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.
| 17/May/2013 |
Professor Bradley Moore
(University of California at San Diego) |
Marine actinobacteria, a growing resource for biotechnology and biomedicine |
| 10/May/2013 |
Professor Paul Dupree
(Dept of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK) |
Manipulating plant cell wall polysaccharide synthesis for biorefining and bioenergy |
| 03/May/2013 |
Professor Piet de Boer
(Dept Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University) |
E. coli cell fission |
| 26/Apr/2013 |
Professor James Alfano
(University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA) |
Pseudomonas syringae type III effectors |
| 19/Apr/2013 |
Professor Jennifer Doudna
(Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Berkeley, USA) |
RNA on the Defense: RNA-programmed Genome Protection |
| 05/Apr/2013 |
Dr Klaus Mayer
(Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen) |
Same same but different: Towards the genealogy and evolution of Triticeae genomes |
| 22/Mar/2013 |
Professor Andreas Weber
(Inst for Plant Biochemistry, Heinrich-Heine University) |
C4 photosynthesis - new perspectives from comparative evolutionary transcriptomics |
| 15/Mar/2013 |
Dr Duncan Odom
(Cancer Research UK, Cambridge ) |
Mechanisms and evolution of transcriptional regulation in mammals |
| 08/Mar/2013 |
Professor Daniel Kliebenstein
(Dept Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, USA) |
Quantitative genomics of metabolism – The mechanistic basis of epistasis and pleiotropy |
| 15/Feb/2013 |
Professor Rebecca Nelson
(Dpt Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University) |
Pleiotropy vs. pathogenesis: Progress towards understanding quantitative disease resistance in maize |
| 08/Feb/2013 |
Professor Colin Kleanthous
(Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford) |
The Gram-negative cell envelope as seen by a translocating protein antibiotic |
| 01/Feb/2013 |
Professor Pieter Dorrestein
(Depts Pharmacology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCSD) |
Capturing conversations of cell populations through a million little dots |
| 25/Jan/2013 |
Dr Julian Hibberd
(Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge) |
The evolution of C4 photosynthesis |
| 18/Jan/2013 |
Professor Ottoline Leyser CBE FRS
(Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University) |
The Bateson Lecture - Shoot branching plasticity, how and why |
| 11/Jan/2013 |
Professor Christopher Voigt
(Dept Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Inst of Technology) |
Programming Bacteria |
| 07/Dec/2012 |
Professor Ken Shirasu
(RIKEN Plant Science Center, Japan) |
Hunting the Witch: Towards understanding the parasitic witchweed Striga |
| 30/Nov/2012 |
Professor Julian Schroeder
(Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego ) |
The Woolhouse Lecture - Atmospheric CO2 sensing and drought-induced abscisic acid signaling in plant |
| 23/Nov/2012 |
Professor Niko Geldner
(Dept of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne) |
The root endodermis - new insights into an old barrier |
| 16/Nov/2012 |
Professor Gerco Angenent
(Plant Research International, The Netherlands) |
What is needed to produce a flower and its organs |
| 02/Nov/2012 |
Professor Christopher Walsh
(Harvard Medical School) |
The Chatt Lecture - Posttranslational Cascades in the Biosynthesis of Thiazolyl Peptide Antibiotics |
| 26/Oct/2012 |
Professor Dan Tawfik
(Dept Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science) |
How do proteins evolve? |
| 28/Sep/2012 |
Dr Antonin Morillon
(Institut Curie-CNRS, Paris, France) |
Pervasive transcription, lessons from budding yeast |
| 21/Sep/2012 |
Professor Wolf Frommer
(Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford) |
POSTPONED - seminar by Professor Wolf Frommer |
| 14/Sep/2012 |
Professor Sarah Hake
( Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA-ARS) |
The Biffen Lecture - Patterning the maize leaf |
| 07/Sep/2012 |
Dr Olivier Voinnet
(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Biology, Zurich) |
Caught in the Act – The Awakening and Demise of a Plant Retrotransposon: When, Where, How? |
| 29/Jun/2012 |
Professor David Rice
(Dept of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, University of Sheffield) |
100 Years of the Vietnam Time Bomb: discovery of a lethal factor in Burkholderia |
| 22/Jun/2012 |
Professor Gary Loake
(School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh) |
Plant immuNOlogy: cracking the redox code |
| 15/Jun/2012 |
Dr Eduard Akhunov
(Dept of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University) |
The structural and functional diversity of polyploid wheat genome |
| 01/Jun/2012 |
Professor Brenda Andrews
(University of Toronto) |
Exploring biological networks and pathways using yeast functional genomics |
| 25/May/2012 |
Professor Narendra Maheshri
(MIT, Cambridge, USA) |
Arrays of DNA binding sites as a tool for understanding gene regulation and adaptive mutagenesis |
| 18/May/2012 |
Professor Calestous Juma
(Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts) |
The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa - please note earlier time |
| 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 |
