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

June

  • 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

July

  • 4 July – TBC with Prof. Elizabete Carmo-Silva, Lancaster University
  • 11 July – TBC with Prof. Teva Vernoux, ENS de Lyon