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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Hello Everyone, please join us
<b>Today</b> for this week's Enviro-Lunch talk<b> </b>by Monika Fischer, at 11 am to noon in room
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#212121">Rising from the Ashes: Succession and Metabolism of Post-Fire Fungi<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In 2013 the catastrophic Rim Fire serendipitously burned through two long-term sampling sites just outside of Yosemite National Park. Post-fire sampling efforts resulted in a culture collection of pyrophilous fungi, which I am using to
directly investigate the metabolism of post-fire fungi that were isolated from distinct successional phases within 1 year after the Rim Fire. In parallel, we are using prescribed burns to investigate in more detail the dynamics and drivers of post-fire microbial
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b>Bio:</b> I am a fungal biologist fascinated by the mechanisms that drive ecological dynamics and microbial interactions. I got "bit by the fungal bug" while working on a farm in Washington state, where I became
obsessed with understanding the interactions between soil fungi and plants. From the farm, I moved to academia where I have studied the mutualistic fungal endophytes of invasive plants in undergrad, then the genetics of fungal communication in grad school,
and now as a postdoc at UC Berkeley I'm chasing wildfires and using a combined metabolomic, genomic, and experimental approach to understand how fungi respond to fire.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">When: Thursday 09/12, 11am – noon</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Where:
</span><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">SE2-224</span></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Coffee will be provided, please bring your own mugs.</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">We look forward to seeing you,</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Yang, Jennifer and Jing</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Faculty coordinator: Asmeret Asefaw Berhe</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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