David Hibbett “Getting to the Roots of Rot: Fungal Phylogenomics and the ‘End of the Carboniferous Period’”
Past PMB Seminars
For a schedule of all Plant & Microbial Biology events, seminars, and lectures visit our calendar.
Meagan Oldfather, PhD Candidate: Plant life at high elevation in the White Mountains, CA
Join your host Tesla Monson for a new episode of The Graduates! This week, we are joined by Meagan Oldfather from the Department of Integrative Biology as she talks about her work on alpine plants living above 12,000 ft. 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.
Special Seminar: Morten Petersen
Tuesday: March 29, 2016, 12 noon 338 Koshland Hall Dr Morten Petersen Professor of Biology University of Copenhagen Title: "PTI components and autoimmunity”
Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH: The Principles and Priorities of Population Health Science
Dr. Galea is a physician and an epidemiologist. He is Dean and Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health. Prior to his appointment at Boston University, Dr Galea served as the Anna Cheskis Gelman and Murray Charles Gelman Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health where he launched several new educational...
Claudia Köhler: Epigenetic Mechanisms Driving Plant Speciation
“Epigenetic Mechanisms Driving Plant Speciation”
Berkeley Food Institute Diversified Farming Systems Roundtable: Edible Memory: How Tomatoes became Heirlooms and Apples became Antiques
Speaker: Jennifer Jordan Through a close examination of apples and tomatoes, this talk reveals the phenomenon of edible memory—the infusing of food, heirloom and otherwise, with connections to the past, in ways both deeply personal and inherently social...
Julia Vorholt: Niche Adaptation of the Arabidopsis Leaf Microbiota
“Niche Adaptation of the Arabidopsis Leaf Microbiota”