My lab uses multiple approaches to dissect plant stem cell signaling networks including genetics, genomics, live tissue imaging, and cell biological and biochemical methods.
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Past PMB Seminars
For a schedule of all Plant & Microbial Biology events, seminars, and lectures visit our calendar.
Jim Imlay: What is oxidative stress, and when does it matter?
Professor of Microbiology Romano Scholar Associate Director, MCB Graduate Program Research Topics Enzymology, Microbial Physiology Education B.S. (Chemistry, English), Duke University, 1981 Ph.D. (Biochemistry), University of California, Berkeley, 1987 Postdoctoral (Biochemistry), Duke University, 1987-1992
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John Taylor: Fungi, Sorghum and Drought
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is a grass closely related to sugarcane (Saccharum) and corn (Zea mays). It is the fifth most important cereal crop globally; its use is increasing due to its ability to resist drought. We are studying the role that fungi play in sorghum’s drought resistance and initiated our studies with the obligately mutualistic mycorrhizal fungi found in sorghum roots, arbuscular...
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Lasana Hotep: Racism Without Racist: Rethinking Our Approach Toward Equity Work
Lasana Hotep is an educator and entrepreneur. He lives in Oakland, California. He is the Lead Consultant for Hotep Consultants and the Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Karine A. Gibbs: PMB 30th Anniversary: Serving (Up) Science: Tools, Trust and Twitter
Social media and online communication are changing science—including how research is shared and how professional reputations are developed. With gender, race, and power dynamics all actively intersecting in these public and quasi-public settings, this moderated panel discussion explores the biases and filters built into “older” communication vehicles and “newer” ones. What are the tradeoffs...
Michi Taga: Corrinoids in Communities: Nutrient Sharing in the Microbial World
Join us for a special department seminar with our own Michi Taga. Details are below. Michi will be giving this talk as part of the process for becoming a full-professor at PMB. The seminar allows the department to hear about the great strides Michi has made in the field of microbial chemical ecology since joining the PMB faculty in 2009.
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Paula Welander: Biosynthesis of membrane lipids in the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius
" Paula Welander is a microbiologist who received her undergraduate degree from Occidental College in Los Angeles. She pursued her PhD studies in microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed her postdoctoral studies at MIT in the Departments of Biology and of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. Paula joined the Stanford faculty in 2013 where her current...
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Tim Van Opijnen: Tsujimoto Lecture: On the Origin of Personalized Infectious Disease Treatment Strategies by Means of Rapid Detection and Disease Outcome Predictions
"Tim Van Opijnen received his Masters in evolutionary genetics from the University of Amsterdam, and as a graduate student he worked on the evolution of HIV at the Medical School of the University of Amsterdam. As a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Andrew Camilli at Tufts University in Boston his interests shifted to bacterial pathogens and systems biology. In January 2013 he started his own...
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Jesse Bloom: The evolutionary potential of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein
"Dr. Jesse Bloom studies evolution using viruses and viral proteins as models. Specifically focusing on the fast-evolving influenza virus, Bloom aims to understand how mutations in viral genes shape the pathogen’s ability to infect and spread." -Fred Hutch
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Sheng Yang He: The "disease triangle" in a warming climate
Sheng Yang He is a Chinese-American plant biologist. He is the University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University and serves as President of the International Society of Plant-Microbe Interactions. Recognized for his research of plant pathology on the molecular level, he was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2015.