HiLIFE Webinar / Viikki Monday Seminar by Angela Hay
November 2, 2026
- Date
- 02.11.2026
- Time
- 14:30 - 15:30
- Location
- Raisio Hall (ls B2), Forest Sciences Building, Latokartanonkaari 7
- Organisation
- HiLIFE
- Contact person
- hilife-seminar@helsinki.fi
- Further information
- Online meeting link
- https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/61133979540
HiLIFE Webinar / Viikki Monday Seminar by Angela Hay
Creating an explosion – form and function in explosive fruit
Group leader Angela Hay from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Germany
Angela is originally from New Zealand. She completed her doctorate in maize genetics lab in Sarah Hake’s lab at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. She subsequently joined Miltos Tsiantis’s group at University of Oxford, U.K., as a Glasstone Research Fellow, before establishing her independent research group as a Royal Society University Research Fellow. In 2013, she moved to Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ) in Cologne, Germany, as a Max Planck Society Minerva Research Fellow, where she leads her research group in the Department of Comparative Development and Genetics.
If you are interested in meeting with Angela during her visit, please let me know by email (jennifer.lopezortiz@helsinki.fi) before 29 October.
Selected publications:
Hofhuis, H.; Moulton, D.; Lessinnes, T.; Routier-Kierzkowska A.-L.; Bomphrey, R.J.; Mosca, G.; Reinhardt, H.; Sarchet, P.; Gan, X.; Tsiantis, M.; Ventikos, Y.; Walker, S.; Goriely, A.; Smith, R.S.; Hay, A. Morphomechanical innovation drives explosive seed dispersal. Cell 2016, 166 (1), 222–233 10.1016/j.cell.2016.05.002
Pérez-Antón, M.; Schneider, I.; Kroll, P.; Hofhuis, H.; Metzger, S.; Pauly, M.; Hay, A. Explosive seed dispersal depends on SPL7 to ensure sufficient copper for localized lignin deposition via laccases. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2022, 119 (24), e2202287119https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2202287119
Eng, R.C.; Emonet, A.; Neumann, U.; Pauly, M.; Hay, A. CESA7 and microtubules pattern complex secondary cell walls in explosive fruit of Cardamine hirsuta. The Plant Cell 2026, 190 (1), 31-43https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koag062
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University of Helsinki students, please note: If you wish to obtain credits from this seminar series, please use your full name in Zoom or sign the participant list in the lecture hall.
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