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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red">~Reminder~</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><i><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#BF9000">Fall 2021</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Speaker:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060">Dr. Simon C. "Niels" Groen, Assistant Professor, Department of Nematology </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">|</span><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#ED7D31">University of California, Riverside</span></i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">|</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#201F1E"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">"Plant toxins and the evolution of host-parasite interactions"</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#C55A11">Wednesday, November 3rd , 2021</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><i><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"> Time:</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"> 12:00 – 12:50 p.m.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Presented via Zoom</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/94383581111?pwd=MDdEMzBLQzNHM2xOMmdFaHNIR0F5Zz09" target="_blank">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/94383581111?pwd=MDdEMzBLQzNHM2xOMmdFaHNIR0F5Zz09</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Meeting ID:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"> 943 8358 1111</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Abstract:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Plants are attacked by incredibly diverse groups of animals such as plant-feeding insects and nematodes. In response, different
plant species have evolved the capacity to produce a wide variety of toxic chemicals with which they defend themselves. The interactions set in motion evolutionary arms races where plants come up with ever-changing cocktails of toxins and animals with updated
offensive strategies to circumvent plant defenses. While much of what we know about these arms races is based on studies of aboveground plant parts and plant-feeding insects, there is a subterranean treasure trove to be uncovered if we roll up our sleeves
and dig into the dirt. In the first half of my talk, I will focus on how natural variation in plant toxin production may be shaped by patterns of belowground herbivory by plant-parasitic nematodes. In the second half I will shift gears and show an example
of how plant toxins may shape gene evolution throughout a food web of animals and their natural enemies.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Biography: </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Simon C. “Niels” Groen, Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology in the Department of Nematology, earned his Ph.D. in plant sciences at the University of
Cambridge, UK. He then studied the evolution of resistance to milkweed toxins in the monarch butterfly as a post-doc at the University of Arizona and UC Berkeley, before investigating natural selection on gene expression in rice at New York University as a
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation fellow. Niels’ group at UC Riverside studies the evolution of interactions between parasitic nematodes and their hosts including plants (mustards, rice, nightshades, and their wild relatives) and plant-feeding insects. Their
research aims to unravel this complex evolutionary tug-of-war using a combination of laboratory and field experiments. Focusing on the central role that plant chemicals play, his group uses omics technologies and analytical approaches from evolutionary and
systems biology to zoom in at the molecular level. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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