Closing gaps in plant chronobiology: from genome to proteome and from molecules to future geographies

Friday 25 August 2023

In this seminar, Dr Devang Mehta will discuss their paper, "Closing the protein gap in plant chronobiology".

Vertical Farming – a silver bullet for modern agriculture ?

Tuesday 20 June 2023

Dr Jennifer Bromley will present her work at this seminar.

TLWD scaffold proteins sustain circadian function in Arabidopsis

Tuesday 13 June 2023

Dr Eva Herrero Serrano will present her work at this seminar.

A Bridge over Troubled Waters: Addressing challenges in cereal breeding through collaborative research

Tuesday 23 May 2023

Chris Burt will present his work in this seminar.

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Tuesday 9 May 2023

Professor Samantha Bryan will present her work at this seminar.

Plants as a central key to climate change; moving from consequences to solutions

Tuesday 14 March 2023

Professor Colleen Doherty will present her work at this seminar.

Macroevolutionary Dissection of Infection and Immunity in Land Plants

Tuesday 7 March 2023

Dr Philip Carella will present his work at this seminar.

Signalling in the sea - characterising novel ion channels and signalling processes in marine diatoms

Tuesday 28 February 2023

Dr Glen Wheeler will present his work at this seminar.

Recoding regulation - Synthetic Expansions of Plant Metabolism

Tuesday 31 January 2023

Dr Nicola Patron will present her work at this seminar.

The genomes of medicinal skullcaps reveal the polyphyletic origins of clerodane diterpene biosynthesis in the family Lamiaceae

Tuesday 24 January 2023

Dr Evangelos Tatsis will present his work at this seminar.

In defense of Maize. The genetics controlling disease resistance and defense response in maize.

Tuesday 6 December 2022

Professor Peter Balint-Kurti will present his work.

Defense and counter-defense in plant-pathogen interactions

Tuesday 29 November 2022

Professor Wenbo Ma will present their work.

Too much of a good thing: photosynthesis under high light stress

Tuesday 22 November 2022

Dr Johannes Kromdijk will present his work.

Reprogramming plants: Building gene circuits to alter plant function

Tuesday 18 October 2022

Dr James Lloyd will present his work.

Building a pyrenoid-based CO2-concentrating mechanism into plants

Tuesday 4 October 2022

Dr Alistair McCormick will present his work.

Closing the gaps in the C4 cycle

Tuesday 27 September 2022

Dr Steven Kelly will present his work.

Life with more than one genome

Tuesday 21 June 2022

Prof Dr Yves Van de Peer will present his work.

Genomics-Driven Discovery of Clustered Biosynthetic Pathways for Defense-Related Molecules in Bread Wheat

Tuesday 3 May 2022

Dr Guy Polturak will present his work.

From publications to public actions: What can scientists do for a planet in crisis ?

Tuesday 29 March 2022

Dr Abi Perrin will present her work.

Plagiarism in the Poaceae: the role of lateral gene transfer in grass evolution

Tuesday 8 March 2022

Dr Luke Dunning will present his work.

Unlocking the Polyploid Potential of Wheat Through Genomics

Tuesday 30 November 2021

Professor Cristobal Uauy will present his work

Researching and communicating the impacts of food on climate change

Tuesday 16 November 2021

Professor Sarah Bridle will present her work.

Not getting stuck in the cold

Tuesday 9 November 2021

Dr Laura Dixon will present her work

Breaking winter into “Bits”: how plants sense the cold

Tuesday 15 June 2021

Dr Rea Antoniou-Kourounioti will present her work.

Elucidating the Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning a Novel Acyanic Trait in Apple

Tuesday 16 March 2021

Dr Justin Lashbrooke will present his work.

Deep Learning the Terpenome: Unpacking Plant Chemical Arsenals

Tuesday 9 March 2021

Dr Gitanjali Yadav will present her work

Assessing the Organization and Photophysics of Light-Harvesting Proteins using Model Lipid Membranes

Tuesday 23 February 2021

Sophie Meredith will present her research.

From photons to phage particles: How viruses of cyanobacteria manipulate host photosynthesis

Tuesday 10 March 2020

Dr Richard Puxty will present his work.

Development of a seaweed industry

Tuesday 25 February 2020

Professor Michele Stanley will present her work.

The evolution of tyrosine-enriched metabolism and the convergent origin of betalain pigments

Tuesday 4 February 2020

Dr Samuel Brockington will present his work.

Using data driven approaches to address fundamental biological questions in wheat

Tuesday 28 January 2020

Professor Anthony Hall will present his work.

Using ancient DNA to investigate the origins and dispersal of the domesticated sunflower

Tuesday 7 January 2020

Dr Nathan Wales will present his work.

