Exit Seminar- Yue Yu Title- Genomic Insights into Adaptation, Introgression, and Crop Improvement in Sunflowers Host- Loren Rieseberg
Guest Speaker- Olivia Wilkins Affiliation- University of Manitoba Host- Arif Ashraf Title: Single Cell RNA-seq in plants: the interplay between development and climate stress Abstract: Growth-limiting stressors, like drought and saline soils, are widespread in productive agricultural areas. These stressors impair tissue expansion and delay development, ultimately reduce crop yields. While many regulators of stress […]
Exit Seminar- Seni Senjaya Host- Quentin Cronk Title- Phylogeny, diversity, and reproductive strategies of jade gingers and their relatives (Hellwigia Warb.)
Exit Seminar- Daniele Giannotti Title- Evolution, diversity, and associated bacteria of skeleton-bearing Rhizaria through single-cell omics Host- Patrick Keeling
Guest Speaker- Nicolas Gentis Affiliation- Centre de recherche en paléontologie, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle-Sorbonne Université, Paris, France Host- Quentin Cronk Title- The power of wood anatomy and its linkage to other disciplines Plants acquired the ability for secondary growth early in their history, at least 400 million years ago, through the advent of a secondary […]
Exit Seminar- Ruby Burns Title- Hold on tight! Disentangling the drivers of kelp holdfast diversity across scales Host- Patrick Martone
Guest Speaker- Joey Tanney Affiliation- Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria BC, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada Title-Hidden Fungi, Visible Consequences: Forest Disease in a Changing Climate Hosts- Mary Berbee & Monika Fischer
Exit Seminar- Lilith South Title- Finding the invisible: enigmatic intracellular parasites and communicating topics in protistology Hosts- Naomi Fast & Patrick Keeling
Guest Speaker- Dr. Lyn Baldwin Affiliation- Thompson Rivers University Title: An Unquiet Botany: Reconciling Plants and People with Story and Image Host- Sunita Chowrira Abstract Plants and people have a complicated relationship. We depend upon plants every day—for food, fodder, pharmaceuticals, fibre and fuel—even as the last 500 years of colonial violence has transformed them […]
Exit Seminar- MSc- Olivia Hazelwood Title- Cell cycle regulation during environmental stress and stress recovery Host- Arif Ashraf
Guest Speaker- Mathias Schuetz (Botany Adjunct Professor) Affiliation- Kwantlen Polytechnic University Title-TBA Host- Abel Rosado Mathias Schuetz is a plant cell biologist with expertise in molecular biology, biochemistry and plant genetics. He has over 15 years of research experience working on plant molecular biology and regularly publishes his research in the highest-ranking scientific journals in […]
Exit Seminar- Gloria Bailan Lu Title- Compartment-Specific Regulation of Seed-To-Seedling Transition by Evolutionarily Conserved Co-Repressors in Arabidopsis and Tomato Host- Liang Song
Exit Seminar- Christiaan Spangenberg Title- TBA Host- Abel Rosado
Guest Speaker- Yangnan Gu Affiliation- Associate Professor, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley Host- Xin Li Title- TBA
Exit Seminar- Drew Hall Title- TBA Host- Lacey Samuels
Guest Speaker- Ryan Nett Affiliation-Harvard University Title- The specialized chemistry of medicinal and dietary plants Hosts- Arif Ashraf & Joerg Bohlmann
Exit Seminar- Zoe Schaefer Title- TBA Host- Keith Adams
Guest Speaker- Yun Zhou Affiliation- Purdue University Host- Liang Song Title- TBA
Exit Seminar- Maia Palka Title- Diversity and evolution of episymbiotic interactions in euglenids (Euglenozoa) inhabiting low oxygen marine sediments Host- Brian Leander
Guest Speaker- Daniel Kierzkowski Affiliation- Associate professor, University of Montréal Host- Arif Ashraf Title- TBA
Exit Seminar- Raymond Kwok Host- Liang Song Title- Elucidating the biosynthetic pathway of the auronidin flavonoid pigments in liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha)
Exit seminar- Nicole Bison Title- The ecology, evolution and mechanistic basis of photosynthetic heat tolerance Host- Sean Michaletz