CambPlants Hub

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University - 47 Bateman Street and Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Molecular Signals in and from Parasitic Plants

User Dr Thomas Spallek Plant Biotic Interactions Group, Albrecht-von-Haller Institute, University of Göttingen, Germany.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Supercharging the Soil: Harnessing the Phytomicrobiome for Plant Health

User Samuel Martins.

Monday 12 August 2024, 10:00-11:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Plant Sciences Seminar

User Xinnian Dong, Duke University, USA.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Enid MacRobbie Women in Science Lecture

User Philippa Borrill, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 12:15-13:45

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

On using mathematical 'snakes' to study the effects of cell divisions on auxin patterning in plant roots

User Etienne Farcot- University of Nottingham.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Evolution of multisensory integration in plants

User Prof. Miguel A. Blázquez - Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (CSIC-UPV).

House 47 Bateman Street .

Wednesday 27 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Branching Out Seminar Series - The curse of scale, more cells more rouges, and the impossibility of whales: somatic evolution across the tree of life

User Alex Cagan.

House 47 Bateman Street .

Thursday 14 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Plant Sciences Seminar

User Jiafu Tan, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Deciphering the molecular basis of cell-surface immune signaling

User Cyril Zipfel, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Plant Sciences Seminar

User Rhett Harrison, CIFOR.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

House 47 Baterman Street .

Dr Angela Hay - Creating an Explosion

User Dr Angela Hay.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

House 47 Baterman Street .

Branching Out Seminar Series: Darren Croft

User Darren Croft.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Kenneth Sporne Lecture: Uncovering the drivers of complexity in vascular plants, new insights from fossils and genes

User Sandy Hetherington, University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Plant Sciences Seminar

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

FF Blackman Memorial Lecture in Plant Physiology

User Alex Costa, University of Milan, Italy.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Plant Sciences Seminar

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 12:15-13:45

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Branching Out Seminar Series: Lewis Dartnell - 'Astrobiology and Science Writing'

Please email events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for hybrid event details

User Lewis Dartnell.

Friday 26 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Convergent evolution of CO2-fixing liquid-liquid phase separation

User Luke Mackinder, University of York.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 12:15-13:45

House Hybrid meeting. Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Understanding Transcription in Plants

User Professor Lucia Strader.

Wednesday 13 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Sleeping giant – opening access to the untapped scientific data held in the Cambridge University Herbarium

User Dr Anne Dubéarnès, Cambridge University Herbarium, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

The timing and nature of early land plant evolution

User Professor Philip Donoghue, University of Bristol.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Mining the medicinal plant treasures of a biodiversity hotspot using biotechnological tools

User Professor Nokwanda Makunga, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Chasing the ghost behind germination and starvation: the unidentified hormone ‘KL’

User Dr Thomas Irving, Cereal Symbiosis Group, Crop Science Centre, Department of Plant Sciences..

Thursday 09 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Single-Cell and Spatial Dissection of Plant-Microbe Interactions

User Tatsuya Nobori, PhD Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

Monday 06 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

RR-Myb related transcription factors, novel regulators of chloroplast biogenesis

User Dr Eftychios Frangedakis, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

A symplastic, not a simplistic, path: new insights into the role and structural properties of the plasmodesmata cell wall

User Dr Yoselin Benitez-Alfonso, University of Leeds.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Increasing the rice bundle sheath chloroplast compartment by manipulating brassinosteroid signalling

User Dr Lee Cackett, Plant Physiology and Symbiosis Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Beyond Campus: Industry Expert Seminar - Enhancing the sustainability of the food system through SEEDesignTM

User Dr Mike Nuccio, Senior Director of AI at Inari, USA.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Not all that is repetitive is a clock; Elucidating early steps of lateral root formation

User Professor Kirsten ten Tusscher, Utrecht University, Netherland.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Ground rules for flexible leaf development

User Dominique Bergmann (Stanford University).

Tuesday 11 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

TLWD scaffold proteins sustain circadian rhythms in Arabidopsis

User Dr Eva Herrero Serrano, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Role of Mechanics in Coordination of Cell Behaviour in Plants

User Professor Enrico Coen, John Innes Centre, UK.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Decision Making in Plant Roots: a role for microtubules in sugar sensing and salt stress

User Geoffrey Wasteneys (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada).

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Rubisco activity and the response of crop leaf photosynthesis to shade

User Dr Samuel Taylor, University of Lancaster.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Immunity activation and execution in plants: a biochemical perspective

User Professor Jane Parker, Max Planck Institute, Germany.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Circadian regulation of sunflower development

User Professor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

The Cambridge quest to solve Darwin’s abominable mystery

User Professor Richard Buggs, Queen Mary University London and Royal Botanic Garden Kews, UK.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Exploring the regulatory universe of Retinoblastoma function in DNA damage response

User Arp Schnittger (University of Hamburg).

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Unraveling the molecular evolution of betalain-producing enzymes to boost their industrial application

User Dr Alejandra Guerrero Rubio, Brockington Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 16 March 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Considering B vitamin metabolism in plants, and for food and nutritional security

User Professor Teresa Fitzpatrick, University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Thursday 09 March 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Auxin - an universal synchronizer in plants and beyond.

User Krzysztof Wabnik (UPM).

Friday 03 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Unravelling the molecular mechanism of petal spot initiation in sexually deceptive South African daisy Gorteria diffusa.

User Dr Udhaya Ponraj, Glover Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 12:15-13:45

CANCELLED: Circadian regulation of sunflower development

User Professor Stacey Harmer, UC Davies, USA.

House CANCELLED.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Scaling the wall in leaf development: from structure to function

User Andrew Fleming (The University of Sheffield).

Friday 17 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Bumblebees' floral preferences are shaped by rapid valuation of sensory nectar properties

User Dr Fei Peng, Visiting Researcher, Glover Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Molecular insights into abiotic and biotic factors shaping diatom ecophysiology and signalling

User Dr Katherine Helliwell, University of Exeter, UK.

Thursday 09 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Publishing in Communications Biology and other journals in the Nature Portfolio

User David Favero, Nature Communications.

Monday 06 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Soil microbiomes and one Health

User Professor Marcel van der Heijden, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

House Online only.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Plant development in complex environments

User Scott Hayes (Wageningen University & Research).

Friday 27 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Alternative meristems: mapping the expression landscape of transcription factor in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha

User Dr Facundo Romani, Haseloff Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 12:15-13:45

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Should I stay or should I grow? Coordinating hormones to make decisions

User Annalisa Rizza (SLCU).

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 10:00-11:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Getting to the root of symbiotic nodule developments in legumes

User Katharina Schiessl (SLCU).

Friday 20 January 2023, 10:00-11:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Deciphering Molecular and Cellular Dynamics of Invasive Growth Across Developmental Contexts

User Dorothee Stoeckle (University of Zurich).

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

How do Cell Walls Drive Growth and Development

User Henry Temple (University of Cambridge).

Monday 16 January 2023, 10:00-11:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Arrested development. Stomatal patterning during embryogenesis and the developmental blocks that prevent progress.

User Margot Smit (Stanford, HHMI).

Tuesday 10 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Breaking the red limit: photosynthesis in far-red light

User Professor Roberta Croce, Free University, Netherlands.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

The ins and outs of root meristem shape and function

User Professor Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

The molecular basis of sexual deception in Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae)

User Dr Roman Kellenberger, Evolution and Development, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Developing platforms for the production of diterpenoids

User Dr Edith Forestier, Synthetic Biology for Engineering Plant Growth, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Developing Parasite-Resistant Systems in Tomatoes to Control Infestations of Cuscuta campestris

User Dr Min-Yao Jhu, Sustainable Crop Nutrition Group, Crop Science Centre.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Active Matter and Transport in Living Cells

User Michael Shelley (Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute).

Monday 31 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

Understanding genome regulation during seed germination

User Mathew G. Lewsey (Centre for AgriBioscience at La Trobe University).

Thursday 27 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

A climate risk analysis for Earth's forests in the 21st century

User Professor William Anderegg, University of Utah, USA.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details. .

The End –– and the innumerable ways to reach it

User Yaowu Yuan, University of Connecticut.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

Regulatory networks controlling carpel (and petal) development

User Dr. Humberto Herrera-Ubaldo, Evolution & Development Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences,.

Protein import into chloroplasts and its regulation by the ubiquitin-proteasome system

User R. Paul Jarvis, Section of Molecular Plant Biology, Department of Biology, University of Oxford .

Thursday 13 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

The Evo-Devo of Multicellularity.

User Karl Niklas (Cornell University).

