[Plsfaculty] FW: Meet w/ John McKay March 29-30, Plant Genomics

[Lambert, Georgina M - (glambert)]

Hello Everyone,

The second candidate interview for the Plant Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics Cluster will be with Dr. John McKay, March 29-30. We have scheduled three group faculty meetings with John during his visit:

March 29 @ 10-10:30am in Bannister 424
March 29 @ 4-5pm in BSW 310E
March 30 @ 10-10:30am in BSW 302

Please do notify Lauren Harrison at Lashley at email.arizona.edu<mailto:Lashley at email.arizona.edu> if you plan to attend one of these meetings. Betsy Arnold (barnoldaz at gmail.com<mailto:barnoldaz at gmail.com>) and Katrina Dlugosch (kdlugosch at email.arizona.edu<mailto:kdlugosch at email.arizona.edu>) are John's faculty hosts, in case you have any questions about his schedule.

DR. JOHN MCKAY, Associate Professor, Colorado State University March 29-30
March 29: Seminar @ 2:00-3:00pm
Koffler 216, "Adaptation to Climate, Genotype by Environment Interaction and Physiology"
McKay received his Ph.D. in 2001 at the University of Montana with Tom Mitchell-Olds in ecological genetics and is currently an Associate Professor at Colorado State University. He studies genome x environment interactions and functional trait genetics, especially plant responses to drought. He has 15 first/senior papers (out of 65 total papers), including three in PNAS, Proceedings of Royal Society, Nature Biotechnology.  Current funding includes:  Biofuels in the Arid West: Germplasm Development for Sustainable Production of Camelina Oilseed (DOE), An Integrated Approach to Improving Plant Biomass Production (DOE), Ecological Genomics of Adaptation to the Environment (NSF).

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