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DISCOVER Series videos are added every month.

Below is a list of videos posted in the DISCOVER Series between 2015 and 2024.

May 2024

• Mohsen Mesgaran, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis

April 2024

• Postdoc Panorama #1
  Ellen Rim, Life Sciences Research Foundation-funded postdoctoral fellow in the Ronald lab, Dept. of Plant Pathology
  Justine Baulieu, Postdoctoral researcher in the Fungal Pathogen Ecology in Vegetable and Field Crops (Swett Lab)
  Ruchika Kashyap, Postdoctoral researcher in the Del Castillo Lab.
  Florian Deligne, Postdoctoral researcher, in the Brady Lab and the Runcie Lab.
  Pershang Hosseini, Postdoc in the Hanson lab.

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December 2023

• Bob Gilbertson, Distinguished Professor of Plant Pathology, UC Davis

November 2023

• Maeli Melotto, Professor of Agricultural Plant Biology, UC Davis

September 2023

• Kent Bradford, Professor Emeritus, UC Davis
• Barbara Blanco-Ulate, Associate Professor, UC Davis
• Roger Chetelat, Director, C.M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center, UC Davis
• Alfred Huo, Assistant Professor, University of Florida
• Imtiyaz Khanday, Assistant Professor, UC Davis
• Katelyn Higgins, N.A. Sales & Operations Manager, Seed-X
  Topic: Recent research on tomato reproductive biology.

April 2023

• Christine Diepenbrock, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
  Brian Bailey, Associate Professor, Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
  Mason Earles, Assistant Professor, College of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, UC Davis
  Topic: The GEMINI project

March 2023

• Nitin Nitin, Professor, Food Science and Technology / Biological and Agricultural Engineering, UC Davis
  Rewa Rai, Project Scientist in Dr. Nitin’s lab, UC Davis
  Topic: Biochemical approaches for pest and pathogen control in agriculture and food

February 2023

• Heiner Lieth, Professor Emeritus, Plant Sciences Department, UC Davis
  Topic: Professor Lieth helped us understand why the course he taught for many years, called “Flower Power”, attracts an astonishing 1,000 students.

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December 2022

• Imtiyaz Khanday, Director of Research, Seed Biotechnology Center at UC Davis
  Topic: Creating seeds for the future: clonal, resilient, and high vigor

November 2022

• FOCUS on digital and AI technologies for agriculture and food (panel discussion)

October 2022

• Neelima Singh
  Distinguished Professor, UC Davis College of Biology
  A developmental biologist's perspective on crop improvement.

May 2022

• Panel discussion on upcoming scientific and technological developments around plant breeding and food science being increasingly tailored towards ‘personalized’ health.
  Moderator: Carolyn Slupsky, Professor, Kinsella Endowed Chair in Food, Nutrition, and Health, UC Davis; Panelists: Uri Krieger, Head of Vegetables and Flowers R&D, Syngenta; Christine Diepenbrock, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis; Selina Wang, Associate Professor of Cooperative Extension, UC Davis

April 2022

• Focus on indoor and vertical agriculture
  Panelists: Gail Taylor, Heiner Lieth, Md Shamim Ahamed, Max Vo, Swasti Reddy, David Nothmann.

March 2022

• John Palmer
  Executive Director Emeritus, California Crop Improvement Association and UC Davis Foundation Seed Program

February 2022

• Luca Comai (UC Davis)
  “Breeding plants with genes from 1 parent – Advance could shorten times for crop breeding“

January 2022

• Kent Bradford (UC Davis)
  Understanding the behavior of seed (and cell) populations

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December 2021

• Focus on digital & AI technologies for agriculture

November 2021

• Bhimanagouda ‘Bhimu’ Patil (Texas A&M Agrilife)
  "Table-to-farm approach will create healthier U.S. melon supply chain - Texas A&M AgriLife researchers are changing how melon cultivars are improved"

October 2021

• Patty Buskirk, Managing Partner, Seeds by Design and Terra Organics

September 2021

• Siobhan Brady (UC Davis)
  Root Cell Type Development, Evolution and its Integration with the Environment

May 2021

• Focus on artificial intelligence technology relevant to the seed, ag, agbiotech and food industry

April 2021

• Her Startup - Encounters with women entrepreneurs who launched their own companies in ag & food, from seed to health

March 2021

• Alison Marklein (UC Riverside)
  "Projected temperature increases may require shifts in the growing season of cool-season crops and the growing locations of warm-season crops"

February 2021

• Focus on microbiome and microbial research relevant to the seed, ag, agbiotech and food industry

January 2021

• Philipp Zerbe (UC Davis)
  Identification of genes and metabolic pathways underlying crop stress resistance, plant-microbe interactions and flavor using functional genomics and biochemical approaches.

