[Plsgs] Tuesday - School of Plant Sciences Seminar -

[Garcia, Jennifer Jene - (jennyj)]

Mark your calendar: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 4:00 PM

Join us Tuesday for the School of Plant Sciences Seminar.  This event is offered as a hybrid event.  Our speaker, Dr. Jessie Uehling, will be presenting via Zoom and we will be hosting a live broadcast in Marley 230 for those who would like to mingle and enjoy some refreshments.  In person attendees are REQUIRED to wear masks while Marley 230.
Title: Mucoromycota fungi and their Burkholderia related intracellular endosymbionts, insights into the fungal microbiome
Speaker: Dr. Jessie Uehling
Day/Time: Tuesday, September 28, 4:00 pm
Zoom Link: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88431130345
Password: spls2021
Host: Betsy Arnold
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Abstract: Our lab has been researching mechanisms of fungal endosymbiont interactions and the resulting evolutionary patterns. Intrahyphal endosymbiotic bacteria related to the Burkholderiales are frequently associated with Mucoromycota fungi. These and other fungal endosymbionts share genomic hallmarks of endosymbiosis such as genome contraction and metabolic dependence on their hosts. While comparative genomics of fungal physiology with and without endobacteria have enabled insights into host-endosymbiont interaction mechanisms, these studies have been undertaken in just a few model systems. Endosymbiont ubiquity and diversity are largely unknown, and the effects of fungal endosymbiont interactions on fungal population diversity remain undocumented. To fill these knowledge gaps, we are characterizing Mucoromycota isolates and their endosymbiotic using genome sequencing and comparative genomics. Further, we are re-analyzing hundreds of raw fungal genomic data sets using novel computational pipelines to clarify how frequent and diverse fungal endosymbiont symbioses are. We found that ~30% of Mucoromycota fungi screened harbor endosymbionts and that these bacteria share common features including shared evolutionary history and functional capacity. This talk will detail the molecular functioning, abundance, and diversity of Mucoromycota endosymbionts and provide insights into how these poly-microbial symbioses influence each other's evolutionary trajectories.


Jennifer Garcia, CGMP, DES
She/her/hers
School of Plant Sciences
1140 E. South Campus Dr., Forbes 303
Office: 520-621-9728
Cell: 520-444-8153 (text preferred)
jennyj at arizona.edu
https://cals.arizona.edu/spls/home

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