[Ccb_faculty] Fwd: [Botanyemail] BPSC 250 Seminar Series: Dr. ​Emily Farrer-Wednesday, April 30th ,2025 in the Genomics Auditorium

[Darrel Jenerette]

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From: Caroline Benitez via Botanyemail <botanyemail at lists.ucr.edu>
Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Subject: [Botanyemail] BPSC 250 Seminar Series: Dr. Emily Farrer-Wednesday,
April 30th ,2025 in the Genomics Auditorium
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***This seminar will be an in-person seminar in the Genomics*
* Auditorium***

***Please note that the seminar series will start at 3:30 pm***

*Please join us for the BPSC 250 Series Spring 2025*


*Dr. Emily Farrer*
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Tulane University

[image: 13 Tulane Faculty cropped.jpg]


*"Plant invasions across space and time: a microbial perspective  "*
*Abstract: *Most problematic plant invaders achieve dominance across a wide
variety of habitats and abiotic conditions. While there is a lot of
research aimed at understanding invader range limits such as high
plasticity, genetic variability, less research explores how the ecology of
invasion changes across the landscape, in other words: how do the impacts
of the invader, trajectories of the invader, and species interactions with
the invader change across space? Here I investigate the wetland invader
Phragmites australis (common reed) and take a microbial-perspective on
these questions. I will talk about three main projects in my lab. First, I
will talk about how invasive impact and trajectories change across sites
spanning a salinity gradient, using a long-term field survey. Second, I
will talk about how microbial mechanisms of invasion change across the
landscape using a greenhouse experiment. And lastly, I will talk about how
environmental change, specifically saltwater intrusion, will affect invader
plant-plant and plant-microbe interactions. Overall, results indicate that
salinity affects the ecology of invasion and thus systems do not operate
similarly across space and may not operate similarly in the future. This
information can be useful in identifying which sites should be prioritized
for management and implies that successful management strategies may differ
in different environments. This work also highlights the complexity and
importance of plant-microbe interactions to invasion, and encourages
further work on these unseen but critical organisms.


*Wednesday, April 30th **,2025*
*3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.*

***BPSC social will start after the seminar at 4:30 in the Genomics lobby***



Best,

Caroline

*Caroline Benitez**|* Department Chair Assistant

UC Riverside, Botany and Plant Sciences

2118 Batchelor Hall *|* Riverside CA 92521

Phone:951.827.4619

E-mail: caroline.benitez at ucr.edu
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-- 
G. Darrel Jenerette
Director, Center for Conservation Biology
Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences
University of California Riverside
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