Past Friday Seminars

A selection of previous Friday Seminar speakers and titles at the John Innes Centre;

Date	Seminar
05/07/2024	‘Role of anionic lipids in the establishment, dynamics and function of membrane contact sites’ Speaker Prof. Yvon Jallais, University of Lyon
28/06/2024	‘The evolution of C4 photosynthesis and key players in chloroplast biogenesis’ Speaker Prof. Julian Hibberd, University of Cambridge
24/05/2024	‘Hopwood Lecture: From the unusual cell biology of Borrelia to Lyme disease’ Speaker Prof. Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Stanford University
24/05/2024	‘How to give bacteria food poisoning’ Speaker Prof. Lori Burrows, McMaster University
17/05/2024	DARLINGTON LECTURE:’Cellular signalling during plant reproduction’ Speaker Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus, University of Zurich
26/04/2024	‘Scaling the Wall: understanding structure/function relationships in leaves across scales’ Speaker Prof. Andrew Fleming, University of Sheffield
01/03/2024	‘Genome editing and sustainable agriculture: applications and implications’ Speaker Prof. Rodolphe Barrangou, North Carolina State University
09/02/2024	OPEN Biffen Lecture – ‘Land Sparing and Land Sharing: Regenerative Agriculture, Populism and the Role of Science’ Speaker Prof. Ken Giller, Wageningen University & Research
02/02/2024	‘Ubiquitin ligase relays and diverse chain topologies coordinate immune signalling’ Speaker Prof. Steven Spoel, University of Edinburgh
19/01/2024	‘Exploring the dark matter of phage genomes and its role in antiviral defence’ Speaker Prof. Karen Maxwell, University of Toronto
01/12/2023	‘Epigenetics beyond the chromosome: from molecules to ecosystems’ Speaker Dr. Daniel Jarosz, Stanford University
24/11/2023	‘Redefining mobility in bacterial genetics’ Speaker Prof. José Penadés, Imperial College London
14/07/2023	‘Mendel 200 celebrations – Randomness in Mendelian Processes: From Allowing Complex Life to Facilitating Causal Inference’ Speaker Professor George Davey Smith, University of Bristol
30/06/2023	‘Licensed to kill: Post-translational activation of a toxic antibacterial effector’ Speaker Professor Christopher Hayes, UC Santa Barbara
16/06/2023	‘On the initiation and maintenance of meristems’ Speaker Professor Henrik Jönsson, University of Cambridge
13/06/2023	‘From Genome Mapping of Traits to Genome Designing of Crops’ Speaker Professor Shifeng Cheng, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen (AGIS), Chinese Academy of Agriculture
09/06/2023	‘Redesigning plant metabolism with synthetic biology’ Speaker Dr. Patrick Shih, UC Berkeley
19/05/2023	‘The Hopwood Lecture: A celebration of microbial sequencing and its benefits for human health’ Speaker Professor Sharon Peacock, University of Cambridge
12/05/2023	‘Shaping cells – From micromechanics to morphogenesis’ Speaker Professor Anja Geitmann, Plant Science, McGill University
28/04/2023	‘Fantastic yeasts and how they evolved to be’ Speaker Professor Antonis Rokas, Vanderbilt University
24/03/2023	‘The dark matter of the Arabidopsis genome’ Speaker Professor Ian Henderson, University of Cambridge
17/03/2023	‘Mobilization of molecular defense by phytocytokine-receptor signaling’ Speaker Professor Libo Shan, Texas University
10/03/2023	‘How do dsDNA viruses assemble?’ Speaker Professor Fred Antson, University of York
24/02/2023	‘The Ins and Outs of Cereal Development’ Speaker Dr. Sarah McKim, University of Dundee
10/02/2023	The Scott Moncrieff Lecture: ‘Serendipity in symbiotic nitrogen fixation’ Speaker Professor Eva Kondorosi, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
03/02/2023	‘Precision in plant immune expression: Not lost in translation’ Speaker Professor Xinnian Dong, Duke University
27/01/2023	‘Bateson Lecture: Breaking the Silence: How to make small plant mouths that support our sustenance’ Speaker Professor Keiko Torii, University of Washington and The University of Texas, Austin
20/01/2023	‘Epigenetic regulation of plant traits and environmental adaptation’ Speaker Professor Xuehua Zhong, Washington University, St Louis
25/11/2022	‘Evolution of endogenous retroviruses – and their control by small RNAs’ Speaker Professor Julius Brennecke, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austria
18/11/2022	‘Molecular Phenology: In Nature Responses of Plants to a Seasonal Environment’ Speaker Professor Hiroshi Kudoh, Kyoto University
04/11/2022	‘Phylogenomics and the early evolution of life’ Speaker Associate Professor Tom Williams, University of Bristol
21/10/2022	‘Aneuploidy as a rapid driver of adaptation to diverse stresses’ Speaker Professor Judith Berman, Tel Aviv University, Israel
07/10/2022	THE BIFFEN LECTURE; ‘Gametes to zygotes to self-cloning plants: The importance of being egg-centric’ Speaker Professor Venkatesan Sundaresan, University of California, Davis
30/09/2022	‘Dynamic ribonucleoprotein complexes in the control of bacterial gene expression’ Speaker Professor Ben Luisi, University of Cambridge
23/09/2022	‘Impact of cryoEM in structural biology’ Speaker Professor Richard Henderson
01/07/2022	OPEN seminar ‘Genetic regulation of leaf development in C4 grasses’ Speaker Professor Jane Langdale, University of Oxford
24/06/2022	‘Harnessing plant metabolic evolution for new catalysts, medicines, and materials’ Speaker Dr Jing-Ke Weng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
17/06/2022	‘Towards understanding morphogenesis and functionality of phloem’ Speaker Professor Yka Helariutta, University of Cambridge
10/06/2022	‘Sensing the wall: Perception mechanisms of peptides involved in cell wall integrity and remodeling Speaker Professor Julia Santiago Cuellar, University of Lausanne
27/05/2022	‘Getting to the root of plant-microbiome interactions’ Speaker Professor Cara Haney, The University of British Columbia
20/05/2022	‘Growing out of stress: how plants use development to thrive in a changing world’ Speaker Professor Jose Dinneny, Stanford University
06/05/2022	‘Exploring the Molecular Architecture of Photosynthetic Organelles with Cryo-Electron Tomography’ Speaker Professor Benjamin Engel Helmholtz, the Zentrum München
29/04/2022	‘Conservation of immune mechanisms between bacteria, plants and animals’ Speaker Professor Rotem Sorek, the Weizmann Institute of Science
01/04/2022	‘Uncovering the hidden half of plants: discovering novel ways roots sense and adapt to heterogeneous environments’ Speaker Professor Malcolm Bennett, University of Nottingham
25/03/2022	‘Variability and robustness in growth and morphogenesis: from Arabidopsis sepals to Marchantia propagules’ Speaker Professor Arezki Boudaoud, École Polytechnique
11/03/2022	‘Regulation of cellulose synthesis in Arabidopsis and beyond?’ Speaker Professor Staffan Persson, the University of Copenhagen
04/03/2022	‘What is sustainable agriculture and how does it link to sustainable food systems?’ Speaker Professor Tim Benton, Open Royal Institute of International Affairs
04/02/2022	‘Evolution of antiviral immunity from bacteria to animal cells ‘ Speaker Prof. Philip Kranzusch, Harvard Medical School
14/01/2022	‘Bacteria-phage warfare’ Speaker Professor Edze Westra, University of Exeter
26/11/2021	‘Connecting pathogen detection to induced defence in plant immunity’ Speaker Professor Jane Parker, Max Planck Institute
19/11/2021	‘Phylogenomics and evolutionary diversification of legumes – more than just peas and beans’ Speaker Dr Colin Hughes, University of Zurich
12/11/2021	‘Regulation of seed size by mobile TERMINAL FLOWER1 in Arabidopsis’ Speaker Professor Yu Hao, National University of Singapore
22/10/2021	‘Eat to Live: a Role for Diet in Cancer Therapy’ Speaker Professor Karen Vousden, The Francis Crick Institute
1/10/2021	‘Pervasive impacts of domestication on microbial symbioses in chickpea’ Speaker Professor Douglas Cook, University of California Davis
24/9/2021	‘Uncovering the apoplastic battlefield with activity-based proteomics’ Speaker Professor Renier van der Hoorn, Oxford University
10/9/2021	‘Mechanisms and functions of RNA NAD+ capping’ Speaker Professor Xuemei Chen, University of California, Riverside
25/6/2021	The Scott-Moncrieff lecture; ‘Exploring the genetic basis of floral novelty in Aquilegia’ Speaker Professor Elena Kramer, Harvard University
11/6/2021	‘Friends, Foes, and Phages in the Phyllosphere’ Speaker Professor Britt Koskella, University of California, Berkeley
21/5/2021	‘The Future of Farming’ Speaker Professor Sir Dieter Helm, University of Oxford
7/5/2021	‘Learning the languages of chloroplasts through time and space’ Speaker Professor Barry Pogson, Australian National University
30/4/2021	‘The Effectors of Smut Fungi and How They Shape Fungal Lifestyle’ Speaker Professor Gunther Doehlemann from the University of Cologne
16/4/2021	‘Using electron cryotomography to visualise cell ultrastructure’ Speaker Professor Grant Jensen from the Brigham Young University and California Institute of Technology
26/3/2021	‘A Synthetic Biology Approach to Engineer Nitrogen Fixation in Cereals’ Speaker Professor Luis Rubio, Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics UPM, Madrid
19/3/2021	‘The Geometry of Decision-Making’ Speaker Professor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, Konstanz, Germany
12/3/2021	‘Genetics of salinity tolerance traits in crops – and developing saltwater-based agricultural systems’ Speaker Professor Mark Tester, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Saudi Arabia
26/2/2021	‘Tissue-specific regulation of DNA methylation patterns by the CLASSY protein family’ Speaker Professor Julie Law, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
29/1/2021	‘The minimal cell is the hydrogen atom of biology’ Speaker Professor John Glass, J.Craig Venter Institute
22/1/2021	‘Flux and polarity in the plant vascular system’ Speaker Professor Christian Hardtke, University of Lausanne
15/1/2021	‘How to kill your rivals: microbial warfare mediated by the Type VI secretion system’ Speaker Professor Sarah Coulthurst, University of Dundee
27/11/2020	‘Postranscriptional gene regulation in plant germline differentiation’ Speaker Professor Karel Říha: CEITEC Masaryk University
13/11/2020	‘The Environment Shapes the Cell’ Speaker Professor Petra Levin: Washington University in St. Louis
6/11/2020	‘Building a wall: Molecular insights into how bacteria do it’ Speaker Professor Sheena Radford, University of Leeds
2/10/2020	‘To understand a daisy: Phyllotaxis of flower heads’ Speaker Professor Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, University of Calgary
15/7/2020	‘Marchantia polymorpha as a model for understanding land plant evolution’ Speaker Professor John Bowman, Monash University
8/7/2020	‘RNAi-dependent epimutations evoke transient antifungal drug resistance’ Speaker Professor Joseph Heitman, Duke University School of Medicine
24/6/2020	‘Mechanistic insight into the regulation of epigenetic silencing by PRC2’ Speaker Professor Eva Nogales, University of California Berkeley
6/3/2020	‘Understanding Polycomb-mediated gene repression’ Speaker Professor Rob Klose, University of Oxford
28/2/2020	‘Codes within the Code: Synonymous codon optimality controls protein structure and gene expression’ Speaker Professor Yi Liu, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
14/2/2020	The Scott-Moncrieff Lecture – ‘A conserved biochemical paradigm for signalosome assembly in animals and plants’ Speaker Mariann Bienz, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
7/2/2020	‘Title unpublished’ Speaker Dr David Stern, Janelia Research Campus, HHMI, Ashburn Virginia
31/1/2020	‘Making a flat leaf: Pre-patterning, morphogenic small RNAs, and Turing reactions’ Speaker Professor Marja Timmermans, University of Tuebingen
24/1/2020	‘(Re)programming cell fate and function in Arabidopsis’ Speaker Professor Doris Wagner, University of Pennsylvania
17/1/2020	‘Combining Phenomics, modelling and genomic prediction for identifying ideotypes adapted to a changing climate’ Speaker Dr Francois Tardieu, French National Institute for Agricultural Research
10/1/2020	‘Patterns of cell size (and ploidy)’ Speaker Professor Adrienne Roeder, Cornell University
13/12/2019	Professor Crisanto Gutierrez – ‘Cell proliferation during organogenesis: more complex than anticipated’ Speaker Professor Crisanto Gutierrez, Centro De Biologia Molecular
29/11/2019	Professor Christine Beveridge – ‘Molecular physiology of shoot branching – hormones, sugars and networks’ Speaker Professor Christine Beveridge, University of Queensland
