External seminars 2013 -2024

2024

Speaker, Institution, Title	Date, Host
Pierre-Marc Delaux Toulouse University, CNRS, FR Evolution of plant microbe interactions Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	November 28, 2024 Host: Y. Poirier
Thomas Jacobs VIB Ugent, BE Plant Genome Editing at Scale: Using CRISPR screens to hunt for genetic interactions Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	November 14, 2024 Host: S. Soyk
Stephaine Robert Umea Plant Centre, SE Understanding differential growth during apical hook development Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	October 24, 2024 Host: M. Majda
Siobhán Brady University of California, Davis, US Environmental integration with root cell type development Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	October 11, 2024 Host: N. Geldner
Marie Barberon University of Geneva, CH Cell-to-cell transport in differentiated roots Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	October 10, 2024 Host: M. Majda
Akos Kovács Leiden University, NL Bacilli from the rhizosphere: interaction and evolution within the biofilm Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	October 3, 2024 Host: N. Geldner
Charlotte Kirchhelle RDP Lyon, FR Cell edges - from polarity to growth control Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	September 25, 2024 Host: N. Geldner
Alain Goossens VIB-Ugent, BE Jasmonate: a crucial hormone in the plant fitness programs that steer the production of bioactive metabolites Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	September 11, 2024 Host: S. Soyk
Thorsten Schnurbusch Leibniz-Institut (IPK), DE Insights into the Floral Architectures of Cereal Crops Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	June 27, 2024 Host: S. Soyk
Bénédicte Bakan INRAE, Nantes, FR From the architecture of the cuticular biocomposite to the generation of cutin bioinspired materials Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	June 6, 2024 Host: C. Nawrath
Roberto Solano National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, ES The finding of the “missing hormone” illuminates jasmonates evolution Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	May 16, 2024 Host: P. Reymond
Melinka Butenko Oslo University, NO The IDA signaling pathway: cell separation and biotic stress responses Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	May 3, 2024 Host: J. Santiago
Sandy Hetherington The University of Edinburgh, UK Uncovering the drivers of complexity in vascular plants, new insights from fossils and genes Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	May 2, 2024 Host: Post Docs
François Parcy Cell and Plant Physiology Laboratory (LPCV), Grenoble, FR Solving an old question: how two proteins join forces to make flowers Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	April 18, 2024 Host: PhD Students
Lionel Navarro IBENS Paris, FR Small RNA-directed reprogramming of gene expression in plant-bacteria interactions Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	April 11, 2024 Host: P. Reymond
Angelina Gross Gregor Mendel Institute Vienna, AT Sensing mechanisms for stress adapted autophagy responses Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	March 28, 2024 Host: N. Geldner
Andreas Schaller Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, DE Maturation of signaling peptides controlling plant development Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	February 22, 2024 Host: N. Geldner