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December 2022

• Newest research related to processing tomatoes and tomato processing
   
• Daniel Sumner (UC Davis)
  The long-term future of California agriculture

November 2020

• Focus on cannabis and hemp

October 2020

• Dr. Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar, Professor, Dept of Plant Biology, College of Biological Sciences
  Genome Center, UC Davis
  Forgoing the GMO footprint: First steps to using viruses for gene editing in plants

September 2020

• Panel discussion on new breeding technologies for quality, nutrition and indoor farming
  With Vonnie Estes, PMA; Emma January, Benson Hill; John Purcell, Unfold; Megan Thomas, Pairwise

May 2020

• Markita del Carpio Landry, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UC Berkeley
  Nanomaterials enable delivery of genetic material without transgene integration in mature plants

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October 2018

UC Berkeley scientists:

• Kris Niyogi, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
• Peggy Lemaux, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
• Benjamin Blackman, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
• Sheng Luan, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
• Alex Schultink, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
• Myeong-Je Cho, Plant Genomics and Transformation Facility
• Ksenia Krasileva, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
• John Vogel, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
• David Zilberman, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Becky Mackelprang, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

UC Davis scientists:

• Helene Dillard, Dean, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
• Gail Taylor, Chair, Department of Plant Sciences
• Kent Bradford, Department of Plant Sciences
• Charles Brummer, Department of Plant Sciences
• Julin Maloof, Department of Plant Biology
• Anne Britt, Department of Plant Biology
• Allison Gaudinier, Department of Plant Biology
• Heiner Leith, Department of Plant Sciences
• Justin Siegel, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
• David Slaughter, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
• Philipp Zerbe, Department of Plant Biology
• Venkatesan Sundaresan, Department of Plant Biology
• David Tricoli, Plant Transformation Facility
• Gitta Coaker, Department of Plant Biology
• Stacey Harmer, Department of Plant Biology
• Bryce Falk, Department of Plant Pathology

May 2018

• Daniel Runcie, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
• Sara Montanari, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis
• Maeli Melotto, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis

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November 2017

• Diana Burkhart, DNA Technologies and Expression Analysis Cores, UC Davis
• Luca Comai, Department of Plant Biology, UC Davis
• Matthew Settles, Bioinformatics Core, UC Davis
• Anthony Herren, Proteomics Core, UC Davis
• Dinesh Barupal, Bioinformatics Core, UC Davis

April 2017

• Ken Giles, Dept. of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
• Stacey Harmer, Dept. of Plant Biology
• Dan Kliebenstein, Dept. of Plant Sciences

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November 2016 (Veg R&D Forum)

• Kent Bradford, Dept. of Plant Sciences, Seed Biotechnology Center, UC Davis
• Phyllis Himmel, Collaboration for Plant Pathogen Strain Identification (CPPSI), UC Davis
• Neal Williams, Dept. of Entomology, UC Davis
• Anne Britt, Department of Plant Biology, UC Davis
• Isabelle Henri, Genome Center, UC Davis

October 2016

• Tom Gordon, Dept. of Plant Pathology
• Johan Leveau, Dept. of Plant Pathology
• Lyn Epstein, Dept. of Plant Pathology

April 2016

• Luca Comai, Dept. of Plant Biology
• Anne Britt, Dept. of Plant Biology
• Ioannis Stergiopoulos, Dept. of Plant Pathology

March 2016

• Gail M. Bornhorst, Dept. of Food Science and Technology
• S.P. Dinesh-Kumar, Dept. of Plant Biology
• Siobhan Brady, Dept. of Plant Biology

October 2015

• Julin Maloof, Dept. of Plant Biology

There is much basic research at the University of California that deserves our members' attention.
Hence the DISCOVER Series:

Discover basic research at UC Davis, UC Berkeley, UC Riverside and UC San Diego

We invite you to meet UC Davis scientists who pursue basic research that has potential to translate into applied research of value to some of our members.

Discover research in Northern California

We propose take you to visit research centers, many of them affiliated with UC Davis, and to meet some of their scientists, whose research is of potential relevance to our members, e.g.:
- the Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek
- the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley
- the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore
- the Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville
- the USDA Western Regional Research Center, Albany
- the USDA Agricultural Research Station, Salinas
- the California Lighting Research Center, Davis
- the Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford

November 2017

Special DISCOVER session with specialists from the Core facilities of UC Davis' Genome Center:

• Genomics and TILLING
• Proteomics
• Metabolomics
• Bioinformatics