"Plant-microbe symbiosis for improved crop performance in the wake of depleting resources"
PMB Seminar – Wednesday, 02/05 – 101 Barker Hall – 12-1p
Kelly Craven of the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation will give the Buchanan Lecture for 2014:
"Plant-microbe symbiosis for improved crop performance in the wake of depleting resources"
The research emphasis at the Craven Lab is tropic responses and red-ox signaling in fungi and endophyte-grass symbiosis
Craven's program focuses on two basic themes:
- Exploration of microbial bio-diversity in the prairie grasslands and exploitation of microbial symbionts and/or useful genes derived from them for crop enhancement
- Basic tropic responses in fungi as they relate to the processes of nutrient acquisition and colonization
Reception to follow in 338 Koshland Hall
About the Buchanan Lecture
The Bob. B. Buchanan Lecture honors Professor Bob B. Buchanan, a longtime faculty member and professor emeritus in the Department of Plant & Microbial Biology. Professor Buchanan did undergraduate work at Emory and Henry College and obtained a Ph.D. in Microbiology from Duke University. After completing postdoctoral research with the late Professor Jesse C. Rabinowitz in the Department of Biochemistry, Buchanan joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1963. He is known for his contributions to microbiology, photosynthesis and plant biochemistry.
The Buchanan Lecture was established with a generous gift from the K/T Foundation of San Francisco.
Speakers are typically young investigators on the way to achieving prominence in plant biology. They are selected by postdoctoral scholars in the Department of Plant & Microbial Biology.