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Plant Biology Seminar Series
Seminars from the RSB Division of Plant Sciences.
No events are currently scheduled.
Past events
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.
29
Jul
2020
PS Webinar Series: Machine Learning, Satellites, and Crops – The (very near and exciting) future of space-based plant biology »
This seminar will discuss the terabytes of unused satellite data that observe the natural world, yet have not been widely used for field biology, in the context of agriculture.
22
Jul
2020
PS Webinar Series: The stem rust fungus Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici induces centromeric small RNAs during late infection that direct genome-wide DNA methylation »
Silencing of transposable elements (TEs) is essential for maintaining genome stability. Plants use small RNAs (sRNAs) to direct DNA methylation to TEs (RNA-directed DNA methylation; RdDM). Similar mechanisms of epigenetic silencing in the fungal kingdom have remained elusive.
17
Jul
2020
PS Webinar Series: PhD Exit Webinar - The SWEET Journey from Source to Sink in Setaria viridis: The Role of Sugar Effluxers »
This research project investigates how photoassimilates moves from source leaves to other sink tissues that accumulate large amounts of carbohydrates. Many sinks such as stem and seeds/grains rely on the accumulation of sugars and starch during their development as they mature and become storage tissue.
01
Jul
2020
PS Webinar Series: The many fungal hosts of ToxA - Near complete genomes give new insight into old stories of horizontal gene transfer »
Most known examples of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) between eukaryotes are ancient. These events are identified primarily using phylogenetic methods on coding regions alone.
