-2009 |
Professor Pamela Ronald
(University of California, Davis) |
A Type I secreted, sulfated peptide triggers rice XA21-mediated innate immunity |
| 19-Jun-2009 |
Professor Laurence Hurst
(Dept of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Bath) |
Why there is more to gene evolution than protein function: splicing, nucleosomes |
| 12-Jun-2009 |
Professor Craig Crews
(Yale University, USA) |
Plant and microbial natural products as cell biological probes |
| 05-Jun-2009 |
Dr Juerg Mueller
(European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany) |
Transcriptional regulation by the Polycomb/trithorax system |
| 22-May-2009 |
Professor Ralf R Mendel
(Braunschweig University of Technology) |
Cell biology and biochemistry of metals
or
The answer to life, the universe and everything |
| 15-May-2009 |
Professor Steven Buratowski
(Harvard Medical School) |
Coupling transcription with chromatin and mRNA processing |
| 08-May-2009 |
Dr Barbara Valent
(Kansas State University) |
Life inside a rice cell; lessons from the blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae |
| 01-May-2009 |
Professor Ed DeLong
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
Hopwood Lecture - Natural microbial world as viewed through the lens of genomics & transcriptomics |
| 17-Apr-2009 |
Professor Richard Jorgensen
(Dept Plant Sciences, University of Arizona) |
iPlant Collaborative |
| 27-Mar-2009 |
Dr Leemor Joshua-Tor
(HHMI/Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) |
DNA translocation through a replicative hexameric helicase – one step at a time |
| 20-Mar-2009 |
Professor Susan McCouch
(Dept Plant Breeding & Genetics, Cornell University) |
The Biffen Lecture - Gene flow and genetic isolation during crop evolution |
| 13-Mar-2009 |
Professor Polly Roy
(London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) |
Bluetongue virus proteins: their roles in virus replication, assembly and egress |
| 06-Mar-2009 |
Professor James Manley
(Columbia University, USA) |
Polyadenylation of mRNA precursors: Mechanism, regulation and integration with other cellular proces |
| 27-Feb-2009 |
Professor Ulla Bonas
(Institute for Biology/Genetics, Martin-Luther University) |
How bacterial effector proteins manipulate the plant host cell |
| 20-Feb-2009 |
Professor Crisanto Guteirrez
(Centro de Biología Molecular, Spain) |
Cell division, chromatin and differentiation during Arabidopsis development |
| 13-Feb-2009 |
Professor David Holden
(Imperial College London) |
The intracellular biology of Salmonella |
| 06-Feb-2009 |
Dr Roberto Solano
(Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia-CSIC) |
Jasmonate signaling moves to the rhythm of JAZs |
| 30-Jan-2009 |
Professor Ueli Grossniklaus
(Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich) |
Cell-Cell communications during double
fertilization |
| 23-Jan-2009 |
Professor Dek Woolfson
(University of Bristol) |
Rational peptide and protein design in nanoscience and synthetic biology |
| 09-Jan-2009 |
Dr Donald Nuss
(University of Maryland, USA) |
Mycoviruses at the fungus-plant interface: New insights |
| 12-Dec-2008 |
Dr Robb Fraley
(Monsanto Co) |
Discovering Delivering Yielding Latest developments in agricultural biotech |
| 05-Dec-2008 |
Prof Jacquelin Burgess
(School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia) |
Participatory biotechnology appraisals: principles, processes and practices |
| 28-Nov-2008 |
Prof Andrew Millar
(University of Edinburgh) |
Unwinding the Biological Clock with Systems Biology |
| 21-Nov-2008 |
Dr George Coupland
(Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research ) |
Woolhouse Lecture - Seasonal control of flowering in annual & perennial plants |
| 14-Nov-2008 |
Dr Jiri Friml
(Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, Ghent University) |
Auxin transport – connecting cell polarity and patterning |
| 07-Nov-2008 |
Dr Ron Breaker
(Yale University, USA) |
