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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Mcmahon, Michelle M - (mcmahonm) <<a href="mailto:mcmahonm@arizona.edu">mcmahonm@arizona.edu</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 8:28 PM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:ua_herbarium@list.arizona.edu">ua_herbarium@list.arizona.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:ua_herbarium@list.arizona.edu">ua_herbarium@list.arizona.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Herbarium Lunch, Thursday 10/27<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Hi folks – please join us for this week’s interesting talk!<o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#4472C4">Jay Goldberg
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">will present<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#4472C4">Hungry hungry caterpillars: hawkmoths, hornworms and host-plant interactions<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Abstract:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Many people are familiar with the Carolina hawkmoth/tobacco hornworm (<i>Manduca sexta</i>) – a widespread and locally common pest of plants in the nightshade family (Solanaceae) – but this species is only a single member
of a speciose lepidopteran genus. <i>Manduca</i> contains over 60 member species across North, Central, and South America – including the Caribbean, Galapagos, and Hawaii. These species have varied, but close relationships with their larval host plants and
many closely related caterpillar species feed on a handful of closely related plants. In the first half of this talk, I will survey the diversity of this charismatic lepidopteran genus with a focus on their larval host plants. In the second half I will discuss
my work assembling/annotating 5 <i>de novo Manduca</i> genomes to better understand the genetic underpinnings of some species’ striking association with Solanaceous host plants.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Speaker Bio:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Jay is an NSF-funded postdoc in Mike Barker and Judie Bronstein’s labs in the EEB department. He studies co-evolution between
<i>Datura</i> sp. plants and the specialist herbivores that feed on them. He did his PhD on the evolutionary biology of glandular trichomes in
<i>Datura wrightii</i> at Indiana University in the lab of Prof Lynda Delph. Before starting graduate school he did a post-bacc internship at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, studying interactions between wild tobacco, herbivores, and predatory
insects in the Great Basin Desert of Utah – which is how he got introduced to the field of plant-insect interactions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#C00000">Thursday, <b>10/27, 12 noon</b>, UA Herbarium (Herring Hall).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For our full schedule, please visit <a href="https://cals.arizona.edu/herbarium/content/herbarium-lunch-talks">
this page</a>, and please feel free to contact us about any aspect of plant biodiversity!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:herbarium@cals.arizona.edu">herbarium@cals.arizona.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Shelley<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Shelley McMahon<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Associate Professor of Practice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Director,
</span><a href="https://ag.arizona.edu/herbarium/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">UA Herbarium</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Director,
</span><a href="https://cals.arizona.edu/desertlegumeprogram/"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">Desert Legume Program</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://cals.arizona.edu/spls/home"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book"">School of Plant Sciences</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Book";color:#AA0620">University of Arizona</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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