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PAC Seminars

Explore our Seminars and Events page for a diverse range of internal and external events, seminars, workshops, and conferences from the cluster.

Seminars & Events List

Webinars
Guest Speakers
Crop Club
Crop Centre Seminar

Crop Club

Crop Club is aimed at all PGRs, PDRs and technicians carrying out research within the plant and crop theme. Meetings are held once a month in person at Wellesbourne, with each meeting focussing on a different topic or area of interest. Previous topics include fellowship and grant writing, poster and presentation skills alongside regular journal club and research discussion meetings.

More info: lauren.chappell@warwick.ac.uk

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Our Next cluster meetings

  • Cluster meeting, 12th Feb, 1-3pm, BSR1

Webinar – EU IPM Decisions and IPMWORKS projects

Dr Mark Ramsden (ADAS) will talk about the EU IPM Decisions and IPMWORKS projects, which together are supporting reduction of pesticide use across Europe.

During the session, Mark will demonstrate the online IPM Resource Toolbox and IPM Decisions Platform, highlight some examples of IPM in action, and discuss the next steps and opportunities for advancing IPM decision support.

To register for the webinar please use this link: Webinar - IPM Decisions and IPMWORKS projects (warwick.ac.uk)

If you have any questions please email rosemary.collier@warwick.ac.uk or Alex.Kelly.2@warwick.ac.uk.

Guest Speakers

  • Cluster meeting, 12th Feb, 1-3pm, BSR1
  • Dr Tolga Bozkurt- Imperial College London, 26th Feb, 1-2pm, BSR3,

    Title: Divergent membrane trafficking of NLR immune receptors

  • Prof. Takato Imaizumi-University of Washington, 7th March, 1-2pm, BSR3-

    Title: seasonal and diurnal time-keeping mechanisms in plants

  • PhD/postdoc seminar, 12th March, 1-2pm, BSR5

Speakers:

  • Laura Civolani - Murray Grant group, Title:

    Chloroplast immunity: a neglected mechanism to enhance sustainable agriculture?

  • Rida Faizi - George Bassel group, Title:

    Genetic Control of Flowering time

  • Litsa Ampntelnour - Vardis Ntoukakis group, Title:

    The role of ATP-dependent chromatin remodelling complexes in regulation of plant immunity against Fusarium oxysporum

  • Prof Malcolm Bennett- Nottingham University, 26th March, 1-2pm, BSR5,

    Title: Lessons from underground: discovering how roots sense soil stresses

  • Prof Rebecca Mosher- Oxford University,, 7th May, 12-1pm, BSR5, Title:

    RNA-directedDNA Methylation as a mechanism of parental control during seed development

Crop Centre Seminars

The Crop Centre Seminars are usually held on the third Wednesday of the month in room PPB0.27 at Wellesbourne and via MS Teams. The seminars feature the research of students, postdocs and academics associated with The Crop Centre alongside guest speakers. We host invited speakers once every three months, if you have any suggestions, please let Lauren know at lauren.chappell@warwick.ac.uk. To view previous seminars, click here.