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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Happy New Year!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">As a special “Welcome Back to Spring Semester 2022”, the SPLS Seminar Committee presents Professor Simon Krattinger via Zoom at 11:00 AM on Friday, January 14, 2022. This seminar is a
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Title:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> Genomic innovation to understand durable disease resistance in wheat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Speaker:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> Simon Krattinger, Assistant Professor – Center for Desert Agriculture, KAUST<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Host:</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> Rod Wing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Genomic innovation to understand durable disease resistance in wheat<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">About a fifth of the global wheat production is lost to pathogens and pests each year. Of particular importance are fungal rust diseases. Despite
the planting of elite cultivars and improved disease management practices, rust epidemics have become more severe over the past two decades, which is attributed to the emergence and rapid spread of new and highly virulent rust strains. Although hundreds of
disease resistance genes have been genetically characterized in the wheat gene pool, only a handful of them have been cloned. The large and repeat-rich genome of wheat (five times larger than the human genome) has represented a major hurdle for the rapid and
efficient cloning of disease resistance genes. A major focus of our research is on the development and use of novel genomic approaches that allow for a more rapid and cost-effective cloning of rust resistance genes in wheat. In particular, we are interested
in elucidating the molecular bases of durable rust resistance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bio<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Prof. Simon Krattinger obtained his PhD in 2009 from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. After spending three years as a Marie Curie postdoctoral
fellow at CSIRO Plant Industries in Canberra, Australia, he became an independent group leader at the University of Zurich supported by an Ambizione early career grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2017, he joined the Center for Desert Agriculture
at KAUST as an Assistant Professor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Jennifer Garcia, </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">CGMP, DES</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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School of Plant Sciences<br>
1140 E. South Campus Dr., Forbes 303<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">jennyj@arizona.edu</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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