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11 Mar

Exploiting diversity in plant innate immunity to protect against bacterial pathogens

Prof Jenn Lewis

4 Mar

Interactions of terrestrial orchids with their mycorrhizal fungi

Dr Silvia Perotto

25 Feb

An NGS-based strategy for early stages of breeding programs in hybridizing woody plant species: cork oak as a case study

Dr Unai Lopez De Heredia Larrea

18 Feb

Seeing The Light: Plant Color Vision and Developmental Acclimation

Prof Beronda Montgomery

11 Feb

Cross-kingdom RNAi and small RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens

Dr Hailing Jin

4 Feb

Plant cell polarity far and wide

Prof. Dominique Bergmann

3 Feb

Darwin, Descent, & 'Hideous Sexual Criminality': A Talk for LGBT+ History Month

Ross Brooks

28 Jan

Is auxin important for apical stem cells or their offspring in early diverging land plants?

Prof. Eva Sundberg

21 Jan

Application of Genetic Modification and Genome Editing for Improvement of Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) Crops

Dr. Leena Tripathi

3 Dec

Orchestrating development from the single cell perspective

Professor Magdalena Bezanilla

26 Nov

Causes and consequences of lineage divergence in campions (Silene)

Professor Sophie Karrenberg

25 Nov

CANCELLED - Scaling plant responses to disturbances in the Anthropocene: from individuals, to populations, to ecosystem services.

Dr Rob Salguero-Gomez

19 Nov

Force, form and function - Morphogenesis and structure of the plant leaf epidermis

Professor Anja Geitmann

12 Nov

Exploring new ways of improving carotenoid contents in plants: a route to El Dorado

Professor Manuel Rodriguez-Concepcion

27 Feb

LGBTQ+ 101

Dr Clara Barker

27 Feb

Ecophysiology of photosynthesis: expanding towards geographical, phylogenetic and commercial directions

Dr Jaume Flexas

20 Feb

Controlling endophytic nitrogen fixation with engineered signalling // Form and function of the dandelion fruit

Dr Tim Haskett // Dr Maddy Seale

19 Feb

LGBTQ+ In Stem: An Introduction

Dr Alex Bond

13 Feb

CANCELLED: Evolutionary Biology and Homosexual Behaviour

Aura Raulo

13 Feb

Evolutionary transitions in plant sexual systems

Professor John Pannell

6 Feb

Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning

Professor Edwige Moyroud

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5 Feb

Biology LGBTQ+ Society - First Meeting

witch hazel leaves with aphid galls c. Dave Bonta

3 Feb

How aphids induce plant galls

Dr David Stern

30 Jan

POSTPONED: Long-distance transport of gibberellins in plants

Dr Patrick Achard

23 Jan

Re-engineering photoprotection to improve crop productivity: Models, Measurements and Serendipity

Professor Wanne Kromdijk

5 Dec

Noisy and dynamic gene regulation in Arabidopsis

Dr James Locke

28 Nov

Tara Oceans: Eco-systems biology at planetary scale

Professor Chris Bowler

21 Nov

Organelle dynamics: tales of motors and tethers

Dr Imogen Sparkes

14 Nov

Evolution of buzz pollination

Dr Mario Vallejo-Marin

7 Nov

Unravelling transcription factor functions through integrative inference of transcriptional networks in plants

Professor Klaas Vandepoele

31 Oct

Mary Snow Lecture: Developmental regulation of cell patterning in grass leaves

Professor Jane Langdale

24 Oct

The search for optimality: are Rubisco inhibitors necessary?

Dr Elizabete Carmo-Silva

17 Oct

Receptor-mediated signalling from the plant cell wall

Dr Sebastian Wolf

25 Jul

Blue Planet Movie Night

Oxford Martin School

24 Jul

Blue Planet Movie Night

Oxford Martin School

20 Jun

Crop species as model species for ecology, wild species as model species for agronomy?

Dr Cyrille Violle

13 Jun

Towards a multitrophic framework of species coexistence

Dr Oscar Godoy

6 Jun

The evolutionary significance of polyploidy

Professor Yves van der Peer

30 May

Monitoring cellular energy, physiology and regulation in plants

Professor Markus Schwarzländer

16 May

Conserving phylogenetic diversity - what does it mean, how well does it work, and who cares?

