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IEE Fall Rotation Talks – 10:00AM
Monday, December 7, 2020
Host: Brendan Bohannan
TIME SPEAKER LAB
10:00 AM Gilia Patterson Kern
10:20 Abby Onos Bohannan
10:40 Shannon Snyder Cresko
11:00 Sarah Erskine Diez
11:20 Masha Korchagina McGuire
BREAK
1:00 PM Carmen Ebel Hallett
1:20 Ori Chafe Silva
1:40 LyAndra Lujan Singh
2:00 Savanah Bird Ting
2:20 Rose Al-Saadi Phillips
Institute research to look at climate stresses
Prairies from California to Washington state are catching the heat not just from wildfires but also from warming temperatures. For ranchers, it all means stress on pastureland. Full Story
Research from the Bradshaw – Holzapfel lab featured in AroundtheO
UO biologists seek to take bite out of mosquitoes
It’s only a first step, but a project led by two UO scientists eventually could deliver welcome news to outdoor lovers and the medical community.
IE2 professor Peter Ralph quoted in Healthline article
IE2 professor Peter Ralph discusses the health consequences of genetically similar populations in Healthline article, “Are You Related to the Person You Married?”: http://www.healthline.com/health-news/are-you-related-to-the-person-you-married.
Roy lab called upon technology to solve an evolutionary riddle
Featured in the winter Cascade here :
http://cascade.uoregon.edu/winter2017/features/the-great-pretender/
MOCHA Study shows Climate Regulation of Harmful Algal Blooms
The NOAA-funded MOCHA (Monitoring Oregon’s Coastal Harmful Algae) team, that includes IE2 member Michelle Wood as a co-PI, has found that high levels of the neurotoxin domoic acid (DA) in shellfish on the U.S. west coast are linked to warm conditions of major climate cycles like the El Niño Southern Oscillation and Pacific Decadal Oscillation. In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a twenty year time series of data on DA in shellfish was used to support the conclusion and validate a risk assessment model that can be used to determine likelihood of blooms of DA producing phytoplankton. Read more in this article from “Around the O”.
Working group explores predictive models for microbiomes
Jessica Green and Ashkaan Fahimipour organized a 3-day working group at the Santa Fe Institute on the topic of modeling microbiomes. Former IE2 postdocs James O’Dwyer and Steve Kembel were among the participants.. Some press from the group: http://www.santafe.edu/news/item/happening-now-sfi-working-group-explores-predictive-models-microbiomes/
Researcher crowdfunds basic science.
There is a crisis in research funding, and grassroots support may hold the answer for the most foundational branches of science.
Eugene, OR — Dr. Roo Vandegrift, a recent graduate of the doctoral program through the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon, has launching a crowdfunding effort to attempt to address issues surrounding the systematic defunding of basic sciences in the United States. The campaign is available on Kickstarter from June 22 to July 22, and will fund a project to create and illustrate a guide book to the Xylaria fungi (known as “dead man’s fingers”) of the Cloud Forests of Ecuador as a test case for crowdfunding in the basic science of taxonomy.