Large-scale genomic data reveal mechanisms of mutagenesis and help predict complex phenotypes Abstract: Statistical analysis of large genomic datasets has recently emerged as a discovery tool in many areas of genetics. Two examples include studies of mutagenesis and of the relationship between genotype and phenotype. We developed a statistical model of regional variation of human mutation...
Past PMB Seminars
For a schedule of all Plant & Microbial Biology events, seminars, and lectures visit our calendar.
Francis-André Wollman: Arnon Lecture: The chloroplast: a site of post-endosymbiotic innovations in gene expression and protein assembly
Dr. Wollman is the Director of the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique in Paris, France. His work is dedicated to the study of the biogenesis and the function of the photosynthetic apparatus, which is present in the network of internal membranes of the chloroplast, the thylacoids.
Border Surveillance and the Black Mediterranean: Alternative Imaginaries of Refugees, Race and Rights
Camilla Hawthorne, Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, UC Santa Cruz Debarati Sanyal, Professor and Head Graduate Adviser in French, UC Berkeley
Joy Bergelson: Can we structure the microbiome of Arabidopsis thaliana?
Joy Bergelson is the Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. Her research is focused on interactions between the host plant, Arabidopsis thaliana, and the community of bacteria that inhabit it. Her lab is interested in understanding how the ecology of these interactions shapes evolutionary trajectories, and how evolutionary change in turn impacts ecology....
Jarre Hamilton: Race, Place, and Other Things for the Taking: The Buffalo Soldiers and Allensworth, California
In 1908, Lieutenant Colonel Allen Allensworth (and chaplain to the 24th infantry regiment of the Buffalo Soldiers) founded the town of Allensworth, California. This talk will discuss the daily, lived experiences of both the civilian population and the enlisted military men who existed in these varying racialized landscapes and the archaeological material culture they have left behind.
Kim Lewis: The Perfect Defense: Bacterial Persister Cells
Kim Lewis is a professor and researcher at Northeastern University. His research focuses on antimicrobial drug tolerance and drug discovery. He earned his B.S. in Biology and Ph.D. in Biochemistry at Moscow University.
Dr. Norm Ellstrand: PubScience: Sex on the Kitchen Table
Dr. Norm Ellstrand from UC Riverside will talk about some of the tales from his new book, Sex on the Kitchen Table. Start your Valentine's evening off right! At the tips of our forks and on our dinner plates, a buffet of botanical dalliance awaits us. Sex and food are intimately intertwined, and this relationship is nowhere more evident than among the plants that sustain us. From lascivious...
Allyson Greenlon: East Bay Science Cafe - House Plant Botany
Do you adore your house plants as if they were your own children? Have you taken to growing plants on nearly every window sill in your home? Join us we take a deep dive into learning more about the plants we grow inside our homes! Learn about their wild history before they took a more “domestic” lifestyle, understand what makes some of them toxic, what they would look like if they flowered, and...
Eugene Koonin: Evolution of microbial systems for defense and offense: CRISPR and far beyond
Dr. Koonin is the Senior Investigator at the National Center for Biotechnology Information. He is known primarily for his research on genome evolution, especially in microbes and viruses, host-parasite coevolution, and more specifically, functions and evolution of CRISPR-Cas systems. Koonin received his PhD in Molecular Biology in 1983 from the Department of Biology, Moscow State University....
Philip Kitcher: Howison Lectures in Philosophy Presented by Philip Kitcher
Philip Kitcher will present the Howison Lecture on February 13, 2019. The lecture is titled "Progress in the Sciences and in the Arts," and is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.