2018-2019 Plant Sciences Seminars
Plant Sciences Seminars meet at 11:00 am on Thursdays (unless otherwise noted below), in room 2057 King Life Sciences Building on the FSU campus in Tallahassee, Florida. They are open to the public.
Fall Series
- September 20: Ethan Cissell, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, and FSU coastal and Marine Laboratory
Benthic blooms - benthic cyanobacterial mat physiology, and the potential for control - September 27: Dr. Hank W. Bass, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Where it all begins: DNA replication in Arabidopsis - October 11: Dr. Sophie Mccoy, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Calcification pathways and controls in coralline algae: What is the relationship to photosynthesis? - October 18: Dr. Oghenekome Onokpise, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Sixteen years of agroforestry research, teaching and extension at Florida A&M University: successes and challenges - October 25: Juan Reza, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
NASA agronomic facility for Mars human missions: a student-challenge project to design the greenhouse and crop management on Mars - November 1: Jason Lynn, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Stable transgenerational epigenetic inheritance requires a DNA methylation-sensing circuit - November 8: Amanpreet Brar, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strain MBI600 induces salicylic acid dependent resistance in tomato plants against tomato spotted wilt virus and potato virus Y: a discussion of Beris et al., 2018 - November 15: Dr. Sophie J. Mccoy, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, and FSU coastal and Marine Laboratory
Calcification pathways and controls in coralline algae: What is the relationship to photosynthesis? - December 6: Stefania Vendramin Alegre, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Discussion of Song et al., 2016: A transcription factor hierarchy defines an environmental stress response network - December 13: Katherine Easterling, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
A physical and genetic map of Cannabis sativa identifies extensive rearrangement at the THC/CBD acid synthase locus
Spring Series
- January 17: Juan Reza, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Modifying plant metabolic pathways for the Mars greenhouse: a role for molecular biology in the NASA vision - January 24: Dr. Colin Kremer, Michigan State University W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Hickory Corners, MI
TBA - January 31: Dr. Jason Bertram, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
TBA - February 7: Katherine Easterling, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
The number of meiotic double-strand breaks influences crossover distribution in Arabidopsis: a discussion of Xue et al., The Plant Cell, 2018 - February 14: Amanpreet Brar, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Discussion of Min Jia, et al.: Noncanonical ATG8–ABS3 interaction controls senescence in plants. - February 21: Dr. Hank W. Bass, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Nucleoskeletal repressors of plant defense responses: A discussion of Choi et al., Plant Physiol. (2019) - February 28: Dr. Gokhan Hascisalioglu, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL
Improving maize (Zea mays) early seedling performance under cold temperature stress - March 7: Dr. Karen M. McGinnis, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
The dominant and poorly penetrant phenotypes of maize unstable factor for orange1 are caused by DNA methylation changes at a Linked transposon - March 14: Brendan Scherer, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Emergence shapes the structure of the seed microbiota - March 21:
Spring Break, no meeting - March 28: Dr. Hongchang Cui, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
A mechanism coordinating cell elongation, endodermis differentiation, redox homeostasis, and oxidative stress response in plant root - April 4: Dr. Kathryn M. Jones, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
TBA - April 11: Dr. Oghenokome Onokpise, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL
fire ecology and forest fire management in Florida:impact of prescribed Fire on soil nitrogen in the flatwoods of Florida. - April 18: Dr. Marta Sena Velez, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
TBA - April 25: Zachary Turpin, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
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