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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please join us for our first School of Plant Sciences research seminar for the 2025-2026 academic year!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002451">Tuesday, September 2, 2025 • 4pm • Marley 230 and by Zoom </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002451"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002451">(<a href="https://arizona.zoom.us/j/86313228861" target="_blank" title="https://arizona.zoom.us/j/86313228861"><span style="color:#002451;text-decoration:none">https://arizona.zoom.us/j/86313228861</span></a>,
passcode SPLS2025)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002451">Dr. Alex Bucksch, Associate Professor, School of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002451"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002451">"Pheno what? – On the road with phenomics as a rising discipline in the plant world"</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002451"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Come early for coffee, cookies, and collegiality - in the Marley lobby at 3:30pm.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#242424">Abstract</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#242424"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#242424">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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