Seminar Series
Molecular Plant Sciences Graduate Program
Spring 2026 Seminar Series (MPS 515)
Seminars are held Wednesday at 12:10 p.m.
All seminars will be held in person at Biotechnology-Life Sciences (BLS) 402 and via Zoom. Email molecular.plants@wsu.edu for details.
| Date | Speaker | Department | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/14/2026 | Semester kick-off meeting | |||
| 1/21/2026 | Dr. Hana Zand Karimi | School of Biological Sciences | "Proteasomes in the Apoplast: New Players in Plant Defense and Immune Signaling." | |
| 1/28/2026 | MPS Faculty Meeting | |||
| 2/4/2026 | Kaone Abanikannda | Crop and Soil Sciences | "What Happens When Soil Microbial Systems Face a Hotter, Drier, Saltier World?" | |
| 2/11/2026 | Jannelle Andrews | Institute of Biological Chemistry | "Determinants of substrate specificity in mint pulegone reductase, a double bond reductase of the medium-chain dehydrogenase/reductase superfamily." | |
| 2/18/2026 | Chun-Yeung Ng | Institute of Biological Chemistry | “The physiological roles of the intrinsically disordered L80 peptide of starch phosphorylase 1.” | |
| 2/25/2026 | ||||
| 3/4/2026 | ||||
| 3/11/2026 | Somnath Koley | Research Assistant Professor at Oak Ridge Innovation Institute | ||
| 3/18/2026 | Spring vacation - no seminar | |||
| 3/25/2026 | Daphne Crum | Horticulture | "Linking Starch Structure, Genetics, and Postharvest Physiology to Russet Potato Performance and Consumer Adoption." | |
| 4/1/2026 | Ruth Uwugiaren | Crop and Soil Sciences | "Genomic localization of an introgressed blue aleurone gene to reduce linkage drag and enhance anthocyanin content in wheat." | |
| 4/8/2026 | Se Eun Jung | Institute of Biological Chemistry | ||
| 4/15/2026 | Joe Essien | Institute of Biological Chemistry | “Harnessing One Carbon (C1) metabolism for efficient Photorespiration (C2) processing and detoxification in Arabidopsis thaliana.” | |
| Zoom | 4/22/2026 | Dr. David Jackson | ||
| 4/29/2026 | Dr. Jen Wisecaver | School of Biological Sciences |
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