UFGI Seminar Series- Spring 2022
Occurred January 26th, 12pm ESTGenomic Product Manager for NVIDIA (External speaker)
“Genomics on GPUs: From Big Data to Fast Results”
Occurred February 2nd, 12pm ESTAssistant Research Professor, UF Emerging Pathogens Institute and Department of Geography
“Genome-scale CRISPR Screens Identify Host Factors that Promote Human Coronavirus Infection”
Occurred February 9th, 12pm ESTAssociate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University (External speaker)
“Marine Microbes in a ‘Sea’ of Change”
Occurred February 16th, 12pm ESTProfessor, UF Department of Horticultural Sciences
“Bean Domestication Targeted Sweet15 Increasing Seed Weight and Starch Content”
Occurred March 2nd, 12pm ESTAssistant Professor, UF Department of Entomology and Nematology
“Defining the Role of Gut Bacteria in Host Foraging and Feeding Behaviors: Insights From ‘Drosophila'”
Occurred March 23rd, 12pm EDTProfessor and Director of Graduate Studies Soil and Crop Sciences Section, Plant Biology Section School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University (External speaker)
“Regulation of Metal Homeostasis in Plants: Implications to Food Security and Nutritional Quality”
Occurred April 13th, 12pm EDTCentennial Endowed Professor of Biological Sciences | Associate Director, VI4 | Director, Vanderbilt Microbiome Innovation Center | Vanderbilt University (External speaker)
“Symbionts versus Sexual Reproduction: The Battleground at the Root of an Animal Pandemic”
Seminars will be held on Wednesdays at noon either virtually or in a hybrid format, with the latter being hosted in the first floor auditorium (CGRC 101) with a concurrent livestream. Seminar series zoom link will become active ten minutes before each seminar is scheduled.
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We invite internal and external speakers to present at this time. Please contact Cornelia Frazier at frazict@ufl.edu for a range of possible dates in fall 2022.
“If you have an interesting research project with results that you would like to present to your peers, please volunteer to be a presenter. Even if you do not have a story ready for presentation, please support your UFGI colleagues as we all try to get back to some sense of normalcy after a challenging year.” — Dr. Pat Concannon, former UFGI Director