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Dear SPLS community,</div>
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Please join us for our first School of Plant Sciences research seminar for the 2025-2026 academic year!</div>
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<b>Tuesday, September 2, 2025 • 4pm • Marley 230 and by Zoom </b></div>
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(<a style="color: rgb(0, 36, 81); text-decoration: none; margin: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://arizona.zoom.us/j/86313228861" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWAfc9bc0e1-cf4f-af91-f10d-0575ea6a93d1" target="_blank" href="https://arizona.zoom.us/j/86313228861">https://arizona.zoom.us/j/86313228861</a>,
passcode SPLS2025)</div>
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<b>Dr. Alex Bucksch, Associate Professor, School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona</b></div>
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<b>"Pheno what? – On the road with phenomics as a rising discipline in the plant world"</b></div>
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<i>Come early for coffee, cookies, and collegiality - in the Marley lobby at 3:30pm.</i></div>
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This seminar will be co-sponsored by the School of Plant Sciences and the Ecosystem Genomics GIDP, and will be hosted by Dr. Marc Orbach. Our speaker's abstract is below, and a flyer is attached. In addition to snacks before the seminar, an informal, no-host
social event will follow the talk, with details to be shared at the presentation.</div>
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Hope to see you there!</div>
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Warm regards,</div>
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Betsy</div>
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20 years ago, as a Master student, I started my first collaboration with a plant biologist, and back then, the term "phenomics" was essentially non-existent. Yet, why do we need it, and what makes it different from other -omics? And why does this computer scientist
turn into a plant science professor? In short, Plant Phenomics employs formal systems, such as sensors, algorithms, and simulations, to aggregate and integrate data on the multiscale dynamics between plants and their environment. In its definition, plant phenomics
strongly emphasizes the recognition of all biological and ecological scales equally and distinguishes strictly between observable and measurable quantities. This emphasis defines a space where formal and hypothesis-driven science disciplines intersect to challenge
established concepts, such as the notion that the phenome encompasses all measurable traits or that the phenotype is only the sum of the genome, environment, and gene-environment interactions. This seminar invites everyone—from undergraduates to emeriti—to
join today’s debates, where current ideas may be too limited for a changing planet.</div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.2; font-weight: 700;">A. Elizabeth Arnold, </span><span style="line-height: 1.2;">PhD</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(12, 35, 75);">Interim Director and Professor, School of Plant Sciences</span></p>
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THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA</div>
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