Come join us to hear research going on in PMB from graduate students and post docs. There will be snacks and coffee/tea. Please bring a mug. Hosted by the Plant and Microbial Biology Student Group (PMBG). This event is sponsored by the UCB Graduate Assembly. Event is ADA accessible. For disability accommodation requests and information, please contact Disability Access Services by phone at...
Past PMB Seminars
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Arash Komeili: Molecular Mechanisms of Organelle Formation in Bacteria
In the Komeili Lab, we have developed the tools to understand the molecular basis of magnetosome formation and magnetite biomineralization in Magnetospirillum magneticum AMB-1. These advances have helped us to uncover the potential function of a large number of "magnetosome genes." The current efforts in the lab are centered around defining the specific functions of these factors and leveraging...
Building Future Food at IndieBio
Everyday, food and its associated technologies are moving more and more towards the future. Indie Bio, the world’s largest seed biotech accelerator, addresses future impactful problems by funding companies that can solve them. Now, you have the chance to take some wisdom from IndieBio co-founder, Ron Shigeta. He has helped build companies such as Ava Winery, Astrona, Clara Foods, EnduraBio,...
Timothy Bowles: Agroecological Approaches for Addressing Climate Challenges in Agriculture: Processes, Predictions, and Evidence
As climate change progresses, extreme weather will further expose the vulnerabilities of highly-simplified, intensive agricultural systems. Agroecological approaches that diversify ag systems at multiple scales will be discussed in this seminar.
M. Sanjayan, PhD: Can Nature Save Us? Stories from the Natural World
2017 Horace M. Albright Lecture in Conservation At a time when humanity’s demands on the natural world have never been greater, Dr. M. Sanjayan’s keynote address highlights nature’s essential role in creating a livable future for people everywhere.
Silke Robatzek: Cellular basis of immunity
A paradigm for more than a decade, it has been known that host membranes respond to pathogen perception. It is now clear that the secretory and endocytic trafficking network are engaged by the plant’s immune system to actively defend against potential pathogens. Reciprocally, invasive pathogens have evolved means to utilize these trafficking pathways for the suppression of plant defences and to...
Maria Harrison: Tsujimoto Lecture: Reprogramming root cells for AM symbiosis
Maria Harrison. Most vascular flowering plants are able to form symbiotic associations with arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. These associations, named ‘arbuscular mycorrhizas’, develop in the roots, where the fungus colonizes the cortex to access carbon supplied by the plant. The fungal contribution to the symbiosis includes the transfer of mineral nutrients, particularly phosphorus, from the soil to the...
Manish Raizada: In an immobile plant cell world, mobile endophytic microbes can seek, stop and destroy invading pathogens
The focus of the Raizada Lab is to develop low cost technologies that empower farmers in North America, Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, focusing on technologies that reduce the need for synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides to grow corn and other crops, by replacing them with more natural, biological resources. In particular, the lack of nitrogen fertilizer limits crop production, but...