Tuesday 13 September 2022, 14:30-15:30

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Understanding Transcriptional Cross-regulation Between Hormone Response Pathways

User Professor Mathew Lewsey, La Trobe University.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Exploring Cell-to-Cell Connectivity in C4 Photosynthesis

User Dr Tina Schreier, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 09 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Small RNA-directed Reprogramming of Gene Expression During Host-bacteria Interactions

User Professor Lionel Navarro, IBENS.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Belowground Microbial Community Responses to Climate Change: Resistance, Resilience, and Alternative States

User Professor Richard Bardgett, University of Manchester.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Crop Science Seminar: Root System Architecture Traits Supporting High Yielding Winter Wheat

User Eric Ober.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

Crop Science Seminar: NSP2 and the Regulation of the Symbiotically Permissive State

User Darius Zarrabian, Oldroyd Lab, Crop Science Centre.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

House Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Stomatal evolution and using knowledge of stomatal function to breed more resilient crops

User Professor Alistair Hetherington, University of Bristol .

Thursday 12 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Crop Science Seminar: Ensembl Plants - An Overview

User Guy Naamati, Ensembl Plants Project Leader.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 10:30-11:30

Host Age-dependent Evolution of a Plant RNA Virus

User Professor Santiago F. Elena, Instituto de Biologia Integrativa de Sistemas.

Thursday 05 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Genotypic variation in maize influences rates of soil organic matter mineralisation and gross nitrification

User Dr Lumbani Mwafulirwa, Research Associate, Department of Plant Sciences and Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, NIAB.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Characterising the epistatic relationship between signalling pathways for AM symbiosis in rice

User Raffy Hull, PhD student, Paszkowski group, Crop Science Centre.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Crop Science Seminar: Revealing the “box” code: the spatial and temporal regulation of plant-parasitic nematode pathogenicity

User Clement Pellegrin, Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Fellow, Crop Science Centre.

Wednesday 06 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

Crop Science Seminar: Combining multi-scale phenotyping, AI-powered analysis with genetic mapping studies to connect lab-based plant research with in-field crop improvement

User Ji Zhou, Head of Data Science, NIAB.

Wednesday 06 April 2022, 10:30-11:30

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

The dependence of plant cell wall assembly and function on polysaccharide structure

User Professor Paul Dupree (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 31 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Crop Science Seminar: Pre-breeding, food security and net zero: so much to do, so little time and money

User Phil Howell, Head of Cereals Pre-Breeding, NIAB .

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

Crop Science Seminar: Improving the mycorrhizal symbiosis in spring barley – lab and field studies

User Dr Tom Thirkell, Head of Pest & Pathogen Research, CSC.

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

Crop Science Seminar: Dissection of Wheat-Septoria Interactions

User Dr Kostya Kanyuka, Head of Pest & Pathogen Research, NIAB.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 10:30-11:30

Enhancing Rubisco Catalysis Improves Plant Growth

User Professor Spencer Whitney, Australian National University.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Who Cares About Hornworts?

User Dr Eftychios Frangedakis, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 03 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Mechano-eco-evo of the Common Dandelion: What the Notorious Weed Tells Us About Plant Dispersal Strategies

User Dr Naomi Nakayama, Imperial College London.

Thursday 24 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

A stylish story of carpel evolution.

User Cristina Ferrandiz, Institute for Plant Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMCP).

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Identification of Potential CCM Candidates in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

User Dr Indu Santhanagopalan, Physiological Ecology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 17 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Understanding Transcriptional Regulation of C4 Photosynthesis

User Dr Pallavi Singh, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences .

Thursday 10 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Entangled Lives: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures

User Dr Merlin Sheldrake, Independent Scholar.

Thursday 03 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Uncovering Mechanisms of Cell-type-specific Gene Expression in Rice

User Dr Leonie Luginbuehl, Molecular Physiology Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 27 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Endogenous Pararetroviruses Regulate Gene Expression in Hybrids

User Dr Sara Lopez Gomollon, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 02 December 2021, 13:00-14:00

Recoding Regulation - Synthetic Expansions of Plant Metabolism

User Dr Nicola Patron, Earlham Institute.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Decoupling Photoprotective Roles of Carotenoids in the PSII Light Harvesting Complexes for Improved Plant Growth

User Dr Julia Walter, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 18 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

How plant cells measure themselves, and why it matters

User Robert Sablowski (John Innes Centre).

Friday 12 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Defence and Counter-defence in Plant-pathogen Interactions

User Professor Wenbo Ma, Sainsbury Laboratory.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

Flattening the Curve: Mechanoperception in Plant Cell and Developmental Biology

User Elizabeth Haswell (Washington University in St. Louis).

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

Predictive models of plant cell division and expansion

User Jacque Dumais (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez).

Monday 08 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Investigating the Origin of Nanostructures on Flowers

User Dr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Functional Macroevolution of Transcription Factors in Land Plants

User Dr Facundo Romani, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

Cellular dynamics and regulation of cambium stem cells during plant secondary Growth

User Dongbo Shi, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 09:30-10:30

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

The 4th dimension of transcriptional networks: TIME

User Professor Gloria Coruzzi, Center for Genomics & Systems Biology (New York University).

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plant Germlines

User Dr Xiaoqi Feng, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

Epigenetic Reprogramming in Plant Germlines

User Dr Xiaoqi Feng (JIC).

Thursday 21 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

Anionic phospholipids across scales: from plasma membrane nanodomains to plant development

User Yvon Jaillais - ENS Lyon.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Redox and ROS Signaling During Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress

User Professor Ron Mittler, University of Missouri.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). Contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk for meeting joining details.

Mechanism and Models of Stomata/Mesophyll Form and Function

User Professor Andrew Fleming, Chair of Plant Science, University of Sheffield.

Monday 23 August 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Electrical signalling in a wounded plant

User Professor Edward Farmer (University of Lausanne).

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

CANCELLED - Growing a sustainable bioeconomy

Cancelled - Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 20 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

User Chris Lambing, Henderson group.

Thursday 13 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Light Regulation of Plant Development: From Mechanisms to Applications

User Prof Kerry Franklin, University of Bristol.

Thursday 06 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

CANCELLED - Plant Sciences Seminar

Cancelled

User Kumari Billakurthi, Hibberd group.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Adding a piece to the leaf epidermis puzzle: towards a better understanding of cell shape acquisition

User Stéphanie Robert - Umea Plant Science Centre - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Selective autophagy mediated cellular quality control in plants

User Yasin Dagdas - GMI - Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology.

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cross-Kingdom RNAi and extracellular vesicle-mediated small RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens

User Prof Hailing Jin, UCR Riverside.

Thursday 18 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Postponed - Protecting the Environment

Postponed for now. Plants@Cambridge Annual Virtual Seminar Series

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

Understanding and improving regulation of photosynthesis

Note the time change to 3pm.

User Krishna Niyogi, Berkeley.

Thursday 04 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

Phenomics of stomata and WUE in bioenergy sorghum

Now at 3pm

User John Ferguson, Kromdijk group.

Thursday 25 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Chemical-biology approaches to control small-molecules in plants

User Roy Weinstain (Tel Aviv University).

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Soil fungi for us

NOTE TIME CHANGE

User Maarja Öpik, University of Tartu, Estonia.

Thursday 18 February 2021, 15:00-16:00

Encounters: Rethinking ‘equality and diversity’ in Plant Sciences

User Dr Sharon Walker, Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

A thorny question: tinkering to evolve a novel mode of plant stem cell arrest

User Vivian Irish, Yale University.

Thursday 04 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

From Antarctica to East Anglia: interpreting environmental signals in mosses

User Dr Jessica Royles, Griffiths group.

Thursday 28 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

Multitrophic metabolism underlies plant-nematode interactions

User Frank C. Schroeder, Cornell University.

Thursday 21 January 2021, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Modelling the evolution of developmental processes

User Renske Vroomans (Utrecht University).

Thursday 21 January 2021, 10:00-11:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Molecular bonsai and synthetic virology: How a new class of RNA virus-based vectors can enable rapid reprogramming of plants

User Arjun Khakhar (University of Minnesota).

Tuesday 19 January 2021, 15:30-16:30

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Imaging of Clathrin Mediated Endocytosis Accessory Proteins in Arabidopsis

User Alex Johnson Institute of Science and Technology, Austria.

Monday 18 January 2021, 10:00-11:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Evolutionary dynamics of innovation

User Enrico Colizzi (Origins Centre and Mathematical Institute Leiden University) .

Friday 15 January 2021, 10:00-11:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

The Fourth Perspective: Evolution and Organismal Agency

User Johannes Jaeger (D'Alembert Research Chair 2020/21, Institut d'Études Avancées (IEA) Paris; Associate Faculty, Complexity Science Hub (CSH) Vienna).

Monday 14 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Origin and evolution of the alternation of generations in land plants

User John Bowman (Monash University).

Friday 11 December 2020, 09:00-10:00

CambPlants Hub

Celebrating the FAO International Year of Plant Health: A forward looking perspective on tackling the grand challenges in plant health to transform agriculture sustainably.

