Upcoming Friday Seminars

We host a weekly programme of seminars with internationally eminent plant and microbial scientists.

Email jic.fridayseminars@jic.ac.uk to request access.

As soon as they are confirmed we will announce speakers for the next academic term here.

January

  • 16 January – Chance and dance with plants’ power plants: roles of physical, genetic, and social dynamics in mitochondrial maintenance with Prof. Iain Johnston, Universitetet i Bergen
  • 23 JanuaryAn inordinate fondness for symbionts: Beneficial bacteria as sources of evolutionary innovations in insects with Prof. Martin Kaltenpoth, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
  • 30 JanuaryProcessing extracellular information: MLO signaling in plant reproduction and development with Prof. Sharon Kessler, Purdue University

February

  • 6 February – Engineering and Safeguarding Synthetic Genomes with Prof. Patrick Cai, University of Manchester
  • 13 February – The Hopwood Lecture: OPEN Seminar – Establishing causality: Opportunities of synthetic communities for plant microbiome research with Prof. Julia Vorholt, ETH Zurich
  • 27 FebruaryThe Great Mediator: Balancing Growth and Stress in Plant Roots with Prof. Jitendra K. Thakur, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology,
    New Delhi

March

  • 6 March – TBC with Prof. Hongwei Guo, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
  • 13 MarchThe Scott Moncrieff Lecture: TBC with Prof. Robin Buell, University of Georgia
  • 20 MarchTBC with Prof. Michael Laub, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • 28 NovemberTBC with Prof. Julia Mahamid, European Molecular Biology Laboratory