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Plantae Presents: Malcolm Bennett and Edith Pierre-Jerome

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Plantae Presents: Malcolm Bennett and Edith Pierre-Jerome Feb 17 -  10am EST, 3pm GMT, 4pm CET Malcolm Bennett: BREAKTHRU: uncovering how roots can sense and penetrate hard soils The hidden half of plant biology has been an enduring interest throughout Malcolm Bennett's 20-year research…

Plantae Presents: Eric Schranz and Caroline Pont

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Plantae Presents: Eric Schranz and Caroline Pont Recorded Feb 10 -  10am EST, 3pm GMT, 4pm CET Eric Schranz: Context Matters: Phylogenomic synteny analysis of plants and animals Eric Schranz is currently the professor of Biosystematics at Wageningen University. He was a an undergraduate…

Plantae Presents Panel: Specialized Metabolites Part 2 (Metabolites and Defense)

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We’re pleased to announce the next in our series of webinars that are drawn from contributed short videos, followed by a panel discussion. This week we’ll look at the topic of specialized metabolites, featuring scientists from the US, Israel, and India, moderated by Gitanjali Yadav. Plants are…

Plantae Presents Panel: Specialized Metabolites Part 1 (Medicines Flavors, Defense and More)

We’re pleased to announce the next in our series of webinars that are drawn from contributed short videos, followed by a panel discussion. This week we’ll look at the topic of specialized metabolites, featuring scientists from France, England, and Brazil, moderated by Gitanjali Yadav. Plants are…

Plantae Presents: Zach Lippman and Arjun Khakhar

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Plantae Presents – Zach Lippman and Arjun Khakhar Recorded Wednesday, December 9, 10 am EST, 4 pm CET Zach Lippman: Cis-regulatory control of quantitative trait variation and pleiotropy Zach Lippman is a Professor of Plant Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and a Howard…

Plantae Presents: Ning Zheng and Destiny Davis

Plantae Presents: Ning Zheng and Destiny Davis Recorded Wednesday Dec 2 9 pm EST, 6 pm PST Ning Zheng: Structural insights into salicylic acid signaling via NPR proteins Ning Zheng obtained his PhD from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 1997 after he attended Fudan University…

Plantae Presents: Carlos Ballaré and Haim Trebes

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Plantae Presents - Carlos Ballaré and Haim Trebes Recorded Wednesday November 25 10am EST, 4pm CET Carlos Ballaré: Phytochrome, jasmonate, and the balance between growth and defense Prof. Carlos L. Ballaré studies the mechanisms by which plants obtain environmental information. Carlos…

Plantae Presents: Gustavo MacIntosh and Jyothi Vaddasery

Plantae Presents – Gustavo MacIntosh and Jyothi Vaddasery Recorded Wednesday November 4  10am EST Gustavo MacIntosh: Colonization strategies and resistance responses in soybean-soybean aphid interactions Gustavo MacIntosh joined Iowa State University in August 2003 and he is now a…

Plantae Presents Panel: Evo-devo as a discovery tool

Plantae Presents - Evo-devo. What can we learn from comparative studies? Recorded Wednesday, October 28 - 10 am EDT We're pleased to announce the second in our series of webinars that are drawn from contributed short videos, followed by a panel discussion. This week we'll look at the topic of…