Speaker: Barbara Gemmill-Herren The intergovernmental process on agriculture (thus, policy carried out on international level, between governments) has often been fraught with disagreement. While major issues are recognized with a food system that is failing to nourish a large percentage of the global population, radically divergent paradigms of the future of agriculture are proposed as...
Past PMB Seminars
For a schedule of all Plant & Microbial Biology events, seminars, and lectures visit our calendar.
Xingli Giam: Conserving Freshwater Biodiversity in a Rapidly Changing World
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Dave Armitage, PhD Candidate: Ecology and Evolution of Carnivorous Plants
Join your host Tesla Monson as she interviews biologist Dave Armitage for The Graduates talk show. Dave's work on carnivorous plants investigates how plants and bacteria shape each other's ecology and evolution. 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.
Lara Kueppers: Climate change and ecological dynamics from food to forests
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Fung Fellowship for Wellness and Technology Innovations
The Fung Fellowship for Wellness and Technology Innovations is committed to shaping a new generation of entrepreneurial leaders focused on transforming health and wellness. Launching in fall 2016 at the School of Public Health and in partnership with entrepreneur, founder of Blue Goji, and UC Berkeley alum Coleman Fung, the two-year program will create a cohort of 50 promising undergraduate...
Christopher Jerde: Inferring species presence using environmental DNA
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Center for Computational Biology Seminar: Dr. Ed Green, University of California, Santa Cruz
Long-range and highly accurate de novo assembly from short-read data is one of the most pressing challenges in genomics. Recently, it has been shown that read pairs generated by proximity ligation of DNA in chromatin of living tissue can address this problem, dramatically increasing the scaffold contiguity of assemblies. Here, we describe a simpler approach (“Chicago”) based on in vitro...