UC Berkeley professor Chelsea Specht, an expert on the evolution of form and function in plants, adds a scientific perspective to Karl Blossfeldt's early twentieth-century photographs of plant forms.
Past PMB Seminars
For a schedule of all Plant & Microbial Biology events, seminars, and lectures visit our calendar.
Catherine Mitchell: Transformative Governance – speeding up change in global energy systems
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
The Challenge of Making Good Food Affordable
Efforts at fixing food systems often have been focused on addressing production challenges that burden the natural environment and diminish nutritional quality of food. Less attention has been paid to how "good food" (or the healthful food created by more sustainable systems) can be priced fairly and at the same time be affordable to low and middle income consumers.
Ileana Cristea: Understanding Cellular Host Defenses against Viral Infection: Lessons from Proteomics
“Understanding Cellular Host Defenses against Viral Infection: Lessons from Proteomics”
Jun Ying Lim, PhD Candidate: Evolution and plant communities in Hawaii
Missing spring break? Tune in to The Graduates to hear about oceanic plants in Hawaii! This week, your host Tesla Monson speaks with ecologist and evolutionary biologist Jun Ying Lim from the Department of Integrative Biology. 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.
What 40 Years of Science Tells Us about Organic Agriculture?
Speaker: Dr. John Reganold Organic agriculture has a history of being contentious, yet organic foods and beverages are a rapidly growing market segment in the global food industry. The performance of organic farming will be discussed in light of four key sustainability metrics: productivity, environmental impact, economic viability and social wellbeing.
Tom Brutnell: Setaria viridis, a Model System for Gene Discovery and Functional Genomics in the Panicoid Grasses
“Setaria viridis, a Model System for Gene Discovery and Functional Genomics in the Panicoid Grasses”
Paul A. Offit, MD: Communicating Science to the Public: The Vaccine-Autism Controversy
Paul A. Offit, MD is the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In addition, Dr. Offit is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.