Programme of seminars and lectures

18 May 2012: 11:00
The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa - please note earlier time
Professor Calestous Juma , Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
In the JIC Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Alastair Skeffington

25 May 2012: 11:30
Arrays of DNA binding sites as a tool for understanding gene regulation and adaptive mutagenesis
Professor Narendra Maheshri , MIT, Cambridge, USA
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Scott Berry & Robert Ietswaart

01 June 2012: 11:30
Exploring biological networks and pathways using yeast functional genomics
Professor Brenda Andrews , University of Toronto
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Veronica Grieneisen

15 June 2012: 11:30
The structural and functional diversity of polyploid wheat genome
Dr Eduard Akhunov , Dept of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Cristobal Uauy

22 June 2012: 11:30
Plant immuNOlogy: cracking the redox code
Professor Gary Loake , School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Graham McGrann

29 June 2012: 11:30
100 Years of the Vietnam Time Bomb: discovery of a lethal factor in Burkholderia
Professor David Rice , Dept of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, University of Sheffield
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by David Lawson

07 September 2012: 11:30
seminar by Dr Olivier Voinnet
Dr Olivier Voinnet , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Caroline Dean

14 September 2012: 11:30
The Biffen Lecture by Professor Sarah Hake
Professor Sarah Hake , Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA-ARS
In the JIC Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Xana Rebocho

21 September 2012: 11:30
seminar by Professor Wolf Frommer
Professor Wolf Frommer , Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford
In the JIC Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Stanislav Kopriva

05 October 2012: 11:30
seminar by Professor Xin Li
Professor Xin Li , Dept of Botany, University of British Columbia
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Jacqueline Monaghan

19 October 2012: 11:30
seminar by Professor Veronica Franklin-Tong
Professor Veronica Franklin-Tong , School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham
In the JIC Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Dale Sanders

26 October 2012: 11:30
seminar by Professor Dan Tawfik
Professor Dan Tawfik , Dept Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science
In the JIC Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Paul O'Maille

02 November 2012: 11:30
The Chatt Lecture by Professor Christopher Walsh
Professor Christopher Walsh , Harvard Medical School
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Tony Maxwell

09 November 2012: 11:30
seminar by Dr Stephan Grill
Dr Stephan Grill , MPI-PKS / MPI-CBG, Germany
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Martin Howard

16 November 2012: 11:30
seminar by Professor Gerco Angenent
Professor Gerco Angenent , Plant Research International, The Netherlands
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Allyson MacLean

23 November 2012: 11:30
seminar by Professor Niko Geldner
Professor Niko Geldner , Dept of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Silke Robatzek

30 November 2012: 11:30
The Woolhouse Lecture by Professor Julian Schroeder
Professor Julian Schroeder , Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego
In the JIC Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Jonathan Jones

07 December 2012: 11:30
seminar by Professor Ken Shirasu
Professor Ken Shirasu , Director, Plant Immunity Research Group, RIKEN Plant Science Center
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Sophien Kamoun

11 January 2013: 11:30
seminar by Professor Christopher Voigt
Professor Christopher Voigt , Dept Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Inst of Technology
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Ellis O'Neill

18 January 2013: 11:30
The Bateson Lecture by Professor Ottoline Leyser
Professor Ottoline Leyser CBE FRS , Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Lars Ostergaard

25 January 2013: 11:30
seminar by Dr Julian Hibberd
Dr Julian Hibberd , Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Philippa Borrill

01 February 2013: 11:30
seminar by Professor Pieter Dorrestein
Professor Pieter Dorrestein , Depts Pharmacology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCSD
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Mervyn Bibb

08 February 2013: 11:30
seminar by Professor Nicholas Talbot
Professor Nicholas Talbot , University of Exeter
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Oliver Furzer

08 March 2013: 11:30
seminar by Professor Daniel Kliebenstein
Professor Daniel Kliebenstein , Dept Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, USA
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Anne Osbourn

15 March 2013: 11:30
seminar by Dr Duncan Odom
Dr Duncan Odom , Cancer Research UK, Cambridge
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Mike Bevan

22 March 2013: 11:30
seminar by Professor Andreas Weber
Professor Andreas Weber , Inst for Plant Biochemistry, Heinrich-Heine University
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Stanislav Kopriva

05 April 2013: 11:30
seminar by Dr Klaus Mayer
Dr Klaus Mayer , Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Cristobal Uauy

19 April 2013: 11:30
seminar by Professor Jennifer Doudna
Professor Jennifer Doudna , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Berkeley, USA
In the JIC Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by David Lawson

26 April 2013: 11:30
seminar by Professor James Alfano
Professor James Alfano , University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Cyril Zipfel

03 May 2013: 11:30
seminar by Professor Piet de Boer
Professor Piet de Boer , Dept Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Mark Buttner

17 May 2013: 11:30
seminar by Professor Bradley Moore
Professor Bradley Moore , University of California at San Diego
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Merv Bibb

07 June 2013: 11:30
seminar by Dr Jian-Min Zhou
Dr Jian-Min Zhou , Inst of Genetics & Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Cyril Zipfel

21 June 2013: 11:30
seminar by Dr Kazuki Saito
Dr Kazuki Saito , Metabolomic Function Research Group, RIKEN, Japan
In the Merton Auditorium
Hosted/Organised by Stanislav Kopriva

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