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 April – The Chatt Lecture – Pyroptosis & innate immunity: mechanisms & therapeutics potentials with Prof. Feng Shao, National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing
May
- 8 May – Green Revolution DELLA Proteins: Functional analysis and regulator mechanism with Prof. Tai-Ping Sun, Duke University
- 15 May – Biotechnology 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 June – From 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 June – The 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