The Department of Molecular and Cell Biology welcome Dr. Britt Koskella from New York University.
" Friends, Foes, and Phages in the Phyllosphere: how species interactions shape and reshape the microbiome"
A key challenge in understanding microbiome function is determining how these complex communities are assembled and change over time. I will examine how the microbiome is shaped by interactions across trophic levels and will provide evidence that such change is critical to host health.
Koskella is an evolutionary ecologist interested in how species interactions influence genetic diversity within populations, diversity between populations, and species diversity at the community level. By combining evolutionary theory on coevolution, population dynamics, and infection genetics, she directly test the underlying assumptions and predicted outcomes of host-pathogen and microbial interactions through the lens of human health and agricultural sustainability.
Hosted by Dr. Hird
https://mcb.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2341/2019/09/45_Successive-passaging-of-a-plant-associated-microbiome-reveals-robust-habitat-and-host-genotype-dependent-selection.pdf
https://naturesmicrocosm.com
For more information, contact: Ciara Hanlon at ciara.hanlon@uconn.edu