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</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:white">Please join us this Monday 8th November for our</span><span style="margin:0px;background-color:white"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span data-markjs="true" class="markubhkp2udd" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="" style="margin:0px">Enviro-lunch</span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span data-markjs="true" class="mark1dde5oefa" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="" style="margin:0px">seminar</span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:white">-series
guest speaker Mengting (Maggie) Yuan</span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;background-color:white"><span> </span>from 12 noon- 1 PM PST via ZOOM</span><br>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif">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
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif">Bio:</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif">Maggie Yuan is a soil microbial ecologist and currently a postdoctoral researcher working with Dr. Mary Firestone at the University of California, Berkeley.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span> </span>Her
research directions include soil microbial responses to climate change, microbial interactions and network stability, rhizosphere ecology, and belowground carbon dynamics.<span> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif">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.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">Toshi, KJ, Manisha, Jennifer (Student and Post-doc coordinators), and Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe (Faculty coordinator)</span></p>
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