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Plant Biology Seminar Series
Seminars from the RSB Division of Plant Sciences.
29
Mar
2023
12pm 29 March 2023
Nijat Imin, Assoc Professor Intensive Food Production, Western Sydney University
Nitrogen is a key determinant of crop productivity as the acquisition of nitrogen is crucial for photosynthesis and growth.
31
Mar
2023
3.30pm 31 March 2023
Pravin Khambalkar, PhD candidate Jones Group - Disease resistance
Fungal pathogens of crop plants are a major cause for yield loss and a critical concern for global food security.
06
Apr
2023
12pm 6 April 2023
Assoc Professor Danielle Way - Way Group - Plant Ecophysiology and Global Change Biology
Rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations could reach >1000 ppm by 2100, increasing global temperatures 3-4 °C. Both elevated CO2 and warming affect photosynthesis, altering plant growth, survival, and crop yield and quality.
Past events
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.
20
Oct
2020
Australian Synthetic Biology Challenge: The Final Showcase »
National undergraduate synthetic biology challenge.
14
Oct
2020
PS Webinar Series: Predictable Engineering of Plants for a Sustainable Future »
The urgent need to find alternatives to petroleum-based fuels and products is driven by concerns for the environment, dwindling fossil fuel reserves, and the issue of energy security.
07
Oct
2020
PS Webinar Series: Keeping genes alive: the central role of terminators in protecting transgenes from silencing »
Gene silencing induced by small RNAs (sRNAs) is an important mechanism responsible for many crucial physiological responses in plants, such as genome integrity, defense against virus, adaptation to biotic and abiotic stresses and regulation of development.
23
Sep
2020
PS webinar Series: Adaptive evolution at a pathogen effector-host target binding interface is associated with host specificity »
Accelerated gene evolution is a hallmark of pathogen adaptation and is crucial to enable host-range expansions and host-jumps
09
Sep
2020
PS Webinar Series: Improvement of barley traits by targeted genome modification »
The emergence and implementation of Cas endonuclease technology has undoubtedly taken plant research and biotechnology to a higher level.
02
Sep
2020
PS Webinar Series: Innovation, Conservation and Repurposing of Gene Function in Plant Cell Type Development »
Irrespective of species, plant roots have remarkably similar patterning, and thus, many cell types are considered functionally homologous across species.
19
Aug
2020
PS Webinar Series: Technological convergence for Planetary Health - Precision Landscape Regeneration »
Agriculture and ecosystems are tipping toward collapse due to land use and climate extremes. Irreversible feedbacks in the land system can lock in food insecurity, biodiversity loss and a hot house world.
14
Aug
2020
PS Webinar Series: PhD Exit Webinar - Future-proofing cotton production by building resilient photosynthetic pathways »
In order to sustain and improve cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) production in future climates with increasingly hot mean annual temperatures and more frequent and extreme heatwaves, developing climate-adapted cotton cultivars is required.
12
Aug
2020
PS Webinar Series: Building a Bacterial CO2 Concentrating Mechanism »
Many photosynthetic organisms employ a CO2 concentrating mechanism (CCM) to increase the rate of CO2 fixation via the Calvin cycle. CCMs catalyze ≈50% of global photosynthesis, yet it remains unclear which genes and proteins are necessary for a CCM to function.
07
Aug
2020
PS Webinar Series: PhD Exit Webinar - CEP-CEPR1 signalling controls root system architecture in Arabidopsis »
C-TERMINALLY ENCODED PEPTIDES (CEPs) interact with the CEPR1 receptor to control nitrate uptake and primary root growth, however the role of CEP-CEPR1 signalling in controlling overall root system architecture is unknown.
05
Aug
2020
PS Webinar Series: Co-evolutionary diversification of barley MLA immune receptors by sequence-unrelated powdery mildew AVRA effectors »
Disease resistance is mediated by recognition of pathogen avriulence effectors (AVR) through host nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLR).
31
Jul
2020
PS Webinar Series: PhD Exit Webinar - Beyond the root system: Defining a role for the peptide hormone receptor CEPR1 in the control of seed size and yield »
The interaction of C-TERMINALLY ENCODED PEPTIDES (CEPs) with CEP RECEPTOR1 (CEPR1) controls root growth and development, as well as nitrate uptake, but has no known role in determining yield.
