Functional genomics of plant natural product biosynthesis; shikimate and phenylpropanoid pathways; wood formation Plants synthesize a vast array of diverse secondary compounds or natural products that serve pivotal adaptive functions including protection against pests, attractants for pollinators, antagonists to other plants, structural components, and signaling molecules However, the vast...
Past PMB Seminars
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UCSF iGEM Summer Undergrad Research Program
Learn about summer undergraduate research opportunities in synthetic biology with the UCSF iGEM Program
Regine Kahmann: "How Biotrophic Fungal Pathogens Colonize Plants" Regine Kahmann, Endowed Taylor-White Lecture
Regine Kahmann. Molecular phytopathology Smut fungi comprise a large group of biotrophic pathogens which parasitize mostly on grasses including a number of cereal hosts like maize, barley and wheat. They are characterized by a narrow host range, infect plants systemically and usually cause symptoms in male and female inflorescences only.
Roberto Bassi: "Harvesting Light with Caution: The Multiple Functions of LHC Proteins in Oxygenic Photosynthesis" Roberto Bassi
Impact of the Human Gut on Pharmacology and Nutrition
Lauren Buckley: BiGCB Seminar Series: Examining phenotypes and their shifts to understand responses of montane insects to climate change
Fall 2014 - Spring 2015 Berkeley Initiative in Global Change Biology Seminar Series: Biological responses to environmental change: using past and present dynamics to predict future responses.
Alon Orlitsky: Simons Institute Open Lecture: Deciphering the Good-Turing Enigma: Estimating Probabilities of Unlikely and Unseen Events
The first in the spring series of Simons Institute Open Lectures. The Open Lectures are intended for a broad scientific audience. Light refreshments will be served before the lecture at 3:30 p.m.
Andrew Crane-Droesch: Subsidies, Social Learning, and Charcoal Dust: Impact and Adoption Dynamics of Biochar in Western Kenya
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)