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.

April

  • 24 AprilThe Chatt Lecture – Pyroptosis & innate immunity: mechanisms & therapeutics potentials with Prof. Feng Shao, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing

May

  • 8 MayGreen Revolution DELLA Proteins: Functional analysis and regulator mechanism with Prof. Tai-Ping Sun, Duke University
  • 15 MayBiotechnology strategies to control citrus bacterial diseases based on the knowledge of plant-pathogen interaction with Prof. Alessandra De Souza, Centro de Citricultura Sylvio Moreira, Brazil

June

  • 5 JuneFrom Recalcitrance to Efficiency: Understanding and Expanding Agrobacteria-Mediated Transformability in Plants with Prof. Erh-Min Lai, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology Academia Sinica, Taipei
  • 19 JuneThe molecular basis of CO₂-concentrating mechanism and cyanobacteria symbiosis in hornworts with Prof. Fay-Wei Li, Cornell University
  • 26 June – OPEN Friday Seminar – How to build and control a meiotic DNA-breaking machine with Prof. Scott Keeney, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

July

  • 3 July – Computing when to branch; development and plasticity of root system branching with Prof. Kirsten ten Tusscher, Universiteit Utrecht
  • 10 July – TBC with Mohammad Seyedsayamdost, Princeton University