22/11/2019	Dr Olivier Hamant – ‘Mechanical signals contribute to developmental robustness’ Speaker Dr Olivier Hamant, Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge, based at Ens-Lyon
15/11/2019	Professor Jirí Frimlg – ‘Cell surface receptor complexes for regulating directional auxin fluxes during canalisation’ Speaker Professor Jirí Friml, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
8/11/2019	Professor Jan-Willem Veening – ‘Spatio-temporal control of DNA replication by the pneumococcal cell cycle regulator CcrZ’ Speaker Professor Jan-Willem Veening, University of Lausanne
25/10/2019	Professor Louise Glass – ‘Licence to Kill: NLR and Gasdermin-like proteins regulate nonself recognition and cooperation in fungi’ Speaker Professor Louise Glass, University of California, Berkeley
4/10/2019	The Woolhouse Lecture by Professor Tetsuya Higashiyama – ‘Key signalling molecules in plant reproduction “re-discovery of a reproductive hormone”’ Speaker Professor Tetsuya Higashiyama, Nagoya University
27/9/2019	Professor Yijun Qi – “The Long and The Short: Small RNAs in Plants” Speaker Professor Yijun Qi, Tsinghua University
20/9/2019	Professor Eric Schranz – “Comparing Plant and Animal Genomes: Using Network-based microsynteny analysis to identify major differences and genomic outliers’” Speaker Professor Eric Schranz, Wageningen University
13/9/2019	Professor Neil Brockdorff – “The Molecular Mechanism of X chromosome inactivation’” Speaker Professor Neil Brockdorff, University of Oxford
6/9/2019	Dr Frederic Berger – “How to drive the plant life cycle with a single lysine residue” Speaker Dr Frederic Berger, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology
12/7/2019	Dr Melania Figueroa and Dr Peter Dobbs Speakers Dr Melania Figueroa and Dr Peter Dobbs, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia
5/7/2019	Professor Wenbo Ma – “Defence and counter-defence: what can we learn from pathogen effectors” Speaker Professor Wenbo Ma, University of California
28/6/2019	Professor Maria Schumacher – “Structural mechanisms of prokaryotic DNA segregation and Francisella tularensis virulence activation” Speaker Professor Maria Schumacher, Duke University
21/6/2019	Professor Julian Schroeder – “CO2 Sensing in Plants and New Insights into Drought-Induced Abscisic Acid Signal Transduction” Speaker Professor Julian Schroeder, University of California, San Diego
14/6/2019	Professor Katayoon Dehesh – “Choreography of plastidial retrograde signaling network in interorganellar communication” Speaker Professor Katayoon Dehesh, University of California
24/5/2019	Professor Susan Lea – “Pulling type three secretion systems apart to put them back together high resolution views of complexes from flagellar and non-flagellar type three systems” Speaker Professor Susan Lea, Oxford University
24/5/2019	Professor Joe Thornton – “Reconstructing historical and alternative evolutionary paths through ancient sequence space” Speaker Professor Joe Thornton, University of Chicago
10/5/2019	Professor Martin Jonikas – “Structure, Biogenesis, and Engineering of the Eukaryotic CO2-Concentrating Organelle, the Pyrenoid” Speaker Professor Martin Jonikas, Princeton University
3/5/2019	Professor Robert Reed – “Developmental genetics of butterfly wing pattern evolution” Speaker Professor Robert Reed, Cornell University
15/3/2019	Professor Natalia Dudareva – “Learning from Nature: New function of plant volatiles and mode of their emission” Speaker Professor Natalia Dudareva, Purdue University
8/3/2019	Professor Bostjan Kobe – “The mechanism and role of NAD+ cleavage in signalling by TIR domains in mammalian and plant cell-death pathways” Speaker Professor Bostjan Kobe, University of Queensland
1/3/2019	Professor Ralph Bock – “Genes gone wild: Experimental evolution meets synthetic biology” Speaker Professor Ralph Bock, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
15/2/2019	Professor John Collinge – “BSE, prion propagation and its wider relevance” Speaker Professor John Collinge, University College London & Harvard Medical School
8/2/2019	Professor Dolf Weijers – “Evolution and regulation of cell polarity and oriented cell division” Speaker Professor Dolf Weijers, Wageningen University
25/1/2019	Professor Alain Goriely – “Mathematics vs dementia: the ultimate folly” Speaker Professor Alain Goriely, University of Oxford
18/1/2019	Professor Emily Balskus – “Chemical discovery in the microbial world” Speaker Professor Emily Balskus, Harvard University, USA
11/1/2019	Professor Benjamin Simons – “A unifying theory of branching morphogenesis” Speaker Professor Benjamin Simons, University of Cambridge
7/12/2018	Professor Regine Kahmann – “How fungi deploy secreted effector proteins to colonise plants” Speaker Professor Regine Kahmann, Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg
30/11/2018	Professor Wilfred van der Donk – The Hopwood Lecture – “Posttranslational Modifications during Cyclic Peptide Biosynthesis” Speaker Professor Wilfred van der Donk, University of Illinois
16/11/2018	Professor John Doebley – “Quantitative genetic modelling of maize domestication: selection, constraint and consequences” Speaker Professor John Doebley from University of Wisconsin Host Laura Dixon
09/11/2018	The Chatt Lecture by Professor Jim Naismith, University of Oxford and Director of the Research Complex at Harwell Speaker Professor Jim Naismith from University of Oxford Host Rob Field/Mark Banfield
02/11/2018	Professor Catherine Peichel – “Genetics of adaptation in stickleback: the roles of pleiotropy and linkage” Speaker Professor Catherine Peichel from University of Bern Host Kirsten Bomblies
19/10/2018	Professor Dave Jackson – “Enhancing yield traits by manipulation of meristem pathways in maize” Speaker Professor Dave Jackson from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Host Scott Boden
05/10/2018	Professor Joy Bergelson – “Can we structure the microbiome of Arabidopsis thaliana?” Speaker Professor Joy Bergelson from University of Chicago Host Elizabeth Chapman / Jack Rhodes (Student Voice)
28/09/2018	Professor Dianne Newman – “The importance of changing color: roles for redox active “antibiotics” in microbial survival and development” Speaker Professor Dianne Newman from Californian Institute of Technology Host Kelley Gallagher
21/09/2018	Professor Marek Basler – “Type VI secretion system: From Structure to Dynamics and Function” Speaker Professor Marek Basler from University of Basel Host Jake Malone
14/09/2018	Professor Nicole Steinmetz – “NanoEngineering gone viral: plant virus nanotechnology targeting human and plant health” Speaker Professor Nicole Steinmetz from University of California, San Diego Host George Lomonossoff
07/09/2018	Prof. Samuel Zeeman – “A fresh look at starch biosynthesis using new synthetic and cell-biological approaches” Speaker Prof. Samuel Zeeman from ETH Zurich Host David Seung and Alison Smith
20/07/2018	Professor Michael Lenhard – “The molecular basis of floral traits linked to different plant reproductive systems” Speaker Professor Michael Lenhard from University of Potsdam Host Lars Ostergaard
13/07/2018	Professor Pamela Soltis – “Polyploidy as Integrator Across Levels of Biological Organization: From Cells to Ecosystems” Speaker Professor Pamela Soltis from Florida Museum, University of Florida Host Beatriz Goncalves
06/07/2018	Professor Joseph Jez – “Molecular Controls in Plant Hormone Responses” Speaker Professor Joseph Jez from Washington University, St Louis Host Sarah O’Connor
29/06/2018	SEMINAR POSTPONED Professor Jiayang Li – The Biffen Lecture Speaker Professor Jiayang Li Host Dale Sanders/Cristobal Uauy
22/06/2018	Prof David Lilley FRS – “The structural biology of RNA in epigenetic and gene control by riboswitches” Speaker Professor David Lilley FRS from University of Dundee Host Yiliang Ding
15/06/2018	Dr Richard Buggs – “Genomics for future trees” Speaker Dr Richard Buggs from Royal Botanical Gardens Kew and Queen Mary University of London Host James Brown
08/06/2018	The Woolhouse Lecture by Professor Sean Cutler – “Programming inducible traits with engineered ABA signaling modules” Speaker Professor Sean Cutler from University of California, Riverside Host Lars Ostergaard
18/05/2018	Dr. Raphael Mercier – “Unleashing meiotic crossovers in plants” Speaker Dr. Raphael Mercier from INRA Versailles Host Scott Boden
11/05/2018	Professor Asaph Aharoni – “Chemistry in the First Line of Defense: Polymers, Lipids and Pigment Barriers” Speaker Professor Asaph Aharoni from Weizmann Institute of Science Host Anne Osbourn
04/05/2018	Professor Steve Long – “Increasing Crop Productivity Sustainably by Bioengineering Improved Photosynthetic Efficiency – From Maths to Field” Speaker Professor Steve Long from University of Illinois and Lancaster University Host Alison Smith
27/04/2018	Professor Paul Birch – “The molecular battle between late blight disease resistance and susceptibility” Speaker Professor Paul Birch from University of Dundee Host Jonathan Jones & Sophien Kamoun
20/04/2018	Professor Sheng Yang He – “Disease-climate-microbiota interactions in the phyllosphere” Speaker Professor Sheng Yang He from Michigan State University Host Cyril Zipfel
23/03/2018	Prof. Marnix Medema – “Computational genomics of microbial and plant specialized metabolism: from natural product discovery to microbiome ecology” Speaker Professor Marnix Medema from Wageningen University Host Anne Osbourn
09/03/2018	Professor Eric Miska “GxE in worm and fish” Speaker Professor Eric Miska from University of Cambridge Host Xiaoqi Feng
02/03/2018	Prof Manish Raizada – “Mobile Endophytic Microbes in a World of Immobile Plant Cells, and Sustainable Agriculture Kits (SAKs) for Smallholder Farmers” Speaker Professor Manish Raizada from University of Guelph, Ontario Host Peter van Esse
23/02/2018	Prof. Beverley Glover – “Evolution and development of petal nanostructures that influence pollinator behaviour” Speaker Professor Beverley Glover from University of Cambridge Host Christopher Whitewoods
09/02/2018	Prof. David Beerling – “Farming with crops and rocks to address global climate, food and soil security” Speaker Professor David Beerling from University of Sheffield Host Alison Smith
02/02/2018	Prof. Jian Feng Ma – “Molecular mechanisms for distribution of mineral elements in plants” Speaker Professor Jian Feng Ma from Okayama University Host Dale Sanders & Tony Miller
26/01/2018	Prof. Anne Ferguson-Smith – “Variable methylation of mammalian retrotransposons – implications for non-genetic inheritance” Speaker Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith from University of Cambridge Host Caroline Dean
19/01/2018	Professor Sureshkumar Balasubramanian – “Arabidopsis : from thermal responses to human genetic diseases” Speaker Professor Sureshkumar Balasubramanian from Monash University, Australia Host Catherine Gardener
12/01/2018	Prof. Jim Murray – “How do plant cells decide when they are large enough to divide?: an integrated approach to linking growth and cell cycle control” Speaker Professor Jim Murray from Cardiff University Host Stan Maree
01/12/2017	Professor Christina Smolke – “Synthetic biology platforms for plant natural product biosynthesis and discovery” Speaker Professor Christina Smolke from Stanford University Host Aymeric Leveau
24/11/2017	Professor Hopi Hoekstra – The Inaugural Rose Scott-Moncrieff Lecture: “From the field to the lab: the genetic basis of evolutionary change” Speaker Professor Hopi Hoekstra from Harvard University Host Kirsten Bomblies / Sarah Tolland
17/11/2017	Professor Melanie Blokesch – “Pathoecology and evolution of the cholera-causing pathogen Vibrio cholerae” Speaker Professor Melanie Blokesch from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) Host Tung Le
03/11/2017	Professor Miltos Tsiantis – “Development and Diversity of Leaf shape: towards trait reconstruction” Speaker Professor Miltos Tsiantis from Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Host Lars Ostergaard
06/10/2017	“Toasting” Our Genomes: How Alcohol and aldehydes cause damage to us Speaker Professor KJ Patel from MRC LMB, Cambridge Host Janneke Balk
29/09/2017	Professor Lucas Pelkmans – “The mammalian cell cycle: Cycling through phase space” Speaker Professor Lucas Pelkmans from University of Zurich Host Martin Howard