2023

Speaker, Institution, Title	Date, Host
Satoshi Fujita Plant Science Research Laboratory of Toulouse LRSV, FR MBAPs bridge brassinosteroid signaling and cortical microtubules Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	December 8, 2023 Host: N. Geldner
Miltos Tsiantis Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, DE From genotype to phenotype in leaf development and evolution Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	November 23, 2023 Host: M. Majda
Nuria Sanchez Coll Centre for research in Agricultural Genomics Barcelona, ES Understanding the role and dynamics of stress-driven biomolecular condensates in plants Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	November 16, 2023 Host: N. Geldner
Salome Prat Centre for research in agricultural Genomics Barcelona, ES Tailoring DELLA repressors for increased crops tolerance to salinity Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	October 12, 2023 Host: S. Soyk
Zachary Nimchuk University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US The control of plant shoot architecture by peptide signaling and temperature Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	September 28, 2023 Host: C. Hardtke
Yuval Eshed Weizmann Institute of Science, IL What flowering is? Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	September 14, 2023 Host: S. Soyk
George Bassel University of Warwick, UK Distributed information processing in plant organs Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	September 7, 2023 Host: C. Hardtke
Olivier Hamant ENS Lyon, FR How to shape a plant? Fluctuations! AMPHI Biophore at 12.15	June 22, 2023 Host: M. Majda
Yvon Jaillais ENS Lyon, FR Role of anionic lipids in the establishment, dynamics and function of membrane contact sites Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	June 8, 2023 Host: C. Nawrath
Michael Raissig University of Bern, CH Making better pores - decoding the developmental blueprint of grass stomata Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	May 11, 2023 Host: P. Reymond
Clara Sanchez Rodriguez Centre for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics, UPM, Madrid, ES ATHENA: A receptor-like kinase that participates in plant defence and responses to cellulose alteration AMPHI Biophore at 12.15	May 4, 2023 Host: C. Nawrath
Remko Offringa Leiden University, NL AGC kinases modulate and direct polar auxin transport, but what regulates the regulators? Room 4401, Biophore at 11.00	May 4, 2023 Host: C. Hardtke
Naomi Nakayama Imperial College London, UK What determines biological shape? Lessons from the dandelion pappus AMPHI Biophore at 12.15	April 27, 2023 Host: M. Majda
Bjorn Pedersen Aarhus University, DK Structures and mechanism of the plant PIN-FORMED auxin transporter AMPHI Biophore at 12.15	April 20, 2023 Host: J. Santiago
Peter Marhavy Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, SE Mechanical constraints regulate cell expansion and division in plant roots AMPHI Biophore at 12.15	April 6, 2023 Host: N. Geldner
Julie Law Salk Institute, CA, US A CLASSY way to regulate the epigenome Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	March 22, 2023 Host: N. Geldner
Lucia Strader Duke University, US Mechanisms governing competence for embryonic cell reprogramming in Arabidopsis adventitious root formation Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	February 16, 2023 Host: C. Hardtke
Kay Schneitz Technical University of Munich, DE Molecular insight into cell wall integrity signaling in Arabidopsis Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	January 19, 2023 Host: C. Hardtke

2022

Speaker, Institution, Title	Date, Host
Lei Wang University of Bern, CH Maize has an aging nose for stress volatiles Room 4401, Biophore at 15.00	December 6, 2022 Host: P. Reymond
Idan Efroni HUJI, Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Rehovot, IL Short and long range signals in root regeneration AMPHI Biophore at 12.15	November 10, 2022 Host: C. Hardtke
Hugues Renault University of Strasbourg, FR A glimpse of plant adaptation to land through the biopolymer lens AMPHI Biophore at 12.15	October 27, 2022 Host: N. Geldner
Ari Pekka Mähönen University of Helsinki, FI Hormonal regulation in Arabidopsis root cambia AMPHI Biophore at 12.15	September 8, 2022 Host: N. Geldner
Frederic J. Hoerndli Colorado State University, US Do neurons solve the traveling salesman’s problem to deliver glutamate receptors? Room 4401, Biophore at 10.30	July 15, 2022 Host: E. Farmer
Thomas Greb Heidelberg University, DE The intricate role of SMXL proteins in phloem development and beyond Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	July 1, 2022 Host: C. Hardtke
Jorge Casal Instituto Leloir, Buenos Aires, AR Signalling networks controlling plant growth in the context of climate change AMPHI Biophore at 12.15	June 21, 2022 Host: C. Fankhauser
Thorsten Hamann NTNU, Trondheim, NO The role of plant cell wall integrity maintenance in modulating cell wall stiffness and ABA production Room 4401, Biophore at 12.30	May 20, 2022 Host: N. Geldner
Tonni Grube Andersen MPIPZ, Cologne, DE The endodermal passage cell, just another brick in the wall? AMPHI Biophore at 12.15	April 28, 2022 Host: N. Geldner
Rosa Lozano-Duran University of Tuebingen, DE The best of both worlds: manipulation of plant defence and development by a multifuctional viral protein AMPHI Biophore at 12.15	March 31, 2022 Host: P. Reymond