User Dr Richard Harrison - Director of Cambridge Crop Research, NIAB..

House Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 03 December 2020, 16:00-17:30

Assembling and recombining the Arabidopsis centromeres

User Matthew Naish, Henderson Group.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Modelling GA dynamics in growing plant organs

User Leah Band (University of Nottingham) .

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Online (Zoom meeting). For details, please contact events@slcu.cam.ac.uk.

Fighting climate change using plants: It takes a global village to solve a global problem

User Joanne Chory (Salk Institute for Biological Studies).

Monday 23 November 2020, 16:45-17:45

Innovation, Conservation and Repurposing in Root Cell Type Development

User Prof Siobhan Brady, UC Davis.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Translation research in plant breeding, can we finish the job!

User Abdel Bendahmane, UMR Université Paris Sud .

Thursday 12 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Defying Mendel’s laws: epigenetic insights from the sulfurea paramutation in Solanum Lycopersicum

User Claudia Dos Santos Martinho, Baulcombe group.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Does stress lead to wrinkles?. The case of petal cuticles

User Carlos Lugo Velez, Glover group.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Evolutionary legacies on ecosystem function and implications for global change: new insights from spectral biology

User Jeannine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

A bipartite transcription factor module controls bundle sheath preferential expression in Arabidopsis

User Patrick Dickinson, Hibberd group.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Light harvesting complexes in oxygenic photosynthesis

User Dr Julia Walter, Kromdijk group.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 13:00-13:30

Deciphering control of centromeric recombination in Arabidopsis

User Joiselle Ferndandes, Henderson group.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 13:00-13:30

Breaking the species barrier to allow hybridization of C3 and C4 cereals

User Greg Reeves, Hibberd group.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 13:00-13:30

Spatial regulationof D14L signaling in AM symbiosisof rice

User An-Shan Hsiao, Paszkowsi group.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

CANCELLED: Can cell wall polysaccharide structure influence plant development?

User Prof Paul Dupree (University of Cambridge, Department of Biochemistry).

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

How is vegetative maturation coordinated between the shoot apical meristem and leaf primordia?

User Dr Jim Fouracre, University of Pennsylvania.

Friday 13 March 2020, 10:00-11:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Reading Epigenetic Marks: Downstream of DNA Methylation and Beyond

User Dr Jake Harris, UCLA.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Engineering the Nitrogen Symbiosis for Africa (ENSA): Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis and its Nutrient Regulation in Barley

User Doris Albinsky, Paszkowski group.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Coordination of root development via shoot-derived light and temperature signals

User Dr Kasper van Gelderen (Utrecht University).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 15:30-16:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Developing a method for meiotic cell -specific gene expression and chromatin profiling in Arabidopsis thaliana.

User Artemis Perraki, Andreuzza group.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Adapting shoot morphology to seasons and climates

User Jo Hepworth (JIC).

Thursday 27 February 2020, 10:30-11:30

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Principles of biochemical computations at criticality

User Dr Aneta Koseska (Max Planck Institute).

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Cancelled: Understanding drivers and consequences of plant diversity across temporal and spatial scales in an era of rapid global change

This talk is cancelled

User Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Minnesota.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Overcoming Bottlenecks in Plant Gene Editing

User Professor Dan Voytas (Minnesota State University). This seminar is organised on behalf of the Plant Sciences Department..

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 09:00-10:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

How do plants sense temperature?

User Dr Rea L. Antoniou-Kourounioti (JIC).

Monday 17 February 2020, 09:00-10:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Adaptive evolution of meiosis in response to whole genome duplication and habitat

User Kirsten Bomblies, ETH Zürich.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Investigating the cell biology of invasive growth by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

User Nick Talbot, Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant puzzle cell shape is an adaptation to a developmental constraint based on mechanical stress and isotropic growth

User Richard Smith, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Rapid auxin responses get their due, and other hormone tales

User Professor Mark Estelle (University of California San Diego).

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

An unexpected role of the plastidial NAD-dependent malate dehydrogenase in chloroplast development

User Tina Schreier, Hibberd group.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Cryptic variation and evolvability in a simple molecular system

User Professor Andreas Wagner (University of Zurich).

Wednesday 22 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The roots of change: global change and mycorrhizal symbiosis through the Phanerozoic

User Katie Field, University of Leeds.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Conserved defences underpin host responses to oomycete infection in liverworts

User Philip Carella, SLCU.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Engineering NLR immune receptors to combat rice blast disease

User Mark Banfield, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Learning new biology from genome-wide maps of regulatory elements

User Shao-shan Carol Huang (New York University).

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Numerous inputs contribute to the genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Post Doc invited speaker

User Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Noisy and dynamic gene regulation in Arabidopsis

User James Locke, Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Tales of growth and buckling: Micro-pattern formation on petal surface cells

User Carlos Lugo Velez, Glover group.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Mechanisms conferring seasonal flowering responses in annual and perennial plants

Post Doc invited speaker

User George Coupland, Max Plank Institute.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

The genetic basis for leaf development and diversity: from understanding to reconstructing

User Prof Miltos Tsiantis (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research).

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Molecular convergence in the evolution of betalains

User Hester Sheehan, Brockington group.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

21st Century Crop Science Wo(man)

User Alison Bentley, NIAB.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Calculating Timescales in Evolution: Optimisation, Ergodicity and Genotype-Phenotype Maps

User Professor Thomas McLeish (University of York).

Wednesday 25 September 2019, 14:00-15:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Symposium on CRISPR/CAS editing in crops

User Professor Kan Wang (Iowa State University), Prof Wendy Harwood (John Innes), Dr Emma Wallington (NIAB).

Monday 19 August 2019, 13:00-16:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Swarm Engineering Across Scales: From Nanoparticles to Robots

User Dr Sabine Hauert, University of Bristol.

Wednesday 31 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Live imaging of nascent mesoderm across gastrulation highlights cell-environment interdependence

User Dr Isabelle Migeotte, IRIBHM, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Wednesday 24 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Host-induced gene silencing vs RNA silencing suppressors - another battleground in host-pathogen arms race

User Wenbo Ma (UC Riverside).

Wednesday 03 July 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The evolution of reproductive isolation: multiple hybrid zones in Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae)

User Boris Delahaie, Glover group.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Escaping Mendel’s laws: Epigenetic insights from the sulfurea paramutation in Solanum Lycopersicum.

User Claudia dos Santos Martinho, Baulcombe group.

Thursday 30 May 2019, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Reprogramming plant cells for endosymbiotic infection

User Fernanda de Carvalho-Niebel (The Laboratory of Plant-Microbe Interactions, INRA-CNRS, Toulouse).

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Dynamics in forest microclimates provide new insights into biodiversity responses to climate change

User Florian Zellweger, Coomes group.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Arbuscular mycorrhiza development and function

User Caroline Gutjahr, Technical University of Munich.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CO2 Sensing in Plants and New Insights into Drought-Induced Abscisic Acid Signal Transduction

User Julian Schroeder, UCSD.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

A rule based approach to Development

User Kim Sneppen (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen).

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

If walls could talk: the evolution and adaptations of plant and algal cell walls

User Dr Zoë Popper, School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Environment, Marine and Energy, NUI Galway.

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Mechanistic studies of purinergic signaling in plants

User Professor Gary Stacey, University of Missouri.

Friday 15 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Antarctic snow algae blooms – analysing community function from microscopes to satellites

User Matt Davey, Smith Lab.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The origins of Neotropical mega-diversity

User Alexandre Antonelli, Kew.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Experience in founding Cambridge Glycoscience

This is a CambPlants Industrial talk

User Paul Dupree, Biochemistry & Tom Simmons.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Root damage and immune responses at cellular resolution

User Niko Geldner (Université de Lausanne).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Rethinking mechanisms of stomatal response to temperature, drought and VPD

User Mike Blatt, Glasgow.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Targeted grafts as a tool to enhance tomato preservation

User Sara Lopez-Gomollon, Baulcombe Lab.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Adjusting the valves: fate and flexibility in stomatal development

User Dominique Bergmann, Stanford.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Sychronized cells as a model for the diel regulation of Rubisco-EPYC1 interactions in the Chlamydomonas CCM

User Indu Santhanagopalan, Griffiths lab.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

A resurrected scenario: single gain and massive loss of nitrogen-fixing root nodules

User Dr ir. René Geurts, Wageningen University & Research.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

From start to finish: Emerging functions of the N-end rule pathway of proteolysis in plants

User Dan Gibbs, Birmingham.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

REC8-cohesin and chromatin state orchestrate Arabidopsis meiotic recombination

User Andy Tock, Henderson Lab.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED-Genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Apologies, due to flight cancellation this talk will be rescheduled

User Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University .

Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (Bateman Street).

