"Space - the Final Frontier: Spatial Mapping of Transcriptomes in Plants"

To understand how genes regulate across tissues and organs, transcriptional data needs to be placed within a spatial, cellular, and organismal context. The rapid evolution of methods to visualize the spatial locations of proteins and transcripts has provided an exciting future to study spatial biology in plants and animals. Additionally, obtaining 3D images of tissues and organs at nanoscale resolution will provide better understanding of how cells are spatially organized and help answer some key biological questions. Dr. Cox will focus my talk on some of the technologies he is developing and applying to obtain multi-dimensional transcriptional data in organisms. He will then discuss his new research group objectives in using spatial biology to answer questions in plant-pathogen interactions and duckweed biology.

Dr. Kevin Cox's research uses spatial and single-cell genomics, imaging, and molecular biology to uncover the spatial organization of genes in plants, with a core objective of unraveling the communication mechanisms within plant cells.

11:50 am- Snacks & Socializing
noon- Talk Begins