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2021

Speaker, Institution, Title	Date, Host
Sarah Guiziou University of Washington, Seattle, US Decoding and recoding plant development using integrase switches AMPHI Biophore at 12.15	September 23, 2021 Host: N. Geldner
Michal Jasinski Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, PL Old solutions for new scenarios - ABCG-mediated transport of active cytokinins in legume–rhizobia symbiosis ONLINE at 12.15	June 24, 2021 Host: C. Nawrath
Debora Gasperini Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle, DE Fences in turmoil: interplay between plant cell walls and jasmonate production ONLINE at 12.15	June 10, 2021 Host: E. Farmer
Staffan Persson PLEN University of Copenhagen, DK Pack and go! Cellulose synthase assembly and secretion ONLINE at 12.15	May 27, 2021 Host: J. Santiago
Avraham A. Levy The Weizmann Institute of Science, IL The fates of DNA breaks in plants ONLINE at 12.15	April 29, 2021 Host: P. Goloubinoff

2020

Speaker, Institution, Title	Date, Host
Michelle Dunstone Monash University, Melbourne, AUS Using cryo-EM to discover how pore forming proteins evolve different targeting mechanisms Room 4401, Biophore at 11.45	January 23, 2020 Host: N. Geldner
Keiko Torii University of Texas at Austin & University of Washington, US Cellular Decision-Making during Plant Epidermal Development Room 4401, Biophore at 15.30	January 20, 2020 Host: J. Santiago

2019

Speaker, Institution, Title	Date, Host
Sebastian Soyk University of Lausanne, CH Uncovering cryptic variation that affected crop domestication and breeding Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	October 24, 2019 Host: C. Nawrath
Thomas Greb University of Heidelberg, DE Radial Plant Growth - Cellular Coordination in Two Dimensions Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	October 03, 2019 Host: C. Hardtke
Aleksandra Skirycz Max Planck Institute, Potsdam, DE Terra incognita of the protein-metabolite interactome Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	June 28, 2019 Host: N. Geldner
Matthew Gilliham Adelaide University, AU γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a plant signalling molecule Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	June 12, 2019 Host: E. Farmer
Matthias Erb Institute of Plant Sciences, Bern, CH Functions and multitrophic effects of plant specialized metabolites Auditorium Biophore at 12.15	May 16, 2019 Host: P. Reymond
Neelima Sinha College of Biological Sciences, Davis, CA, USA The arms race between tomato and Cuscuta Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	May 13, 2019 Host: C. Hardtke
Etienne Bucher Agroscope, Changin, CH Mobilized transposable elements as a tool for crop improvement Auditorium Biophore at 12.15	May 09, 2019 Host: P. Goloubinoff
Thorsten Hamann Novregian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NO Plant cell wall integrity maintenance - how to adapt to stress and survive Auditorium Biophore at 12.15	May 02, 2019 Host: N. Geldner
Lars Ostergaard John Innes Center, Norwich, UK TPL-ETT-Auxin – TEA-time in reproductive development Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	April 16, 2019 Host: C. Hardtke
Thierry Desnos CEA, BIAM, FR STOP1-ALMT1, a New Signalling Pathway Inhibiting Root Growth in Low-Phosphate Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	March 14, 2019 Host: Y. Poirier
David Salt The University of Nottingham, UK Surveillance of cell wall diffusion barrier integrity modulates water and solute transport in plants Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	February 14, 2019 Host: N. Geldner
Stefanie Ranf Technical University of Munich, DE Immune sensing of bacterial lipid metabolites in plant-microbe interactions Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	February 07, 2019 Host: P. Reymond
Jan Petrášek The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, CZ Plant plasma membrane nanodomain organization of auxin transporters – where are PINs and why? Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	January 24, 2019 Host: C. Hardtke