Cellular Trajectories in Root Regeneration

User Professor Kenneth D. Birnbaum, New York University.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

How do betalains evolved? Consequences of a de-regulated enzyme in Caryophyllales

User Samuel Lopez, Brockington group.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Coordinated approaches to assess the effects of interacting global change drivers on forest composition and function

User Kris Verheyen, University of Ghent.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Thermomorphogenesis signaling - Translation of temperature stimuli into plant growth

User Dr Marcel Quint (MLU Halle-Wittenberg).

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

How the nutrient status of the plant controls its engagement with microorganisms

User Giles Oldroyd, Sainsbury Lab, Cambridge.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Reprogramming roots for fungal symbiosis

User Leonie Luginbuehl, Hibberd group.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Drivers and consequences of pollinator decline: from individuals to landscapes

User Jane Stout, Trinity College Dublin.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Understanding the Evolution of Seed Plant Reproductive Adaptations Through a Fern

User Dr Andrew Plackett (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 02 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Harnessing sexual and asexual seed formation for increased seed yield

User Dr Anna Koltunow (CSIRO Agriculture and Food).

Wednesday 26 September 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Balancing acts in the control of plant cell reprogramming

User Dr Momoko Ikeuchi (RIKEN Centre for Sustainable Resource Science).

Tuesday 25 September 2018, 15:15-16:15

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Mechanics and dynamics of cell to cell adhesion in plants

User Dr Stéphane Verger (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France).

Monday 24 September 2018, 11:00-12:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Uncoupling the processes of development

User Dr Sarah Robinson (University of Bern) .

Friday 14 September 2018, 11:00-12:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Evo-devo origami: using carnivorous plants to understand 3D morphogenesis

User Dr Christopher Whitewoods (John Innes Centre).

Wednesday 12 September 2018, 13:30-14:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Developing and Funding a Global System for the Conservation of Crop Diversity in Genebanks

User Luigi Guarino, Crop Trust.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

A Ser/Thr receptor-like kinase, Ark1, is required to maintain arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in rice

User Ronelle Roth, Paszkowski Lab.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Metabolic Clusters – From Genetics to Genomics

Third "Enid MacRobbie Women in Science" lecture

User Anne Osbourne, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Multiple macroevolutionary routes to becoming a biodiversity hotspot

User Javier Igea, Tanentzap Lab.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Making a pore: Signaling and transcription-factor control of stomatal development

User Keiko Torii (University of Washington).

Friday 11 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Explosive seed dispersal

User Angela Hay, Max Planck.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Open tools in Marchantia for plant bioengineering work and as a platform for elucidating morphogenesis

User Susana Sauret-Gueto, Haseloff Lab.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Extracellular Vesicles as Key Mediators of Plant-Microbe Interactions

User Roger Innes (Indiana University).

Monday 30 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Unlocking the secrets of medicinal crops: from artemisinin to morphine, why are plants still better than bugs at making these drugs?

User Ian Graham, University of York.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Auxin, glucosinolates, and drought tolerance: What's the connection?

User Mark Estelle (University of California - San Diego) .

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

(Epi)genomic Diversity and the Regulatory DNA Landscape

Special Seminar

User Joe Ecker, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological studies.

Wednesday 18 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Deciphering the stochastic kinetics of gene regulation

User Ido Golding (Baylor College of Medicine).

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 09:00-10:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Protein targeting within the chloroplast: a cell-biological view of starch biosynthesis

User Sam Zeeman, ETH Zurich.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Evolution and Engineering of Plant-Microbe Symbioses

User Jean-Michel Ané (University of Wisconsin - Madison).

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Uncoupling the processes of development

User Dr Sarah Robinson, University of Bern.

Monday 05 March 2018, 09:30-10:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED-Open tools in Marchantia for plant bioengineering work and as a platform for elucidating morphogenesis

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

User Susana Sauret-Gueto, Haseloff Lab.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Auxin and cytokinin regulation of root architecture - antagonism or synergy

User Eva Benkova (IST Austria).

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Theory of Cytoskeleton-driven Mechanisms

User Francois Nedelec (EMBL Heidelberg).

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 09:15-10:15

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Genotype-phenotype maps: from abstract models to protein structure and plant development

User Sebastian Ahnert (SLCU).

Monday 26 February 2018, 09:30-10:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED: How and why the growth and biomass varies across the tropics

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

User Yadvinder Malhi, Professor of Ecosystem Science, University of Oxford.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Dynamics of Microbial Communities

User Knut Drescher (MPI).

Monday 19 February 2018, 09:30-10:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Phylogenetic hypothesis of the Oleeae tribe (Oleaceae)  Diversification and molecular evolution patterns in plastid and nuclear ribosomal DNA

User Loubab Zedane, Brockington Lab.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants Plant host-pathogen coevolution and exploring local adaptation of an Arabidopsis thaliana complex Resistance gene locus

User Jane Parker, MPI Cologne.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

From vesicles to responsive artificial tissues

User Emma Talbot, Haseloff Lab.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED-Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

User Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Warwick University.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

CANCELLED - Evolution discovers routes to exploit Brownian motion, thermal noise and structural fluctuations in protein signalling and allostery

User Professor Tom McLeish (Durham University).

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Using the auxin-inducible degron in yeast to understand the spliceosome cycle

User Gonzalo Mendoza, Smith Lab.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED: Drivers and consequences of pollinator decline: from individuals to landscapes

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

User Jane Stout, Trinity College Dublin.

Thursday 11 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Towards understanding of photoacclimation in algal photosynthesis – regulation via redox and Ca2+

User Michael Hippler, University of Munster.

Thursday 14 December 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Increasing Crop Productivity Sustainably by Bioengineering Improved Photosynthetic Efficiency

User Stephen Long, University of Illinois.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

The evolution of photosynthetic efficiency

User Steve Kelly (University of Oxford).

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Identification of a suppressor of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal symbiosis in rice

User Jeongmin Choi, Paszkowski Lab.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant intracellular immune receptors; diversity, deployment and dissection

User Jonathan Jones, Sainsbury Lab, Norwich.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Not just a pretty flower- an ancestral function for LEAFY in shoot development of non-seed vascular plants

User Andrew Plackett, Hibberd Lab.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Managing the global land resource

User Pete Smith, University of Aberdeen.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Sustainable bioenergy and biofuels from microalgae: a systems biology perspective

User Maria Huete Ortega, Smith Lab.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Katie Field - Symbiotic options for the conquest of land

User Dr Katie Field, University of Leeds.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Highlighting industry collaborations in Plant Sciences

This is a CAMBPLANTS Industrial Talk

User CINTRIN.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The surprising evolution of TTG1-WDR proteins

User Chiara Airoldi, Glover Lab.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CANCELLED: Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

User Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Warwick University.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

New technologies to characterize bacterial two-component systems and repurpose them as sensors for synthetic biology applications

User Jeff Tabor (Rice University).

Wednesday 26 July 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Histone variants are essential for transmission of epigenetic information

User Dr Frederic Berger, The Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna.

Thursday 29 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Cellular Dynamics and Signaling Molecules in Pollen Tube Guidance

User Dr Tetsuya Higashiyama, Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University Japan.

Wednesday 28 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

A synthetic biology approach to harness the regulatory potential of miRNAs in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

User Francisco J. Navarro, Baulcombe group.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Towards a General Theory of Lorenz Ordering Applied to Ecological Domiance and Earth Observation Systems of Forest Ecosystems

User Ruben Valbuena, Coomes group.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

CambPlants Industrial Talks

This is a CPPS sponsored seminar

User Dr Vitor Verdelo Viera, A4F and Professor Alison Smith, Plant Sciences.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Evaluating ex-situ conservation of threatened plants in the botanic garden network

User Ross Mounce, Brockington group.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Salicylic acid and its binding proteins at the crossroads of plant and human health

User Dan Klessig, Cornell University.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

The evolution of meiosis in response to genome duplication and environment in Arabidopsis arenosa

User Kirsten Bomblies (John Innes Centre).

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Importance of Fluctuations in Light on Plant Photosynthetic Acclimation

User Silvere Vialet-Chabrand, Griffiths group.

Thursday 20 April 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Flower development: from morphodynamics to morphomechanics.

User Prof Jan Traas (ENS Lyon).

Wednesday 19 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Endoplasmic reticulum hosts the activities of plant microRNAs

User Xuemei Chen, UC Riverside.

Thursday 30 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Using synthetic biology in algae for the production of designer lipids

User Katrin Geisler, Smith Group.

Thursday 23 March 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

CANCELLED Thorsten Hamman (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)- Cell wall surveillance: How do plant cells monitor integrity?

User Thorsten Hamman (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Wednesday 22 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Understanding nodulation for engineering nitrogen fixing cereals

User Prof. Giles Oldroyd (John Innes Centre).

