Seminars
Plant Science Seminars (PSS) |
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Internal BIVEG seminars |
Mondays at 13:15 |
Newcomer’s PSS (NPSS) |
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Internal BIVEG seminars |
Wednesdays at 11:15, |
Geneva Plant Seminars (GPS) |
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Departmental seminar series |
Wednesdays at 11:15 |
Life Science Seminar Series (LSSS) |
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Interdepartmental seminar series |
Tuesdays at 16:15 |
Next GPS
Next LSSS
Yanlan Mao (UCL)
“Coping with mechanical stress: tissue dynamics during development and repair”
Hosted by PhD Association
Seminars from other biology departments are listed on bioSeminars.
Past GPS
2023
Friends, allies and enemies: intercellular signalling when under attack
Christine Faulkner (JIC, UK)2023-03-01
How do plants remember a stressful day? - A role for epigenetics?!
Isabel Bäurle (University of Potsdam)2023-02-08
2022
Plant plasma membrane organization: Leaflet asymmetry, interdigitation, domain formation, biological consequences
Sébastien Mongrand (CNRS, Université de Bordeaux)2022-11-16
The role of oxygen-sensing in plant environmental adaptation
Michael Holdsworth (University of Nottingham)2022-11-09
The role of nitric oxide and under low oxygen stress in plants
Jagadis Gupta Kapuganti (National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi )2022-10-26
Improving photosynthesis to increase crop yields
Christine Raines (University of Essex)2022-10-19
How the floral regulator LEAFY makes flowers and cauliflowers
François Parcy (CNRS of Grenoble)2022-10-07
The making of a plant armor: the periderm
Laura Ragni (Center for Plant Molecular Biology- ZMBP)2022-10-05
Signalling networks controlling plant growth in the context of climate change
Jorge Casal (Leloir Institute Buenos Aires)2022-06-20
H2O2 signal transduction in plants
Frank Van Breusegem (VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University)2022-06-08
Defining the Evolutionary Framework Underpinning Plant Immunity
Philip Carella (John Innes Center)2022-04-27
A watch DOG to prevent shut down of ABA responses during early seed imbibition
Guillaume Née (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)2022-01-19
2021
Application of in planta ATP, NADPH and NAD/NAD+ sensors
Boon Leong Lim (University of Hong Kong)2021-06-16
Molecular mechanisms during plant - plant interactions
Markus Albert (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg)2021-05-19
Photosymbiosis interaction in the plankton unveiled by subcellular imaging
Johan Decelle (CNRS, University of Grenoble, CEA, INRAe)2021-04-28
Light sensing in fungi
Reinhard Fischer (Department of Microbiology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)2021-03-10
Some like it hot: temperature sensing in plants
Philip Wigge (Leibniz IGZ and University of Potsdam)2021-02-10
TOR Kinase Coordinates Nutrients with Hormones to Orchestrate Plant Growth and Proliferation
Yan Xiong (Haixia Institute of Science and Technology, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University)2021-02-01
2020
Current approaches for the efficient isolation and identification of plant and fungal secondary metabolites
Emerson Ferreira Queiroz (Phytochimie et Produits Naturels Bioactifs, Section des Sciences Pharmaceutiques, UNIGE)2020-12-02
How to tango with four: Adaptation of meiotic chromosome behaviour to genome duplication
Kirsten Bomblies (Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, ETH Zurich)2020-10-07
Modulation of stomatal aperture by signals from the environment
Alistair Hetherington (University of Bristol)2020-01-22
2019
Staying tight= controlling plant cell-to-cell communication through plasmodesmata membrane contacts
Emmanuelle Bayer (Laboratory of Membrane biogenesis, Bordeaux)2019-12-04
Epigenetic regulation of gene expression
Sylvain Bischof (University of Zürich)2019-11-27
A sleigh ride through the SNO: Nitric oxide mediated S-nitrosylation regulates plant and animal innate immunity
Gary Loake (University of Edinburgh)2019-11-13
Bi-directional signaling along the microbiome-root-shoot axis
Corné Pieterse (Utrecht University)2019-10-30