22/09/2017	Professor L. Mahadevan – “Some physical aspects of plant morphogenesis” Speaker Professor L. Mahadevan from Harvard University Host Stan Maree
15/09/2017	Professor Jijie Chai – “Recognition of plant peptide hormones by their receptors” Speaker Professor Jijie Chai from Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne Host Mark Banfield
08/09/2017	Professor Chuan He – “RNA methylation in gene expression regulation” Speaker Professor Chuan He from University of Chicago Host Yiliang Ding
14/07/2017	Professor Andy Challinor – “Using models and data to adapt crop production to our changing climates” Speaker Professor Andy Challinor from University of Leeds Host Steven Penfield
07/07/2017	The Bateson Lecture by Professor Fred Ausubel – “Modeling Plant-Microbe Interactions” Speaker Professor Fred Ausubel from Dept of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital Host Jonathan Jones
30/06/2017	Professor Stephan Gruber – “Chromosome Organization: How to Make the Right Connections?” Speaker Professor Stephan Gruber from Lausanne University, Switzerland Host Tung Le / Sarah Tolland
23/06/2017	Professor Helge Bode – “Natural products from bugs that kill bugs: from chemical ecology to synthetic biology and peptide engineering” Speaker Professor Helge Bode from Goethe University, Frankfurt Host Barrie Wilkinson / Sarah Tolland
16/06/2017	“A Vision for Agricultural R&D in Africa” – Professor Jacob Mignouna, Director, Biosciences eastern and central Africa (BecA-ILRI) Speaker Professor Jacob Mignouna from Director, BecA Host Trevor Wang
09/06/2017	Extreme abiotic stress-related physiological traits in an Arabidopsis-related emerging model plant: molecular mechanisms, ecological roles & evolution Speaker Professor Ute Krämer from Ruhr-Universität Bochum Host Levi Yant / Sarah Tolland
26/05/2017	Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan – “Insights into tuberculosis pathogenesis and treatment from the zebrafish” Speaker Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan from University of Cambridge Host Tony Maxwell/Sarah Tolland
19/05/2017	Professor John Tyson – “What can mathematical modelling teach us about cell cycle regulation?” Speaker Professor John Tyson from Virginia Tech Host Hang Zhang/Sarah Tolland
12/05/2017	The Chatt Lecture: Professor Tom Muir – “Painting Chromatin with Synthetic Protein Chemistry” Speaker Professor Tom Muir from Princeton University Host Rob Field / Sarah Tolland
05/05/2017	Professor Jan Löwe – New biological insights revealed by the application of Cryo-EM: Structure of the surface of Caulobacter crescentus cells Speaker Prof. Jan Löwe from MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Host Mark Buttner / Jenna Conway
28/04/2017	Professor John Taylor – Using natural genomic variation and signatures of evolution to associate phenotypes with genes in fungi Speaker Professor John Taylor from University of California, Berkeley Host Sophien Kamoun
21/04/2017	Professor Jane Mellor – “Linking Transcription to the Fate of RNA Transcripts” Speaker Prof. Jane Mellor from Oxford University Host Caroline Dean
31/03/2017	The Darlington Lecture by Professor Jean Beggs – “Functional interactions between splicing, transcription and chromatin” Speaker Professor Jean Beggs from University of Edinburgh Host Caroline Dean
24/03/2017	Professor Maria Harrison – “Reprogramming root cells for arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis” Speaker Prof. Maria Harrison from Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Host Giles Oldroyd
17/03/2017	Professor Niko Geldner – “The endodermis – walking the thin line between uptake and protection” Speaker Prof. Niko Geldner from University of Lausanne Host Laila Moubayidin/Sarah Tolland
10/03/2017	The Hopwood Lecture presented by Professor Julian Parkhill: Dating bacterial evolution: understanding the emergence and spread of human pathogens Speaker Professor Julian Parkhill from The Sanger Institute Host Mark Buttner
03/03/2017	Professor Wendy Bickmore – “The remote control of gene expression: – the role of distant enhancers” Speaker Professor Wendy Bickmore from MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh Host Tony Maxwell
24/02/2017	Professor Yves Brun – “Localizing peptidoglycan synthesis for bacterial growth and morphogenesis” Speaker Prof. Yves Brun from University of Indiana Host Mark Buttner
10/02/2017	Professor Elizabeth Sattely – “Discovery and Engineering of Plant Specialized Metabolism” Speaker Prof. Elizabeth Sattely from Stanford University Host Anne Osbourn
03/02/2017	Professor Kaspar Locher – “Understanding the molecular mechanisms with which bacteria glycosylate proteins” Speaker Prof. Kaspar Locher from ETH Zurich Host Rob Field
27/01/2017	Professor Claus Schwechheimer – “PIN-ning down the function of D6 PROTEIN KINASES in auxin-dependent plant development” Speaker Professor Claus Schwechheimer from Technische Universität München Host Scott Boden
20/01/2017	Professor Peter Waterhouse – “Exploring and exploiting the Nicotiana benthamiana genome” Speaker Prof. Peter Waterhouse from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Host Cathie Martin / George Lomonossoff
13/01/2017	Prof. Jonathan Gershenzon – “Benzoxazinoids: Two-component plant defenses of cereals” Speaker Professor Jonathan Gershenzon from Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena Host Sarah O’Connor
09/12/2016	The Biffen Lecture by Professor Edward Buckler – “Breeding 4.0? Sorting through the adaptive and deleterious variants in maize and beyond” Speaker Professor Edward Buckler from US Department of Agriculture Host Jonathan Jones
02/12/2016	Professor Junko Kyozuka – “Control of leaf, shoot branch and inflorescence development by common genetic modules in rice” Speaker Professor Junko Kyozuka from Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University Host Scott Boden
25/11/2016	The 2017 Haldane Lecture – “Human migrations and megafaunal extinctions” – Professor Eske Willerslev Speaker Professor Eske Willerslev from Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen Host Lars Ostergaard
04/11/2016	Professor Zachary Lippman – “More stem cells, more tomatoes!!” Speaker Professor Zachary Lippman from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Host Nick Pullen
21/10/2016	“Antibiotics: To be, or not to be? That is the question” – Prof. Ian Charles, Director, IFR Speaker Professor Ian Charles from Director, Institute of Food Research Host Anne Osbourn
11/10/2016	“From Cell Biology to Chemical Genomics” – Professor Natasha Raikhel Speaker Professor Natasha Raikhel from Botany & Plant Sciences Dept, University of California Riverside Host Dale Sanders & Tony Miller
30/09/2016	The 2016 Chatt Lecture by Professor Venki Ramakrishnan – “Using recent advances in cryoelectron microscopy to study ribosome structure” Speaker Professor Venki Ramakrishnan from MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Host Mark Banfield
23/09/2016	The Haldane Lecture by Professor Michael Elowitz – “Design Principles of Mammalian Signaling and Epigenetic Memory Circuits” Speaker Profesor Michael Elowitz from California Institute of Technology Host Martin Howard
16/09/2016	Professor Frank Uhlmann – “Chromatin and chromosome architecture, the role of SMC proteins Speaker Frank Uhlmann from Francis Crick Institute Host Tung Le
09/09/2016	Dr Nick Lane – “The singular origin of complex life” Speaker Dr Nick Lane from Dept of Genetics, Evolution & Env, University College London Host Agatha Jouet
08/07/2016	Professor Joern Piel – Natural product pathways from microbial dark matter Speaker Professor Joern Piel from Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich Host Barrie Wilkinson
24/06/2016	Prof Martin Yanofsky – The Woolhouse Lecture – Arabidopsis: From Fruit to Roots Speaker Professor Martin Yanofsky from Section of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of California San Diego Host Lars Ostergaard
17/06/2016	Prof Daniel Voytas – The genome engineering revolution and plant agriculture Speaker Professor Daniel Voytas from University of Minnesota Host Jonathan Jones
10/06/2016	Professor Kerwyn C Huang – A systems biophysics approach to bacterial physiology Speaker Professor Kerwyn C Huang from Stanford University Host Thomas Scott
27/05/2016	Professor Enrico Martinoia – The role of strigolactone transport in plant development, nutrition and mycorrhization Speaker Professor Enrico Martinoia from Inst of Plant Biology, University of Zurich Host Janneke Balk
20/05/2016	Professor Sarah Gurr – Fungal challenges to global food security and ecosystems health Speaker Professor Sarah Gurr from University of Exeter Host James Brown
13/05/2016	Prof Russell Vance – Strategies for innate detection of bacterial pathogens by mammals Speaker Professor Russell Vance from Dept Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley Host Cyril Zipfel
06/05/2016	Dr Thomas Bernhardt – Constructing the bacterial cell wall Speaker Dr Thomas Bernhardt from Dept Microbiology & Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School Host Mark Buttner
29/04/2016	Professor Chris Jiggins – Fuzzy species and adaptive introgression in butterflies Speaker Professor Chris Jiggins from Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge Host Saskia Hogenhout
22/04/2016	Prof Sabeeha Merchant – Dynamic metal housing compartments in Chlamydomonas Speaker Professor Sabeeha Merchant from Dept of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Institute for Genomics & Proteomics Host Janneke Balk
15/04/2016	Dr Anja Geitmann – Asking for directions – the challenging private lives of plants Speaker Dr Anja Geitmann from Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Montreal Host Leonie Luginbuehl
08/04/2016	Prof Michael Hothorn – A molecular view on plant signal transduction Speaker Professor Michael Hothorn from Dept Botany & Plant Biology, University of Geneva Host Cyril Zipfel
18/03/2016	Professor Kim Lewis – The quest for new antibiotics Speaker Professor Kim Lewis from Northeastern University, USA Host Andrew Truman
11/03/2016	POSTPONED – seminar by Professor Joseph Heitman Speaker Professor Joseph Heitman from Dept Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, Duke University, USA Host Sophien Kamoun
04/03/2016	Professor Siobhan Brady – Regulation of root developmental networks at cell type-resolution Speaker Professor Siobhan Brady from Dept of Plant Biology and Genome Center, University of California, Davis Host Steve Penfield and Veronica Grieneisen
26/02/2016	Professor Ivan Dikic – Phosphorylation and ubiquitin-dependent selective autophagy Speaker Professor Ivan Dikic from Director, Institute of Biochemistry II, Goethe University, Frankfurt Host Cyril Zipfel
12/02/2016	Dr Nils Stein – Genome sequences for the Triticeae – a contribution to solve the yield gap? Speaker Dr Nils Stein from IPK, Gatersleben, Germany Host Burkhard Steuernagel
29/01/2016	Prof C Neil Hunter FRS – Many chlorophylls make light work Speaker Professor C Neil Hunter FRS from Dept Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, University of Sheffield Host Tony Maxwell
22/01/2016	Professor Claudia Kohler – Epigenetic drivers of plant speciation Speaker Professor Claudia Kohler from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Host Xiaoqi Feng
15/01/2016	Professor Felix Randow – How cells defend their cytosol against bacteria Speaker Professor Felix Randow from MRC Lab of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Host Mark Banfield
08/01/2016	Professor Luke Alphey – Genetic control of pest insects Speaker Professor Luke Alphey from The Pirbright Institute Host George Lomonossoff
11/12/2015	Professor Michael Fischbach – The Hopwood Lecture: Small molecules from the human microbiota Speaker Professor Michael Fischbach from Dept of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF Host Mervyn Bibb
04/12/2015	Dr Rene Geurts – Rhizobium nitrogen-fixing root nodules on the non-legume Parasponia Speaker Dr Rene Geurts from Plant Sciences, Wageningen University Host Myriam Charpientier
27/11/2015	Dr Sabrina Sabatini – Hormones interaction and root growth Speaker Professor Sabrina Sabatini from University La Sapienza, Rome Host Laila Moubayidin
20/11/2015	Prof Yrjo Helariutta:The role of symplastic communication during vascular development in Arabidopsis Speaker Professor Yrjo Helariutta from The Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge Host Christine Faulkner