2018

Speaker, Institution, Title	Date, Host
Patrick Laufs INRA, Paris, France The ins and outs of leaf margin morphogenesis in Arabidopsis Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	December 13, 2018 Host: Post Docs – Anne Pauline
Siobhan Brady University of California, Davis, US Transcriptional regulation of nitrogen metabolism Room 4401, Biophore at 13.15	December 07, 2018 Host: N. Geldner
Luis Lopez-Molina University of Geneva, Switzerland The role of the endosperm in Arabidopsis early post-embryonic development Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	November 29, 2018 Host: C. Nawrath
Yvon Jaillais ENS Lyon, France In vivo phosphatidylserine variations steer Rho GTPase signaling in a cell-context dependent manner Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	November 22, 2018 Host: J. Santiago
Ekkehard Neuhaus Kaiserslautern University, Germany Intracellular Sugar Compartmentation in Plants - Impacts on Yield and Stress Tolerance Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	November 08, 2018 Host: Y. Poirier
Laura Ragni University of Tuebingen, Germany Lateral root and periderm formation: two sides of the same coin? Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	November 01, 2018 Host: N. Geldner
Anat Ben-Zvi Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel The landscape of molecular chaperones across tissues Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	October 17, 2018 Host: P. Goloubinoff
Ryohei Thomas Nakano Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Koln, Germany Modular traits of root microbiota and their interplay dictate host growth and immune status Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	September 21, 2018 Host: N. Geldner
Jürgen Zeier Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany Metabolism of L-lysine to N-hydroxypipecolic acid: a key control unit for plant systemic acquired resistance to pathogen infection Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	September 20, 2018 Host: P. Reymond
Carlos Ballaré University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Phytochrome and plant defenses Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	August 30, 2018 Host: E. Farmer
Bruce Kohorn Bowdoin College, Maine, USA Wall Associated Kinases, Cell Expansion, and the Stress Response Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	June 28, 2018 Host: J. Santiago
Satoshi Naramoto University of Tokyo, Japan Coordination of lateral organ development and stem cell activity in Marchantia polymorpha is mediated by an ALOG family protein Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	June 25, 2018 Host: N. Geldner
Jörg Kudla Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology of Plants, Münster University, DE Calcium signaling is required for ABA mediated transcriptional adaptation to abiotic stresses Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	June 22, 2018 Host: N. Geldner
Alex Costa University of Milan, Italy In vivo calcium dynamics in plant cells: a holistic view Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	June 21, 2018 Host: Post Docs – Lenzoni Gioia
Roberto Solano Spanish National Center for Biotechnology, Madrid Jasmonate signaling in plants lacking jasmonates - Looking for the missing hormone Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	June 07, 2018 Host: P. Reymond
Urs Niggli Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Switzerland Different Strategies for Feeding the World Sustainably Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	May 24, 2018 Host: P. Reymond
Kristen ten Tusscher Utrecht University, the Netherlands Auxin transport and patterning in root development and adaptation Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	April 26, 2018 Host: C. Hardtke
Sebastian Wolf COS, Heidelberg University, Germany Receptor-mediated signalling from the plant cell wall Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	April 12, 2018 Host: J. Santiago
Paolo Cascio University of Turin, Italy PA28αβ: the enigmatic magic ring of the proteasome? Room 4401, Biophore at 17.00	March 29, 2018 Host: P. Goloubinoff
Philippe Reymond DBMV – University of Lausanne, Switzerland NAPOLEOME PROJECT - Low number of fixed somatic mutations in a long-lived oak tree Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	March 29, 2018 Host: C. Nawrath
Claire Rosnoblet David Wendehenn Lab, NRA/Université de Bourgogne/AgroSup Dijon, France Functional characterization of the chaperon-like protein Cdc48 in cryptogein-induced immune response in tobacco Room 4401, Biophore at 14.00	March 22, 2018 Host: P. Goloubinoff
Silvia Ramundo University of California, San Francisco Exploring MARS: an investigation of Mutants Affecting Retrograde Signaling during activation of the chloroplast Unfolded Protein Response Room 4401, Biophore at 12.30	February 12, 2018 Host: N. Geldner
Kaisa Kajala Utrecht University, the Netherlands Drought and flooding responses of tomato root cell types Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	February 01, 2018 Host: N. Geldner
Herman Hofte INRA Centre de Versailles-Grignon, France Cell wall sensing in plants Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	January 25, 2018 Host: J. Santiago

