[Enviro-lunch] Reminder: Enviro-lunch Monday 11/08/2021 by Mengting (Maggie) Yuan on "Visualizing the Invisibles: Microbial Ecological Networks in Soil"

[Manisha Dolui]

Hello all,
Please join us today for our Enviro-lunch seminar-series guest speaker Mengting (Maggie) Yuan from 12 noon- 1 PM PST via ZOOM
https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/175736103

Regards,
Manisha
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From: Manisha Dolui
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Subject: Enviro-lunch Monday 11/08/2021 by Mengting (Maggie) Yuan on "Visualizing the Invisibles: Microbial Ecological Networks in Soil"

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Hello All,
Please join us this Monday 8th November for our Enviro-lunch seminar-series guest speaker Mengting (Maggie) Yuan from 12 noon- 1 PM PST via ZOOM
https://ucmerced.zoom.us/j/175736103

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Abstract:

Ecological networks have long been used to characterize inter-specific interactions and their effects on community assembly in plants and animals (e.g., food web and pollination networks). For microbial communities, molecular marker survey-based data association networks are often constructed because of insufficient a priori knowledge on their interactions. In this seminar, I will present how such networks helped us discover the mechanisms behind fungal-bacteria co-occurrence in the rhizosphere, how they reveal community stability under climate warming, and how we captured a key chemical in plant stress tolerance using network analysis. I will also discuss the debates on using data-association-based networks in microbial ecology.



Bio:

Maggie Yuan is a soil microbial ecologist and currently a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Mary Firestone at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research directions include soil microbial responses to climate change, microbial interactions and network stability, rhizosphere ecology, and belowground carbon dynamics. Maggie received her Bachelor of Engineering degree in the School of Environment, Tsinghua University in 2011. She then joined the Institute for Environmental Genomics at the University of Oklahoma and worked on her doctoral degree in Microbiology from 2011 to 2017.


We’ll see you there!



Regards,

Toshi, KJ, Manisha, Jennifer (Student and Post-doc coordinators), and Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe (Faculty coordinator)

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