13/11/2015	Prof Kevin Foster – Cooperation and competition in microbes: from model systems to the microbiome Speaker Professor Kevin Foster from Dept of Zoology, University of Oxford Host Mark Buttner
06/11/2015	Professor Lars Dietrich – Metabolic regulation of bacterial community behavior Speaker Professor Lars Dietrich from Dept Biological Sciences, Columbia University Host Jacob Malone
30/10/2015	Prof Lotte Sogaard-Andersen – Regulation, assembly, architecture and function of type IV pili Speaker Professor Lotte Sogaard-Andersen from Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany Host Mark Buttner
09/10/2015	Professor Jeff Doyle – Polyploidy, nodulation, and legume evolution Speaker Professor Jeff Doyle from Plant Biology Section, Cornell University Host Claire Domoney
25/09/2015	Professor David Denlinger – Shutting down for the winter: an insect perspective Speaker Professor David Denlinger from Ohio State University Host Saskia Hogenhout
18/09/2015	Professor Ueli Grossniklaus – A role for epigenetics in ecology and evolution Speaker Professor Ueli Grossniklaus from Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich Host Lars Ostergaard
11/09/2015	Prof Lord May – The Biffen Lecture: Unanswered Questions in Ecology, And Why They Matter Speaker Professor Lord May from Dept of Zoology, University of Oxford Host Stan Maree
04/09/2015	Professor Julia Vorholt – Structure and functions of the bacterial phyllosphere microbiota Speaker Professor Julia Vorholt from Inst of Microbiology, ETH, Zurich Host Christine Faulkner
03/07/2015	CANCELLED: Global Movement of Pests and Pathogens: A Challenge to Global Food Security Speaker Professor Sarah Gurr from Biosciences, University of Exeter Host James Brown
26/06/2015	Floral heteromorphy in Primula: the quest for the S locus Speaker Professor Philip Gilmartin from Dean of Science, University of East Anglia Host Robert Sablowski
19/06/2015	Structure,function,assembly and engineering of the carboxysome and other bacterial microcompartments Speaker Professor Cheryl Kerfeld from Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley Host Alison Smith
12/06/2015	The unexpected history of Genetics Speaker Dr Berris Charnley from St Anne’s College, University of Oxford Host Dale Sanders
05/06/2015	Leaf-to-leaf wound signals Speaker Professor Edward Farmer from Dept Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne Host Thomas Vincent
15/05/2015	Transmitting an epigenetic memory of germline across generations and through development Speaker Professor Susan Strome from University of California Santa Cruz Host Caroline Dean
24/04/2015	Structural and molecular biology of bacterial secretion systems Speaker Professor Gabriel Waksman from Dept Structural & Molecular Biology, University College London Host Mark Banfield
17/04/2015	The Chatt Lecture – Glycocalyx engineering toward probing cancer glycome evolution Speaker Professor Carolyn Bertozzi from University of California, Berkeley Host Sarah O’Connor
27/03/2015	Engineering microbial metabolism for production of drugs, chemicals, and fuels Speaker Professor Jay Keasling from University of California, Berkeley, USA Host Barrie Wilkinson
20/03/2015	Darlington Lecture – Origin and consequences of genetic and epigenetic variation in A. thaliana Speaker Professor Detlef Weigel from Molecular Biology of Plants & Animals, MPI for Developmental Biology Host Benjamin Hall
06/03/2015	The 2015 Bateson Lecture – Outer limits of genetic technologies Speaker Professor George Church from Harvard Medical School Host Paul O’Maille
27/02/2015	Oxygen as a positional signal during seedling development Speaker Professor Miguel Blazquez from Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (CSIC-UPV) Host Antonio Serrano-Mislata
13/02/2015	Evolution and development of land plant rooting systems Speaker Professor Liam Dolan from Dept Plant Sciences, University of Oxford Host Lars Ostergaard
30/01/2015	Future directions for Rothamsted Research Speaker Professor Achim Dobermann from Director, Rothamsted Research Host Dale Sanders
12/12/2014	The Haldane Lecture – Mutation, Drift, and the Origin of Subcellular Features Speaker Professor Michael Lynch from Dept of Biology, Indiana University Host Xana Rebocho
05/12/2014	Novel concepts in our understanding of gene expression Speaker Professor Mordechai Choder from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Host Caroline Dean
28/11/2014	Simple systems for engineering plants Speaker Dr Jim Haseloff from Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge Host Zane Duxbury
21/11/2014	Catching the wave: Ca2+, ROS and systemic signaling in Arabidopsis Speaker Professpr Simon Gilroy from University of Wisconsin Host Dale Sanders
14/11/2014	The Hopwood Lecture: The Itty-Bitty Time Machine: how cyanobacteria tell time Speaker Professor Susan Golden from Division of Biological Sciences, UC San Diego, USA Host Mark Buttner
07/11/2014	Sweet talking: Plant recognition of microbial carbohydrates and downstream responses Speaker Professor Jens Stougaard from Dept Molecular Biology & Genetics, Aarhus University Host Lars Ostergaard
10/10/2014	The Woolhouse Lecture – Plant cytokinesis – a tale of membrane traffic and fusion Speaker Professor Gerd Juergens from ZMBP, University of Tuebingen Host Silke Robatzek
03/10/2014	Exploiting the synthetic capacity of microbes for the production of novel value-added biochemical Speaker Professor Kristala Prather from MIT, Cambridge, USA Host Anna Stavrinides
26/09/2014	Bactofilins: new players in the organization of bacterial cells Speaker Dr Martn Thanbichler from MPI for Terrestial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany Host Mark Buttner & Susan Schlimpert
19/09/2014	POSTPONED date to be confirmed seminar by Dr Evans Lagudah Speaker Dr Evans Lagudah from Plant Industry, CSIRO, Australia Host Burkhard Steuernagel
12/09/2014	POSTPONED date to be confirmed seminar by Professor Ann Pearson Speaker Professor Ann Pearson from Lab for Molecular Biogeochemistry & Organic Geochemistry, Harvard Uni Host Anne Osbourn
11/07/2014	Microbial interactions from a molecular perspective Speaker Professor Christian Hertweck from Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research, Jena Host Barrie Wilknson
04/07/2014	Gene expression genomics in T cells Speaker Dr Sarah Teichmann from EMBL-EBI, Cambridge Host Richard Morris
27/06/2014	The inflammasome-mediated innate immune detection of bacterial pathogens Speaker Dr Feng Shao from National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing Host Mark Banfield
20/06/2014	The Biffen Lecture – Engineering crops for resistance to disease and tolerance of stress Speaker Professor Pamela Ronald from Dept Plant Pathology & The Genome Center, University of California, Davis Host Lars Ostergaard
06/06/2014	Genetic and hormonal control of inflorescence architecture in maize Speaker Professor Andrea Gallavotti from The Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, State University of NJersey Host Lars Ostergaard
02/05/2014	Transport of plant natural products – using glucosinolates as case study Speaker Professor Barbara Ann Halkier from Dept Plant & Envirronmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen Host Sarah O’Connor
25/04/2014	Small RNAs as Morphogen-Like Signals in the Patterning of Leaves Speaker Professor Marja Timmermans from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Host Xana Rebocho
11/04/2014	CANCELLED – seminar by Dr Fitnat Yildiz Speaker Dr Fitnat Yildiz from Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology,University of California Santa Cruz Host Jacob Malone
28/03/2014	Detoxification of xenobiotics by Apis mellifera, or, it takes guts to be a honeybee Speaker Professor May Berenbaum from Dept of Entomology, University of Illinois Host Saskia Hogenhout
14/03/2014	Multidimensional proteomics: analysing phenotype in the 21st century Speaker Professor Angus Lamond from Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, University of Dundee, Dundee Host Peter Shaw
07/03/2014	Watching and quantifying biochemical processes in intact plants Speaker Professor Wolf Frommer from Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, USA Host Paul O’Maille
28/02/2014	A Doppler effect in embryonic patterning Speaker Professor Andrew Oates from University College London Host Martin Howard
14/02/2014	Nutrition beyond meeting energy needs Speaker Professor Ricardo Uauy from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Host Cathie Martin
07/02/2014	The Bateson Lecture – Embryonic Adolescence: Control of Gene Expression During Early Fly Development Speaker Dr Michael Eisen from Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley Host Lars Ostergaard
31/01/2014	Mapping the internal organization of bacterial cells Speaker Professor Michael Laub from MIT Department of Biology, USA Host Mark Buttner
24/01/2014	Hormones and emergence of robust spatio-temporal patterns at the shoot apical meristem Speaker Dr Teva Vernoux from ENS Lyon, France Host Lars Ostergaard
13/12/2013	Non-coding RNAs in Epigenome Regulation Speaker Dr Mark Bühler from Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland Host Caroline Dean
06/12/2013	Waterproofing plants: Sensing, signaling and response mechanisms Speaker Professor Julia Bailey-Serres from Centre for Plant Cell Biology, University of California Host Dale Sanders
29/11/2013	Post-translational regulation of transcription dynamics in plant immunity Speaker Dr Steven H Spoel from Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh Host Pooja Saxena
22/11/2013	New ways to probe host-pathogen interactions in vitro and in vivo Speaker Professor Hidde Ploegh from Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, USA Host Mark Banfield
15/11/2013	The central growth control network in Arabidopsis Speaker Dr Zhiyong Wang from Dept Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science Host Cyril Zipfel
08/11/2013	Flipping the switch: Regulating bacterial gene expression with riboswitch RNAs Speaker Professor Tina Henkin from Dept of Microbiology, Ohio State University Host Merv Bibb
01/11/2013	The Hopwood Lecture – Manipulating quorum sensing to control bacterial pathogenicity Speaker Professor Bonnie Bassler from Princeton University Host Mark Buttner
25/10/2013	POSTPONED NEW DATE TBC – Stability control of plant NB-LRR immune receptors Speaker Professor Xin Li from Dept of Botany, University of British Columbia Host Jacqueline Monaghan
11/10/2013	Investigating the biology of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe Oryzae Speaker Professor Nicholas Talbot from University of Exeter Host Oliver Furzer
04/10/2013	2013 Haldane Lecture – microRNAs decrease gene expression noise Speaker Professor Alexander van Oudenaarden from Hubrecht Institute-KNAW & University Medical Center Utrecht Host Martin Howard
20/09/2013	The root apex as headquarter for root branching Speaker Professor Tom Beeckman from VIB Dept of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University Host Lars Ostergaard
13/09/2013	Cancelled – new date tbc – seminar by Professor Stephen Benkovic Speaker Professor Stephen Benkovic from Pennsylvania State University Host Sarah O’Connor
12/07/2013	Recognition of “self”: unravelling key signals and targets in incompatible pollen Speaker Professor Noni Franklin-Tong from School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham Host Dale Sanders
05/07/2013	How plants LINC the SUN to KASH Speaker Professor Iris Meier from Dept Molecular Genetics, Ohio State University Host Lennart Wirthmueller
28/06/2013	CANCELLED – seminar by Professor Gebisa Ejeta Speaker Professor Gebisa Ejeta from Dept of Agronomy, University of Purdue Host Cristobal Uauy
21/06/2013	Metabolomics-based functional genomics: From Arabidopsis to crops and medicinal plants Speaker Dr Kazuki Saito from Deputy Center Director, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science,Japan Host Stanislav Kopriva
14/06/2013	The Darlington Lecture – DNA technology as the engine of scientific discovery Speaker Professor Chad Nusbaum from Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Host Sophien Kamoun
07/06/2013	From plant immunity to pathogen virulence and back Speaker Dr Jian-Min Zhou from Inst of Genetics & Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Host Cyril Zipfel
24/05/2013	Morphogenetic functions of actomyosin Speaker Dr Stephan W Grill from MPI-PKS / MPI-CBG, Germany Host Martin Howard