2017

Speaker, Institution, Title	Date, Host
Irina Kolotueva Electron Microscopy Facility, University of Lausanne Fun with EM Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	December 21, 2017 Host: E. Farmer
Manuel Rodriguez-Conception Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Barcelona, Spain Molecular pathways driving chloroplast proteins to either removal or recycling Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	December 14, 2017 Host: P. Goloubinoff
Bernhard Schmid Zurich University, Switzerland Why study plants ? Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	November 02, 2017 Host: C. Hardtke
Sébastien Mongrand CNRS, Bordeaux, France Role of microdomains in plant plasma membrane, lipids, proteins and biophysical features Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	September 28, 2017 Host: P. Reymond
José Sanchez Serrano Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Madrid, Spain Stem cell renewal or differentiation : a plant’s perspective for a crucial decision Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	September 07, 2017 Host: C. Nawrath & E. Farmer
Kevin Davies The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Ltd Flavonoid and betalain plant pigments: Key metabolites for the interaction of plants with their abiotic and biotic environment Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	August 31, 2017 Host: Fabian Schweizer
Guido Grossmann Heidelberg University, Germany Root hairs: balancing external inputs and cell-autonomous mechanisms of polar growth regulation Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	August 24, 2017 Host: C. Hardtke
Elisabeth Truernit Plant Biochemistry, ETH Zurich Novel players in plant vascular development Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	June 01, 2017 Host: C. Hardtke
Steven Moussu ENS Lyon, France Communicating within the seed: ZHOUPI and KERBEROS mediate embryo/endosperm separation Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	May 30, 2017 Host: J. Santiago
Bart Thomma Department of Plant Sciences, Wageningen University, NL Evolution of aggressiveness in a fungal plant pathogen Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	May 11, 2017 Host: E. Farmer
Ove Nilsson Umea Plant Science Centre, Sweden Because the seasons they are a-changin’ - FT-like genes control the length of the growing season and winter dormancy in trees Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	May 04, 2017 Host: C. Fankhauser
Jane Parker Max Planck Institute, Köln, DE Reprogramming the stress response network in plant innate immunity Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	April 06, 2017 Host: P. Reymond
Ulrich Hammes Regensburg University, DE PINning down auxin transport- its regulation and biochemical properties Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	March 14, 2017 Host: C. Hardtke
Lars Ostergaard Department of Crop Genetics, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK Organ patterning emerges from genetic and hormonal harmony Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	February 14, 2017 Host: C. Hardtke
Siobhan Brady College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis California, US Transcriptional Regulation of Plant Metabolism Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	February 06, 2017 Host: N. Geldner
Robert Malinowski Institute of Plant Genetics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland The SWEET Loop of Death: How does Plasmodiophora brassicae acquire sugar from the infected host? Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	February 02, 2017 Host: C. Hardtke
Inês Barbosa Technical University of Munich, Germany Polarity control of the auxin transport regulator D6PK Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	January 12, 2017 Host: C. Fankhauser & N. Geldner
Sylvain Bischof Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, US siRNA biogenesis in Arabidopsis Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	January 09, 2017 Host: C. Hardtke