Monday 20 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Abundant phased siRNAs in plant reproductive organs

User Blake Meyers, Donald Danforth Centre.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Mathematical modelling of the citrus disease Huanglongbing

User Andrew Craig, Gilligan Group.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Plant Physiology and Development From a Cut Flower Supplier Perspective

CambPlants Industrial Talk

User MM Flowers and Beverley Glover.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The role of forests in regulating greenhouse gas emissions from boreal freshwater ecosystems

User Erik Szkokan-Emilson, Tanentzap Group.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Small RNAs as morphogen-like signals in plant development

User Professor Marja Timmermans (University of Tuebingen).

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Dynamic regulation of gibberellin gradients influencing plant growth patterning

User Alexander Jones, SLCU.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Is achieving no net loss of a globally rare species achievable for a mining project in the Caucasus global biodiversity hotspot possible?

User Pete Carey, Tanner Group.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Climate Change and Nature Conservation

User Brian Eversham, CEO, BCN Wildlife Trust.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The role of Chrisanthemum virus B p12 in the regulation of plant transcription and supression of RNA silencing.

User Nina Lukhovitskaya, Carr Group.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Molecular mechanisms of MADS-domain transcription factor function- an integrated approach

User Dr Chloe Zubieta (Biosciences and Biotechnology Institute of Grenoble).

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The global movement of plant pests and pathogens: implications for food security

User Sarah Gurr, University of Exeter.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Gene silencing in plant development and disease resistance: lessons from tomato

User Zhengming Wang, Baulcombe Group.

Thursday 12 January 2017, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Light sensing in the Ocean: new perspectives from the study of the diatom photoreceptors

User Angela Falciatore, CNRS Paris.

Thursday 08 December 2016, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Dr Topun Austin Addenbrooke's Hospital.

House Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 07 December 2016, 16:00-00:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Exploiting natural variation to identify genes that impact nutritional seed traits

User Sabrina Gonzalez-Jorge, Henderson Group.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Engineering Meiosis and Recombination to Unlock Genetic Diversity

CambPlants Industrial Talk

User Giacomo Bastianelli, Meiogenix and Ian Henderson.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Seed size and its rate of evolution correlate with species diversification across angiosperms

User Javier Igea, Tanentzap Group.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Phytoplankton membrane transport: The big physiological and evolutionary secrets of small cells

User Colin Brownlee, Marine Biological Association .

Thursday 10 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Deciphering the role of cell wall signalling in plant development

User Sebastian Wolf, Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 10:00-11:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Building and maintaining memory: transcriptional repressors and chromatin modifiers in plant developmental switches

User Julia Questa, John Innes Centre, Norwich.

Tuesday 08 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

The influence of flowering behaviour on plant architecture in perennials

User Maria Albani, Botanical Institute, Cologne Biocenter, University of Cologne.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Biotechnological Exploitation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

User Doris Gangl, Smith group.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 13:00-13:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

The art and design of harmony: communication in intimate plant-fungal symbioses

User Dr Uta Paszkowski, Department of Plant Sciences,University of Cambridge.

House Hodgkin/Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Beyond the rainbow: understanding the multiscale mechanisms of petal patterning

User Edwige Moyroud, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 01 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Correct behaviour: how plant cells respond appropriately to different symbiotic partners

User Martin Parniske, University of Munich.

Thursday 27 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Examining the molecular basis of speciation through flavonoid-tinted glasses

User Hester Sheehan, Brockington Group.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Elucidating and re-wiring gene regulatory networks mediating plant defence

This talk is part of the Sainsbury Laboratory Seminar Series

User Professor Katherine Denby, University of York.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Resolving Conflicts: The Genetic Control of Plant Morphogenesis

User Enrico Coen FRS, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

New approaches to imaging angiogenesis and oxidaative stress in living systems

User Dr Sarah Bohndiek, Lecturer in Biomedical Physics,University of Cambridge.

House Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Trophoblast generated from human pluripotent stem cells: evaluation of a pre-eclampsis phenotype and susceptibility to Zika Virus

User Professor R. Michael Roberts.

House Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Monday 03 October 2016, 16:00-00:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Live and let die – Arabidopsis interactions with fungal pathogens

User Volker Lipka, Georg-August-University Goettingen.

Wednesday 28 September 2016, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Zinc is essential for normal placental morphogenesis and function and maternal haemodynamic changes to pregnancy in a mouse model of dietary zinc restriction.

User Dr Rebecca Wilson University of Adelaide.

House Hodgkin Huxley Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Friday 23 September 2016, 16:00-17:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden - FULLY BOOKED

User Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

House Meet at the Brookside Gate entrance, 1 Brookside / Bateman Street, Cambridge, CB2 1JE..

Thursday 21 July 2016, 18:30-20:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

CANCELLED Circadian clock function and organisation in Arabidopsis thaliana

User Paloma Mas, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG-CSIC).

Friday 24 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

The endodermis as a checkpoint for nutrients

User Marie Barberon, University of Lausanne.

Monday 20 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Evolutionary and demographic genetics of polymorphic sexual systems in plants

User Spencer Barrett FRS, University of Toronto.

Thursday 02 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Epigenetic examination of heterosis in tomato

User Sebastian Müller, David Baulcombe Lab.

Thursday 26 May 2016, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Supergenes, Sex and Sociality

User Laurent Keller, University of Lausanne.

Wednesday 25 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

In vivo analysis of calcium dynamics in Arabidopsis: tools and applications

User Alex Costa, University of Milan.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

MscS-Like Mechanosensitive Ion Channels as Modular Sensors and Reporters of Membrane Tension

User Elizabeth Haswell, Washington University in St. Louis (SLCU Sabbatical Visitor).

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

“Programmable” Ecosystems: Engineered Environments for the Study of Biosystems Development

User Ludovico Cademartiri, Iowa State University.

Tuesday 17 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Genes gone wild: Experimental evolution meets synthetic biology

User Ralph Bock, Max Planck Institute of Plant Molecular Biology.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Symmetry breaking and multi-functionality – artificial vs. biological morphogenesis

User Stoyan Smoukov (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Perturbation Analysis of LEAFY in the Floral Transition Network of Arabidopsis thaliana

User Gitanjali Yadav, National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR) New Delhi India.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Temperature sensing in plant development

User Dr Philip Wigge ( Sainsbury Laboratory).

Friday 29 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Pave the road to land: evolution of water-conducting cells in land plants

User Bo Xu, Sam Brockington Lab.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Legume-Rhizobia symbiosis:microbial signalling tacked on to root developmental program

User Simona Radutoiu, Aarhus University.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The maize leaf – from development to environmental response

User Sarah Hake, Director USDA Gene Expression Center.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Biophysical Seminars

Enhancing nanopore sensing with DNA nanotechnology

All welcome

User Ulrich F. Keyser, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge .

House Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 10:30-11:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Stressed! How plants cope through dynamic growth responses

User Jose Dinneny, Carnegie Institution for Science.

Monday 18 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

University of Cambridge - Politecnico di Torino

Biology and bioengineering tools in the treatment of H2020 age-related diseases

User Speakers and their affiliation have been listed in the program below..

House Department of Clinical Neurosciences - Clifford Albutt Building Theatre Lecture Room – Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 April 2016, 09:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Unraveling chromatin dynamics during development

User Miguel de Lucas, Durham University.

Wednesday 30 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Evolution of sequence-specific anti-silencing by transposable elements in Arabidopsis

User Tetsuji Kakutani, National Institute of Genetics.

Wednesday 23 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

A three-dimensional approach to community turnover: Pleistocene extinctions, abrupt climate change, and (dis)equilibrium dynamics

User Jacquelyn Gill, University of Maine.

Thursday 17 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Mapping main and interacting QTLs within the arabidopsis multiparent RIL (AMPRIL) population

3CS: The Cambridge Centre for Crop Sciences Inaugural Seminar

User Dr Korbinian Schneeberger, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany.

Wednesday 16 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Incorporating uncertainty into the optimal development of disease control measures

User Ciara Dangerfield, Chris Gilligan Lab.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Noise and periodic patterns of morphogenesis in phyllotaxis.

User Teva Vernoux, ENS Lyon.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Effects of fluctuating light on photosynthesis and stomatal behaviour: impacts on carbon gain and water use efficiency

User Tracy Lawson, Director of Plant Phenomics, University of Essex.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

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Green Labs Workshop @ Plant Sciences

User Martin Howes Department of Plant Sciences Energy Co-ordinator.

House Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site, Cambridge .