17/05/2013	Marine actinobacteria, a growing resource for biotechnology and biomedicine Speaker Professor Bradley Moore from University of California at San Diego Host Merv Bibb
10/05/2013	Manipulating plant cell wall polysaccharide synthesis for biorefining and bioenergy Speaker Professor Paul Dupree from Dept of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK Host Rob Field & Stephen Bornemann
03/05/2013	E. coli cell fission Speaker Professor Piet de Boer from Dept Molecular Biology & Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University Host Mark Buttner
26/04/2013	Pseudomonas syringae type III effectors Speaker Professor James Alfano from University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA Host Cyril Zipfel
19/04/2013	RNA on the Defense: RNA-programmed Genome Protection Speaker Professor Jennifer Doudna from Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Berkeley, USA Host David Lawson
05/04/2013	Same same but different: Towards the genealogy and evolution of Triticeae genomes Speaker Dr Klaus Mayer from Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen Host Cristobal Uauy
22/03/2013	C4 photosynthesis – new perspectives from comparative evolutionary transcriptomics Speaker Professor Andreas Weber from Inst for Plant Biochemistry, Heinrich-Heine University Host Stanislav Kopriva
15/03/2013	Mechanisms and evolution of transcriptional regulation in mammals Speaker Dr Duncan Odom from Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Host Mike Bevan
08/03/2013	Quantitative genomics of metabolism The mechanistic basis of epistasis and pleiotropy Speaker Professor Daniel Kliebenstein from Dept Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, USA Host Anne Osbourn
15/02/2013	Pleiotropy vs. pathogenesis: Progress towards understanding quantitative disease resistance in maize Speaker Professor Rebecca Nelson from Dpt Plant Pathology & Plant-Microbe Biology, Cornell University Host Christopher Ridout
08/02/2013	The Gram-negative cell envelope as seen by a translocating protein antibiotic Speaker Professor Colin Kleanthous from Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford Host Mark Buttner
01/02/2013	Capturing conversations of cell populations through a million little dots Speaker Professor Pieter Dorrestein from Depts Pharmacology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, UCSD Host Mervyn Bibb
25/01/2013	The evolution of C4 photosynthesis Speaker Dr Julian Hibberd from Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge Host Philippa Borrill
18/01/2013	The Bateson Lecture – Shoot branching plasticity, how and why Speaker Professor Ottoline Leyser CBE FRS from Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge University Host Lars Ostergaard
11/01/2013	Programming Bacteria Speaker Professor Christopher Voigt from Dept Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Inst of Technology Host Ellis O’Neill
07/12/2012	Hunting the Witch: Towards understanding the parasitic witchweed Striga Speaker Professor Ken Shirasu from RIKEN Plant Science Center, Japan Host Sophien Kamoun
30/11/2012	The Woolhouse Lecture – Atmospheric CO2 sensing and drought-induced abscisic acid signaling in plant Speaker Professor Julian Schroeder from Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego Host Jonathan Jones
23/11/2012	The root endodermis – new insights into an old barrier Speaker Professor Niko Geldner from Dept of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne Host Silke Robatzek
16/11/2012	What is needed to produce a flower and its organs Speaker Professor Gerco Angenent from Plant Research International, The Netherlands Host Allyson MacLean
02/11/2012	The Chatt Lecture – Posttranslational Cascades in the Biosynthesis of Thiazolyl Peptide Antibiotics Speaker Professor Christopher Walsh from Harvard Medical School Host Tony Maxwell
26/10/2012	How do proteins evolve? Speaker Professor Dan Tawfik from Dept Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science Host Paul O’Maille
28/09/2012	Pervasive transcription, lessons from budding yeast Speaker Dr Antonin Morillon from Institut Curie-CNRS, Paris, France Host Caroline Dean
21/09/2012	POSTPONED – seminar by Professor Wolf Frommer Speaker Professor Wolf Frommer from Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford Host Stanislav Kopriva
14/09/2012	The Biffen Lecture – Patterning the maize leaf Speaker Professor Sarah Hake from Plant Gene Expression Center, USDA-ARS Host Xana Rebocho
07/09/2012	Caught in the Act The Awakening and Demise of a Plant Retrotransposon: When, Where, How? Speaker Dr Olivier Voinnet from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Biology, Zurich Host Caroline Dean
29/06/2012	100 Years of the Vietnam Time Bomb: discovery of a lethal factor in Burkholderia Speaker Professor David Rice from Dept of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology, University of Sheffield Host David Lawson
22/06/2012	Plant immuNOlogy: cracking the redox code Speaker Professor Gary Loake from School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh Host Graham McGrann
15/06/2012	The structural and functional diversity of polyploid wheat genome Speaker Dr Eduard Akhunov from Dept of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University Host Cristobal Uauy
01/06/2012	Exploring biological networks and pathways using yeast functional genomics Speaker Professor Brenda Andrews from University of Toronto Host Veronica Grieneisen
25/05/2012	Arrays of DNA binding sites as a tool for understanding gene regulation and adaptive mutagenesis Speaker Professor Narendra Maheshri from MIT, Cambridge, USA Host Scott Berry & Robert Ietswaart
18/05/2012	The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa – please note earlier time Speaker Professor Calestous Juma from Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts Host Alastair Skeffington
11/05/2012	The Darlington Lecture – RNA silencing and genome defense of plants Speaker Professor Sir David Baulcombe from Dept of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge Host Jonathan Jones
20/04/2012	Climate change and plant disease Speaker Professor Karen Garrett from Dept of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University Host Ruth Bryant
30/03/2012	Protein glycosylation: Pathways, processes and potential virulence targets Speaker Professor Barbara Imperiali from Department of Biology, MIT Host Sarah O’Connor
23/03/2012	Gene regulatory networks in Arabidopsis flower development Speaker Professor José Luis Riechmann from Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Barcelona, Spain Host Susana Sauret-Gueto
09/03/2012	Dynamic organization of epithelia Speaker Professor Frank Julicher from Max Planck Institute, Dresden Host Martin Howard
02/03/2012	Wading through murky paddies: clarifying broad spectrum resistance in rice Speaker Professor Jan Leach from Plant Pathology, Colorado State University, USA Host Christopher Ridout
24/02/2012	CANCELLED – The root apex as headquarter for root branching Speaker Professor Tom Beeckman from VIB Dept Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University Host Lars Ostergaard
10/02/2012	The Hopwood Lecture – Resistance guided antibiotic discovery Speaker Dr Gerry Wright from Dept Biochemistry & Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University Host Mark Buttner
03/02/2012	It takes two to tango: Hormones and transcription factors in shoot meristem control Speaker Professor Jan Lohmann from Department of Stem Cell Biology, University of Heidelberg Host Giles Oldroyd
27/01/2012	First time for everything: specification of stem cells in the early plant embryo Speaker Professor Dolf Weijers from Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University Host Lars Ostergaard
20/01/2012	Induced plant defences: from transcriptomics to community dynamics Speaker Professor Marcel Dicke from Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen University Host Saskia Hogenhout
13/01/2012	Molecular breeding of high value chemicals in novel crops: from hemp to artemisia Speaker Professor Ian Graham from Director of CNAP, Department of Biology, University of York Host Alison Smith
09/12/2011	Cloning and characterization of gene of agronomic importance from crops Speaker Dr Abdelhafid Bendahmane from Vice Director, URGV, France Host Myriam Charpentier
02/12/2011	Phenotypes phirst: Complex traits in complex environments Speaker Professor Thomas Mitchell-Olds from Biology Dept, Duke University Host James Brown
25/11/2011	Social movements in bacteria: mechanisms and evolution from genetics and cell biology Speaker Professor Tâm Mignot from CNRS, France Host Mark Buttner
11/11/2011	Patterning the female gametophyte of flowering plants, or How plants lay eggs Speaker Professor Venkatesan Sundaresan from College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis, USA Host Lars Ostergaard
04/11/2011	The Bateson Lecture – Development rooted in interwoven networks Speaker Professor Philip Benfey from Duke University, USA Host Veronica Grieneisen
28/10/2011	The Haldane Lecture – Crossing Scales Speaker Professor Simon Levin from Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University Host Veronica Grieneisen
21/10/2011	Dissecting the co-evolutionary arms race (full title below) Speaker Professor David S Guttman from Depts of Cell & Systems Biology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biol, Toronto Un Host Cyril Zipfel
07/10/2011	More than a scaffold, HISTONES, master regulators of the genome activity Speaker Professor Frederic Berger from Temasek Life Sciences Lab Host Philip Wigge
30/09/2011	Inside bacterial cells: Where both chaos and order are actively pursued Speaker Professor Christine Jacobs-Wagner from Dept of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University Host Mark Buttner
23/09/2011	CANCELLED – Mechanisms of RNA-mediated viral defense in bacteria Speaker Professor Jennifer Doudna from Dept Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA Host David Lawson
09/09/2011	The secrets of a long life: FRUITFULL controls reproductive meristem arrest in Arabidopsis Speaker Dr Cristina Ferrandiz from Institute for Plant Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMCP) Host Susana Sauret-Gueto
08/07/2011	Type III secretions machines: bacterial devices for protein delivery into eukaryotic cells Speaker Professor Jorge Galan from Section of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University School of Medicine Host Mark Banfield
17/06/2011	Bacterial symbionts and the discovery of new molecules Speaker Professor Jon Clardy from Dept of Bio Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School Host David Lawson
10/06/2011	The ABCs of BRX – from natural genetic variation to mesoscopic modelling of root meristem growth Speaker Professor Christian Hardtke from Director, Dept Plant Molecular Biology, University of Lausanne Host Lars Ostergaard
27/05/2011	POSTPONED – The 2011 Chatt Lecture by Professor Jay Keasling Speaker Professor Jay Keasling from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley Host Rob Field
20/05/2011	The Woolhouse Lecture – How does auxin do everything? Speaker Professor Mark Estelle from Cell & Developmental Biology, UCSD, USA Host Lars Ostergaard
13/05/2011	Building an embryo from the bottom up Speaker Professor Jeff Long from Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute Host Lars Ostergaard
06/05/2011	Microbial life on a leaf: Interactions of bacteria with themselves and the plants on which they live Speaker Professor Steven Lindow from Dept Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA Host Saskia Hogenhout
08/04/2011	The Hopwood Lecture – Evolution and genomics of beneficial symbionts in insects Speaker Professor Nancy Moran from Dept of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University Host Saskia Hogenhout
01/04/2011	CANCELLED – Stress-induced cell flows reorient planar polarity in the wing epithelium of Drosophila Speaker Professor Suzanne Eaton from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics Host Enrico Coen
25/03/2011	Rhomboids and iRhoms: intramembrane proteolysis and its regulation Speaker Dr Matthew Freeman from MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Host Phil Wigge
18/03/2011	CUL4-DDB1 is required to maintain epigenetic gene repression Speaker Dr Pascal Genschik from Director, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes du CNRS Host Cyril Zipfel
