Plant Biology Fall 2025 Seminars

In the fall and spring semesters PB seminars are generally held in Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222, Thursdays at 4pm, unless otherwise noted. For seminars noted as remote, the Zoom link will be emailed to the Plant Biology list-serv.

Refreshments will be served beginning at 3:50pm.

Curiouser and curiouser: What I still want to figure out after close t0 30 years of investigating plant iron homeostasis

September 4

Presenter: Elsbeth Walker
Institution: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Location: Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222
Host: Sam Hazen

Circadian clock components offer targets for crop improvement

September 11

Presenter: Rob McClung
Institution: Dartmouth College
Location: Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222
Host: Sam Hazen

Disentangling spatial and temporal features of calcium during polarized growth

September 18

Presenter: Magdalena Bezanilla
Institution: Dartmouth College
Location: Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222
Host: Elizabeth Vierling

Next-gen trait improvement: engineering quantitative traits using genome editing

September 25

Presenter: Daniel Rodrigues Leal
Institution: University of Maryland
Location: Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222
Host: Hailong Yang

Functions of receptor-like protein kinases in regulating root development and stress adaptation

October 2

Presenter: Jia Li Institution: Lanzhou University
Location: Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222
Host: Tobias Basking and Alice Cheung

Functional characterization of conserved noncoding sequences in grasses

October 9

Presenter: Hailong Yang
Institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Location: Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222
Host: Michelle Facette

My journey working on plant pathology in Colombia: More rewarding than challenging

October 16

Presenter: Silvia Restrepo
Institution: Boyce Thompson Institute
Location: Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222
Host: Ana Caicedo

Dynamic construction, integrity sensing, and remodeling of cell walls during plant growth and development

October 23

Presenter: Charles Anderson
Institution: Penn State University
Location: Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222
Host: Greg Gregory

Patterning of the Maize Leaf during Development: An Unfolding Story

October 30

Presenter: Anne Sylvester
Institution: Marine Biological Laboratory
Location: Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222
Host: Michelle Facette

Characterizing the dynamics of plant disease resistance and pathogen race evolution

November 6

Presenter: Kelly Allen
Institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Location: Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222
Host: Li-Jun Ma

State of the Program

November 13

Presenter: Ana Caicedo
Institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Location: Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222

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