Diverse mechanisms for gene control by riboswitches |
| 31-Oct-2008 |
Professor Rainer Hedrich
(University of Wuerzburg, Germany) |
Role of ion channels in plants |
| 24-Oct-2008 |
Professor Gideon Davies
(University of York) |
Probing enzymology of O-GlcNAc, intracellular glycosylation of plants and mammal |
| 17-Oct-2008 |
Professor Andrea Brand
(Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research Institute, Cambridge, UK) |
Self-renewal and differentiation in the Drosophila nervous system |
| 03-Oct-2008 |
Professor Gero Steinberg
(University of Exeter) |
The cytoskeleton in growth and pathogenicity of the fungus Ustilago maydis |
| 26-Sep-2008 |
Professor Michael Akam
(Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge) |
The evolution of segmentation mechanisms in animals |
| 19-Sep-2008 |
Professor Ralf Reski
(Plant Biotechnology, University of Freiburg) |
Physcomitrella genome adds a 500 million year perspective to plant biology |
| 12-Sep-2008 |
Professor Stephen Hopper
(Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK) |
Climate change, plant systematics, conservation: Kew’s Breathing Planet Programe |
| 11-Jul-2008 |
Dr Steven Henikoff
(Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle) |
Histone variant dynamics and epigenetics |
| 04-Jul-2008 |
Professor David Jackson
(Cold Spring Harbor Lab, USA) |
Building the cereal inflorescence, signals, architecture and yield |
| 27-Jun-2008 |
Prof John L Bowman
(School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne) |
Patterning genes in land plants |
| 20-Jun-2008 |
Professor Klaus Apel
(Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca) |
Cell death & acclimation. The genetic basis of singlet oxygen-mediated signaling |
| 06-Jun-2008 |
Dr Ewan Birney
(EMBL, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK) |
The Darlington Lecture - Ensembl and ENCODE; understanding genomes |
| 30-May-2008 |
Dr Dmitri Svergun
(EMBL Hamburg) |
Structural studies of biological macromolecules in solutions |
| 23-May-2008 |
Professor David Salt
(Purdue University, USA) |
Ionomics discovery using induced and natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana |
| 16-May-2008 |
Professor Rob Martienssen
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA) |
The Biffen Lecture - Propagating silent heterochromatin with RNA interference |
| 09-May-2008 |
Professor Greg Hannon
(Cold Spring Harbour ) |
Conserved roles of small RNAs in genome defense |
| 02-May-2008 |
Dr Elizabeth Kellogg
(Dept of Biology, University of Missouri, St Louis) |
Evolution of novel forms in grass inflorescences |
| 25-Apr-2008 |
Professor Karl J Niklas
(Cornell University) |
A biomechanical and allometric perspective on plant evolution and ecology |
| 18-Apr-2008 |
Prof. Timothy J. Richmond
(Institute for Molecular Biology & Bio, ETH Zurich) |
The Chatt Lecture - Chromatin structure and remodeling factor interaction |
| 11-Apr-2008 |
Professor Jeff Errington
(Newcastle University, UK) |
L-form bacteria revisited in the molecular era |
| 04-Apr-2008 |
Professor Sean B Carroll
(University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) |
Bateson Lecture - Role of cis-regulatory sequences in evolution of animal form |
| 28-Mar-2008 |
Dr Rene Geurts
(Wageningen University) |
Evolution of Rhizobium Nod factor signalling |
| 14-Mar-2008 |
Professor Simon Turner
(Faculty of Life Science, University of Manchester) |
Unraveling the pathways for carbohydrate synthesis in plant secondary cell wall |
| 07-Mar-2008 |
Professor Peter Graumann
(University of Freiburg, Germany) |
How to move DNA within and between bacterial cells |
| 29-Feb-2008 |
Professor Tony Kouzarides
(The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK) |
Chromatin modifications and their function |
| 22-Feb-2008 |
Dr Mario de Bono
(MRC Lab of Molecular Biology, Cambridge) |
Sculpting oxygen sensing and foraging: behavioral evolution in C. elegans |
