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)
Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 Lineup
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
Website: Ben Lichman Lab
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Georgia
January 12th, 2023
Cell-type-aware regulatory landscapes of monoterpene indole alkaloid biosynthesis
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Graduate student, Sweetlove lab
University of Oxford, UK
January 26th, 2023
From Plants to Plastic: Developing Marchantia polymorpha as a Testbed for Metabolic Engineering
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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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April 5th, 2024
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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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May 3rd, 2024
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May 17th, 2024
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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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