Molecular insights into factors controlling marine picocyanobacterial diversity and abundance

Tuesday 3 December 2019

Professor David Scanlan will present his work.

Circadian Rhythms and Growth in Challenging Conditions

Tuesday 19 November 2019

Professor Rachel Green will present her work.

Regulation and function of dynamic thylakoid stacking

Tuesday 12 November 2019

Dr Matt Johnson will present his work.

Methods and Tools for achieving accurate and fast characterization of transcriptomes at your fingertips

Tuesday 5 November 2019

Dr Runxuan Zhang will present his work

Spatial mapping of a cyanobacterial proteome reveals distinct subcellular compartment organisation and dynamic metabolic pathways

Tuesday 22 October 2019

Dr David Lea-Smith will present his work.

Insight in phytohormone-induced gene regulatory networks reveals unknown defence controllers

Tuesday 15 October 2019

Professor Saskia van Wees, Utrecht University will present her work.

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Tuesday 23 July 2019

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Can plant viruses manipulate their transmission by insects and influence the evolution of their hosts ?

Tuesday 18 June 2019

Prof John Carr will present his work

Growing a plant-based biotech from seed – challenges, successes and future perspectives

Tuesday 11 June 2019

Dr Ross Overman will present his work

Do plants using C2 photosynthesis grow differently than C3 and C4 plants?

Tuesday 28 May 2019

Dr Marjorie Lundgren will present her work

Effector proteins from Phytophthora plant pathogens; delivery to host plant cells, and deployment in diverse Phytophthora species

Tuesday 14 May 2019

Dr Steve Whisson will present his work

Plant power for a thirsty planet

Tuesday 7 May 2019

Professor Ian Dodd will present his work

Barley development and yield under abiotic stresses

Tuesday 19 March 2019

Professor Maria von Korff will present her work.

Zooming in on calcium signals in plants - from organism to organelle level

Tuesday 12 March 2019

Prof. Dr. Edgar Peiter will present his work

Field and farm scale research with ADAS

Tuesday 5 March 2019

Dr Ruth Wade will present her work

Sequencing the sea lettuces: how green seaweed genomes shed light on the evolution of the green lineage

Tuesday 26 February 2019

Dr John Bothwell will present his work

Hybrid barley breeding

Tuesday 5 February 2019

Dr Monika Spiller will present her work

Investigating the role of chromatin remodelling in plant immunity

Tuesday 22 January 2019

Dr Vardis Ntoukakis will present his work

A synthetic biology approach to crop improvement: Bottom-up construction of a proteinaceous Rubisco organelle

Tuesday 11 December 2018

Dr Ben Long will present his work

A light touch: minimally invasive imaging of pathogenesis in plants

Tuesday 27 November 2018

Dr George Littlejohn will present his work

Introducing the algal CO2-concentrating mechanism into higher plants

Tuesday 20 November 2018

Dr Alistair McCormick will present his work

Arsenic in rice, a global understanding.

Tuesday 13 November 2018

Professor Andy Meharg, will present his work

Stick or twist? Decision-making and risk-aversion in plant development

Tuesday 30 October 2018

Dr Tom Bennett will present his work

CANCELLED

Tuesday 23 October 2018

CANCELLED

Fine-tuning seed development with metabolism

Tuesday 16 October 2018

Dr Vasilios Andriotis will present their work

Enabling eukaryotic algal engineering by optimized transgene design strategies

Tuesday 9 October 2018

Dr Kyle Lauersen will present their work

Growth control in plants: current understanding and potential applications

Tuesday 2 October 2018

Professor Mike Bevan will present his work

Dynamic ubiquitination determines transcriptional coactivator activity

Tuesday 25 September 2018

Dr Steven Spoel will present his work

Innovating in Sustainable Agriculture: Food, Fear and the Future of Farming

Tuesday 26 June 2018

Dr David Hughes will present his work

Phytochromes as low temperature sensors in Arabidopsis.

Tuesday 19 June 2018

Rachael Oakenfull will present her work

Adaptive lateral gene transfer in grasses

Tuesday 12 June 2018

Dr Luke Dunning will present his work

Plant Biology Seminar - Two speakers from the University of York.

