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

[Jason Sexton]

Super relevant talk to what many of you do--networks questions using
meta-barcoding.

Best,

Jay

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From: Manisha Dolui <mdolui at ucmerced.edu>
Date: Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 10:12 AM
Subject: [Enviro-lunch] Enviro-lunch Monday 11/08/2021 by Mengting (Maggie)
Yuan on "Visualizing the Invisibles: Microbial Ecological Networks in Soil"
To: enviro-lunch at lists.ucmerced.edu <enviro-lunch at lists.ucmerced.edu>,
Maeve McCormick <mmccormick6 at ucmerced.edu>
Cc: Mengting Yuan <maggieyuan at berkeley.edu>




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



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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Jason (Jay) Sexton
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Associate Professor
Department of Life and Environmental Sciences
University of California, Merced
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---Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished ~ Lao Tzu---

---We are quite literally air, water, soil, energy and other living
creatures ~ David Suzuki---
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