March 28, 2019
Edward S. Buckler, Research Geneticist with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Adjunct Professor of Plant Breeding and Genetics at the Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University. “Tackling the global protein and nutrition gaps by specialization of food production.” Download flyer
August 23, 2018
Dominique Bergmann, Professor of Biology, Stanford University. “Adjusting the valves: Optimizing stomatal development with systemic cues.” Download flyer
September 29, 2016
Mark Estelle, Distinguished Professor, Section of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, San Diego. “Auxin signaling from moss to mouse ear cress.” Download flyer
October 30, 2014
Professor Xuemei Chen, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. “Mechanisms of microRNA turnover in Arabidopsis.” Download flyer
November 21, 2013
Professor Mary Lou Guerinot, Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, and Ronald and Deborah Harris Professor in the Sciences, "Gene Discovery in Aid of Plant Nutrition, Human Health and Environmental Remediation." Download flyer
February 16, 2012
Professor Steven E. Jacobsen, Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, UCLA, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, “Genetics and Genomics of DNA Methylation in Arabidopsis.” Download flyer
May 23, 2011
Joseph R. Ecker, Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies. “Unraveling Plant Hormone Signaling Networks Using Genome-Wide Approaches.” Download flyer
March 4, 2010
Richard M. Amasino, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Vernalization: Remembering winter with an environmentally induced epigenetic switch.” Download flyer
May 13, 2009
Peter McCourt, Cell and Systems Biology, Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto. “From Arabidopsis to parasitic plants: What chemical genetics can tell us.” Download flyer
March 6, 2008
Joseph Kieber, Associate Chair and Professor, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Cytokinin signaling: From autoclaved DNA to a two-component response pathway.” Download flyer
April 19, 2007
Steve A. Kay, Previously Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry, Professor of Cell Biology, and Director of the Institute for Childhood and Neglected Diseases The Scripps Research Institute. Currently Dean, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California-San Diego. “Systems approaches to understanding circadian clocks.” Download flyer
April 10, 2006
Enrico Coen, Project Leader for the Cell & Development Biology Department for the John Innes Centre. “Evolutionary wormholes: the developmental genetics of diversity.” Download flyer
April 7, 2005
Joanne Chory, HHMI Investigator, Professor in the Plant Biology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the University of California, San Diego. “Molecular mechanisms of steroid hormone signaling in plants.” Download flyer
April 15, 2004
Detlef Weigel, director of the Department of Molecular Biology at Max Planck Institute for Development, Germany. “Plant Development: Insights from Microarrays and MicroRNAs.” Download flyer
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