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.

February

  • 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 – RNA decay and gene silencing in plants with Prof. Hongwei Guo, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
  • 13 MarchThe Scott Moncrieff Lecture: Seminar Complexity of plant natural product biosynthesis revealed through single cell multi-omics with Prof. Robin Buell, University of Georgia
  • 20 MarchFinding and characterizing anti-phage defense systems with Prof. Michael Laub, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • 27 MarchEnabling discovery by in-cell structural biology with Prof. Julia Mahamid, European Molecular Biology Laboratory