Talks at 12pm EST every other Friday.
Organized by: Lucas Busta (University of Minnesota-Duluth, USA), Lars Kruse (University of British Columbia, Canada), Gaurav Moghe (Cornell University, USA)
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Associate Professor
Virginia Tech
September 13th, 2024
Itching to understand poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans) urushiol biology
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Assistant Professor
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
September 27th, 2024
From the colors of beet to defenses in wheat
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Graduate student
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
October 11th, 2024
Carophyta: Exploring the evolutionary roots for the biosynthesis of (apo)carotenoids and their role in plastid-mediated stress response in Streptophyta
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Assistant Professor
University of California - Riverside
October 25th, 2024
Illuminating Metabolomic Dark Matter - Reshaping How to Mine and Reuse Big Mass Spectrometry Data
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Postdoctoral Researcher
John Innes Center
November 8th, 2024
Opening a treasure trove: Unlocking saponin biosynthesis in soapwort
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Professor
University of Mainz
November 22th, 2024
Transgenerational plasticity in plant defense against herbivores
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Professor
University of Missouri
December 6th, 2024
Towards a Cell-Type Resolution Understanding of the Regulation of Metabolomic Pathways
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PhD student, Zerbe lab
University of California - Davis
January 10th, 2024
Root diterpenoids: uncharted chemical diversity
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Assistant Professor
University of Missouri - Columbia
January 24th, 2025
Harnessing the steroidal molecules of plants
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Senior Research Pharmacologist
Food and Drugs Administration (FDA)
February 21th, 2025
Evaluating ADME of botanical constituents using in silico methods
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Assistant Professor
New Jersey Institute of Technology
March 7th, 2025
Two conserved omega-3 fatty acid desaturases control jasmonate biosynthesis in Marchantia
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Assistant Professor
Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment
March 21st, 2025
Ecology, origin and evolution of a defensive beetle-fungal symbiosis
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Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops
April 4th, 2025
How plant specialized metabolites influence multitrophic interactions via insect sequestration
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Last Lab
Michigan State University
September 15th, 2023
A novel acylsugar pathway in tomato roots illuminates BAHD acyltransferase activity
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Postdoctoral Researcher
USDA-ARS/Cornell University, Li Lab
September 29th, 2023
Nudix domain-containing proteins: novel posttranslational regulators of carotenoid biosynthesis
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Assistant Professor
Hamilton College
October 13th, 2023
New Worlds of Drug Discovery: Path Dependency in the Early Modern Atlantic Pharmacopeia
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Profesor Investigador
Tecnologico de Monterrey
October 27th, 2023
Apples and oranges: Using comparative biochemistry to predict biosynthetic pathways
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Staff Scientist
Kew Botanical Gardens, UK
November 10th, 2023
Welcome to Chromatica: Colors, diversity, secret languages, pop culture, and queer-coding
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Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Copenhagen
November 24th, 2023
An improved Nicotiana benthamiana bioproduction chassis provides novel insights into nicotine biosynthesis
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Graduate Student, Lichman Lab
University of York
December 8th, 2023
First steps of Δ1-piperideine-derived alkaloid biosynthesis in Flueggea suffruticosa
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Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Georgia
January 12th, 2023
Cell-type-aware regulatory landscapes of monoterpene indole alkaloid biosynthesis
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Georg Jander Lab
Boyce Thompson Institute, USA
January 26th, 2023
The function of three Nicotiana benthamiana defensive compounds in a natural setting
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Postdoctoral Researcher
Argonne National Laboratory, USA
February 9th, 2023
Metabolic modeling of micronutrient networks in the KBase PlantSEED ecosystem
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Professor
Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
February 23th, 2023
TBD: Chemical ecology
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Senior Researcher
University of British Columbia, Canada
March 8th, 2023
Advancing Plant Research through Mass Spectrometry: Applications and Resources for Plant Scientists
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Assistant Professor
Northern Michigan University
March 22nd, 2023
Supporting Independent Inquiry into Medicinal Plant Chemistry in the Context of Undergraduate Education
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Graduate student, Sweetlove lab
University of Oxford, UK
April 5th, 2024
From Plants to Plastic: Developing Marchantia polymorpha as a Testbed for Metabolic Engineering
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Graduate student, Ya Yang Lab
University of Minnesota
April 19th, 2024
A multi-omics approach to investigating tyrosine- and phenylalanine-derived specialized metabolism in Caryophyllales
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Postdoctoral researcher, Rellán Álvarez Lab
North Carolina State University, USA
May 3rd, 2024
PhD student, Stephen Hann lab
Institute of Analytical Chemistry, University of Vienna
May 17th, 2024
Improving non‐targeted analysis coverage when assessing rhizosphere chemical communication
Professor
Technische Universität Braunschweig
January 13th, 2023
Evolutionary blocks to anthocyanin accumulation in betalain-pigmented Caryophyllales
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Graduate Student, Diwakar Shukla lab
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
January 27th, 2023
Structural biology of SWEET transporters: What influences substrate specificity?
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Chief Curator, Plant Metabolic Network
Carnegie Institute of Science
February 10th, 2023
Plant Metabolic Network: Predicting and visualizing metabolic reactions in the plant kingdom
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Postdoctoral researcher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
February 24th, 2023
Biosynthesis of plant wax β-diketones: a type-III polyketide synthase condensing two fatty acyl units
Associate Professor
Leibniz University Hannover
March 10th, 2023
Elucidating quassinoid biosynthesis in the invasive tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima).
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Assistant Professor
Colorado State University
March 24th, 2023
Synthetic biology approaches to examine the nexus of plant metabolism and development
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Assistant Professor
IOCB - Prague
April 7th, 2023
Prediction of terpene synthase substrates and products directly from enzyme sequences using self-supervised deep learning
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Assistant Professor
University of California, Davis
April 21st, 2023
It happened again: convergent evolution of acylglucose specialized metabolism in black nightshade and wild tomato
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Assistant Professor
St. Catherine University
May 5th, 2023
Nectar chemistry: secrets and evolutionary perspectives.
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Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia - Okanagan
May 26th, 2023
Oxidative enzymes in scaffolding and decorating alkaloid structures.
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Graduate Student, Barry Lab
Michigan State University
June 2nd, 2023
Redirecting tropane alkaloid metabolism reveals pyrrolidine alkaloid diversity in Atropa belladonna.
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