We host five endowed lectures throughout the academic year. Endowed lectures are paid for with private funds invested and held by the Regents of the University.

The Daniel I. Arnon Lecture was established with resources from the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. The endowment also supports graduate students who are designated Arnon Fellows.

The Bob B. Buchanan and Harry Tsujimoto Lectures were established with a generous gift from the K/T (Kase/Tsujimoto) Foundation of San Francisco. The endowment also supports graduate students who are designated "Kase Fellows".

The Taylor-White Lecture is a unique collaboration between Tom White, an entrepreneur, and John Taylor, a professor in the department. Together they performed research and published papers.

The Kustu Lecture is supported by donations from students, faculty and staff who worked with Sydney Kustu, a professor in the department.

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For a schedule of all Rausser College of Natural Resources events, seminars, and lectures visit our calendar.

Past Endowed Lectures

Wed, 09/07/2022 - 00:00
Wed, 09/07/2022 - 00:00

Buchanan Lecture: How plants sense and respond to karrikins, a class of growth regulators in smoke

Wednesday September 07, 2022
Almost two decades ago, karrikins were identified in smoke as germination stimulants of plants that emerge after fire. Karrikins have since been shown to affect many aspects of plant development, putatively because they mimic an unknown endogenous hormone. I will present our current understanding of how karrikins are perceived by plants and how karrikin signaling is attenuated through feedback control mechanisms.
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Wed, 03/09/2022 - 00:00
Wed, 03/09/2022 - 00:00

Taylor-White Lecture w/Toby Kiers

Wednesday March 09, 2022
Underground, mycorrhizal fungi form complex networks of filamentous hyphae that connect plant roots. The fungus mobilizes phosphorus and nitrogen, and trades these for host carbon in a market-like exchange. While the ubiquity and importance of underground networks is established, we have no mechanistic understanding of how a fungus evaluates its trade environment. Fungi must integrate a complex...
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Wed, 11/03/2021 - 00:00
Wed, 11/03/2021 - 00:00

Tsujimoto Lecture: The Physalis Improvement Project: Ripening the Potential of Underutilized Fruit

Wednesday November 03, 2021
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Wed, 09/08/2021 - 00:00
Wed, 09/08/2021 - 00:00

Siobhan Braybrook: What do walls have to do with it? Multiscale implications for growth and survival

Wednesday September 08, 2021
Carbohydrate-based cell walls show up all over the tree of life, including in several multicellular lineages. In this talk, we will explore how cell walls are central to the growth and survival of organisms in two groups: plants and brown algae (seaweeds).
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Rytas Vilgalys
Wed, 03/17/2021 - 17:00
Wed, 03/17/2021 - 17:00

Rytas Vilgalys: Taylor-White Lecture: Genetics of fungal colonization associated with global exotic forestry: insights from pines and their symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi

Wednesday March 17, 2021

Rytas Vilgalys. Ph.D., Virginia Polytech Institute and State University, 1985 MS Botany, Virginia Tech, 1982 M.S., Virginia Polytech Institute and State University, 1981 BA Botany, State University of New York College at Geneseo, 1978 B.A., State University of New York, Geneseo, 1978

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