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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%">Save the Date: Tuesday, November 2<sup>nd</sup> for the School of Plant Sciences Seminar.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%">Our speaker, Dr. Shahid Mukhtar, will be presenting in-person in Marley 230. In person attendees are
<b><u><span style="color:red">REQUIRED</span></u></b> to wear masks while Marley 230. This presentation will also be available live on Zoom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:105%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:105%">Title: Getting to the edge of plant-pathogen interactions network<br>
Speaker: Dr. Shahid Mukhtar<br>
Day/Time: Tuesday, November 2, 4:00 pm<br>
Zoom Link: <a href="https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88431130345">https://arizona.zoom.us/j/88431130345</a><br>
Password: spls2021<br>
Host: David Baltrus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="rphighlightallclass"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Shahid Mukhtar, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biology at University of Alabama at Birmingham.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Networks consist of systems’ components, referred to as ‘nodes’, and interactions between them are termed ‘edges’.
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The understanding of how networks function in the schema of an entire system is fueling the development of network-based approaches. Such a framework is pertinent to the evaluation of diverse biological networks
co-expression, TF-target, and protein-protein interactions. <span style="color:black">
Network analysis has been a recent focus in biological sciences due to its ability to synthesize global visualizations of cellular processes and predict functions based on inferences from network properties.</span>
<span style="color:black">Understanding these topological features and deciphering the network architecture can provide insights into the identification of
</span>new community structures, unknown signaling pathways, and novel relationships between genes and their products. I will discuss the molecular mechanisms by which bacterial pathogens modulate the host regulatory system to interfere with nutrients influx.
Using integrated multi-omics datasets and deep learning approaches, we are currently predicting “gene functions” for micro- and macro-nutrients, and this topic will also be part of my presentation.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Jennifer Garcia, </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">CGMP, DES</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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School of Plant Sciences<br>
1140 E. South Campus Dr., Forbes 303<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">Office: 520-621-9728<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Cell: 520-444-8153 (text preferred)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><a href="mailto:jennyj@arizona.edu">jennyj@arizona.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#C00000">Working on campus in Forbes 303 - Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays 8:30 am – 5:00 pm<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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