Magnus Nordborg of the Gregor Mendel Institute on "How to Lose Half your Genome in 10 Million Years and Live to tell the Tale: Comparative Genomics of Arabidopsis lyrata and A. thaliana" at the 6th annual Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting on March 24, 2011.

Detlef Wiegel from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology on "Next-generation genetics in plants: Evolutionary tradeoffs, immunity and speciation" on March 25, 2010 at the 5th Annual DOE JGI User Meeting.