| 15-Feb-2008 |
Professor Ron T Hay
(University of Dundee, UK) |
Role of polySUMO chains as a signal for ubiquitin mediated proteolysis |
| 08-Feb-2008 |
Professor Joseph Noel
(The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, California, USA) |
Reconstructing the biosynthetic history of divergent plant sesquiterpene synthas |
| 01-Feb-2008 |
Professor Andrew Millar
(University of Edinburgh) |
POSTPONED - Unwinding the biological clock with systems biology |
| 25-Jan-2008 |
Dr Miltos Tsiantis
(University of Oxford) |
POSTPONED - Towards understanding evolution of leaf development programmes |
| 23-Jan-2008 |
Professor Dek Woolfson
(University of Bristol) |
seminar by Professor Dek Woolfson |
| 18-Jan-2008 |
Dr Ralph P. Overend
(Chief Scientist NextBT LLC, formerly Research Fellow NREL) |
Biomass and Biofuels: status, promise, challenges and research directions |
| 11-Jan-2008 |
Dr Sandra Knapp
(Natural History Museum, UK) |
Phylogeny and character evolution in the wild and wonderful nightshade family |
| 30-Nov-2007 |
Dr Angela Karp
(Plant Biodiversity & Population Genetics, Rothamsted Research) |
Biomass and biofuel: tackling the challenges ahead |
| 23-Nov-2007 |
Professor Sue Wessler
(University of Georgia, USA) |
Activation of virtual rice transposable elements in Arabidopsis and Yeast |
| 16-Nov-2007 |
Dr Evan Eichler
(University of Washington, USA) |
Structural variation, disease and evolution of the human genome |
| 09-Nov-2007 |
Professor Dianna Bowles
(University of York, UK) |
Glycosylation of small molecules |
| 02-Nov-2007 |
Dr Dominique Bergmann
(Assistant Professor of Biological Science, Stanford University) |
Transcriptional and signaling networks in stomatal development |
| 26-Oct-2007 |
Dr Martin Crespi
(Institut des Sciences du Végétal-CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, Paris) |
Developmental Plasticity in the Legume Root |
| 26-Oct-2007 |
Professor Jens Stougaard
(University of Aarhus, Denmark) |
CANCELLED - seminar by Prof Jens Stougaard has been postponed to later date |
| 19-Oct-2007 |
Professor Thomas Silhavy
(Princeton University, USA) |
The Hopwood Lecture - Outer membrane biogenesis in Gram-negative bacteria |
| 05-Oct-2007 |
Prof Wilfred van der Donk
(University of Illinois, USA) |
Biosynthesis of lantibiotics, complex macrocylic thioethers |
| 28-Sep-2007 |
Dr Michael Laub
(MIT, USA) |
Mapping regulatory networks and signal transduction pathwasy in bacteria |
| 21-Sep-2007 |
Professor Karl-Heinz Kogel
(University of Giessen, Germany) |
CANCELLED - Seminar by Professor Karl-Heinz Kogel |
| 20-Jul-2007 |
Professor Herbert Jaeckle
(Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry) |
The Haldane Lecture - Lean or fat: control of energy homeostasis in animals |
| 13-Jul-2007 |
Prof Peter Seeberger
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich) |
From automated oligosaccharide synthesis and carbohydrate arrays |
| 06-Jul-2007 |
Professor Yuri Gleba
(Icon Genetics GmbH) |
Making recombinant proteins in plants - new generation expression technologies |
| 29-Jun-2007 |
Dr Klaas Martinus Pos
(University of Zurich) |
Antibiotic resistance: the inner workings of the multidrug efflux pump AcrB |
| 22-Jun-2007 |
Professor Karl J Niklas
(Cornell University) |
CANCELLED: A biomechanical and allometric perspective on plant evolution |
| 15-Jun-2007 |
Professor Hugo Dooner
(Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, USA) |
Haplotype diversity and meiotic recombination in maize |
| 08-Jun-2007 |
Professor Richard Brennan
(UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA) |
Structural
Mechanisms underlying the oxidative stress response in Bacillus |
| 01-Jun-2007 |
Professor William Dowhan
(University of Texas-Houston, USA) |
Lipid-Protein Interactions as Determinants of Membrane Protein Topology |
| 25-May-2007 |
Dr Steve Kay
(The Scripps Research Institute) |
Systems approaches to understanding circadian clocks |