04/03/2011	The origins of evolutionary innovations Speaker Professor Andreas Wagner from Dept of Biochemistry, University of Zurich Host Erika Kuchen
25/02/2011	The bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes: a model or a reference? Speaker Professor Pascale Cossart from Pasteur Institute Host Allan Downie
18/02/2011	Xanthomonas TAL effectors in fundamental and applied research Speaker Professor Thomas Lahaye from Institute of Genetics, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Host Jonathan Jones
11/02/2011	Chemical-biological analysis of dynamic biological systems Speaker Professor Herbert Waldmann from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology Host Rob Field
04/02/2011	Plant development: rooting shoots or shooting roots? Speaker Professor Ben Scheres from Dept of Biology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Host Bas Rutjens
21/01/2011	Lateral root development: an emerging story…… Speaker Professor Malcolm Bennett from Plant & Crop Sciences Div, University of Nottingham Host Lars Ostergaard
14/01/2011	Integration of environmental signals in host-pathogen co-evolution Speaker Professor Fernando Garcia-Arenal from Director, Centro de Biotecnología y Genómica de Plantas UPM – INIA Host Andy Maule
10/12/2010	Immune recognition of fungi: the taste of a fungus Speaker Professor Neil Gow from Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen Host Sophien Kamoun
03/12/2010	Pathogenesis as a probe of innate immunity, jasmonate signaling, and vesicle traffic in Arabidopsis Speaker Professor Sheng-Yang He from DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University Host Dian Guan
26/11/2010	Predatory biology of Bdellovibrio- invader of other Gram negative bacteria Speaker Professor Elizabeth Sockett from School of Biology, University of Nottingham Host Emma Sherwood
19/11/2010	Yeasts: models to study the evolution of eukaryotic genomes Speaker Professor Bernard Dujon from Dept Genomes & Genetics, Institut Pasteur, France Host Sophien Kamoun
12/11/2010	Sugars and proteins Speaker Professor Ben Davis from Dept of Chemistry, University of Oxford Host Rob Field
05/11/2010	Chemical and genetic dissection of abscisic acid signaling Speaker Professor Sean Cutler from Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California Host Giles Oldroyd
29/10/2010	Pathogens and commensals at epithelial surfaces: the Yin and the Yang of innate immunity Speaker Professor Philippe Sansonetti from Unité de pathogénie microbienne moléculaire, INSERM U786 Host Cyril Zipfel
22/10/2010	The Bateson Lecture – Viral noncoding RNAs: Master manipulators of RNA decay Speaker Professor Joan Steitz from Yale University Host Lars Ostergaard
08/10/2010	The role of calcium, SFR6 and OXI1 in plant stress signalling Speaker Professor Marc Knight from School of Bio & Biomedical Sciences, University of Durham Host Ben Miller
01/10/2010	Natural variation for growth and response to the environment in Arabidopsis thaliana Speaker Dr Olivier Loudet from INRA, National Institute for Agricultural Research, Versailles Host Stanislav Kopriva
24/09/2010	The Darlington Lecture by Professor Eddy Rubin Speaker Professor Eddy Rubin from Director, Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Host Anne Osbourn
10/09/2010	From insect and plant defensins to lipopeptides and lantibiotics – natural compounds for antibiotics Speaker Professor Hans-Georg Sahl from Institute of Microbiology & Biotechnology, University of Bonn Host Merv Bibb
06/07/2010	Brachypodium distachyon: a new model for Fusarium Head Blight in wheat Host Andy Steed
29/06/2010	Remember yesterday a plant cellular memory as factor for adaptation to environmental stress? Speaker Simone Altmann Host Andy Steed
25/06/2010	POSTPONED – The Haldane Lecture – Signal encoding at the single-cell level Speaker Professor Michael Elowitz from California Institute of Technology Host Martin Howard
22/06/2010	Functional genomics of aphid candidate effectors Speaker David Prince Host Andy Steed
18/06/2010	CANCELLED – Approaches to identifying novel plant cell wall metabolizing enzymes Speaker Professor Harry Gilbert from University of Georgia Host Sylviane Comparot
11/06/2010	Epigenetics and nuclear organization Speaker Professor Eric Richards from Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University Host Caroline Dean
04/06/2010	Science and technology in 21st century diplomacy Speaker Professor Nina Fedoroff from Science & Technology Advisor to Secretary of State, US Dept of State Host Jonathan Jones
28/05/2010	Scheduling developmental events and its impact on plant form Speaker Dr Yuval Eshed from Dept of Plant Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science Host Susana Sauret-Gueto
21/05/2010	A genomic code for nucleosome positioning from archaebacteria to man Speaker Professor Jonathan Widom from Northwestern University Host Tony Maxwell / Sandra Greive
14/05/2010	Function, diversity & evolution of Pm3-based disease resistance in wheat-powdery mildew pathosystem Speaker Professor Beat Keller from Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich Host Christopher Ridout
07/05/2010	Cyclic di-GMP signalling in bacterial life-style switching Speaker Professor Regine Hengge from Faculty of Biology – Department of Microbiology, Freie University Berlin Host Mark Buttner
30/04/2010	Crops FACE the future Speaker Professor Donald Ort from Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois Host Cathie Martin
23/04/2010	Molecular mechanism of plasmid segregation by ParMRC Speaker Dr Jan Lowe from Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Council, Cambridge Host Mark Buttner
16/04/2010	New views of transcription regulation in vivo Speaker Dr Jon Lis from Cornell University, USA Host Phil Wigge
09/04/2010	The Biffen Lecture – Miserable but worth the trouble: Genomics, wheat and difficult environments Speaker Professor Peter Langridge from University of Adelaide, Australia Host John Snape
26/03/2010	The origins of plant pathogens in agro-ecosystems Speaker Professor Bruce McDonald from Institute of Integrative Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Host James Brown
19/03/2010	Is there more to epigenetic gene repression than just histone modifications? Speaker Professor Wendy Bickmore from Chromosomes & Gene Expression Section, MRC Human Genetics Unit Host Anne Osbourn
12/03/2010	Mechanisms, rates and outcomes of local genome evolution in the grasses Speaker Dr Jeff Bennetzen from Dept of Genetics, University of Georgia Host Cristobal Uauy
05/03/2010	CANCELLED – Evolution of shoot development Speaker Professor Jane Langdale from Dept Plant Sciences, University of Oxford Host Mary Byrne
26/02/2010	Spring bread wheat improvement at CIMMYT to enhance productivity and sustainability of wheat in Asia Speaker Dr. Ravi Prakash Singh from Global Wheat Program, CIMMYT Host James Brown
12/02/2010	How smut fungi colonize plants: a tale of effectors Speaker Professor Regine Kahmann from Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology Host Jonathan Jones
05/02/2010	Subversion of plant cellular pathways by Ralstonia solanacearum type III effectors Speaker Dr Stephane Genin from INRA France Host Alexandre Robert-Seilaniantz
29/01/2010	Community proteogenomics reveals new insights into bacterial life on leaf surfaces Speaker Professor Julia Vorholt from Institute of Microbiology, EH Zurich Host Mark Buttner
22/01/2010	Discovery and mechanisms of small RNAs in bacterial pathogens Speaker Professor Joerg Vogel from Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology Host Phil Poole
08/01/2010	CANCELLED: Plant development: rooting shoots or shooting roots? Speaker Professor Ben Scheres from Utrecht University Host Bas Rutjens
04/12/2009	Evolution of ancient agriculture and antibiotic use in ants Speaker Dr Cameron Currie from University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Host Mark Buttner
27/11/2009	The remarkable diversity of the genes, the pathways and the microbes that make the smell of the seas Speaker Professor Andy Johnston from School of Biosciences, University of East Anglia Host Allan Downie
20/11/2009	The Chatt Lecture – Radically enhanced molecular recognition Speaker Professor Fraser Stoddart from Dept of Chemistry, Northwestern University, USA Host Steph Bornemann & Rob Field
13/11/2009	Using comparative development to understand diversification of leaf shape Speaker Prof Miltos Tsiantis from University of Oxford Host Sarah Robinson
06/11/2009	The Darlington Lecture – Linking chromosome replication and segregation Speaker Professor David Sherratt from Dept Biochemistry, University of Oxford Host Tony Maxwell
30/10/2009	Training a new type of biologist: the genome-enabled field biologist Speaker Professor Ian T Baldwin from Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology Host Saskia Hogenhout
02/10/2009	Molecular control of cellular size: regulation of microtubule length by depolymerizing kinesins Speaker Professor Jonathon Howard from Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics Host Martin Howard
10/07/2009	DELLA-PIFs interaction: shedding light on control of hypocotyl elongation Speaker Dr Salome Prat from Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Spain Host Phil Wigge
26/06/2009	A Type I secreted, sulfated peptide triggers rice XA21-mediated innate immunity Speaker Professor Pamela Ronald from University of California, Davis Host Cristobal Uauy
19/06/2009	Why there is more to gene evolution than protein function: splicing, nucleosomes Speaker Professor Laurence Hurst from Dept of Biology & Biochemistry, University of Bath Host Anne Osbourn
12/06/2009	Plant and microbial natural products as cell biological probes Speaker Professor Craig Crews from Yale University, USA Host Rob Field
05/06/2009	Transcriptional regulation by the Polycomb/trithorax system Speaker Dr Juerg Mueller from European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany Host Sebastian Marquardt
22/05/2009	Cell biology and biochemistry of metals or The answer to life, the universe and everything Speaker Professor Ralf R Mendel from Braunschweig University of Technology Host Stanislav Kopriva
15/05/2009	Coupling transcription with chromatin and mRNA processing Speaker Professor Steven Buratowski from Harvard Medical School Host Sebastian Marquardt
08/05/2009	Life inside a rice cell; lessons from the blast fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae Speaker Dr Barbara Valent from Kansas State University Host Ane Sesma
01/05/2009	Hopwood Lecture – Natural microbial world as viewed through the lens of genomics & transcriptomics Speaker Professor Ed DeLong from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Host Merv Bibb
17/04/2009	iPlant Collaborative Speaker Professor Richard Jorgensen from Dept Plant Sciences, University of Arizona Host Mike Bevan
27/03/2009	DNA translocation through a replicative hexameric helicase one step at a time Speaker Dr Leemor Joshua-Tor from HHMI/Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Host Mary Byrne
20/03/2009	The Biffen Lecture – Gene flow and genetic isolation during crop evolution Speaker Professor Susan McCouch from Dept Plant Breeding & Genetics, Cornell University Host Graham Moore
13/03/2009	Bluetongue virus proteins: their roles in virus replication, assembly and egress Speaker Professor Polly Roy from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Host George Lomonossoff
06/03/2009	Polyadenylation of mRNA precursors: Mechanism, regulation and integration with other cellular proces Speaker Professor James Manley from Columbia University, USA Host Sebastian Marquardt
27/02/2009	How bacterial effector proteins manipulate the plant host cell Speaker Professor Ulla Bonas from Institute for Biology/Genetics, Martin-Luther University Host Ane Sesma
20/02/2009	Cell division, chromatin and differentiation during Arabidopsis development Speaker Professor Crisanto Guteirrez from Centro de Biología Molecular, Spain Host Pedro Crevillen
13/02/2009	The intracellular biology of Salmonella Speaker Professor David Holden from Imperial College London Host Jonathan Jones
06/02/2009	Jasmonate signaling moves to the rhythm of JAZs Speaker Dr Roberto Solano from Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia-CSIC Host Monica Pernas Ochoa
30/01/2009	Cell-Cell communications during double fertilization Speaker Professor Ueli Grossniklaus from Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich Host Caroline Dean
