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