Ecosystem Genomics Seminar Series (Fall 2019)
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 pm
BIO5 Keating Bioresearch Building 103
| Thursday |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
| August 29 |
Keating 103 |
Christiane Werner, University of Freiburg |
TBD |
| September 5 |
Keating 103 |
David Baltrus, UA Plant Sciences |
How Biogeography Shapes Microbiome Structure |
| September 12 |
Keating 103 |
Lingling Shi, University of Göttingen |
Competition and complementarity of agroforestry components by carbon sequestration in soil: 13C labeling and tracing. |
| September 19 |
Keating 103 |
Student & Postdocs, UA Ecosystem Genomics |
Short presentations by the students and postdocs of the Ecosystem Genomics Initiative |
| September 26 |
Keating 103 |
Johnathan Williams, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry Mainz |
TBD |
| October 3 |
Keating 103 |
Student & Postdocs, B2 WALD |
Short presentations by the students and postdocs of B2 WALD |
| October 10 |
MRB 102* |
Jennifer Wisecaver, Purdue University |
Eco-evolutionary genomics of toxic algal blooms |
| October 17 |
Keating 103 |
Nemiah Ladd, University of Freiburg |
Hydrogen isotopes of lipid biomarkers: using multiple compounds to disentangle ecological and hydroclimate signals |
| October 24 |
Keating 103 |
Jordan Krechmer, Aerodyne Research |
TBD |
| October 31 |
Keating 103 |
Student & Postdocs, B2 WALD |
Short presentations by the students and postdocs of B2 WALD |
| November 7 |
Keating 103 |
Henrik Hartmann, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena |
Trees and forests in the 21st century – is a 385 million year-old success story coming to an end? |
| November 14 |
Keating 103 |
Marco Lehmann, Swiss Federal Institute, WSL |
TBD |
| November 21 |
Keating 103 |
Student & Postdocs, UA Ecosystem Genomics |
Short presentations by the students and postdocs of the Ecosystem Genomics Initiative |
| November 26, Tues* |
Keating 103 |
Michaela Dippold, University of Göttingen |
TBD |
| November 28 |
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No seminar (Thanksgiving recess) |
| December 5 |
Keating 103 |
Matthias Beyer, Technical University of Braunschweig |
Real-time measurements of water isotopes in soils and plants: Status quo and the vision of integrated soil-plant-atmosphere assessments |
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Ecosystem Genomics Seminar Series (Spring 2019)
Thursdays, 2:00-3:00 pm, Drachman Hall A120
| Thursday |
Location |
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Title |
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| Jan 17 |
Drachman Hall A120 |
Dr. Koenraad Van Doorslaer,UA, ACBS |
Metagenomic insights into the evolution of viral oncogenes (Link to video recording) |
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| Jan 24 |
Drachman Hall A120 |
Dr. William Burgos, Penn State, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering |
Acidic Pit Lakes of the Iberian Pyrite Belt, a Meta-Omics View |
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| Feb 14 |
Drachman Hall A120 |
Dr. Bridget Barker, NAU |
Detection and characterization of Onygenalean fungi associated with prairie dogs in northern Arizona |
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| Feb 21 |
Drachman Hall A120 |
Dr. Betsy Arnold, UA, Plant Sciences |
How fungal symbionts of leaves and seeds can influence the structure and function of plant communities (Link to video recording) |
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| Feb 28 |
LTRR, Rm 110 |
Dr. Liana Burghardt; Ecocsystem Genomics Faculty Candidate |
From genes to communities: The legume-rhizobia nitrogen-fixing symbiosis |
| Mar 7 |
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SPRING BREAK |
NO SEMINAR |
| Mar 14 |
Drachman Hall A120 |
Postdocs: Dr. Alise Ponsero, BSE; Dr. Clairessa Brown, SWES |
Ponsero: The promises and pitfalls of machine learning for detecting viruses in metagenomes. Brown: Understanding the ecological processes that influence microbial communities in arid soils (Link to video recording) |
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| Mar 21 |