23/01/2009	Rational peptide and protein design in nanoscience and synthetic biology Speaker Professor Dek Woolfson from University of Bristol Host Dave Evans
09/01/2009	Mycoviruses at the fungus-plant interface: New insights Speaker Dr Donald Nuss from University of Maryland, USA Host Andy Maule
12/12/2008	Discovering Delivering Yielding Latest developments in agricultural biotech Speaker Dr Robb Fraley from Monsanto Co Host Jonathan Jones
05/12/2008	Participatory biotechnology appraisals: principles, processes and practices Speaker Prof Jacquelin Burgess from School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Host James Brown
28/11/2008	Unwinding the Biological Clock with Systems Biology Speaker Prof Andrew Millar from University of Edinburgh Host Jonathan Jones
21/11/2008	Woolhouse Lecture – Seasonal control of flowering in annual & perennial plants Speaker Dr George Coupland from Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research Host Jonathan Jones
14/11/2008	Auxin transport connecting cell polarity and patterning Speaker Dr Jiri Friml from Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, Ghent University Host Lars Ostergaard
07/11/2008	Diverse mechanisms for gene control by riboswitches Speaker Dr Ron Breaker from Yale University, USA Host Ray Dixon
31/10/2008	Role of ion channels in plants Speaker Professor Rainer Hedrich from University of Wuerzburg, Germany Host Stanislav Kopriva
24/10/2008	Probing enzymology of O-GlcNAc, intracellular glycosylation of plants and mammal Speaker Professor Gideon Davies from University of York Host Duncan Stanley
17/10/2008	Self-renewal and differentiation in the Drosophila nervous system Speaker Professor Andrea Brand from Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research Institute, Cambridge, UK Host Mary Byrne
03/10/2008	The cytoskeleton in growth and pathogenicity of the fungus Ustilago maydis Speaker Professor Gero Steinberg from University of Exeter Host Anne Osbourn
26/09/2008	The evolution of segmentation mechanisms in animals Speaker Professor Michael Akam from Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge Host Lars Ostergaard
19/09/2008	Physcomitrella genome adds a 500 million year perspective to plant biology Speaker Professor Ralf Reski from Plant Biotechnology, University of Freiburg Host Stan Kopriva
12/09/2008	Climate change, plant systematics, conservation: Kews Breathing Planet Programe Speaker Professor Stephen Hopper from Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK Host Mary Byrne
11/07/2008	Histone variant dynamics and epigenetics Speaker Dr Steven Henikoff from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle Host Caroline Dean
04/07/2008	Building the cereal inflorescence, signals, architecture and yield Speaker Professor David Jackson from Cold Spring Harbor Lab, USA Host Mary Byrne
27/06/2008	Patterning genes in land plants Speaker Prof John L Bowman from School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne Host Mary Byrne
20/06/2008	Cell death & acclimation. The genetic basis of singlet oxygen-mediated signaling Speaker Professor Klaus Apel from Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Ithaca Host Stan Kopriva
06/06/2008	The Darlington Lecture – Ensembl and ENCODE; understanding genomes Speaker Dr Ewan Birney from EMBL, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK Host Philip Wigge
30/05/2008	Structural studies of biological macromolecules in solutions Speaker Dr Dmitri Svergun from EMBL Hamburg Host Stephen Bornemann
23/05/2008	Ionomics discovery using induced and natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana Speaker Professor David Salt from Purdue University, USA Host Stan Kopriva
16/05/2008	The Biffen Lecture – Propagating silent heterochromatin with RNA interference Speaker Professor Rob Martienssen from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA Host Mary Byrne
09/05/2008	Conserved roles of small RNAs in genome defense Speaker Professor Greg Hannon from Cold Spring Harbour Host Jonathan Jones
02/05/2008	Evolution of novel forms in grass inflorescences Speaker Dr Elizabeth Kellogg from Dept of Biology, University of Missouri, St Louis Host Mary Byrne
25/04/2008	A biomechanical and allometric perspective on plant evolution and ecology Speaker Professor Karl J Niklas from Cornell University Host Freddy Cook
18/04/2008	The Chatt Lecture – Chromatin structure and remodeling factor interaction Speaker Prof. Timothy J. Richmond from Institute for Molecular Biology & Bio, ETH Zurich Host Stephen Bornemann
11/04/2008	L-form bacteria revisited in the molecular era Speaker Professor Jeff Errington from Newcastle University, UK Host Student Voice Committee
04/04/2008	Bateson Lecture – Role of cis-regulatory sequences in evolution of animal form Speaker Professor Sean B Carroll from University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Host Chris Lamb
28/03/2008	Evolution of Rhizobium Nod factor signalling Speaker Dr Rene Geurts from Wageningen University Host Allan Downie
14/03/2008	Unraveling the pathways for carbohydrate synthesis in plant secondary cell wall Speaker Professor Simon Turner from Faculty of Life Science, University of Manchester Host Rob Field
07/03/2008	How to move DNA within and between bacterial cells Speaker Professor Peter Graumann from University of Freiburg, Germany Host Mark Buttner
29/02/2008	Chromatin modifications and their function Speaker Professor Tony Kouzarides from The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK Host Rob Field
22/02/2008	Sculpting oxygen sensing and foraging: behavioral evolution in C. elegans Speaker Dr Mario de Bono from MRC Lab of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Host Phil Wigge
15/02/2008	Role of polySUMO chains as a signal for ubiquitin mediated proteolysis Speaker Professor Ron T Hay from University of Dundee, UK Host Rob Field
08/02/2008	Reconstructing the biosynthetic history of divergent plant sesquiterpene synthas Speaker Professor Joseph Noel from The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, California, USA Host Cathie Martin
01/02/2008	POSTPONED – Unwinding the biological clock with systems biology Speaker Professor Andrew Millar from University of Edinburgh Host Jonathan Jones
25/01/2008	POSTPONED – Towards understanding evolution of leaf development programmes Speaker Dr Miltos Tsiantis from University of Oxford Host Sarah Robinson
23/01/2008	seminar by Professor Dek Woolfson Speaker Professor Dek Woolfson from University of Bristol Host Dave Evans
18/01/2008	Biomass and Biofuels: status, promise, challenges and research directions Speaker Dr Ralph P. Overend from Chief Scientist NextBT LLC, formerly Research Fellow NREL Host Kay Denyer
11/01/2008	Phylogeny and character evolution in the wild and wonderful nightshade family Speaker Dr Sandra Knapp from Natural History Museum, UK Host Jonathan Jones
30/11/2007	Biomass and biofuel: tackling the challenges ahead Speaker Dr Angela Karp from Plant Biodiversity & Population Genetics, Rothamsted Research Host Claire Domoney
23/11/2007	Activation of virtual rice transposable elements in Arabidopsis and Yeast Speaker Professor Sue Wessler from University of Georgia, USA Host Jonathan Jones
16/11/2007	Structural variation, disease and evolution of the human genome Speaker Dr Evan Eichler from University of Washington, USA Host Mike Bevan
09/11/2007	Glycosylation of small molecules Speaker Professor Dianna Bowles from University of York, UK Host Anne Osbourn
02/11/2007	Transcriptional and signaling networks in stomatal development Speaker Dr Dominique Bergmann from Assistant Professor of Biological Science, Stanford University Host Cyril Zipfel
26/10/2007	CANCELLED – seminar by Prof Jens Stougaard has been postponed to later date Speaker Professor Jens Stougaard from University of Aarhus, Denmark Host Allan Downie
26/10/2007	Developmental Plasticity in the Legume Root Speaker Dr Martin Crespi from Institut des Sciences du Végétal-CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, Paris Host Allan Downie
19/10/2007	The Hopwood Lecture – Outer membrane biogenesis in Gram-negative bacteria Speaker Professor Thomas Silhavy from Princeton University, USA Host Mark Buttner
05/10/2007	Biosynthesis of lantibiotics, complex macrocylic thioethers Speaker Prof Wilfred van der Donk from University of Illinois, USA Host Mervyn Bibb
28/09/2007	Mapping regulatory networks and signal transduction pathwasy in bacteria Speaker Dr Michael Laub from MIT, USA Host Mark Buttner
21/09/2007	CANCELLED – Seminar by Professor Karl-Heinz Kogel Speaker Professor Karl-Heinz Kogel from University of Giessen, Germany Host James Brown
20/07/2007	The Haldane Lecture – Lean or fat: control of energy homeostasis in animals Speaker Professor Herbert Jaeckle from Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry Host Cathie Martin
13/07/2007	From automated oligosaccharide synthesis and carbohydrate arrays Speaker Prof Peter Seeberger from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich Host Rob Field
06/07/2007	Making recombinant proteins in plants – new generation expression technologies Speaker Professor Yuri Gleba from Icon Genetics GmbH Host Stanislav Kopriva
29/06/2007	Antibiotic resistance: the inner workings of the multidrug efflux pump AcrB Speaker Dr Klaas Martinus Pos from University of Zurich Host Mike Merrick
22/06/2007	CANCELLED: A biomechanical and allometric perspective on plant evolution Speaker Professor Karl J Niklas from Cornell University Host Jenny Bowers
15/06/2007	Haplotype diversity and meiotic recombination in maize Speaker Professor Hugo Dooner from Waksman Institute, Rutgers University, USA Host Jonathan Jones
08/06/2007	Structural Mechanisms underlying the oxidative stress response in Bacillus Speaker Professor Richard Brennan from UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA Host Mark Buttner
01/06/2007	Lipid-Protein Interactions as Determinants of Membrane Protein Topology Speaker Professor William Dowhan from University of Texas-Houston, USA Host Tracy Palmer
25/05/2007	Systems approaches to understanding circadian clocks Speaker Dr Steve Kay from The Scripps Research Institute Host Jonathan Jones
11/05/2007	Introgression line resolution of complex traits in tomato Speaker Dr Dani Zamir from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Host Jonathan Jones
04/05/2007	Hopping, jumping and sliding along DNA by proteins targeting specific DNA Speaker Prof Steve Halford from University of Bristol Host Olivier Pierrat
27/04/2007	Tales of transposons Speaker Professor Nancy Craig from Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Baltimore, USA Host Tony Maxwell
20/04/2007	Platforms, motors and springs: virus particles as reagents for nanotechnology Speaker Prof Jack Johnson from The Scripps Research Institute Host George Lomonossoff
13/04/2007	RNA silencing and plant abiotic stress responses Speaker Professor Jian-Kang Zhu from University of California, Riverside, USA Host Caroline Dean
30/03/2007	From heaven’s door to hell’s gate: pathogen entry and immune response mechanisms Speaker Professor Paul Schulze-Lefert from Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research Host Cyril Zipfel
23/03/2007	From glycosidase mechanisms to new proteomic probes of enzymes Speaker Professor Stephen Withers from Chemistry Department, UBC Host Stephen Bornemann
16/03/2007	Winding up the cyanobacterial circadian clock Speaker Professor Susan Golden from Texas A&M University, USA Host Mark Buttner
09/03/2007	Epigenetic control by histone methylation Speaker Prof Thomas Jenuwein from Research Institute of Molecular Pathology Host David Baulcombe
02/03/2007	Twist, tilt and turn – how mechanosensitive channels fire to relieve stress Speaker Professor Ian Booth from Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen Host Professor Ray Dixon
23/02/2007	CANCELLED – Shedding light on glycans Speaker Professor Carolyn Bertozzi from Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Berkeley, USA Host Rob Field
16/02/2007	X-chromosome inactivation – a model system for epigenetic changes in development Speaker Professor Edith Heard from Curie Institute, Paris, France Host Robert Sablowski
09/02/2007	Microbial signaling behavior in the Vibrio fischeri-squid beneficial association Speaker Professor Ned Ruby from University of Wisconsin, USA Host Mark Buttner

