Seminars

 

Undergraduate Students! To sign-up for announcements, please click the registration link, and we will review your request:
Registration Request Form
 

UMass PB Community members can nominate a speaker by clicking HERE
 

In the fall and spring semesters PB seminars are generally held in Morrill Science Center 2 South, Room 222, Thursdays at 4pm, unless otherwise noted. For seminars noted as remote, the Zoom link will be emailed to the Plant Biology list-serv. 

Refreshments will be served beginning at 3:50pm.

To find more seminars in the Life Sciences, visit the Graduate Programs in Life Sciences Calendar.

Spring 2024 Seminar Schedule

Feb 8

In all the right places: How cell division affects plant form and physiology

Michelle Facette

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Morrill II 222

Host: Alice Cheung

Feb 15

Plant-microbe resource exchange and stress tolerance mediated by mycorrhizal fungi

Rachel Hestrin

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Morrill II 222

Host: Sam Hazen

Feb 22

No seminar - Monday schedule

Feb 29

An alternate route for cellulose biosynthesis

Alison Roberts

University of Rhode Island

Morrill II 222

Host: Sam Hazen

Mar 7

Combining approaches to solve an old question: the LFY-UFO synergy during flower development

Francois Parcy

Université Grenoble Alpes

REMOTE, NOON SEMINAR

Host: Bahman Khahani

Mar 14

Plant Biology Recruitment

Mar 21

No seminar - Spring break

Mar 28

Root exudates: masters of microbiome formation and functionality in grass rhizospheres

Kateryna Zhalnina

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Morrill II 222

Host: Rachel Hestrin

Apr 4

TBA

Kadeem Gilbert

Michigan State University

Morrill II 222

Host: Madelaine Bartlett

Apr 11

From the ocean to the field, telling time in different environments

Eva Farre

Michigan State University

Morrill II 222

Host: Sam Hazen

Apr 18

TBA

Joyce Onyenedum

New York University

Morrill II 222

Host: Madelaine Bartlett

Apr 25

Plant Biology Program Overview and Update

Ana Caicedo, Graduate Program Director

Morrill II 222

May 2

Molecular evolution of grape aroma in plants

Cynthia Holland

Williams College

Morrill II 222

Host: Sibongile Mafu

May 9

No seminar