Speaker: Dr. John Reganold Organic agriculture has a history of being contentious, yet organic foods and beverages are a rapidly growing market segment in the global food industry. The performance of organic farming will be discussed in light of four key sustainability metrics: productivity, environmental impact, economic viability and social wellbeing.
Past PMB Seminars
For a schedule of all Plant & Microbial Biology events, seminars, and lectures visit our calendar.
Tom Brutnell: Setaria viridis, a Model System for Gene Discovery and Functional Genomics in the Panicoid Grasses
“Setaria viridis, a Model System for Gene Discovery and Functional Genomics in the Panicoid Grasses”
Paul A. Offit, MD: Communicating Science to the Public: The Vaccine-Autism Controversy
Paul A. Offit, MD is the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In addition, Dr. Offit is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology and a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
David Hibbett: Taylor-White Lecture: Getting to the Roots of Rot: Fungal Phylogenomics and the ‘End of the Carboniferous Period
David Hibbett “Getting to the Roots of Rot: Fungal Phylogenomics and the ‘End of the Carboniferous Period’”
Meagan Oldfather, PhD Candidate: Plant life at high elevation in the White Mountains, CA
Join your host Tesla Monson for a new episode of The Graduates! This week, we are joined by Meagan Oldfather from the Department of Integrative Biology as she talks about her work on alpine plants living above 12,000 ft. The Graduates, highlighting graduate student research at Berkeley and around the world, is broadcast every other Tuesday at 9AM on KALX 90.7FM and on the web.
Special Seminar: Morten Petersen
Tuesday: March 29, 2016, 12 noon 338 Koshland Hall Dr Morten Petersen Professor of Biology University of Copenhagen Title: "PTI components and autoimmunity”
Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH: The Principles and Priorities of Population Health Science
Dr. Galea is a physician and an epidemiologist. He is Dean and Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health. Prior to his appointment at Boston University, Dr Galea served as the Anna Cheskis Gelman and Murray Charles Gelman Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health where he launched several new educational...
Claudia Köhler: Epigenetic Mechanisms Driving Plant Speciation
“Epigenetic Mechanisms Driving Plant Speciation”