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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Candidate seminar tomorrow, Ecosystem Genomics</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dear colleagues,<br>
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Please join us tomorrow (Feb. 28) for a <span class="m8297013876993806554gmail-il">
seminar</span> by Dr. Harkamal Walia, who is visiting campus as a candidate for a faculty position in the Ecosystem Genomics cluster.
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“Exploring Natural Variation for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Cereals”<br>
Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2pm, Marley 230<br>
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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.<br>
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Thank you! <br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Scott Saleska and Betsy Arnold, co-chairs<br>
Ecosystem Genomics search committee</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Exploring Natural Variation for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Cereals</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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. </span><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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