MPS Seminars

MPS seminars feature plant scientists from a variety of institutions, including students from the MPS program, who have been invited to discuss timely topics, emerging research, or present on applications for techniques in the molecular sciences.
Seminars can be virtual or in person; please take note of seminars noted to be VIRTUAL ONLY.

For each seminar, there is a group meeting session with the speaker. All graduate students, postdocs, research staff, and visiting scholars in any plant-related research laboratories are welcome to attend. Affiliation with the MPS program is not required.

All events will be in Plant Biology Laboratories, room 247. A virtual option is available as well:

Join Zoom Meeting: https://msu.zoom.us/j/91993518218
Meeting ID: 919 9351 8218
Passcode: 028299

MPS Seminars Fall 2026
Date & Time	Speaker	Title
September 14	Ye Zhang NASA Kennedy Space Center	Crop seed vigor in the space environment
September 21	Shannon Donnelly and Bailey Kleven	MPS Student Seminar
September 28	Jeanmarie Verchot Texas A&M University	ER stress signaling and gene expression response balances potexirus cell-to-cell and systemic movement
October 5	Damon Lisch Purdue University	Somatic Mu transposon insertions as a probe for chromatin changes in maize mutants
October 12	Sebastian Schornack Cambridge University	Plant manipulation by pathogenic and symbiotic microbes
October 19	Arjun Khakhar Colorado State University	Engineering plant organ size with synthetic biology for sustainable agriculture
November 2	Yun Zhou Purdue University	Hormonal signals, transctiptional circuits, and cell division dynamics during plant meristem development
November 9	Ana Paulo Allonso University of North Texas	Carbon Allocation During Seed Filling in Emerging Crops
November 16	Helmut Kirchhoff Washington State Unviersity	Towards understanding how protein landscape dynamics govern photosynthetic energy conversion in plant thylakoid membranes
November 23	Phil Engelgau & George Kusi-Appiah USDA ARS	Outstanding MPS Paper
November 30	Xingyun Qi Rutgers University - Camden	From Embryo to Epidermis: Divergent roles of a stomatal receptor across plant development
December 7	TBD	Hans Kende Award Seminar

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MPS Seminars