Dr Richard Grenyer

9 May

Creating impact for ecological research in the palm oil sector

Dr Jen Lucey

2 May

Species loss and species restoration in plant-pollinator communities

Professor Jane Memmott

7 Mar

Timing and coordination of cell type environmental response mechanisms in roots

Dr Miriam Gifford

28 Feb

Systems-based analysis of plant organ design

Professor George Bassel

21 Feb

The Social Lives of Plants

Dr Jay Biernaskie

7 Feb

Conservation of cell wall integrity sensing mechanisms in tip-growing cells

Dr Aurélien Boisson-Dernier

31 Jan

Evolution of plant symbioses

Dr Pierre-Marc Delaux

17 Jan

Biodiversity change in the Anthropocene

Dr Maria Dornelas

29 Nov

The timing and nature of early land plant evolution

Professor Philip Donoghue

22 Nov

Cytoplasmic events in early chloroplast biogenesis

Professor Felix Kessler

15 Nov

Computing a more efficient leaf using metabolic network models

Professor Lee Sweetlove

8 Nov

Ecological specialisation and the assembly of networks of interacting plants and pollinators: perspectives from mass flowering communities of phenotypically generalist daisies in South African deserts

Professor Allan Ellis

1 Nov

Explosive seed dispersal

Dr Angela Hay

25 Oct

From seed to silicon: plant collections in the 21st century

Dr Paul Kersey

25 Oct

Seminar: Dr Joshua Ramsay

Large Lecture Theatre

23 Oct

Long, slow lives facing rapid change: Climate adaptation in conifers

Dr Sally Aitken

18 Oct

Allocation decisions in Arabidopsis

Professor Farhah Assaad

11 Oct

Transcriptional regulation by dynamic ubiquitination

Dr Steven Spoel

26 Jun

Oxford Congress on Plant Sciences 2018

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences

21 Jun

The work of the Science and Technology Select Committee

Rt Hon Norman Lamb

14 Jun

Toward a unified science of ecological change: advances and challenges in biodiversity and metabolic scaling

Dr Mary O'Connor

7 Jun

CANCELLED: Biodiversity change in the Anthropocene

Dr Maria Dornelas

31 May

Evolutionary genetics of polymorphic sexual systems in flowering plants

Professor Spencer Barrett

24 May

The pervasive population genomic impacts of genome duplication, gene flow, and selection

Dr Levi Yant

22 May

Botanical Illustration: the life and workings of Rosemary Wise

Rosemary Wise

18 May

Extending plant defence theory to seeds: understanding how interactions of dormancy and soil microbes affect survival and coexistence

Professor Jim Dalling

17 May

Understanding plant species' responses to climate change: the need for population and community ecology

Professor Jonathan Levine

10 May

The role of water transport in controlling tropical forest function

Dr Lucy Rowland

9 May

My earliest and latest modelling studies (optimal water use and the intersection of photorespiration and N metabolism)

Professor Graham Farquhar

3 May

Unity in diversity: functional insights into the ancient partnerships between plants and fungi

Dr Katie Field

26 Apr

Phylogenomics & evolutionary diversification of legumes: more than just peas and beans

Dr Colin Hughes

8 Mar

Meiotic recombination and chromatin landscapes in plant genomes

Professor Ian Henderson

1 Mar

The genetic basis for diversification of leaf form: from understanding to reconstructing

Professor Miltos Tsiantis

22 Feb

Nod factor recognition at root epidermis and its impact on microbiota assembly in Lotus japonicus

Dr Simona Radutoiu

15 Feb

The molecular basis of floral adaptations to plant breeding systems

Professor Michael Lenhard

8 Feb

A deep-time perspective on macroecology

Dr Erin Saupe

1 Feb

Plant diversification and animal pollination: insights from the family Apocynaceae

Professor Jeff Ollerton

25 Jan

Using ant/plant symbioses to understand cooperation among species

Dr. Guillaume Chomicki

18 Jan

Beyond the single gene: NLR network mediates immunity to diverse plant pathogens

Professor Sophien Kamoun

30 Nov

Invitable senescence? Biochemical and demographic perspectives on the escape of senescence

Dr Rob Salguero-Gomez

27 Nov

Professor Don Ort, Departments of Crop Sciences and of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, USA.

Professor Don Ort

23 Nov

Progress and current challenges in engineering algal carbon concentrating mechanisms into higher plants

Dr Alistair McCormick

16 Nov

Adding complexity to complexity: gene family evolution in polyploids

Professor Barbara Mable

14 Nov

Engineering Photosynthesis for Global Food Security. Why, How and Will You Let Me do it?

