Seminar Series Archive

Dr. József Geml

SPLS Seminar: Compositional dynamics of soil fungal communities along environmental and disturbance gradients in temperate and tropical forests

4 – 5 p.m., March 25, 2025

Dr. József Geml, HUN-REN-EKKE Lendület Environmental Microbiome Research Group, Hungarian Research Network and Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Eger, Hungary

Dr. Ali Mohammed setting up a field experiment

SPLS Seminar: Evaluating Coupled Organic Fertilizer and Biostimulant Effects on Iceberg Lettuce Growth, Development, and Yield under Subsurface Drip Irrigation in the Southwest Desert

4 – 5 p.m., March 18, 2025

Dr. Ali Mohammed, Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist, School of Plant Sciences and Yuma Agricultural Center, University of Arizona

Jianwei Zhang — Jianwei Zhang

Jianwei Zhang

: SPLS Seminar: A case study of the pan-genome: Tracing the evolutionary trajectory of nuclear organelle DNA in Rice

4 – 5 p.m., Feb. 25, 2025

Dr. Jianwei Zhang, College of Life Science and Technology & College of Informatics, National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Corn Field — Corn Field

Connel Ching'anda

SPLS Seminar: Factors influencing biocontrol efficacy and mycotoxin contamination risk in Texas corn

4 – 5 p.m., Feb. 18, 2025

Connel Ching'anda, School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona

Image for the seminar — Top panels: A filtered set of universal genes reduces default misannotation rates by up to 7%. Bottom left: Many misannotated genes are divergent remnants of duplication events. Bottom right: As an alternative to standard gene space searches, syntenic differences provide much higher resolution for assembly comparisons.

MD Nafis Ul Alam

SPLS Seminar: Universal orthologs infer deep phylogenies and improve genome quality assessments

4 – 5 p.m., Feb. 11, 2025

Md Nafis Ul Alam, Arizona Genomics Institute and School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona

Lehmann Grass (Eragrostis lehmanniana) — Lehmann Grass (Eragrostis lehmanniana)

John M. Randall, the Nature Conservancy

SPLS Seminar: Chemical Signatures of Success: Understanding Lehmann Lovegrass Invasion Through Metabolomics

4 – 5 p.m., Feb. 4, 2025

Dr. Ben Yang, Department of Environmental Science, University of Arizona

Biosphere2 Rainforest — Biosphere 2 Rainforest

Biosphere 2

SPLS Seminar: Tree responses to extreme climate in an enclosed tropical forest at Biosphere 2

4 – 5 p.m., Jan. 28, 2025

Joost van Haren, Biosphere 2 and W. A. Franke Honors College, University of Arizona

Dr. Julian Schroeder — Dr. Julian Schroeder, UC San Diego

SPLS Special Seminar: Genetic, Physiological and Biochemical Identification of the CO2 sensor and Guard Cell CO2 Signal Transduction Pathway that Controls Plant Transpiration

11 a.m. – 11 a.m., Jan. 24, 2025

Dr. Julian Schroeder, University of California, San Diego
https://biology.ucsd.edu/research/faculty/jischroeder

SPLS Seminar: The Arizona Genomics Institute – research programs and genomic services

4 – 5 p.m., Dec. 3, 2024

Dr. Dario Copetti, Arizona Genomics Institutes and School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona

SPLS Seminar: Generation of heat-tolerant pollen tubes in Arabidopsis thaliana

4 – 5 p.m., Nov. 26, 2024

Emma Jong, School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona