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Webinar on Can a Biologist Fix a Smartphone?

Prof. Sophien Kamoun, FRS, will explore this idea using the smartphone as a metaphor for living organisms. He will discuss how the capacity to read and edit the genetic language encoded in the genome has enabled biologists to access the codical domain of living systems in an unprecedented fashion.

Webinar Session on Can a Biologist Fix a Smartphone? is scheduled on 22nd November 2020 with following event timeline. We will be live on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/thebiomics).

Event Timeline

  1. Webinar Presentations: 22nd November 2020 at 06:00 PM IST (12:30 PM UTC)
  2. Registration Close: 22nd October 2020 05:30 PM IST
  3. Registration open

 

Can a Biologist Fix a Smartphone?

Session starts at 06:00 PM IST (12:30 PM UTC).

Guest Speaker

 

Prof. Dr. Sophien Kamoun, Ph.D., FRS
Senior Scientist
The Sainsbury Laboratory, UK
Professor of Biology
The University of East Anglia, England

Prof. Dr. Sophien Kamoun FRS is a Tunisian biologist. He is a senior scientist at the Sainsbury Laboratory and professor of biology at the University of  East Anglia (UEA). Kamoun is known for contributions to our understanding of plant diseases and plant immunity.

Kamoun grew up in Tunisia. He studied at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris and then at the University of California, Davis where he obtained a PhD in 1991 for genetic analysis of pathogenicity of the bacteria, Xanthomonas campestris.

Kamoun is known for his contributions to our understanding of plant diseases and plant immunity. He used genomics and molecular biology methods to obtain insights into the biology and evolution of eukaryotic plant pathogens.He discovered virulence effector families from plant pathogens and showed how they can modulate plant immunity. He demonstrated how antagonistic coevolution with host plants has impacted the architecture of pathogen genomes, accelerated the evolution of effector genes, and drove the emergence of immune receptor networks.

After his PhD, Kamoun worked at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Engineering Plants for Resistance Against Pathogens at the University of California, Davis. and at the Department of Phytopathology (Wageningen University, Netherlands). He was on the faculty of the Department of Plant Pathology (Ohio State University, Wooster campus) from 1998 to 2007, before joining The Sainsbury Laboratory in 2007. He served as Head of The Sainsbury Laboratory from 2009 to 2014 and also holds the rank of professor of biology at the University of East Anglia. Kamoun served as president of the International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions from 2012-2014.

He is a recipient of several awards such as 

  • Syngenta Award in 2003
  • 2013 Noel Keen Award from the American Phytopathological Society
  • The Daiwa Adrian Prize in 2010
  • The Kuwait Prize in 2016
  • He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea (MAE) in 2011 and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in 2015
  • He won successive European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigator grants in 2011 and 2017
  • In 2018, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and he received the Linnean Medal for his outstanding contributions to plant science.

Host

Webinar session is to be managed and hosted by Mr Parthasarathy, MSc in Plant Sciences.

Features of the Webinar

  1. Live session
  2. Interactive QA session
  3. Certificates to the registered participants

 

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