Friday November 24th 12:30h – Dr. Paula Elomaa. Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
“Developmental patterning of head-like inflorescences in Asteraceae” The inflorescences in the sunflower family (Asteraceae), flower heads or capitula, are iconic examples of geometric beauty found in nature. They may consist of hundreds of florets arranged in regular left- and right-curving spirals whose numbers follow the mathematical Fibonacci series. We have recently resolved the growth dynamics […]
Friday November 3rd 12:30h. Conference Hall 3rd floor Dr. Elena Caro. CBGP
Dr. Elena Caro. CBGP (Madrid) Title “Small RNAs as epigenetic regulators in the plant response to heat in theTGRooZ system” Climate change is increasing the frequency of extreme heat events that aggravate the effect of other stresses on plant development and agricultural yield. We have engineered the TGRooZ, a device that generates a decreasing temperature gradient […]
Seminars 2023-2024
We are excited to share the poster for the next semester’s Institute Seminars! This year, Marian Nohales and Javier Gallego will be organizing the seminars with the invaluable help from the hosts and heads of the department. We would also like to thank everybody who participated in suggesting this season’s speakers.
Seminar Dr. Sebastian Marquardt. Friday June 16th 12:30h. Conference Hall 3rd floor
“Languages of the Non-coding Genome” Genomes are the blueprints of life: the genomic DNA sequences contain the instructions for the formation of a given species. DNA sequence polymorphisms between individuals of the same species offer a hypothesis to understand the molecular bases of fitness differences. However, many polymorphisms are located in parts of the genome […]
Seminar Dr. Pau Formosa-Jordan. Friday June 9th 12:30h. Conference Hall 3rd floor
Dr. Pau Formosa-Jordan Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany. “Plant developmental dynamics: from developmental transitions to cellular patterning” Plant development occurs as an interplay of signalling, growth and environmental cues, becoming a highly dynamic and complex system. To disentangle such complexity and decipher the underlying principles of plant developmental processes, we focus […]
Seminar Dr. Josep M. Casacuberta. CRAG, Barcelona. Friday December 2nd 12:30h. Conference Hall 3rd floor
“Transposable elements as key drivers of gene expression evolution in plants” Our research aims at deciphering the mechanisms that control TE activity in plants and analyzing the impact of TEs in plant genome evolution. Our main projects at present aim at uncovering the mechanisms of retrotransposon target site selection, the impact of TEs in the […]