Signal transduction and nutrient balance: regulation by IP8 of the cellular transport of inorganic phosphate
Shears Stephen (National Intitiute of Environmental Health Sciences)2019-10-15
Regulation of organogenesis and tissue patterning during postembryonic development in Arabidopsis thaliana
Miguel Moreno Risueño (CBGP - Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, Madrid, Spain)2019-09-18
Identification and Characterization of a Missing Link in Resistance Protein Function; SOBIR1 plays a central role in signaling by receptor-like proteins
Matthieu Joosten (Wageningen University)2019-09-17
The environmental and genetic factors that shape the plant microbiome
Matthew Horton (University of Zurich)2019-07-03
Phototaxis and directional light sensing in a cyanobacterium
Annegret Wilde (University of Freiburg)2019-06-19
From Start to Finish: Functions of the N-end Rule Pathway of Proteolysis in Plants
Daniel Gibbs (University of Birmigham)2019-05-15
Controlled mobilization of transposable elements in plants: A new tool for crop breeding
Etienne Bucher (Agroscope Changins)2019-03-20
2018
Genome Engineering in Plants: Past, Present, Future
Holger Puchta (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, KIT)2018-10-31
Pyrophosphate - linking metabolism and stress responses
Karin Schumacher (Heidelberg University)2018-09-26
Dissecting the physiology of plant thermomorphogenesis
Marcel Quint (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)2018-09-19
Phytochrome and plant defenses
Carlos Ballaré (UBA - Universitiy of Buenos Aires)2018-08-29
Distinct modes of derepression of an Arabidopsis immune receptor complex by two different bacterial effectors
Hailong Guo (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK)2018-08-13
A requiem for crystal structures of large membrane complexes
Nathan Nelson (Tel Aviv University)2018-07-25
Inositol pyrophosphates: messengers at the interface between plant nutrition and defense
Gabriel Schaaf (Bonn University)2018-04-25
Membrane nano- and microdomain dynamics during host cell infection
Thomas Ott (University of Freiburg, Germany)2018-03-28
Exploring M.A.R.S. : Signaling through the Chloroplast Unfolded Protein Response
Silvia Ramundo (UCSF - University of California San Francisco, Dpmt of Biochemistry and Biophysics)2018-02-14
Circadian rhythms and cell signalling
Antony Dodd (University of Bristol)2018-01-24
2017
Timing takes teamwork: ZEITLUPE and GIGANTEA in the plant circadian system
David Somers (The Ohio State University, USA)2017-12-06
Adaptation from long-standing genetic variation in an alpine plant
Alex Widmer (ETHZ)2017-11-15
Characterization of NPF and SWEET proteins as plant hormone transporters
Mitsunori Seo (RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science)2017-10-18
Seasonal coordination of reproductive programs by photoperiodic signals in rice
Fabio Fornara (Université de Milan)2017-09-27
Molecular mechanisms enabling plants to get access to more sunlight
Christian Fankhauser (Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne)2017-05-24
Because the seasons they are a-changin’ - FT-like genes control the length of the growing season and winter dormancy in trees
Ove Nilsson (Umea Plant Science Centre, Sweden)2017-05-03
Microbial life at the oxic-anoxic interface of a meromictic alpine lake
Dr. Mauro Tonolla (SUPSI)2017-04-26
Chloroplast tomography and photosynthesis in the ocean
Giovanni Finazzi (Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale (LPCV) CEA Grenoble)2017-03-29
Phosphoinositide Signalling in Plant Stress & Development.
Teun Munnik (University of Amsterdam)2017-03-22
Signalling pathways regulating the circadian clock
Alex Webb (Cambridge University, UK)2017-03-14
The Secrets of Essential Chloroplast Genes: New Link between Chloroplast Protein Import and RNA Metabolism?
Prof. Jean-David Rochaix (UNIGE, BIVEG)2017-03-07
Calredoxin – a novel calcium-dependent sensor-responder connected to regulation of photosynthesis
Michael Hippler (Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster, Germany)2017-02-15
Signalling in Embryo surface formation: A sticky problem
Gwyneth Ingram (Université de Lyon)2017-02-01
2016
What do we know about the role of natural variation in the control of seed longevity?