Thursday 25 February 2016, 14:00-16:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Integrating phylogenetics, ecology and evo-devo to understand the origin of plant species: the role of spur length evolution in speciation of the genus Linaria

User Mario Fernandez-Mazuecos, Beverley Glover Lab.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Brassinosteroids, stem cell development and the power of Modulate Quiescence in Plants

User Ana Caño Delgado, CRAG-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 10:00-11:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Expression homeostasis during DNA replication

User Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Symmetry Matters in Gynoecium Development

This is a CPPS Seminar

User Lars Ostergaard, Head of Crop Genetics, JIC.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

A bird's-eye view of forest ecosystems

User Tommaso Jucker, David Coomes Lab.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Big data, local data and global change

User Philip Grime, University of Sheffield.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Therapeutic manipulation of angiogenic factors for treatment of fetal growth restriction

User Dr Anna David, UCL Institute for Women's Health.

House Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Genetic and epigenetic control of mobilomes : exploring the diversity of extrachromosomal circular DNA in plants

User Marie Mirouze, University of Perpignan, France.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Inter-organellar interactions - known unknowns in metabolic engineering of membrane-spanning pathways in plants

User Payam Mehrshahi, Alison Smith Lab.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Remodeling root cells for AM symbiosis’

User Maria Harrison, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Development and evolution of land plant rooting systems

User Liam Dolan, University of Oxford.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Two Things Evolution Can Tell Us About Metabolic Engineering

User Steven Burgess, Julian Hibberd Lab.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

"Although the holes were rather small/ They had to count them all": An integrative analysis of cellular architecture and leaf function

User Andrew Flemming, University of Sheffield (Sabbatical visitor at SLCU).

Wednesday 13 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Microbes play a central role in a plant's solutions to ecological problems

User Ian Baldwin, Max Planck Institute.

Thursday 07 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Competition and conjugation: the tale of antibiotic resistance spreading in three colours

User Pakpoom Subsoontorn, Jim Haseloff Lab.

Thursday 17 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

DIY Evolution - A Historian's Guide to Amateur Plant Breeding

Free & open to the public

User Helen Anne Curry, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

House Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 19:00-20:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Discovery of methylation loci and analyses of differential methylation in Dicer-like mutants of Arabidopsis

User Thomas Hardcastle, David Baulcombe Lab.

Thursday 03 December 2015, 13:00-13:30

Collaboration Skills Initiative

Selling for researchers

Numbers are limited. Please indicate your interest by emailing the organiser, Jo Griffiths (jg393@cam.ac.uk)

User Marcel Dissel.

House Moller Centre, Cambridge.

Monday 30 November 2015, 10:00-16:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Phenotyping is an F-word: crop research in Fields, on Farms, with Farmers

This is a CPPS Seminar

User Roger Sylvester-Bradley, ADAS.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Non-genetic inheritance of phenotype in mammals

User Anne Ferguson-Smith (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre

Café Synthetique

RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/Cambridge-Synthetic-Biology-Meetup/events/219672607/

User Veronica Grieneisen (John Innes Centre), Lewis Tanner (Isomerase Therapeutics Ltd).

House Panton Arms, 43 Panton St, CB2 1HL .

Monday 23 November 2015, 18:00-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Spicing up Mauritius' gardens: informal empire and the hybridity of knowledge and plant exchange in the East Indies, 1740s to 1770s

User Dorit Brixius (European University Institute).

House Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 23 November 2015, 13:00-14:15

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

A pioneering imaging approach to arbuscule development in rice

User Ronelle Roth, Uta Paszkowski Lab.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias: lessons from plants that don’t stay put

User Christian Kull, Institut de géographie et durabilité, Université de Lausanne.

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Talk Cancelled (was 'Synthetic Biology')

This talk is cancelled.

User Dr. Jim Haseloff - Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The biodiversity value of degraded tropical forests

User David Edwards, University of Sheffield.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Biological and Statistical Physics discussion group (BSDG)

Analysis of stochastic polymer models and reconstruction of chromatin organization in cell nucleus

User Prof David Holcman ( IBENS Ecole Normale Superieure).

House TCM Seminar room, 530 Mott building.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Commonness and conservation: should we bother about the rare stuff?

User Sandy Knapp, Life Science Plants Division, Natural History Museum.

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Computational and Systems Biology

Systems approaches towards understanding temperature signalling in plants

User Dr Philip Wigge, Sainsbury Laboratory..

House MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge-Africa Programme

Visiting African Fellows Research Showcase (in association with Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

User Five researchers from Uganda and Ghana (see programme at http://africanshowcasenov11.eventbrite.co.uk).

House Pavillion Room, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB1 2EW.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 14:00-16:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Mathematical modelling of a cereal killer: Modelling plant cell invasion by the rice blast fungus

Coupling Geometric PDEs with Physics for Cell Morphology, Motility and Pattern Formation

User Styles, V (University of Sussex).

House Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute Gatehouse.

Tuesday 10 November 2015, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

User Prof. Steven Henikoff (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA); Prof. Craig Pikaard (Dept of Biology & Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA).

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

Monday 09 November 2015, 18:00-19:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Genetic factors controlling meiotic crossover: Lessons from natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana

User Piotr Ziolkowski, Ian Henderson Group.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

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Placental adaptation: the role of fetal nutrient demand

User Dr Mark Dilworth, University of Manchester.

House Addenbrooke's CS Seminar Room 6.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

From bud set to bud break: molecular regulators of winter dormancy in trees

User Isabel Marta Allona Alberich, Technical University of Madrid.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

When Antarctica was green: Fossil plants reveal Antarctica’s climate history

User Jane Francis, Director, British Antarctic Survey.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

The challenge of feeding 9-10 billion people without losing most biodiversity

User Charles Godfray, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

How our Botanic Gardens Work (and how they can work for you)

User Dr Sam Brockington, Cambridge University Botanic Garden Curator.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Addressing the Challenges of Feeding the World Sustainably

User Professor Tim Benton FSB,FLS, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds.

House Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Friday 16 October 2015, 19:30-21:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

RNA viruses: comparative genomics and gene expression mechanisms

User Andrew Firth, Dept of Pathology.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dicing with Fate; the statistical physics of cell biology

Joint meeting with the Cambridge Philosophical Society

User Professor Benjamin D Simons, Herchel Smith Professor of Physics.

House Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 12 October 2015, 18:00-19:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Learning from Students to Shape Plant Sciences Teaching for the 21st Century

User Katherine Hubbard, Teaching Officer.

Thursday 08 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Adaptive evolution of meiosis in response to whole genome duplication and habitat

User Kirsten Bomblies, Harvard University.

Thursday 01 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Unlocking plant intercellular channels: towards a mechanistic understanding of cell wall regulation around plasmodesmata

User Yoselin Benitez Alfonso, University of Leeds.

Wednesday 30 September 2015, 16:00-17:00

Seminars at the Department of Biochemistry

Interaction of plant cell wall matrix polysaccharides with bacterial cellulose

User Dr Mike Gidley, University of Brisbane.

House Department of Biochemistry, Hopkins Building, Seminar Room 1.

Thursday 03 September 2015, 14:30-15:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Geometry of universal unfoldings and development: a case study after Corson and Siggia and discussion

User Professor David Rand (University of Warwick).

Friday 28 August 2015, 10:00-11:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Separation of activation and repression in transcriptional networks

User Dr Carl Troein.

Friday 28 August 2015, 09:00-10:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Spatio-temporal organization of bacterial biofilms

User Dr Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona).

Thursday 27 August 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Molecular control of cellular collectives

User Dr Hyun Youk (Delft University of Technology).

Thursday 27 August 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

The importance of cellular variability in generating regular plant organs

User Professor Adrienne Roeder.

Thursday 27 August 2015, 10:00-11:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Henrik Jonsson (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 27 August 2015, 09:00-10:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

The endoplasmic reticulum acts as a gatekeeper to control nuclear auxin uptake

User Professor Christian Fleck (Wageningen University).

Wednesday 26 August 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Talks

“Chemical Arms Race at Sea”: The role of virally-encoded auxiliary metabolic genes in shaping the marine environment

User Assaf Vardi. Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

House Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Wednesday 26 August 2015, 11:00-12:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

The long and the short of it: modelling cytoskeletal dynamics in plants and beyond

User Professor Bela Mulder (Amsterdam University).

Wednesday 26 August 2015, 10:00-11:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Integrated models of cytoskeleton driven morphogenetic processes

User Dr Francois Nedelec ( EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany).

Wednesday 26 August 2015, 09:00-10:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

The interplay between cell morphology and cell-cell signaling

User Dr David Sprinzak (Tel Aviv University).

Tuesday 25 August 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Spatial and temporal control in cell cycle regulation

User Dr Silvia Santos (Imperial College London).

Tuesday 25 August 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Cell-based patterning in developing tissues

User Professor Marta Ibanes (University of Barcelona).

Tuesday 25 August 2015, 10:00-11:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Systematic approaches to the design and modelling of plant growth

User Dr Jim Haseloff (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 25 August 2015, 09:00-10:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

The emergence of positional information in ensembles of mouse ES cells

User Professor Alfonso Martinez Arias ( Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge).

