[Microbialecologygroup] Fwd: [Ccb_faculty] FW: CalBotSoc Speaker December 9th, 7pm PT: Dr. Ryoko Oono

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Speaker of potential interest to the group

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*Subject:* CalBotSoc Speaker December 9th, 7pm PT: Dr. Ryoko Oono

Botany Speaker Series

Upcoming talk:

Ryoko Oono, PhD

This Thursday!
December 9th 2021
7-8 pm PT

"New methods for community survey and species identification: How amplicon
sequencing can be used for conservation*"*

Talk Description

Ecosystem monitoring and restoration projects often utilize community
composition and species identification to infer site quality and history.
For plants, traditional methods for identifying the species that are
already present in an area has been to explore its seedbank - the dormant
(potential) plant community in the soil. However, traditional seedbank
surveys (i.e., growing out seeds in greenhouses) are imperfect methods for
capturing the total community of viable seeds from the field while also
requiring significant time and training to complete. We aimed to circumvent
these issues through the utilization of molecular methods, specifically
amplicon sequencing, which reduces the time and extensive training required
by traditional methods, while potentially identifying more plant species at
lower cost per soil volume. We compared this new method with a traditional
greenhouse seedbank study to compare the efficiency and practicality of
each strategy. Our study shows that amplicon sequencing can identify a
greater diversity of plant species than traditional seedbank surveys and
would provide valuable complementary information useful to land managers
and restoration ecologists attempting to understand the historic
biodiversity of vascular plants at degraded, developing, or natural
sites.The talk will also give an overview of other ecological and
conservation questions that can be quickly and efficiently answered by
using amplicon sequencing methods.

*Join us this Thursday!*
*December 9th, 2021*
*7-8 pm PT*

*Zoom link*
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Bio

Dr. Ryoko Oono is an Associate Professor in the Ecology, Evolution, and
Marine Biology department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Her work has focused on understanding the ecology and evolution of
plant-microbe interactions since her PhD at University of Minnesota. For
her postdoctoral work, Prof. Oono expanded her field to include broader
community ecology of microbes, particularly fungal endophytes - fungi that
live inside plant tissues. This new area required Prof. Oono to sometimes
pioneer new methods that were becoming mainstream in microbial ecology,
namely high-throughput amplicon sequencing. While rapid amplicon sequencing
has become standard in microbiology in the last ten years, this method has
been applied less to the study of diverse communities of macro-organisms.
While not the be-all, end-all to replace traditional methods, Prof. Oono is
working to develop efficient, cost-effective sequencing methods that could
help answer questions in ecology that require time-intensive and large data
collections.

*Talk Zoom link: *
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*Upcoming dates! *

*Annetta Carter Research Grant Deadline: *
*December 31st, 2021*
For research in Baja California
Info & application at: https://calbotsoc.org/grants/#AnnettaCarter
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*2022 Botany Speaker Series *
January 13: Mitchell Coleman, UC Riverside/Tejon Conservancy
February 10: TBD
March 10: Ryan Buck, San Diego State University
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November 10: Phebian Odufuwa, Boise State University
December 15: TBD

*Are **YOU** an early career botanist? Want to give a talk in 2022?*
*Email us at membership at calbotsoc.org
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