Dr. Léonie Bentsink (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)2016-11-09
Design Principles and Self-Assembling Properties of a Plant Extracellular Interactome
Dr. Youssef Belkhadir (GMI - Gregor Mendel Institute, Austria)2016-11-02
Phosphate acquisition in Arabidopsis thaliana
Dr. Laurent Nussaume (CEA - Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives)2016-10-05
The endodermis as a checkpoint for nutrients
Dr. Marie Baberon (University of Lausanne)2016-09-19
"Origin and growth dynamics of the Arabidopsis root cambium"
Ari Pekka Mähönen (University of Helsinki)2016-09-16
“The plant circadian clock: mechanisms and purposes”
Seth Davis (University of York)2016-05-25
"Organellar Ca2+ Signalling - the chloroplast enters the stage
Markus Teige (University of Vienna)2016-05-04
The benefits of a colorful diet; some of the science behind 5-a-day
Prof. Cathie Martin (John Innes Institute, Norwich, UK)2016-05-03
Mechanistic insights into CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing
Martin Jinek (Institute for Biochemistry, University of Zurich)2016-04-13
Structure and functions of the bacterial phyllosphere microbiota
Julia Vorholt (ETHZ)2016-04-06
Biogenesis of photosystem I complex
Prof. Yuichiro Takahashi (Okayama University, Japan)2016-03-11
Control of seed behaviour by maternal flowering time pathways
Steven Penfield (John Innes Center)2016-02-10
Perception and modulation of danger by plant receptor kinases
Cyril Zipfel (The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK)2016-02-01
2015
„Evolution of flower and leaf growth control in Capsella and barley”
Michael Lenhard (Institut für Biochemie und Biologie Universität Potsdam)2015-11-18
Making a cilium by intraflagellar transport
Esben Lorenzten (Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich)2015-11-04
Exploiting plant distress signals for crop protection
Ted Turlings (Université de Neuchâtel (UNINE))2015-10-14
Receptor-mediated signalling from the plant cell wall
Sebastian Wolf (Center for Organismal Studies, University of > Heidelberg, Germany)2015-09-08
Histone variants index the genome and structure its architecture
Fred Berger (Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI, Vienna) )2015-06-17
Unexpected roles of plastid lipid droplets (plastoglobules) in Vitamin K and E metabolism
Prof. Félix Kessler (Université de Neuchâtel)2015-05-20
Synthetic genotypes in plants: Boundaries between metabolic engineering and synthetic biology
Prof. Paul Christou (ICREA, University of Lleida, Spain)2015-05-13
"Chloroplast proteases and their role in dealing with environmental stresses"
Dr. Zach ADAM (Faculty of Agriculture - The Hebrew University, Israel)2015-03-26
Arabidopsis and insect eggs: who is winning?
Philippe Reymond (UNIL)2015-03-04
The blue light photoreceptor PHOTOTROPIN controls LHCSR3 expression and excess light energy dissipation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Dr. Giovanni Finazzi (CEA, Grenoble)2015-02-12
Plant organ growth control: Brassinosteroid activity gets context
Dr Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)2015-02-06
Dissecting the Phytochrome-PIF Photosensory Signaling Network
Peter Quail (Université de Berkeley)2015-01-31
2014
to be announced
Andreas Weber (University of Dusseldorf)2014-12-17
Membrane electrostatics controls plasma membrane identity and cell signaling in plants
Yvon Jaillais (ENS Lyon)2014-12-03
To be announced
Benoît Kornmann (ETH Zürich)2014-11-19
Generating robust reiterative patterns of morphogenesis in plants
Teva Vernoux (ENS Lyon, France)2014-09-17
MAPK signaling to chromatin in innate immunity
Prof. Heribert Hirt (Center for Desert Agriculture, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)2014-08-06
Shedding light on molecular mechansims of phytochrome signalling
Andreas Hiltbrunner (University of Freiburg, Germany)2014-06-25
Novel Regulatory Mechanisms of Arabidopsis Pattern-Triggered Immunity
Laurent Zimmerli (National Taiwan University)2014-06-18
Phosphorylation and sumoylation of phytochromes negatively regulates light signalling in Arabidopsis
Ferenc Nagy (BRC, Szeged, Hungary)2014-06-11
What do lycophytes tell us? From leaves to photosynthesis
Dr. Lorenzo Ferroni (University of Ferrara)2014-05-07
An integrated structural biology approach to flower development
François Parçy (CEA, Grenoble)2014-04-16
The role of starch metabolism in drought stress tolerance
Diana Santelia (Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zürich)2014-01-22
2013
Optical Control of Gene Expression and Signalling in Animal Cells
Prof. Wilfried Weber (Freiburg (Germany))2013-12-04
DELLA proteins as coordinators for plant growth in time and space
Miguel Blázquez (Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas (IBMCP))2013-11-20
Towards understanding of acclimation in algal photosynthesis with emphasis on cyclic photosynthetic electron flow
Prof. Michael Hippler (Universität Münster)2013-11-13
Regulators of Chloroplast RNA metabolism
Schmitz Linneweber (Institute of Biology - Genetics / Humboldt University of Berlin)2013-06-19
Properties of the Hetero-Oligomeric Cytochrome b6f-Lipidic Charge Transfer Complex of Oxygenic Photosynthesis
Prof. William Cramer (Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA)2013-06-17
Plant signaling and multi-tasking in crowded environments
Ronald Pierik (Plant Ecophysiology Institute of Environmental Biology Utrecht University, NL)2013-02-27
A genomic scale artificial micro RNA library as a tool to investigate the redundant gene space in Arabidopsis thaliana
Dr. Felix Hauser (Lab of J. I. Schroeder, University of California, San Diego )2013-01-25
2012
Plant synthetic biology: tool to redesign secondary cell wall deposition
Dominique Loqué (Joint BioEnergy Institute - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Berkeley, CA, USA)2012-09-19
Exploring & exploiting vitamin metabolism in algae
Prof. Alison Smith (University of Cambridge UK)2012-09-11
Tête-à-tête: Regulation of auxin transport by protein-protein interaction
Markus Geisler (University of Fribourg)2012-06-22
Protein complex isolation from plants: "the early days are gone..."