Monday 24 August 2015, 15:30-16:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Cell complexes: A general mathematical framework for modelling development in 1, 2 and 3 dimensions

User Professor Przemyslaw Prusinkiwicz (Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary).

Monday 24 August 2015, 14:30-15:30

Translational Funders Day

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Sainsbury Laboratory University of Cambridge, Bateman Street.

Thursday 30 July 2015, 09:30-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Genes lost and found: Comparative developmental genetics in Brachypodium and Arabidopsis

User Devin O'Connor.

Thursday 23 July 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Making the right connections: graft formation in Arabidopsis

User Charles Melnyk, Sainsbury Laboratory.

Monday 20 July 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Regulation of PSEUDORESPONSE REGULATOR7 by photosynthetically derived sugars in Arabidopsis thaliana.

User Alexander Frank, 3rd yr grad.

Thursday 09 July 2015, 13:30-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Role of phytic acid in plant defence responses

User Jacquelyne Poon, 3rd yr grad.

Thursday 09 July 2015, 13:00-13:30

"Life Sciences Masterclass"

How to make your research reproducible (5 selfish reasons to work reproducibly)

User Florian Markowetz & Gordon Brown (Cancer Research UK) & Stephen Eglen (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics).

House Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 08 July 2015, 18:30-20:00

Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School

Ignite 2015

User Various speakers and contributors.

House Cambridge Judge Business School.

Sunday 05 July 2015, 09:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Investigating the biology of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

User Nick Talbot, School of Biosciences, University of Exeter.

Thursday 02 July 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Algal-bacterial consortia: towards the commercialisation of microalgae for industrial biotechnology

User Christian Ridley, 3rd yr grad.

Thursday 25 June 2015, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Hormonal control of growth and patterning in the plant embryo

User Professor Dolf Weijers.

Wednesday 24 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Beta oxidation in signalling and development. What plants can teach us about yeast and animals

User Alison Baker, University of Leeds.

Thursday 18 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Connecting Biology to Mathematics by way of Symbolic Computing

User Professor Eric Mjolsness, Leverhulme visiting Professor.

Wednesday 17 June 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Effects of sugarcane on the Cerrado biodiversity: land use change, habitat loss and greenhouse gas emissions

User Jessica Fonseca Da Silva, 3rd yr grad.

Thursday 11 June 2015, 13:30-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptome is compressible

User Surge Biswas, 1st yr grad.

Thursday 11 June 2015, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Long-distance wound signals in Arabidopsis leaves

User Edward Farmer, University of Lausanne.

Thursday 04 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Finding Patterns in Genes and Proteins

The Lecture will be preceded by a brief presentation by Bursary Student Siang Koh, entitled “It takes two to tango: Combination therapy in cancer”

User Dr Sarah Teichmann, Sanger Institute/EMBL.

House Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 01 June 2015, 19:30-21:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Molecular mechanisms of phenotypic variation and evolvability

User Dr Christine Queitsch, University of Washington.

Friday 29 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

A vitamin B12 dependent mutualism between a microalga Lobomonas rostrata and a rhizobium – Mesorhizobium loti

User Vaibhav Bhardwaj, 3rd yr grad.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 13:30-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Optimize nutrients dynamic in litters to enhance yields and sustainability of traditional cocoa agroforests in a climate change context in Southern Bahia, Brazil

User Lauranne Gateau, 1st yr grad.

Thursday 28 May 2015, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Root Growth: fixed processes, flexible boundaries

User Professor Tobias Baskin, UMass Amherst.

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

The Evolution of RNA Polymerases IV and V: Understanding the Rise of Silencing in Plants

User Rebecca Mosher, University of Arizona.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Where the bee flies: and why it matters

User Juliet Osborne, University of Exeter.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Feeding the world without costing the eart: How can agriculture and biodiversity coexist?

User Professor Andrew Balmford (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge).

Saturday 16 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

The Future of Sustainable Agriculture:Land Share or Land Sparing?

User Panel discussion.

Friday 15 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Molecular insights into the evolutionary history of plants in Antarctica

User Elise Biersma, 3rd yr grad.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 13:30-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Biodiversity conservation within a REDD+ framework: case of victoria-anepahan ranges in Palawan Islands, Philippines

User Minerva (Jojo) Singh, 3rd yr grad.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 13:00-13:30

Understanding plant root developmental plasticity using cell type-specific genomics

User Miriam Gifford, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick.

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Thursday 07 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Life Study – identifying pathways to health in early life

User Professor Carol Dezateux, Scientific Director and Principal Investigator of the Life Study, UCL Institute of Child Health.

House Addenbrooke’s Clinical School Seminar Room 3 please see http://www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/info/seminar.shtml for directions.

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Can GM crops help to feed the world?

Last talk of term!

User Professor Sir Brian Heap.

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Improving the pollination of the field bean (Vicia faba L.)

User Emily Bailes, 3rd yr grad.

Friday 01 May 2015, 15:00-15:30

Title to be confirmed

User Juheon Lee, 3rd yr grad.

Friday 01 May 2015, 14:30-15:00

Title to be confirmed

User Patrick Dickinson, 3rd yr grad.

Friday 01 May 2015, 14:00-14:30

Paramutation in tomato

User Quentin Gouil, 3rd yr grad.

Friday 01 May 2015, 12:00-12:30

Engineering riboswitches to enable rational control of transgene expression

User Christopher Finch, 1st yr grad.

Friday 01 May 2015, 11:30-12:00

Identification of effectors from Rhizophagus irregularis and their role in arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis establishment.

User Clement Quan, 1st yr grad.

Friday 01 May 2015, 11:00-11:30

A forward genetic screen for Arabidopsis gene(s) that control meiotic recombination

User Divyashree Nageswaran, 1st yr grad.

Friday 01 May 2015, 10:00-10:30

Risk of long-distance airborne spread of infectious plant diseases

User Marcel Meyer, 1st yr grad.

Friday 01 May 2015, 09:30-10:00

Title to be confirmed

User Alexander Blackwell, 1st yr grad.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 15:00-15:30

Molecular genetics of autistic: the arbuscular mycorrhizal mutant of maize

User Darius Riahy, 1st yr grad.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 14:30-15:00

Discovery of genetic elements determining the C4 photosynthetic phenotype using introgression lines from C3-C4 hybrids

User Gregory Reeves, 1st yr grad.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 14:00-14:30

Fifty shapes of maize

User Rozi Vofely, 1st yr grad.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 12:00-12:30

~ From Carrots to Sticks ~ Conserving threatened avifauna with ecosystem management and market-based instruments

User Alexandra Bell, 1st yr grad.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 11:30-12:00

Understanding morphogenesis and wall mechanics in brown algae

User Marina Linardic, 1st yr grad.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 11:00-11:30

Mobilizing terrestrial primary production into aquatic food webs

User Chloe Orland, 1st year grad.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 10:00-10:30

Evolution of plant breeding systems: Male form and function in the nightshade family.

User Gwendolyn Davis, 1st yr grad.

Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

Thursday 30 April 2015, 09:30-10:00

The History of Millet in Southern Caucasus: A Stable Isotope Perpsective

User Dr. Estelle Herrscher (Aix Marseille University, CNRS, LAMPEA - UMR 7269, France).

House BioAnth Lecture Theatre (Room 41), Division of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QG.

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

The genomics of adaptation in plants: moving from model to non-model species

User Dr Daniele Filiault, Gregor Mendel Institute.

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Mechanisms for encoding integrated calcium signatures in plants

User Dr Myriam Charpentier, John Innes Centre.

Tuesday 28 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Multiple mechanisms limit meiotic crossovers

User Raphael Mercier, Versailles INRA.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Smallholder agriculture and food security: examining the routes for diversifying and sustaining rural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa

User Dr. Shailaja Fennell ( Lecturer in Development Studies, Department of Land Economy).

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre

Café Synthetique

Please RSVP via http://www.meetup.com/Cambridge-Synthetic-Biology-Meetup/events/219670945/

User Sarah O'Connor and Stephanie Brown (John Innes Centre, Norwich), Pakpoom Subsoontorn (University of Cambridge).

House Panton Arms, 43 Panton St, CB2 1HL .

Monday 20 April 2015, 18:00-20:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Role of vascular growth factors in pre-eclampsia

User Professor David Bates, Division of Cancer and Stem Cells, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham .

House Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 01 April 2015, 16:30-17:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The mechanism by which calcium affects the circadian clock

User Carmen Marti (Webb Lab).

Thursday 26 March 2015, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Control of Arabidopsis Petal Growth

User Professor Vivian Irish, Yale University.

Wednesday 25 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The flora & lizards of the Canary Islands

User Peter Payne.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

An integrated structural biology approach to flower development

User Francois Parcy, Grenoble.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bioenergy Initiative

Algae Around the World Symposium

User Speaker to be confirmed.

