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.

May

2 May – Coupling of transcription and alternative splicing in human cells and plants withProf. Alberto Kornblihtt, Universidad de Buenos Aires
9 May – The conquest of land – Contribution of transcription factors and redox processes to novel challenges with Prof. Sabine Zachgo, The Botanical Garden, University of Osnabruck
16 May – My model organism eats your model organism: The extraordinary biology of a Drosophila that attacks Arabidopsis with Dr. Noah Whiteman, University of California, Berkeley
23 May – The 2025 Woolhouse Lecture: TBC with Prof. Brian Staskawicz, University of California, Berkeley

13 June – Genome editing and sustainable agriculture: applications and implications with Prof. Rodolphe Barrangou, North Carolina State University
20 June – TBC with Prof. Nicolaus von Wiren, The Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)
27 June – Phenotypic heterogeneity and mutation dynamics during bacterial stress adaptation with Prof. Stephan Uphoff, University of Oxford