Niyogi, who earned his Ph.D. in biology at M.I.T., researches photosynthetic energy conversion in his lab at U.C. Berkeley. The Niyogi Lab uses cyanobacteria, eukaryotic algae, and plants to investigate photosynthetic processes.
Past PMB Seminars
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Moh El-Naggar: Hotwired Life: Biophysical Studies of Microbial Extracellular Electron Conduits
El-Naggar leads the NanoBio Lab, which focuses on the fundamentals, implications, and technological applications of biological charge transfer, using environmental microbes as model systems. This is a highly interdisciplinary area, drawing from the toolboxes of nanoscience, condensed matter physics, electrochemistry, and environmental microbiology.
Noah Fierer: Tsujimoto Lecture: Searching for simplicity amidst the complexity of the soil microbiome
Noah Fierer. The Fierer Lab explores the distribution and roles of microscopic organisms in diverse environments and the relevance of microbes to the health and function of ecosystems, plants, and animals (including humans).
Daniel M. Kammen: Daniel M. Kammen | The Clean Energy Transition in Bangladesh - Local and Global Impacts and Opportunities
A lecture by Distinguished Professor of Energy in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Science Envoy for the State Department, Prof. Daniel M. Kammen.
Michael Strand: Evolution and function of large DNA viruses as beneficial symbionts of insects
Many of our projects involve parasitic wasps (parasitoids) that develop as immatures in or on the bodies of other insects but that are free-living as adults. Parasitoid wasps are among the most species-rich group of organisms on earth. One study area in the lab focuses on understanding how the host’s immune system protects insects from parasitoid invasion and reciprocally, how parasitoids...
Natalia Requena: On How Symbiotic Fungi Rewire Plant Cells
The Requena group is interested in unraveling how arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are perceived by their host plants and discriminated from pathogenic fungi.
Justin Meyer: A novel mechanism for viral host-range expansion revealed through experimental evolution
What changes to viral genomes would allow them to infect new species? And, what are the natural processes – mutation, recombination, and natural selection – that permit their evolution? The Meyer Lab uses experimental evolution of viruses to find answers to these questions using a combination of methods from many fields of biology. For a complete explanation of Meyer's research and a...
Doris Wagner: (Re)programming of cell identity and function in the context of chromatin
Wagner, who earned her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley, is involved in research regarding the transcriptional regulation of developmental transitions and role of chromatin remodeling in development. The Wagner Lab is interested in understanding, at the molecular level, the complex changes that occur when an organism switches developmental programs. Specifically, they investigate the transition from...