Geert De Jaeger (VIB, Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University, Belgium)2012-06-20
RNA Polymerase IV and V subtypes mediating RNA silencing in Arabidopsis and maize
Craig S. Pikaard (Indiana University, USA)2012-04-20
Metabolomic strategies for the search of original stress induced biomarkers in plants and fungi
Prof. Jean Luc Wolfender (UNIGE - Pharmaceutical Sciences)2012-02-22
Role and mode of action of vitamin E in plant growth and development
Laurent Mène Saffrané (Université de Fribourg)2012-02-15
Regulation of alternative mRNA splicing by Polypyrimidine tract-binding proteins in Arabidopsis
Dr. Andreas Wächter (University of Tübingen, Germany)2012-01-25
2011
Fine-tuning of light-driven gene expression changes through histone H2B ubiquitination
Dr. Frédy Barnèche (Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)2011-11-30
Insect resistance for the long haul: lessons from a native plant
Ian Baldwin (Department Of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute For Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany)2011-10-28
Linking comparative genomics and whole-genome sequencing in an assault on the bread wheat genome
Michael Bevan (John Innes Centre, Uk)2011-10-19
New techniques and applications in algal biotechnology
Dr Saul Purton (University College London)2011-10-04
Receptor kinase-mediated innate immunity in plants
Cyril Zipfel (The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK)2011-09-09
Amylases and Amylase-Like Proteins - New Functions for Old Enzymes in Metabolic Regulation and Cellular Signaling
Prof. Sam Zeeman (Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETHZ)2011-06-28
Drought signalling in plants
Erwin Grill (Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan Technische Universität München)2011-06-24
Small RNA-directed DNA elimination in Tetrahymena
Dr. Kazufumi Mochizuki (IMBA (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences))2011-05-27
Genome-wide analysis uncovers elaborate regulation of long noncoding RNAs in Arabidopsis
Nam Hai Chua (Rockefeller University, New York)2011-05-04
Applications of amphipols to membrane protein studies
Jean Luc Popot (IBPC, Paris)2011-04-20
Singlet oxygen production and detoxification in Arabidopsis during photo-oxidative stress
Michel Havaux (CEA/Cadarache, France)2011-04-06
2010
RNAi-mediated co-transcriptional gene silencing (CTGS) in fission yeast, a primitive plant
Marc Buehler (FMI, Basel)2010-12-17
The Use of Biochemical Profiling for Biomarker Discovery
Dr. John Ryal (Metabolon Inc. , Durham, NC, USA)2010-12-13
RETINOBLASTOMA-RELATED protein: new duties for a key regulator of the cell cycle in Arabidopsis thaliana
Lorenzo Borghi (ETHZ)2010-12-03
In and out of the cell cycle
Lieven De Veylder (Cell Cycle Research; VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University, Belgium)2010-11-26
A new pathway to initiate flower formation: Transcriptional regulation of floral meristem identity genes
Ayako Yamaguchi (Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)2010-11-22
Flicking the switch on Polycomb regulated genes
Prof. Jean Finnegan (CSIRO, Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia)2010-10-18
Sequencing the Collective Oryza Genome - Status and Prospects
Rod Wing (Arizona Genomics Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA)2010-07-09
Stability of gene regulation and of cell division cycle in plants
Shin Takeda (Nagoya University, Japan)2010-06-18
Modelling approaches to the photosynthetic apparatus in Arabidopsis
Prof. Oliver Ebenhoeh (Institute for Xomlpex Systems and Mathematical Biology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland)2010-06-04
Inheritance patterns of DNA methylation in Arabidopsis: mechanisms and impact
Vincent Colot (Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS Paris)2010-05-28
"Assembly and remodeling of photosystem I complex"
Prof. Yuichiro Takahashi (Okayama University)2010-05-11
How does light regulate chloroplast enzyme activities ? Structural and functional insights into the ferredoxin/thioredoxin system.
Peter Schürmann (Université de Neûchatel)2010-05-07
Getting warmer? Trying to understand temperature sensing in Arabidopsis
Phil Wigge (John Innes Centre, Norwich)2010-04-30
DNA, mRNA, and protein sequencing studies of the ecophysiology of phototrophic sulfur bacteria
Niels Ulrik Frigaard (Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen)2010-04-23
The initial sensing of mild temperature variations in plants is controlled by specific calcium-channels in the plasma membrane
Pierre Goloubinoff (Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, UNIL)2010-04-16
Brassinosteroid signaling and plant development
Zhiyong Wang (Department of Plant Biology Carnegie Institution, Stanford University, CA)2010-03-26
Patterning the maize leaf
Sarah Hake (Plant Gene Expression Center, Berkeley University, California, USA )2010-03-23