2016

Speaker, Institution, Title	Date, Host
Michael Raissig Stanford University, California, US Developmental innovations of stomatal form and function in grasses Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	December 15, 2016 Host: C. Hardtke
Rochus Franke Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, Bonn University, Germany Minor but crucial - the role of aromatics in apoplastic barriers Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	December 08, 2016 Host: C. Nawrath
Martin Heil Cinvestav, Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Mexico Wound recognition and immunity across the tree of life: recognition of the non-self or the damaged self? Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	December 01, 2016 Host: DBMV PhD Students
Bruno Müller Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich Differential cytokinin distribution to support plant morphogenesis Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	November 24, 2016 Host: N. Geldner
Marco Trujillo Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Germany The Exocyst Complex - at the Crossroad Between Vesicle Trafficking and Autophagy Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	November 10, 2016 Host: N. Geldner
Florian Grundler & Shahid Siddique Bonn University, Germany How plant pathogenic nematodes affect their hosts & Recognition and response in plant-nematode interaction Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	October 13, 2016 Host: N. Geldner
Ralph Bock Max Planck Institute, Germany Genes gone wild: Experimental evolution meets synthetic biology Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	September 29, 2016 Host: Y. Poirier
Youssef Belkhadir Gregor Mendel Institute, Vienna, Austria SERKcentricity and Softwired Signaling in an Extracellular Leucine Rich Repeat Interactome Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	September 22, 2016 Host: N. Geldner
Ari Pekka Mähönen University of Helsinki Origin and growth dynamics of the Arabidopsis root cambium Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	September 15, 2016 Host: N. Geldner
Clara Sánchez Rodríguez Department of Biology, ETH Zurich Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	August 25, 2016 Host: N. Geldner
Karin Schumacher Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University Vacuoles - making large cells on a tight budget Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	August 18, 2016 Host: E. Farmer
Teun Munnik University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Phosphoinositides - lipid signals in plant stress and development Room 4401, Biophore at 14.00	July 14, 2016 Host: N. Geldner
Jason W. Reed Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Coordination of cell expansion in growing plant tissues Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	July 11, 2016 Host: C. Fankhauser
Gwyneth Ingram ENS Lyon, France Inter-compartmental communication in the seed: Set a thief to catch a thief? Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	June 24, 2016 Host: N. Geldner
Melinka Butenko Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo The signalling peptide IDA controls floral organ abscission in Arabidopsis Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	June 09, 2016 Host: C. Nawrath
José Dinneny Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Plant Biology, Stanford, CA Stressed! How plants cope through dynamic behaviors Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	May 27, 2016 Host: N. Geldner
Seth Davis University of York, UK The Plant circadian clock: mechanisms and purposes Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	May 26, 2016 Host: C. Fankhauser
Sabrina Sabatini Department of Biology and Biotechnology, La Sapienza University, Rome Molecular mechanisms in developmental boundary formation Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	May 19, 2016 Host: PhD Students
Corné Pieterse Institute of Environmental biology, Utrech University, Netherlands Hormonal modulation of the plant’s social network Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	April 28, 2016 Host: P. Reymond
Edouard Pesquet Department of Ecology, University of Stockholm, SWE Molecular Mechanisms Controlling Secondary Cell Wall Organization in Wood Sap Conduits Room 4401, Biophore at 14.15	April 13, 2016 Host: N. Geldner
David Salt University of Aberdeen, Scotland Landscape ionomics: The functional genomics of ecologically adaptive ionomic variation Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	April 7, 2016 Host: N. Geldner
Stan Maree John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK Extracting tissue growth from microscopy data: what is in an image? Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	February 16, 2016 Host: C. Hardtke
Veronica Grieneisen John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK Traffic Control Underlying Developmental Homoeostasis Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	February 12, 2016 Host: N. Geldner
Moritz Nowack Plant Systems Biology department, VIB/Ghent University Always look on the bright side of death - Unraveling the regulation of developmental programmed cell death processes in plants Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	February 04, 2016 Host: C. Nawrath
Cyril Zipfel The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich Research Park, UK Perception and modulation of danger by plant receptor kinases Room 4401, Biophore at 16.00	February 02, 2016 Host: C. Hardtke
Bert de Rybel Plant Systems Biology department, VIB/Ghent University, Belgium Controlling the orientation of cell divisions during vascular development Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	January 14, 2016 Host: N. Geldner
Dolf Weijers Wageningen University, The Netherlands Genetic control of growth and patterning in the plant embryo Room 4401, Biophore at 15.00	January 07, 2016 Host: C. Hardtke

