Botany & Plant Science Seminars (INVITED & VISITING SPEAKERS)

Botany and Plant Science NUIG maintains an active schedule of seminars and events which are open to all with an interest in botany and plant science research and education. We encourage all visitors to Botany and Plant Science to give seminars on topics of relevance to botany and plant science.

BOTANY AND PLANT SCIENCE TALKS

Forthcoming 2012, BPS Seminar Room - Dr. Boru Douthwaite ( CGIAR Challenge Programme on Water and Food, International Rice Research Institute, Philippines): Title to be announced.

Forthcoming 2012, BPS Seminar Room - Dr. Jenny McElwain (School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Ireland): Paleobotany and climate change.

Forthcoming 2012, BPS Seminar Room - Dr. Susanne Barth (Crop Genetics & Genomics, OakPark Research Centre, TEAGASC, Carlow, Ireland): Title to be announced.

Forthcoming 2012, BPS Seminar Room - Dr. Una Fitzpatrick, ( National Biodiversity Data Centre, Waterford, Ireland): Title to be announced.

Forthcoming 2012, BPS Seminar Room -  Dr. Dan Milbourne (Crop Genetics & Genomics, OakPark Research Centre, TEAGASC, Carlow, Ireland): Title to be announced.

Forthcoming 2012, BPS Seminar Room -  Dr. Ewen Mullins, (Crop Genetics & Genomics, OakPark Research Centre, TEAGASC, Carlow, Ireland): Title to be announced.

Forthcoming 2012, BPS Seminar Room -  Dr. Jim Lorenzen, (IITA East African Highland Banana Improvement Program, Arusha, Tanzania): Title to be announced.

23 February 2012, Botany Society Talk, BPS Seminar Room 19.00 - Prof. Alison Smith, (Dept of Plant Sciences, Cambridge University, UK): Symbiotic relationships between algae and bacteria.

2 February 2012, Botany Society Talk, BPS Seminar Room 19.00 - Prof. Liam Dolan (Dept of Plant Science, Oxford University, UK): Past, present and future uses of plants.

12 December 2011, BPS Seminar Room12.30 - Dr. Melissa Pentony (Purugganan Lab of Evolutionary Genomics, New York University, USA): Structure and positive selection in plant protein families.

12 December 2011, BPS Seminar Room11.00 - Dr. Ronan Sulpice ( Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany): Optimal plant growth: not just what you assimilate, but also how/when/where you use it.

7 December 2011, BPS Seminar Room14.00-15.00 - Prof. David MacHugh (Animal Biosciences Laboratory, University College Dublin): Archeogenomics.

28 October 2011, BPS Seminar Room 10.00 - Dr. Tamas Dalmay (Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK): Reducing bias of small RNA high-throughput sequencing.

12 September 2011, BPS Seminar Room - Prof Jonathan Gressel ( Transalgae Ltd, Israel): Transgenically-enhanced marine pico-algae: the feed and fuel of the future

31 August 2011, BPS Seminar Room 15.00 - Dr. Emidio Albertini (Uni of Perugia, Italy): Seeds without sex: Understanding apomixis genetics.

19 April 2011, BPS Seminar Room 19.00 - Prof Paul Knox (Centre for Plant Cell Wall Biology, University of Leeds, UK): "Molecular Probes for Plant Cell Wall Biology".  

12 April 2011, BPS Seminar Room 13.30-14.30 - Dr. Ewen Mullins (TEAGASC, OakPark, Carlow): "GM Crops & Future Agri-Environmental Challenges facing Ireland".

31 March 2011, BPS Seminar Room 11.00-12.00 - Dr. Michael Mullen (TEAGASC, Athenry): "Current Applications of Genomics in TEAGASC".

29 March 2011, BPS Seminar Room 18.30-20.00 - Prof. David S. Domozych (Dept of Biology, Skidmore College USA): Unraveling the mysteries of the plant cell wall: Charophycean Green Algae and the evolution of wall polymers.  

11 February 2011, BPS Seminar Room 16:00 - Margareta Pertl (Independent Botanical Artist, Dublin): "Botanical Illustration — an introduction to botanical painting and drawing". Margareta's talk will be followed by a practical demonstration of botanical illustration.

January 2011, BPS Seminar Room - Dr. Suresh Balasubramanian (School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia): "Polynucleotide repeat expansions and phenotypic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana".

16 December 2010, BPS Seminar Room - Dr. Adrian Brennan ( School of Biology, Uni St Andrews, Scotland): "Hybrid speciation studies in Senecio (ragworts)" .

3 December 2010, BPS Seminar Room 12.00 - Dr. Darach Lupton (National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin): "The National Botanic Gardens of Ireland and its Role in national and international plant conservation".

5 November 2010, BPS Seminar Room,  - Dr. Alison Donnelly & Hazel Proctor ( Phenology Research Group, Botany Department, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland): " Phenology and the phenology gardens network".

22 October 2010, BPS Seminar Room at 13.10 - Dr. GB Sunil Kumar (School of Biology & Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Ireland): "Plant-based molecular farming for vaccines and adjuvants".

13 October 2010, BPS Seminar Room at 11.00 - Dirk Vandenhirtz (CEO of LemnaTec GmbH, Germany): "Phenomics and the future of high-throughput plant phenotyping".

11 October 2010, BPS Seminar Room 13.00 - Dr. Danny Hunter ( Bioversity International, Rome, Italy): " Agrobiodiversity, human nutrition and food security".

11 October 2010, BPS Seminar Room 15.30 - Dr. Tatsuo Kanno (Botany and Plant Science, NUI Galway, Ireland): "Genetics of RNA-directed DNA methylation in Arabidopsis thaliana". (with Centre for Chromosome Biology, NUI Galway).

1 October 2010, BPS Seminar Room 11.00 - Dr. Tamaru Hunt-Joshi ( Dept of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, USA): "Control of purple loosestrife, an invasive plant in the USA".

BOTANY AND PLANT SCIENCE Events:

CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

18-21 June 2011 - Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI) Conference and AGM will be hosted by NUIG Botany and Plant Science. The BSBI is the leading society in Britain & Ireland for the study of plant distribution and taxonomy. Full details of the Conference will be circulated by the BSBI but will include excursions to Connemara and the Burren with a possibility of visiting the Aran Islands. The NUIG host for the Conference is Dr. Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington from the Discipline of Botany and Plant Science.

18 October 2009 - International workshop on crop wild relatives hosted at Botany & Plant Science, NUI Galway, Ireland

The Botany & Plant Science discipline at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG) hosted an International Workshop on Conservation and Sustainable Use of Crop Wild Relatives (17-18 October 2009). The workshop featured expert speakers involved in crop wild relatives conservation and sustainable use activities from Bolivia, Madagascar, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, Colombia and Ireland. Participants from the UNEP-GEF funded Global Crop Wild Relatives project were also taken on a study tour of plant conservation activities in the Burren region of Ireland.  Sponsors and partners for the workshop were NUIG Botany & Plant Science, Genetic Heritage Ireland, Bioversity International and Irish Aid. Left: Global Crop Wild Relatives Project scientists on study tour of the Burren, Ireland. Left to right: Dr. Sativaldi Djataev (Uzbekistan); Dr. Beatriz Zapata Ferrufino (Bolivia); Dr. Anura Wijesekara (Sri Lanka); Jeannot Ramelison (Madagascar).

Press Release
Workshop poster

For further information also see the following websites:
http://www.cropwildrelatives.org/
http://www.geneticheritageireland.ie/

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