Tuesday 5 June 2018

Raquel and Charlotte will present their work

Evolution in ecological timescales: a threat to food production and security

Tuesday 29 May 2018

Helen Hicks will present her work

Opportunities from plant signalling for sustainable management of pests: Lessons from ecosystem management for development by GM

Tuesday 22 May 2018

John A Pickett will present his work

*CANCELLED* Title TBC

Tuesday 15 May 2018

Dr Vasilios Andriotis, University of Newcastle

Looking for a needle in a haystack: searching for substrates of the N-end rule of targeted protein degradation using genetics and proteomics

Tuesday 1 May 2018

Frederica Theodoulou will present her work

Genome Biology in Wild and Cultivated Potato

Tuesday 24 April 2018

C. Robin Buell will present their work

The Quest for Durable Plant Disease Resistance

Tuesday 17 April 2018

Professor John Walsh, University of Warwick

How plants breathe - biomechanical modelling of guard cells

Tuesday 20 February 2018

Professor Richard Morris, John Innes Centre

Metabolic transitions of rhizobia and application to engineering N2­-fixation in cereals

Tuesday 13 February 2018

Professor Philip Poole, University of Oxford

Modelling responses of plant productivity to environmental change in the tropics

Tuesday 30 January 2018

Dr Lina Mercado, University of Exeter

Gene regulatory networks in wheat uncover the control of agronomic traits

Tuesday 28 November 2017

Dr. Philippa Borrill, John Innes Centre

The roles of β-oxidation and autophagy in peroxisomal distribution and function in Arabidopsis thaliana

Tuesday 14 November 2017

Dr. Mauro Rinaldi, CNAP

Bioengineering Rubisco and its chaperons

Tuesday 31 October 2017

Dr. Maxim Kapralov, University of Newcastle

Plug & play - developing tuneable gene expression in microalgae using synthetic biology approaches

Tuesday 24 October 2017

Prof. Alison Smith, University of Cambridge

Exploring the plant endomembrane system with advanced microscopy

Tuesday 17 October 2017

Prof. Chris Hawes, Oxford Brookes University

Trans-generational environmental signalling in plants and the maternal control of progeny properties

Tuesday 10 October 2017

Dr. Steve Penfield, John Innes Centre

Glutathione Homeostasis Plays a Critical Role in Protecting Plants from Abiotic Stresses and in Heavy Metals Phytoremediation

Thursday 13 July 2017

Dr Om Dankher, University of Massachusetts

Redox regulation in plant cells and its role in acclimation to environmental stress

Tuesday 20 June 2017

Prof. Christine Foyer, University of Leeds

The evolution of photosynthetic efficiency

Tuesday 13 June 2017

Dr. Steve Kelly, University of Oxford

Improving photosynthesis, the engine of life

Tuesday 6 June 2017

Prof. Martin Parry, Lancaster University

The Plant Lytic Vacuole: Space-Filler, Garbage Bag, or Something More Interesting?

Tuesday 23 May 2017

Prof. Dale Sanders, John Innes Centre

How do plants sense time and temperature?

Tuesday 18 April 2017

Prof. Hugh Nimmo, University of Glasgow

New insights into the regulation and roles of pectin methylesterases (PMEs)

Tuesday 14 March 2017

Prof. Jérôme Pelloux, Université de Picardie

On Mutation: Darwin’s ‘whatever the cause’…

Tuesday 7 March 2017

Prof. Nicholas Harberd, University of Oxford

Using Synthetic Biology to make golden plants for Valentine’s Day

Tuesday 14 February 2017

Dr. Liz Rylott, CNAP, University of York

UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE 3 – A novel regulator of yield in Brassica napus

Tuesday 7 February 2017

Dr. Charlotte Miller, John Innes Centre

Circadian and environmental regulation of chloroplasts

Tuesday 31 January 2017

Dr. Antony Dodd, University of Bristol

Understanding final steps of artemisinin synthesis in Artemisia annua

Tuesday 17 January 2017

Dr. Tomasz Czechowski, CNAP, University of York

An ultra-deep RNA-seq time-course defines alternative splicing in the cold temperature response of Arabidopsis

Tuesday 22 November 2016

Prof. John W. S. Brown, University of Dundee/James Hutton Institute

A repeat protein links Rubisco to form the eukaryotic carbon concentrating organelle

Tuesday 15 November 2016

Dr. Luke Mackinder, University of York

Arabidopsis responses to Pseudomonas syringae infection and the emergence of the chloroplast as a key player in innate immunity

Tuesday 1 November 2016

Prof. Murray Grant, University of Warwick

Symbiotic options for the conquest of land

Tuesday 25 October 2016

Dr. Katie Field, University of Leeds

Wheat pre-breeding at NIAB: from germplasm to genomics

Tuesday 18 October 2016

Dr. Alison Bentley, NIAB

Unlocking Plant Intercellular Channels: Integrating cell wall biology and polymer physics

Tuesday 11 October 2016

Dr. Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, University of Leeds

Oilseed crops as integrated production platforms for food, feed, fuel and renewable industrial feedstock

Tuesday 14 June 2016

Frédéric Beaudoin will present his research

Understanding Vernalization for predictive breeding in Brassica

Tuesday 7 June 2016

Judith Irwin will present her research

Photoperiod 1 (Ppd-H1) affects leaf size and phyllochron in barley

Tuesday 17 May 2016

Alessandro Tondelli will present their research