House Sainsbury Laboratory University of Cambridge, Bateman Street.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 10:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Investigating the O3-induced Ca2+ signalling pathway in Arabidopsis

User Katie Wilkins (Davies Lab).

Thursday 12 March 2015, 13:00-13:30

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Resource competition: Supporting a growing population whilst reducing greenhouse gas emissions

User Dr Astley Hastings, Research Fellow, The School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Oil Palms, Alkenes, SCIs and Ozone: New measurement approaches to sidestep atmospheric chemical complexity

User Bill Bloss (Birmingham).

House MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 09 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Scrub clearance and chalk grassland restoration

User Peter Grubb.

House Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB 027), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 19:30-21:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Managing Innovation: an oxymoron?

CPPS Seminar

User David Lawrence, Syngenta.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Bo Jacobsson, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Gotenburg Sweden.

House Addenbrooke’s F&G 5 please see http://www.trophoblast.cam.ac.uk/info/seminar.shtml for directions.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 16:30-17:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Food Wastage and Global Food Security

User Dr Tim Fox, Head of Energy and Environment, Institute of Mechanical Engineers.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Molecular dissection of CLE signaling pathways in Arabidopsis

User Professor Shinichiro Sawa, Kumamoto University.

Monday 02 March 2015, 13:30-14:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Quantitative high spatiotemporal resolution imaging of biological processes

User Dr Melike Lakadamyali, NEST fellow, ICFO, Barcelona.

House Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Decreasing the oxygenase activity of Rubisco: a synthetic biology approach

User Marek Szecowka (Hibberd Lab).

Thursday 26 February 2015, 13:00-13:30

Seminars at the Department of Biochemistry

Cellulose: the plant kingdom's strong material

User Dr Michael Jarvis, Glasgow University.

House Department of Biochemistry, Hopkins Building, Seminar Room 1.

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Can genomics impact forestry?

User Richard Buggs, Queen Mary University of London.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Feeding the world without costing the earth

User Professor Andrew Balmford, Professor of Conservation Science, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Sedgwick Club talks

The transition to a forested planet: Devonian forest ecosystems in New York and Svalbard

User Dr Chris Berry (University of Cardiff).

House Harker Room 1, Department of Earth Sciences.

Monday 16 February 2015, 17:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Evolution of the miRNA-mediated RNA silencing pathway: the plant that wanted to be an animal

User Adrian Valli (Baulcombe Lab).

Thursday 12 February 2015, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The Evolution of Imprinted Gene Expression in Cultivated Rice

User Daniel ZIlberman, Berkeley.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Between Scylla and Charybdis: the sensitivity of the obstetric dilemma to short- and long-term ecological trends

User Professor Jonathan Wells, Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health .

House Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 16:30-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Carbon fluxes and biodiversity in Mediterranean landscapes – modelling with airborne lidar

User Will Simonson (Coomes Lab).

Thursday 29 January 2015, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Seasonal flowering in annual and perennial plants

User Professor George Coupland (Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research).

Monday 26 January 2015, 15:00-16:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Structure of the DNA Replication Machinery

User Julian Conrad, MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

House Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

Friday 23 January 2015, 18:15-19:15

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

The Future Directions of Rothamsted Research

User Achim Dobermann, Rothamstead.

Thursday 22 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Maternal vitamin D status and childhood body composition

User Professor Cyrus Cooper, University of Southampton, .

House Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Global Food Security

Sustainable Intensification: An Oxymoron?

User Chair: Professor Howard Griffiths, University of Cambridge.

House Curtis Auditorium, Clare College, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 20 January 2015, 17:30-19:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Inhospitable: early signalling events during cereal symbiosis

User Enrico Gobbato (Paszkowski Lab).

Thursday 15 January 2015, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Biomimetics: from nature to applications - ONE DAY MEETING

User Organiser: Dr Silvia Vignolini.

House Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 09 January 2015, 09:00-17:05

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Early events in Arabidopsis bud activation

User Maddie Seale, Sainsbury Lab.

Thursday 18 December 2014, 13:30-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

A physiological basis to agronomic development

User Celestin Ukozehasi, Griffiths Lab.

Thursday 18 December 2014, 13:00-13:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Potential effects of transposable element activation throughout tomato development

User Alex Canto Pastor, Baulcombe Lab.

Friday 12 December 2014, 12:00-12:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Grip, Slip, petals and pollinators

User Jonathan Pattrick, Glover Lab.

Friday 12 December 2014, 11:30-12:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Using metagenomics to identify emerging viral pathogens, and RNA silencing to combat them

User Luke Braidwood, Baulcombe Lab.

Friday 12 December 2014, 11:00-11:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Identifying microRNAs conditioning strong plant anti-aphid resistance

User Deusa Abreu, Carr Lab.

Friday 12 December 2014, 10:00-10:30

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Investigation of natural modifiers of meiotic crossover frequency in Arabidopsis thaliana

User Catherine Griffin, Henderson Lab.

Friday 12 December 2014, 09:30-10:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Study and characterization of MET1 homologues in Arabidopsis thaliana

User Christophe Buser, Sainsbury Lab.

Friday 12 December 2014, 09:00-09:30

DEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH DAY

User Various.

House TBC.

Thursday 11 December 2014, 09:00-18:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Mixtures or Alternation? Assessing Fungicide Anti-Resistance Strategies

User James Elderfield, Cunniffe Lab.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 13:30-14:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Investigating heat shock signalling pathways in Arabidopsis thaliana and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

User David Schoepfer, Sainsbury Laboratory.

Thursday 04 December 2014, 13:00-13:30

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

3D power Doppler ultrasound: applying image processing to assess placental function in the first trimester

User Gordon Stephenson.

House Physiology Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 03 December 2014, 16:00-17:00

Caius MCR/SCR research talks

Sex and Death: Recombination and Immunity in Arabidopsis

User Dr Ian Henderson (University of Cambridge).

House Senior Parlour, Gonville & Caius College.

Tuesday 02 December 2014, 21:00-21:30

Department of Earth Sciences Seminars (downtown)

Greenhouse Algae: The Calcifying Phytoplankton during Cenozoic Warm Climates

User Tom Dunkley Jones, University of Birmingham.

House Harker 1 seminar room, Department of Earth Sciences.

Tuesday 02 December 2014, 16:00-17:00

Wolfson College Science Society

How bees find the right flowers

User Dr Gregory Sutton.

House Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Friday 28 November 2014, 18:15-19:15

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Sustainable Farming - making it happen. The Science, delivery and pitfalls of Integrated Farm Management

CPPS Seminar

User Caroline Drummond MBE. LEAF Chief Executive.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Director's Choice

Fossil pollen and algae reveal Antarctica’s climate as the dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

User Vanessa Bowman (British Antarctic Survey).

House British Antarctic Survey, conference room.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Epigenetics Club

26th Epigenetics Club Seminar

User Dr Déborah Bourc'his; Prof. Ueli Grossniklaus.

House Physiology Lecure Theatre, Physiology Building Downing Site.

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 18:00-19:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

From proteins to plants: Using algorithmic information theory to study biological evolution and development

User Dr Sebastian Ahnert, Cavendish Laboratory University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

MAPK networks in Arabidopsis cell fate decisions: should I stay or should I go?

User Dr Diego Wengier, Stanford University.

Friday 21 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Dealing with Sudden Oak Death in the UK

User Matt Castle, Gilligan Lab.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 13:00-13:30

Trinity College Science Society (TCSS)

Exploring and Exploiting the RNA World in Plants and Animals

User Prof. David Baulcombe (Plant Sciences).

House Winstanley Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 18 November 2014, 18:15-19:15

CTR (Centre for Trophoblast Research) Seminar Series

Preeclampsia research and follow-up in Utrecht

User Professor Arie Franx, Head of Obstetrics, University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands.

House Bryan Matthew’s Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Friday 14 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Elucidating stress signalling response pathways in Arabidopsis and crops

User Marc Knight, Durham University.

Thursday 13 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Science from a sheet of paper

User Dr Tadashi Tokieda, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 12 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Scum of the Earth?

User Matt Davey, Smith Lab.

Thursday 06 November 2014, 13:00-13:30

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Ad-ab boundaries: Organisers of plant development

User Dr Marcus Heisler, European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

Wednesday 05 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

Dynamics of stem cell signalling pathways in plant meristems

User Professor Rüdiger Simon, Heinrich-Heine University.

Wednesday 05 November 2014, 10:00-10:45

House Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Chromatin and antisense transcript dynamics in seasonal timing

Enid MacRobbie Woman in Science Lecture

User Caroline Dean, John Innes Centre.

Thursday 30 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

House Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street).

A close look at the master regulators: imaging phytohormones at high-resolution in vivo

User Dr Alexander Jones, Carnegie Institution for Science.

Monday 27 October 2014, 16:00-17:00