‘Role of anionic lipids in the establishment, dynamics and function of membrane contact sites’

‘The evolution of C4 photosynthesis and key players in chloroplast biogenesis’

‘Hopwood Lecture: From the unusual cell biology of Borrelia to Lyme disease’

‘How to give bacteria food poisoning’

DARLINGTON LECTURE:’Cellular signalling during plant reproduction’

‘Scaling the Wall: understanding structure/function relationships in leaves across scales’

‘Genome editing and sustainable agriculture: applications and implications’

OPEN Biffen Lecture – ‘Land Sparing and Land Sharing: Regenerative Agriculture, Populism and the Role of Science’

‘Ubiquitin ligase relays and diverse chain topologies coordinate immune signalling’

‘Exploring the dark matter of phage genomes and its role in antiviral defence’

‘Epigenetics beyond the chromosome: from molecules to ecosystems’

‘Redefining mobility in bacterial genetics’

‘Mendel 200 celebrations – Randomness in Mendelian Processes: From Allowing Complex Life to Facilitating Causal Inference’

‘Licensed to kill: Post-translational activation of a toxic antibacterial effector’

‘On the initiation and maintenance of meristems’

‘From Genome Mapping of Traits to Genome Designing of Crops’

‘Redesigning plant metabolism with synthetic biology’

‘The Hopwood Lecture: A celebration of microbial sequencing and its benefits for human health’

‘Shaping cells – From micromechanics to morphogenesis’

‘Fantastic yeasts and how they evolved to be’

‘The dark matter of the Arabidopsis genome’

‘Mobilization of molecular defense by phytocytokine-receptor signaling’

‘How do dsDNA viruses assemble?’

‘The Ins and Outs of Cereal Development’

The Scott Moncrieff Lecture: ‘Serendipity in symbiotic nitrogen fixation’

‘Precision in plant immune expression: Not lost in translation’

‘Bateson Lecture: Breaking the Silence: How to make small plant mouths that support our sustenance’

‘Epigenetic regulation of plant traits and environmental adaptation’

‘Evolution of endogenous retroviruses – and their control by small RNAs’

‘Molecular Phenology: In Nature Responses of Plants to a Seasonal Environment’

‘Phylogenomics and the early evolution of life’

‘Aneuploidy as a rapid driver of adaptation to diverse stresses’

THE BIFFEN LECTURE; ‘Gametes to zygotes to self-cloning plants: The importance of being egg-centric’

‘Dynamic ribonucleoprotein complexes in the control of bacterial gene expression’

‘Impact of cryoEM in structural biology’

OPEN seminar ‘Genetic regulation of leaf development in C4 grasses’

‘Harnessing plant metabolic evolution for new catalysts, medicines, and materials’

‘Towards understanding morphogenesis and functionality of phloem’

‘Sensing the wall: Perception mechanisms of peptides involved in cell wall integrity and remodeling

‘Getting to the root of plant-microbiome interactions’

‘Growing out of stress: how plants use development to thrive in a changing world’

‘Exploring the Molecular Architecture of Photosynthetic Organelles with Cryo-Electron Tomography’

‘Conservation of immune mechanisms between bacteria, plants and animals’

‘Uncovering the hidden half of plants: discovering novel ways roots sense and adapt to heterogeneous environments’

‘Variability and robustness in growth and morphogenesis: from Arabidopsis sepals to Marchantia propagules’

‘Regulation of cellulose synthesis in Arabidopsis and beyond?’

‘What is sustainable agriculture and how does it link to sustainable food systems?’

‘Evolution of antiviral immunity from bacteria to animal cells ‘

‘Bacteria-phage warfare’

‘Connecting pathogen detection to induced defence in plant immunity’

‘Phylogenomics and evolutionary diversification of legumes – more than just peas and beans’

‘Regulation of seed size by mobile TERMINAL FLOWER1 in Arabidopsis’

‘Eat to Live: a Role for Diet in Cancer Therapy’

‘Pervasive impacts of domestication on microbial symbioses in chickpea’

‘Uncovering the apoplastic battlefield with activity-based proteomics’

‘Mechanisms and functions of RNA NAD+ capping’

The Scott-Moncrieff lecture; ‘Exploring the genetic basis of floral novelty in Aquilegia’

‘Friends, Foes, and Phages in the Phyllosphere’

‘The Future of Farming’

‘Learning the languages of chloroplasts through time and space’

‘The Effectors of Smut Fungi and How They Shape Fungal Lifestyle’

‘Using electron cryotomography to visualise cell ultrastructure’

‘A Synthetic Biology Approach to Engineer Nitrogen Fixation in Cereals’

‘The Geometry of Decision-Making’

‘Genetics of salinity tolerance traits in crops – and developing saltwater-based agricultural systems’

‘Tissue-specific regulation of DNA methylation patterns by the CLASSY protein family’

‘The minimal cell is the hydrogen atom of biology’

‘Flux and polarity in the plant vascular system’

‘How to kill your rivals: microbial warfare mediated by the Type VI secretion system’

‘Postranscriptional gene regulation in plant germline differentiation’

‘The Environment Shapes the Cell’

‘Building a wall: Molecular insights into how bacteria do it’

‘To understand a daisy: Phyllotaxis of flower heads’

‘Marchantia polymorpha as a model for understanding land plant evolution’

‘RNAi-dependent epimutations evoke transient antifungal drug resistance’

‘Mechanistic insight into the regulation of epigenetic silencing by PRC2’

‘Understanding Polycomb-mediated gene repression’

‘Codes within the Code: Synonymous codon optimality controls protein structure and gene expression’

The Scott-Moncrieff Lecture – ‘A conserved biochemical paradigm for signalosome assembly in animals and plants’

‘Title unpublished’

SEMINAR POSTPONED Professor Jiayang Li – The Biffen Lecture