The Plant Membrane Talks is a webinar series that started in 2020 during the COVID pandemic. It is a multidisciplinary monthly seminar about membrane biology aimed at a plant biologist audience.

SEASON 1, 2020-2021
November 2, 2020 - YANSONG MIAO (Nanyang University, Singapore)
Mechanoregulation of biomolecular condensation enables actin remodeling during signal transduction

December 7, 2020 - BEATRICE LACE (Freiburg, Germany)
RPG-keeping control over host-mediated intracellular infection

January 4, 2021 - TILL ISCHEBEK (Munster, Germany)
Identification of a lipid droplet-plasma membrane tethering complex in Arabidopsis

February 1, 2021- MARTA FRATINI (Halle, Germany)
Plasma membrane nano-organization specifies phosphoinositide effects on Rho-GTPases and actin dynamics in tobacco pollen tubes

March 1, 2021 - ANDREY KLYMCHENKO (Strasbourg, France)
Fluorescent probes for imaging lipid organization in cells

April 12, 2021 - ALENKA COPIC (Montpellier, France)
Strangely long proteins that function in lipid storage and in lipid transport

June 7, 2021 - STEFANO VANNI (Fribourg, Switzerland)
Computational approaches to study biological membranes

June 28 - SOPHIE MARTIN (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Cell patterning by secretion-induced membranes flows, and other membrane events

July 5, 2021 - BEN ENGEL (Basel, Switzerland)
Exploring the molecular architecture of photosynthetic organelles with cryo-electron tomography

SEASON 2, 2021-2022
September 6, 2021 - VANESSA FUCHS (Heidelberg, Germany)
Nanodomain-mediated lateral sorting drives polarization of the small GTPase ROP2 in the plasma membrane of root hair cells

Octover 4, 2021 - JULIEN GRONNIER (Tübingen, Germany)
Spatial and temporal regulation of cell-surface signaling, from the nanoscale to the organism

November 8, 2021 - CHARLOTTE KIRCHHELLE (Lyon, France)
How plant cell built their corners

December 6, 2021 - FARHAH ASSAAD (Munich, Germany)
Decision-making processes in the Arabidopsis seedling

January 10, 2022 - MARIE-CÉCILE CAILLAUD (Lyon, France)
How Do Plants Avoid the Formation of Four-Cellular Junctions ?

February 7, 2022 - DOLF WEIJERS (Wageningen, The Netherlands)
Polar expeditions - towards new cell polarity mechanisms in plants

March 7, 2022 - SABINE MULLER (Nurnberg, Germany)
Microtubules and phospholipids : Drivers of polarization and specificity safeguards

April 4, 2022 - PENGWEI WANG (Wuhan, China)
Adding complexity to the plant ER-membrane contact site : cytoskeleton arrangement and selective autophagy

May 2, 2022 - JENNY RUSSINOVA (Gent, Belgium)
Cell type-specific regulation of brassinosteroid signalling in stomatal lineage

June 13, 202 - AMÉLIE BERNARD (Bordeaux, France)
Unravelling the contribution of lipids in plant autophagy

July 4, 2022 - SATOSHI FUJITA (Toulouse, France)
Regulation of subcellular structure by phosphosignaling

Season 3, 2023-2024
Sept 26, 2022 - INES BARBOSA (Lausanne, Switzerland)
CASPs : MARVELous proteins shaping and sealing the Casparian Strip

Oct 24, 2022 - ROMAN PLESKOT (Prague, Czech Republic)
The interplay between the TPLATE complex and lipids in plant endocytosis

November 28, 2022 - MORGANE MICHAUD (Grenoble, France)
Lipid trafficking in response to phosphate starvation in Arabidopsis thaliana

December 12, 2022 - YASIN DAGDAS (Vienna, Austria)
Leveraging evolutionary diversity to discover new autophagy mechanisms in plants and humans

February 27, 2023 - HARRIET PARSONS (Cambridge, UK)
A deep neural network for resolving transmembrane features and dual-localised proteins within the Arabidopsis cell

March 27, 2023 - MARIE BARBERON (Geneva, Switzerland)
Dynamic of root permeability for nutrient acquisition

April 24, 2023 - CLAUDIA OECKING (Tübingen, Germany)
The regulatory impact of 14-3-3 proteins on NONPHOTOTROPIC HYPOCOTYL 3

May 22, 2023 - TAKASHI UEDA (Okazaki, Japan)
Neofunctionalization of a SNARE protein during plant evolution

June 26, 2023 - ABDOU RACHID THIAM (Paris)
Lipid droplet biogenesis mechanisms

season 4, 2023-2024
October, 30, 2023 - YAN MA (Vienna, Austria)
Signaling specificity downstream of receptor kinase

November 27, 2023 - PIERS HEMSLEY (Dundee, UK)
Greasing plant receptor kinase function - the role of S-acylation

January 29, 2024 - MARION CLAVEL (Golm, Germany)
Relieving the burden of replication : selective autophagy protects host cells against virus-induced organelle remodeling.

February 26, 2024 - FRANCESCA BOTTANELLI (Berlin, Germany)
Investigating cellular logistics with live-cell STED super-resolution microscopy

March 25, 2024 - ROLAND KNORR (Berlin, Germany)
Capillary force and beyond : bio-condensates organise cells.

April 29, 2024 - KRIS VISSENBERG AND SEBASTJEN SCHOENAERS (Antwerp, Belgium)
A pectin-binding peptide with a structural and signalling role in the assembly of the plant cell wall

May 27, 2024 - MIYO MORITA (Okazaki, Japan)
Gravity sensing and signaling mediated by dynamic polarity shift of membrane-associated protein LZY.

Season 5, 2024-2025
September 30, 2024 - JUAN CARLOS DE LA CONCEPCION (Vienna, Austria)
Electrostatic changes enabled the diversification of an exocyst subunit via protein complex escape

October 28, 2024 - SELENE GARCIA (Malaga, Spain)
Concerted Transport and Phosphorylation of Diacylglycerol at ER-PM Contacts Sites Regulates Phospholipid Dynamics During Stress.

November 25, 2024 - JIRI FRIML (IST, Austria)
Auxin signaling and transport in plant development

December 16, 2024 - ALYONA MININA (Upsala, Sweden)
Evolutionary diversification of the core autophagy machinery in plants

January 27, 2025 - EDWARD AVEZOV (Cambridge, UK)
Biophysical and biochemical analyses of ER luminal flow

February 24, 2025 - ANDRÉ NADLER (MPI Dresden, Germany)
Study of the roles of lipids in cellular processes by using specifically designed chemical tools in live cell experiments

March 31, 2025 - CHRISTINE FAULKNER (JIC, Norwich, UK)
How cell-to-cell communication in plants contributes to the initiation and execution of plant immune responses.

April 28, 2025 - MATYAS FENDRYCH (Prague, Czech Republic)
Molecular and physiological mechanisms that control the growth of plant organs and cells

May 26, 2025 - MYRIAM CHARPENTIER (JIC, Norwich, UK)
Calcium signals that reshape plant responses to biotic, abiotic, nutritional, and developmental cues.

June 30, 2025 - FELIX CAMPELO (ICFO, Barcelona, Spain)
Combination of theoretical biophysics, molecular cell biology, and advanced microscopy techniques to study organelle morphodynamics, mechanics and contacts