Professor Stephen Long

9 Nov

Small RNAs as mobile, morphogen-like signals in development

Professor Marja Timmermans

2 Nov

Carbohydrates, natural products and harmful algal blooms

Professor Rob Field

26 Oct

Regulation of receptor kinase-mediated immune signaling

Professor Cyril Zipfel

9 Oct

Rethinking Intensive Agriculture from an Ecosystem Perspective

Professor Evan DeLucia

28 Sep

Species interactions, evolution and functioning in microbial communities

Professor Tim Barraclough

Events

Exploiting diversity in plant innate immunity to protect against bacterial pathogens

Interactions of terrestrial orchids with their mycorrhizal fungi

An NGS-based strategy for early stages of breeding programs in hybridizing woody plant species: cork oak as a case study

Seeing The Light: Plant Color Vision and Developmental Acclimation

Cross-kingdom RNAi and small RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens

Plant cell polarity far and wide

Darwin, Descent, & 'Hideous Sexual Criminality': A Talk for LGBT+ History Month

Is auxin important for apical stem cells or their offspring in early diverging land plants?

Application of Genetic Modification and Genome Editing for Improvement of Roots, Tubers and Bananas (RTB) Crops

Orchestrating development from the single cell perspective

Causes and consequences of lineage divergence in campions (Silene)

CANCELLED - Scaling plant responses to disturbances in the Anthropocene: from individuals, to populations, to ecosystem services.

Force, form and function - Morphogenesis and structure of the plant leaf epidermis

Humans and the re-wiring of ecological landscapes

Long-distance transport of gibberellins in plants

Mechanisms and Models of Leaf Form and Function

Microtubule self-organization, cell division, and the evolution of land plants

Protoporphyrin, one ring to rule them all

A Monograph of Ipomoea

Plant-fungal dialogue at the heart of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

Exploring new ways of improving carotenoid contents in plants: a route to El Dorado

LGBTQ+ 101

Ecophysiology of photosynthesis: expanding towards geographical, phylogenetic and commercial directions

Controlling endophytic nitrogen fixation with engineered signalling // Form and function of the dandelion fruit

LGBTQ+ In Stem: An Introduction

CANCELLED: Evolutionary Biology and Homosexual Behaviour

Evolutionary transitions in plant sexual systems

Bullseye! Understanding the mechanisms of petal patterning

Biology LGBTQ+ Society - First Meeting

How aphids induce plant galls

POSTPONED: Long-distance transport of gibberellins in plants

Re-engineering photoprotection to improve crop productivity: Models, Measurements and Serendipity

Noisy and dynamic gene regulation in Arabidopsis

Tara Oceans: Eco-systems biology at planetary scale

Organelle dynamics: tales of motors and tethers

Evolution of buzz pollination

Unravelling transcription factor functions through integrative inference of transcriptional networks in plants

Mary Snow Lecture: Developmental regulation of cell patterning in grass leaves

The search for optimality: are Rubisco inhibitors necessary?

Receptor-mediated signalling from the plant cell wall

Blue Planet Movie Night

Blue Planet Movie Night

Crop species as model species for ecology, wild species as model species for agronomy?

Towards a multitrophic framework of species coexistence

The evolutionary significance of polyploidy

Monitoring cellular energy, physiology and regulation in plants

Conserving phylogenetic diversity - what does it mean, how well does it work, and who cares?

Creating impact for ecological research in the palm oil sector

Species loss and species restoration in plant-pollinator communities

Timing and coordination of cell type environmental response mechanisms in roots

Systems-based analysis of plant organ design

The Social Lives of Plants

Conservation of cell wall integrity sensing mechanisms in tip-growing cells

Evolution of plant symbioses

Biodiversity change in the Anthropocene

The timing and nature of early land plant evolution

Cytoplasmic events in early chloroplast biogenesis

Computing a more efficient leaf using metabolic network models

Ecological specialisation and the assembly of networks of interacting plants and pollinators: perspectives from mass flowering communities of phenotypically generalist daisies in South African deserts

Explosive seed dispersal

From seed to silicon: plant collections in the 21st century

Seminar: Dr Joshua Ramsay

Long, slow lives facing rapid change: Climate adaptation in conifers

Allocation decisions in Arabidopsis

Transcriptional regulation by dynamic ubiquitination

Oxford Congress on Plant Sciences 2018

The work of the Science and Technology Select Committee

Toward a unified science of ecological change: advances and challenges in biodiversity and metabolic scaling

CANCELLED: Biodiversity change in the Anthropocene

Evolutionary genetics of polymorphic sexual systems in flowering plants

The pervasive population genomic impacts of genome duplication, gene flow, and selection

Botanical Illustration: the life and workings of Rosemary Wise

Extending plant defence theory to seeds: understanding how interactions of dormancy and soil microbes affect survival and coexistence

Understanding plant species' responses to climate change: the need for population and community ecology

The role of water transport in controlling tropical forest function

My earliest and latest modelling studies (optimal water use and the intersection of photorespiration and N metabolism)

Unity in diversity: functional insights into the ancient partnerships between plants and fungi

Phylogenomics & evolutionary diversification of legumes: more than just peas and beans

Meiotic recombination and chromatin landscapes in plant genomes