[Plantsci] FW: Ecosystem Genomics - final candidate

[Lambert, Georgina M - (glambert)]

Candidate seminar tomorrow, Ecosystem Genomics



Dear colleagues,

Please join us tomorrow (Feb. 28) for a seminar by Dr. Harkamal Walia, who is visiting campus as a candidate for a faculty position in the Ecosystem Genomics cluster.

“Exploring Natural Variation for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Cereals”
Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2pm, Marley 230

Dr. Walia earned his PhD in Plant Biology at UC Riverside in 2005. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. An abstract of his talk is appended below.

Thank you!

Sincerely,

Scott Saleska and Betsy Arnold, co-chairs
Ecosystem Genomics search committee


Exploring Natural Variation for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Cereals

With changing climate, extreme precipitation and temperature events are becoming more frequent and intense and predicted to increasingly impact large parts of the U.S. and global agricultural systems. In this context, my research program aims to elucidate the physiological and genetic basis of crop adaptation to variations in water quantity (drought), water quality (salinity) and heat stress. My research integrates physiological, phenomics and functional genomics approaches for elucidating stress tolerance mechanisms in two major cereals, wheat and rice. This seminar will focus on salinity tolerance in rice. Rice is the most important crop for global food security. However, rice is very sensitive to high salinity. We have taken a genome-to-phenome approach to discover novel mechanisms and underlying genes for salinity tolerance in rice. I will present our results from this work and discuss how some of the ongoing efforts align with the Ecosystem Genomics Initiative at University of Arizona.


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