<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Margarita Verduzco Flores</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:margarita.flores@ucr.edu">margarita.flores@ucr.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 11:09 AM<br>Subject: CMDB/GGB/MCBL Seminar: Dr. Sharon Billings- Wed., Feb. 24th, 2021<br>To: <br></div><br><br>




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<i><span style="margin:0px;font-size:24pt;font-family:Cambria,serif">Winter<span style="margin:0px;color:black"> 2021</span></span></i></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:24pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Speaker: Dr. Sharon Billings</span></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="margin:0px;font-size:22pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">Seminar Title:<span> </span></span></i></b><i><span style="margin:0px;font-size:22pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">"How roots and the microbes that depend on them
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:26pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:red">Wednesday, February 24^th,2021</span></p>
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<b><i><span style="margin:0px;font-size:22pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black"> Time:</span></i></b><b><span style="margin:0px;font-size:22pt;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black">  12:00 – 12:50 p.m.</span></b></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif;color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14pt"><b> Biography:</b></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif;color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14pt"> </span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background-color:yellow"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI","Segoe UI Web (West European)","Segoe UI",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;font-size:15px;text-align:start;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif;font-size:14pt"> </span></span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif;font-size:14pt;text-align:start">Sharon
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 Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at KU and a senior scientist at the Kansas Biological Survey. Billings’ research seeks to understand how environmental changes influence ecosystem functioning. She works at diverse scales to understand
 mechanisms governing mass fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems (</span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif;color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14pt"><i style="text-align:start">e.g.</i></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background-color:yellow"><span style="font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif;font-size:14pt;text-align:start;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important">,
 carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus), and how they are influenced by environmental change. She focuses on global-scale perturbations (</span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif;color:black;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:14pt"><i style="text-align:start">e.g.</i></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Cambria,serif;color:black;background-color:yellow"><span style="font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif;font-size:14pt;text-align:start;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline!important">,
 changing climate, land use change) to help project how Earth’s biogeochemical cycles and their interactions will function in the future.  Soil characteristics, plant roots, and soil microbes play dominant roles in her work.</span></span></p>
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