2017-2018 Plant Sciences Seminars
Plant Sciences Seminars meet at 9:00 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 14:
Cancelled due to Hurricane Irma - September 21:
No seminar - September 28: Dr. Sophie J. McCoy, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Are grazing wounds related to skeletal mineralogy in crustose coralline algae? - October 5: Dr. Hank W. Bass, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Surviving a genome collision: A case study of life after allopolyploidy in Brassica napus - October 12: Dr. Hongchang Cui, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
A molecular mechanism defining cell wall patterning in plants - October 19: Amanpreet Brar, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Basidiospores of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici succeed to infect barberry, while Urediniospores are blocked by non-host resistance - October 26: Sean Jackson, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
TBA - November 2: Juan Reza, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
TBA - November 9: Jason Lynn, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
TBA - November 16: Katherine Easterling, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Genetic and genomic tools for Cannabis sativa - November 30: Stefania Vendramin, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Embryonic epigenetic reprogramming by a pioneer transcription factor in plants, a discussion of Tao et al., 2017 - December 7: Dr. Oghenekome U. Onokpise, Department of Agriculture and Food Science, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Seventeen years of agroforestry research and extension at Florida A&M University: challenges and successes
Spring Series
- January 25: Zachary Turpin, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
A discussion of Maher et al., 'Profiling of accessible chromatin regions across multiple plant species and cell types reveals common gene regulatory principles and new control modules.' Plant Cell - February 1: Jason Lynn, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
A discussion of Ganguly et al. 'The Arabidopsis methylome is stable under transgenerational drought stress.' Plant Physiology - February 8: Stefania Vendramin Allegre, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
REPRESSOR OF SILENCING5 encodes a member of the small heat shock protein family and is required for DNA demethylation in Arabidopsis - February 15: Dr. Hank W. Bass, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Phosphorus starvation changes the chromatin structure of rice - February 22: Margaret Vogel, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Plants increase CO2 uptake by assimilating nitrogen via the photorespiratory pathway - March 1: Delvin S. Williams, Department of Agronomy, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Defining the roles of highly conservative regulatory genes associated with drought response in Zea mays - March 8: Juan Reza, Bass Lab, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
A systems biology approach to maize/sea grass nucleosome study - March 15:
No seminar; spring break - March 22: Dr. Hongchang Cui, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Coding sequences play a pivotal role in spatial gene expression in C4 plants - March 29: Amanpreet K. Brar, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Fusion of a highly N-glycosylated polypeptide increases the expansion of ER-localized proteins in plants - April 5: Dr. Kathryn M. Jones, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Development of infection thread structures in symbiotic host plant invasion by Sinorhizobium meliloti is dependent on exopolysaccharide succinylation - April 12: Brendan Scherer, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Vertical transmission of plant microbiomes, implications for ecology, evolution and agriculture - April 19: Katherine Easterling, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Analytical and pharmacological challenges in cannabis research - April 26: Dr. Gokhan Hacisalihoglu, Department of Biological Science, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL
QTL mapping links genes controlling variability seed protein, oil, volume, weight, and shape traits to phosphorus background - May 3: Jun Ni
A novel mechanism of sensing neighboring competitors in Ginkgo biloba