Kent Chapman is Regents Professor of Biochemistry at the University of North Texas. He currently serves as Director of the BioDiscovery Institute, one of four institutes of research excellence at UNT, where his research is focused on organelle biogenesis in plant cells, plant metabolic engineering, lipid signaling, and lipid imaging technologies. Chapman is a Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists, Executive Editor of the journal, Progress in Lipid Research and reviewing editor for The Plant Cell. His seminar, Lipid Droplet Biogenesis in Plants, will highlight recent discoveries into how plant cells package storage lipids in the cytoplasm. This work has applications in the fields of nutrition, bioenergy and synthetic biology.