Drachman Hall A120 |
Dr Jennifer Wisecaver, Purdue University |
CANCELED Eco-evolutionary genomics of toxic algal blooms |
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| Mar 28 |
Drachman Hall A120 |
Dr. Kerry Cooper, UA, ACBS |
Food safety genomics: applying next generation sequencing to resolve pathogenesis and epidemiology of foodborne pathogens (Link to video recording) |
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| Apr 4 |
Drachman Hall A120 |
Dr. Albert Barberán, UA, SWES |
A bestiary of data visualization (Live Stream) |
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| Apr 11 |
Drachman Hall A120 |
Dr. Luciano Matzkin, UA Entomology |
Genomic, physiological and behavioral consequences of adaptation to local ecological conditions (Live Stream) |
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| Apr 18 |
Drachman Hall A120 |
Dr. Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Principal Research Scientist, MIT, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences |
Using ecosystem models to explore controls on marine phytoplankton diversity (Live Stream) |
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| Apr 25 |
Drachman Hall Rm. A120 |
Dr. Paul Carini, UA, SWES |
Understanding the soil microbiome with high throughput microbial cultivation (Live Stream) |
Ecosystem Genomics Seminar Series (Fall 2018)
Thursdays, 4:00-5:00 pm in BIO5 area
Keating Bioresearch Building & Medical Research Building
| Thursday |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
| August 30 |
Keating 103 |
Scott Saleska, UA EEB |
The promise of ecosystem genomics for advancing our understanding of earth system processes: Four challenges |
| September 6 |
Keating 103 |
Malak Tfaily, UA SWES |
Towards a better understanding of microbial-organic matter interactions and their controls in dynamically changing systems (Link to video recording) |
| September 13 |
Keating 103 |
Bonnie Hurwitz, UA ABE |
Where does the holobiont begin and end? The relationship of host genetics and the microbiome in colon cancer. (Link to video recording) |
| September 20 |
Keating 103 |
Rod Wing, UA Plant Sciences |
Harvesting 15MY of Oryza genome evolution to help solve the 10-billion people question. (Link to video recording) |
| September 27 |
MRB 102 |
Laura Meredith, UA SNRE |
Microbe-mediated trace gas fluxes: an ecosystem genomics approach to link genes to atmospheric composition |
| October
4 |
Keating 103 |
Rachel Gallery, UA SNRE |
Predicting microbial activity in soils: How can remote sensing tools help? (Link to video recording) |
| October 11 |
MRB 102 |
Susannah Tringe, Department of Energy, Joint Genome Institute |
Linking sequence to biogeochemistry in wetland carbon cycling |
| October 18 |
Keating 103 |
Julie Neilson, SWES |
Soil Microbiome Resilience in Arid Ecosystems (Link to video recording with and without audio transcript ) |
| October 25 |
MRB 102 |
Katrina Dlugosch, UA EEB |
Genomics of plants and their associated microbes: evolution of species interactions and its potential role in plant invasions |
| November 1 |
Keating 103 |
Jana U’Ren, UA ABE |
Linking phyllosphere fungal community assembly, evolutionary history, and metabolic diversity to ecosystem function |
| November 8 |
MRB 102 |
Ecosystem Genomics Postdocs |
Short presentations by the students and postdocs of the Ecosystem Genomics Initiative |
| November 15 |
Keating 103 |
Russ Monson, UA Tree Ring Lab |
The Semantics of Ecosystem Genomics (Link to video recording)
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| November 20, Tues* |
MRB 102 |
Duke Pauli, UA Plant Sciences |
Phenomics: Bringing the lab to the field |
| November 29 |
Keating 103 |
Regis Ferriere, UA EEB |
Modeling microbial evolution to improve our understanding of ecosystem function (Link to video recording) |
| December 6 |
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No seminar |
No seminar (reading day) |
| December 13 |
Keating 103 |
Brendan Bohannan, U Oregon |
Linking metagenomes to ecosystem functions: what can we learn from genotype-phenotype mapping in organisms? (Link to video recording) |
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