2015

Speaker, Institution, Title	Date, Host
Rob Roelfsema Molecular Plant Physiology and Biophysics University of Wuerzburg, Germany Molecular mechanisms through which pathogenic microorganisms close stomatal pores Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	November 26, 2015 Host: E. Farmer
Rishi K. Vishwakarma CPBS, CNRS Montpellier, France Mycobacterium tuberculosis RNA Polymerase binding protein A (RbpA) is a new type of transcriptional activator implicated in antibiotic resistance Room 4401, Biophore at 11.00	November 12, 2015 Host: P. Goloubinoff
Christine Coustau INRA, Sophia Antipolis, France Aphids reroute one of their immune regulators to interact with their host plant Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	October 29, 2015 Host: P. Reymond
Anthony Guihur University of Tours, France Catharanthus roseus : a medicinal plant with an unique spatial organization of monoterpene indole alkaloid biosynthesis pathway Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	October 1, 2015 Host: P. Goloubinoff
Christopher Grefen Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen SNAREs at the Crossroads of Membrane Traffic and Ion Transport Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	September 17, 2015 Host: N. Geldner
Erik Nielsen Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology Department The Role of CSLD Proteins in Polarized Cell Wall Deposition in Arabidopsis Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	July 2, 2015 Host: N. Geldner
Thomas Kieselbach Department of Chemistry, Umea University, Sweden From redox to folding? Putative functions of the disulfide bonds of lumenal chloroplast proteins Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	July 1, 2015 Host: P. Goloubinoff
Jörg Kudla Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology of Plants, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität, Münster Integration of Ca2+ and ROs signaling in Arabidopsis Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	May 28, 2015 Host: E. Farmer
Steffen Abel Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Germany Phosphate sensing in root development Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	May 7, 2015 Host: Y. Poirier
Marc Knight Durham Centre for Crop Improvement Technology, Durham University, UK Elucidating stress signalling response pathways in Arabidopsis and crops Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	April 30, 2015 Host: P. Goloubinoff
Michael Hothorn Structural Plant Biology Laboratory, University of Geneva Structure guided identification of polyphosphate metabolism and phosphate sensing components in plants Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	April 23, 2015 Host: E. Farmer
François Tardieu INRA Centres, Montpellier Expansive growth, a primary trait for the response of plants to environmental conditions Room 4401, Biophore at 11.15	April 22, 2015 Host: C. Fankhauser
Zach Adam Institute of Plant Sciences, The Hebrew University, Israel Chloroplast proteases and their role in dealing with environmental stresses Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	March 25, 2015 Host: P. Goloubinoff
Benjamin Péret Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CEA Cadarache, France Dissecting root architecture adaptation to phosphate starvation Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	March 19, 2015 Host: N. Geldner
Richard Strasser University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna Dissecting the glycan-dependent steps in ERAD of misfolded glycoproteins Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	March 12, 2015 Host: Y. Poirier
Thorsten Nürnberger Center for Plant Molecular Biology, University of Tübingen Patterns and receptors in Arabidopsis immunity to microbial infection Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	March 5, 2015 Host: C. Hardtke
Thorsten Hamann Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Plant cell wall integrity maintenance - What does it mean and why is it interesting? Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	February 19, 2015 Host: N. Geldner
Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein Technion, Israel Growth coordination through spatial distribution of brassinosteroid activity Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	February 4, 2015 Host: N. Geldner
Julia Santiago Structural Plant Biology Lab, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Tuebingen Ligand sensing and activation of plant membrane receptors: from the atom to phenotype Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	January 22, 2015 Host: C. Hardtke

2014

Speaker, Institution, Title	Date, Host
Teva Vernoux Reproduction et développement des plantes, ENS Lyon Plant hormone signaling and the emergence of periodic patterns of morphogenesis Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	December 11, 2014 Host: C. Fankhauser
Michael Udvardi The Samuel Roberts NOBEL Foundation, Oklahoma Functional genomics of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in Medicago truncatula Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	October 24, 2014 Host: Y. Poirier
Prof Jane Parker Max Planck Institute for Plants Breeding Research Reprogramming cells for defence in plant immunity Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	October 9, 2014 Host:P. Reymond
Prof Meike Burow University of Copenhagen Feed-back regulation of jasmonic acid signaling by a glucosinolate biosynthetic gene in Arabidopsis Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	September 11, 2014 Host: P. Reymond
Ian Small University of Western Australia Designing RNA binding proteins for applications in agriculture and biotechnology Room 2213, Biophore at 11.30	May 22, 2014 Host: Y. Poirier
Gabriel Krouk CNRS,INRA,Montpelier Systems approaches to decipher Nutrient signaling interactions Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	May 15, 2014 Host: N. Geldner
Liam Dolan University of Oxford Evolution of land plant rooting systems: insight from multiple models Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	May 8, 2014 Host: C.Hardtke
George Haughn University of British Columbia A Coat of Many Colours: Investigating Cell Wall Structure and Function Using Genetic Analysis of the Arabidopsis Seed Coat. Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	April 3, 2014 Host: Y. Poirier
Tina Romeis Freie Universität Berlin Function of CDPKs in plant biotic stress signalling Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	March 20, 2014 Host: E. Farmer
Markus Teige University of Vienna Protein phosphorylation and Ca signals in plant stress acclimation Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	March 6, 2014 Host: E. Farmer
Christophe Godin INRA, Montpellier Anomalies in phyllotactic patterns: a challenging issue for the standard model Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	February 27, 2014 Host: C. Hardtke
Tou Cheu Xiong INRA, Montpellier Plant leaf vascular tissue, a highway network for long distance calcium signalling Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	February 6, 2014 Host: E. Farmer
Thomas Laux Universität Freiburg Pattern formation meets stem cell maintenance in the shoot meristem Room 4401, Biophore at 12.15	January 23, 2014 Host: E. Farmer

