Events

Guest Speaker – Basudev Ghoshal

TOPIC : CRISPR-based targeted DNA methylation tools in plants: a novel approach for disease management LOCATION: MSL Auditorium HOST: Shawn Mansfield SPEAKER: Guest Speaker- Basudev Ghoshal AFFILIATION: Molecular Plant Virology, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada SERIES: Botany Seminar Series

EXIT SEMINAR- JOSEF GAREN

TOPIC: Temperature response of plant carbon metabolism, water use, and growth LOCATION: TBA HOST: Sean Michaletz SPEAKER: Exit Seminar- Josef Garen AFFILIATION: Botany Department SERIES: Botany Seminar Series

EXIT SEMINAR- MARJOLEIN TOORIANS

TOPIC: Biodiversity loss and the rise of epidemics: Disease-emergence explained through host phylogenetic community structure LOCATION: TBA HOST: Jonathan Davies SPEAKER: Exit Seminar- Marjolein Toorians AFFILIATION: Botany Department SERIES: Botany Seminar Series

EXIT SEMINAR- YIHAN GONG

TOPIC: The Role of Autophagy in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Biology LOCATION: TBA HOST: Xin Li SPEAKER: Exit Seminar- Yihan Gong AFFILIATION: Botany Department SERIES: Botany Seminar Series

Exit Seminar- Mikko Paajanen

TOPIC: St Helena, species hybridization and conservation on a small oceanic island LOCATION: MSL Auditorium HOST: Quentin Cronk SPEAKER: Exit Seminar- Mikko Paajanen AFFILIATION: Botany Department SERIES: Botany Seminar Series

GUEST SPEAKER- THOMAS JUENGER

TOPIC: Genetic and genomic studies of local adaptation and ecotypic formation in Panicum grasses LOCATION: MSL Auditorium HOST: Liang Song SPEAKER: Guest Speaker- Thomas Juenger AFFILIATION: University of Austin, Texas SERIES: Botany Seminar Series

Exit Seminar- Magnus Macaulay

TOPIC: GENERATING A NULL BACKGROUND FOR THE EXPRESSION OF MICROTUBULE ORGANIZATION 1 (MOR1) TRANSLATIONAL REPORTER CONSTRUCTS BY CRISPR/CAS9 AND RECOMBINEERING TECHNOLOGIES LOCATION: MSL Auditorium HOST: Geoff Wasteneys SPEAKER: Exit Seminar- Magnus Macaulay AFFILIATION: Botany Department SERIES: Botany Seminar Series

Guest Speaker-Matthias Hahn

TOPIC: To kill or to be killed: Infection mechanisms of the grey mould fungus Botrytis cinerea LOCATION: TBA HOST: Xin Li SPEAKER: Guest Speaker-Matthias Hahn AFFILIATION: RPTU University of Kaiserslautern Department of Biology SERIES: Botany Seminar Series

Exit Seminar- Ina Na

TOPIC: ‘The diversity and evolution of apicomplexan and apicomplexan-like parasites, with focus on the adeleorinids, gregarines, and squirmids’ LOCATION: MSL Auditorium HOST: Patrick Keeling SPEAKER: Exit Seminar- Ina Na AFFILIATION: Botany Department SERIES: Botany Seminar Series

Exit Seminar- Emma Menchions

TOPIC: Eco-evolutionary competition feedbacks: can they build resident resistance to invasion? LOCATION: TBA HOST: Amy Angert SPEAKER: Exit Seminar- Emma Menchions AFFILIATION: Botany Department SERIES: Botany Seminar Series

Guest Speaker- Davoud Torkamaneh

TOPIC: Seeds of Success: Cultivating Medicinal Cannabis through the Power of Uniformity and Genetic Stability LOCATION: TBA HOST: Marco Todesco SPEAKER: Guest Speaker- Davoud Torkamaneh AFFILIATION: Université Laval SERIES: Botany Seminar Series

Exit Seminar- Yiran Wang

Botany Seminar Series Presents: Exit Seminar, Yiran Wang Title: Genetic analysis of defense pathway downstream of the immune receptor SNC2 in Arabidopsis Thaliana Host: Xin Li  

Guest Speaker- Kevin Hultine, Director- Desert Botanical Garden PHOENIX, AZ

Host: Sean Michaletz Title: Can plants acclimate to extreme heat waves? Climate change coupled with urban expansion are rapidly altering environmental conditions in which native plants of the desert southwestern United States and northern Mexico have thrived in since the last glacial maximum. As a consequence of these changes, plants and ecosystems are now being […]

Exit Seminar- Sherry Sun

Host: Guus Bakkeren Title: Characterizing gene families involved in systemic defense signaling against microbial pathogens in common wheat (This Seminar will be over zoom as the speaker will not be in town. Zoom details to come. )