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 January – An inordinate fondness for symbionts: Beneficial bacteria as sources of evolutionary innovations in insects with Prof. Martin Kaltenpoth, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
- 30 January – Processing 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 February – The 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 March – The Scott Moncrieff Lecture: TBC with Prof. Robin Buell, University of Georgia
- 20 March – TBC with Prof. Michael Laub, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- 28 November – TBC with Prof. Julia Mahamid, European Molecular Biology Laboratory