Past Events

SEMINARS

PRI hosted a seminar series called "PRI Internal Seminar" on the second and fourth Friday of the month.

Spring 2023 Seminars:

1/13: Dr. Rose Marks, VanBuren Lab - Life on the edge: how to survive without water and other lessons from resurrection plants
1/27: Dr. Xosé López Goldar, Wetzel Lab & Dr. Nate Havko, Howe Lab - Impact of heat waves on the resilience of milkweeds and the interactions with their arthropod community
2/10: Dr. Daniel Anstett, Lowry Lab - Leveraging big data to study adaptation in a changing world
2/24: Dr. Matt Stata, Rhee Lab - Hunting for Intermediates on the Road from C3 to C4 Photosynthesis
3/10: Cristal López González, Gilbert Lab - How plant leaves respond to external pH changes at transcriptional level
3/24: Dr. Brittni Kelley, Lebeis Lab - Identifying the potential impacts of microbial seed treatments on soybeans and the surrounding soil microbiome
4/28: Dr. Anuradha Singh, Thompson Lab - Genetic analysis of multiple agronomic traits for optimal biomass allocation and improved water use efficiency during seasonal drought conditions in sorghum
5/26: Dr. Sue Rhee, PRI Director - All hands Town Hall

Fall 2023 Seminars:

09/08: Dr. Kiran Shivaiah, Lundquist Lab - An Amphipathic Helix is essential for the association of Fibrillin Proteins to Plastoglobule Lipid Droplets
09/22: Dr. Brian O'Shea, Director of Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research - Introduction to ICER
10/13: Katherine Naasko, Sprunger Lab - Microbes under water: soil health and soil microbial community recovery after a short-term flood event
10/22: Dr. Hui-Kyong Cho, Rouached Lab - How does phosphorus play a role in the growth of plants?
11/10: Dr. Mohammad Mostofa, Sharkey Lab - Wounding and cryptic isoprene emission in soybeans
12/08: Asia Hightower, Josephs Lab - Investigating leaf shape variation in Capsella bursa-pastoris herbarium specimens

The 2023 PRI retreat was held on October 5-7, 2023 at the W.K. Kellogg Biological Research Station.