Seminar details TBA.
Most Delicious Poison: The Story of Nature’s Toxins–from Spices to Vices
I will discuss what motivated me to write a new book on the origin story of toxins made by plants and other organisms that humans use (and sometimes abuse) and I will give an overview of this general audience book.
Transcriptional Governance: Mechanisms of Activation Control for the Auxin Response Factors
The Strader lab has been studying transcriptional output of the Auxin Response Factors, key regulators of plant growth and development, finding that protein condensation, nucleo-cytoplasmic partitioning, and activation domain activity can be modulated to integrate environmental and developmental cues into their transcriptional activity.