Plant Biology Graduate Group Seminar Series

Trent Northen, Senior Scientist and Deputy Director, Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Berkeley Lab, presents "Exploring plant metabolites and microbial interactions using exometabolomics".

Professor Gitta Coaker, John and Joan Fiddyment Endowed Chair in Agriculture, University of California, Davis, presents "Plant Immunity: Tandem Kinases and Pathogen Variation in Defense".

Peter Pellitier, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, Stanford University, presents "Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Traits and The Making of Future Forests".

Armando Bravo, PhD, Principal Investigator & Assistant Member, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, presents "Unveiling insights into the most ancient plant-microbe mutualism through comparative phylogenomics".

Erin Nuccio, Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, presents "Fungal-bacterial interactions in the mycorrhizal hyphosphere".

Eyal Fridman, Group Leader, Volcani Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Israel, presents "Cytonuclear-Driven Plasticity/Stability in Barley Evolution: Hedging Bets in Changing Environments?"

Prof. Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Technion, presents "Brassinosteroid regulation of root growth across multiple scales".

Dr. Firas Bou Daher, University of Minnesota, presents "Coordination of Auxin, Cell Wall, and Cytoskeleton in Early Seedling Development for Successful Plant Establishment".

Ying-Chung Jimmy Lin, Associate Professor, National Taiwan University, presents "Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveals Progressive Loss of Developmental Complexity of Xylem across Seed Plants".

Ashley DuVal, Senior Scientist, Genetics and Breeding, Mars Wrigley, presents "Understanding and harnessing rootstock scion interactions in cacao".