2013

Speaker, Institution, Title	Date, Host
Wilfried Weber Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Optical Control of Gene Expression and Signalling in Animal Cells Room 2107, Biophore at 12.15	December 5, 2013 Host: C. Fankhauser
Markus Geisler University of Fribourg Functional interactomics of auxin transport complexes Room 2107, Biophore at 12.15	November 28, 2013 Host: C. Nawrath
Miguel Blazquez CSIC-UPV, Valencia Plant DELLA proteins as hubs for genomic regulation Room 2107, Biophore at 12.15	November 11, 2013 Host: C. Fankhauser
Herve Vaucheret INRA, Versailles RNA silencing in plants: lessons from silent transgenes Room 2107, Biophore at 12.15	November 7, 2013 Host: Y. Poirier
Olivier Hamant INRA, CNRS, UCBL1, ENS Lyon How to fold a plant tissue? Room 2107, Biophore at 12.15	October 31, 2013 Host: N. Geldner
Julian Ma St George's, University of London Molecular Pharming for monoclonal antibodies - the journey from bench to clinic Room 2107, Biophore at 12.15	Septembre 19, 2013 Host: Y Poirier
Moritz Nowack VIB, Ghent University Programmed Cell Death during plant reproductive development Amphitheatre Biophore at 12.00	March 28, 2013 Host:N.Geldner
Patrick Achard Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Strasbourg The GA-DELLA signaling as integrator of environmental signals Amphitheatre Biophore at 12.00	June 13, 2013 Host: P. Reymond
Wilbert Boelens Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre Novel functions of small heat-shock proteins Room 4401, Biophore at 9.00	June 11, 2013 Host: P. Goloubinoff
Nathalie PRAT-LEONHARDT CNRS-CEA-Univ Aix-Marseille II Molecular events in stomatal responses to biotic and abiotic stresses Amphitheatre Biophore at 12.00	April 25, 2013 Host: Y. Poirier
Michael Neff Washington State University Functional Analysis of the AT-hook Motif Containing Nuclear Localization (AHL) Gene Family in Arabidopsis thaliana Amphitheatre Biophore at 12.00	April 18, 2013 Host: C. Fankhauser
Alexis Maizel Heidelberg University Shining sheets of light onto plant development Amphitheatre Biophore at 12.00	April 17, 2013 Host: N. Geldner
Martin Crespi Institut des Sciences Végétales, CNRS, Gif Non-coding RNAs in root development Amphitheatre Biophore at 12.00	March 14, 2013 Host: Y. Poirier
Dominique Loqué Berkeley, USA Use of synthetic biology to redesign plant secondary cell wall deposition Amphitheatre Biophore at 12.00	March 4, 2013 Host: N. Geldner
Ronald Pierik Utrecht University Plant signaling and multi-tasking in crowded environments Amphitheatre Biophore at 12.00	February 28, 2013 Host: C. Fankhauser
Felix Hauser UC San Diego, USA A genomic scale artificial micro RNA library as a tool to investigate the redundant gene space in Arabidopsis thaliana Amphitheatre Biophore at 12.00	January 17, 2013 Host: C. Fankhauser
Laurent Nussaume UMR 7265 CNRS/CEA/Univ Aix-Marseille Unravelling Pi perception in Arabidopsis Amphitheatre Biophore at 12.00	January 10, 2013 Host: N. Geldner