Plant Biology Seminar Series

Seminars from the RSB Division of Plant Sciences.

No events are currently scheduled.

Past events

19
Feb
2021

PS Webinar Series- PhD Exit Seminar : Redesigning phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase for improved catalysis in C4 photosynthesis  »
C4 photosynthesis, a carbon concentrating mechanism, evolved as an adaptation to improve photosynthetic CO2 assimilation in terrestrial plants under conditions of low CO2, increased temperatures and varying rainfall patterns.
05
Feb
2021

PS Webinar Series- PhD Exit Seminar: Pathogen detection and microbial community compositions during fungal infections »
Devastating fungal diseases threaten global food security and plant and animal populations, highlighting the need for rapid and accurate identification of fungal pathogens.
03
Feb
2021

PS Webinar Series- PhD Exit Seminar : Understanding how a wheat pathogen avoids host immune responses »
Wheat is an important food supplier contributing to about one-fifth of worldwide daily caloric and protein needs.
29
Jan
2021

PS Webinar Series- PhD Exit Seminar - Evolving red-type Rubisco towards enhancing plant carbon fixation »
I have developed a novel E.coli based directed evolution system to evolve Ribulose-1,5 -bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco), the rate-limiting enzyme in the Calvin Cycle of photosynthetic organisms.
18
Dec
2020

PS Webinar Series: PhD Exit Seminar - Dynamics of water and carbon dioxide gas-exchange through the adaxial and abaxial surfaces of leaves »
Accurate estimation of gas exchange parameters has always been a fundamental aim of plant physiologists; from the more general assumptions and calculations presented by Moss and Rawlins (1963) up to the widely used model introduced by von Caemmerer and Farquhar (1981).
11
Dec
2020

PS Webinar Series: PhD Exit Seminar - Putting Rubisco into a carboxysome. »
This thesis aimed to resolve how cyanobacterial Rubisco interacts with its binding partners both in vivo and in vitro.
02
Dec
2020

PS Webinar Series: Understanding and engineering broad-spectrum disease resistance in crops »
Fungal pathogens are a major constraint to global crop production, hence plant genes encoding pathogen resistance are important tools for combating disease.
23
Nov
2020

Workshop on engineering ion channel aquaporins and boosting food security »
Workshop online webinar over 4 days: Monday 2nd November 4-6pm Tuesday 10th November 4-6pm Monday 16th November 4-7pm Monday 23rd November 3-7p
16
Nov
2020

Workshop on engineering ion channel aquaporins and boosting food security »
Workshop online webinar over 4 days: Monday 2nd November 4-6pm Tuesday 10th November 4-6pm Monday 16th November 4-7pm Monday 23rd November 3-7p
11
Nov
2020

Special Plantae Seminar - Creating Crops for the Future: Challenges, Technology and Sustainable Solutions »
This event is presented by Plantae, and co-hosted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology.
10
Nov
2020

Workshop on engineering ion channel aquaporins and boosting food security »
Workshop online webinar over 4 days: Monday 2nd November 4-6pm Tuesday 10th November 4-6pm Monday 16th November 4-7pm Monday 23rd November 3-7p
02
Nov
2020

Workshop on engineering ion channel aquaporins and boosting food security »
Workshop online webinar over 4 days: Monday 2nd November 4-6pm Tuesday 10th November 4-6pm Monday 16th November 4-7pm Monday 23rd November 3-7p
28
Oct
2020

PS Webinar Series: What the epigenome can tell us about the genomes of crop plants »
Despite the advances in genome sequencing and assembly, detailed annotation of plant genomes is now a bottleneck in genomic analysis and an impediment to realizing the full potential of genome editing for crop improvement.
23
Oct
2020

PS Webinar Series: PhD Exit Seminar: Rubisco and its biogenesis partners; exploiting understanding to build synthetic biology tools »
Rubisco is a critical enzyme in the carbon fixation reactions of photosynthesis, however it is catalytically slow and non-specific.
21
Oct
2020

PS Webinar Series: Elemental bio-imaging techniques in plant nutrition »
By 2050, food production may need to increase by up to 70% in order to feed a global population of an estimated 9.7 billion people.

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