The Goley Lab is broadly interested in understanding cellular organization and dynamic reorganization, with particular focus on the roles of the cytoskeleton in these phenomena. The lab uses cell biological, biochemical, genetic, and structural approaches to dissect cytoskeletal processes with the aim of understanding how they work in molecular detail. Currently, they are focused on investigating...
Past PMB Seminars
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Elizabeth Haswell: MscS-Like Mechanosensitive Ion Channels: Modular Sensors and Reporters of Membrane Tension
The Haswell laboratory's long-term goal of research is to reveal the molecular mechanisms that underly the perception and transduction of mechanical signals in plants.
Tom Bruns: A burning interest in post-fire fungal communities
The Bruns laboratory focuses on the ecology and evolution of mycorrhizal fungi.
Nick Burnett, PhD Candidate: The Biomechanics of Kelp in the Intertidal Zone
Join us for a new episode of The Graduates as we speak with biologist Nick Burnett about his work on the biomechanics of intertidal sea kelp in the Pacific Ocean. The Graduates, highlighting graduate student research at Berkeley and around the world, is broadcast every other Tuesday at 9AM on KALX 90.7FM and on the web.
Daniel Voytas: Editing the Plant Genome
Methods for precisely altering DNA sequences in living cells enable detailed functional analysis of genes and genetic pathways. In plants, targeted genome modification has applications ranging from understanding plant gene function to developing crop plants with new traits of value. Our group has enabled efficient methods for targeted genome modification of plants using sequence-specific...
Britt Glaunsinger: RNA destruction and revival during viral infection
The Glaunsinger lab studies the creative strategies viruses use to manipulate gene expression in host cells. Their primary focus is RNA-based regulation of gene expression, including both transcriptional and posttranscriptional control.
Susan Ustin: Mapping Aquatic Plants From the Air
Susan Ustin is a Professor of Environmental and Resource Science and Director of the Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS) at UC Davis. She works with imaging spectroscopy and other remote sensing systems at a variety of scales ,from leaf level to global. Among other studies, she has included mapping vegetation distribution and abundance, including invasive species mapping...
Susan Koskinen: EndNote Introduction
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Ravi Palanivelu: Closing the deal: Arabidopsis LORELEI is required for pollen tube reception by the female gametophyte
Palanivelu's laboratory studies how plant cells communicate with each other using pollen tube interactions with pistils during Arabidopsis thaliana reproduction as a model system. They are currently identifying the molecular mechanisms that underly specific pollen tube functions in A. thaliana such as germination, growth, guidance and growth arrest in the synergid cell of the female gametophyte.