Seminars
Plant and Crop Sciences Seminars.
These research seminars normally take place on Wednesday lunchtimes between 1 and 2 pm and are organised by Dr. Ive De Smet (Ive De Smet@Nottingham.ac.uk). They are held in Lecture Room 11 in the Plant Sciences building on the Sutton Bonington Campus, unless otherwise stated.
SPRING/SUMMER SEMINARS 2012
Wednesday 28th March
Gwynyth Ingram (Ens de Lyon)
The Arabidopsis embryonic epidermis: making an outside inside
Wednesday 18th April
Sabrina Sabatini (Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie ‘Charles Darwin’, Laboratory of Functional Genomics and Proteomics of Model Systems, Università Sapienza, Italy)
Spatial coordination between stem cell activity and cell differentiation in the root meristem
Wednesday 25th April
Tony Schaeffner (Helmholtz Zentrum Müchen)
The orphan glucosyltransferase UGT76B1 conjugates isoleucic acid, a novel small-molecule effector, and modulates pathogen defense
Wednesday 2nd May
Dr John Doonan (National Plant Phenomics Centre, Aberystwyth University)
Roles of a novel plant microtubule associated protein in mitosis and growth (or why don’t higher plants have centrioles)
Wednesday 30th May
Aragula Rao (Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, United States)
Title - tbc
LR2
Wednesday 6th June
Dr Olga Grant (National Univeristy of Ireland Maynooth)
Thermal and chlorophyll fluorescence imaging of leaves: Detection, analysis, and exploitation of plant responses to environmental stress
LR2
Wednesday 11th July
Simon Conn, European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Exploiting Natural Variation in Plant Cell-Specific Element Accumulation: Lessons Learnt From Hungry Irishmen and Deformed Devils