2018 Seminar Series

The Institute continued the seminar series once weekly, with a significant number of national and international invited speakers presenting. The public presentations included:

• Dr Simone Fatichi from the Institute of Environmental Engineeringin Zurich, Switzerland presented ‘Ecosystem responses to elevated CO2: insights from mechanistic modeling’
• Dr Sönke Zaehle from the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry presented ‘Using ecosystem manipulation experiments to test and improve global ecosystem models’
• Professor Ben Smith from Lund University, Sweden presented ‘Model-data integration in global change ecosystem research: examples and reflections’
• Dr Ko-Hsuan Chen from the University of Florida, USA presented ‘Functional ecology of moss associated fungi - linking environmental and experimental re-synthesis metatranscriptomics’
• * Professor Peter Reich presented ‘Predicting plant and ecosystem response to global change: Can we get there from here?’
• * Mr Robert Mueller presented ‘The ecology and evolution of microbial symbioses in Australian ambrosia beetles’ as part of the HDR Student Completion Seminar initiative
• * Mr Rohan Riley presented ‘Linking arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity to plant function under salt stress’ as part of the HDR Student Completion Seminar initiative
• Dr Moges Retta from Mebios Biosystems in Leuven, Belgium presented ‘3-D microscale modeling of photosynthetic gas transport in maize leaves’
• Ms Bruna Marques dos Santos from the University of Copenhagen presented ‘An “Omics” approach to investigate how climate change affects Eucalyptus and the consequences for koalas’
• Professor David Clements from Trinity Western University, Canada presented ‘Slowing down the global weed ‘mile-a-minute’ using site-specific management and genetics’
• Professor Leslie Weston from Charles Sturt University presented ‘Plant Interactions in Inland Australia - Invasive Weeds, Competitive Crops and Challenges to Grazing Livestock’
• Dr Chronis Rempoulakis from Macquarie University presented ‘Fruit flies in their habitats: A journey in space and time’
• Professor Tim Brodribb from the University of Tasmania presented ‘Controlling the most important valves on Earth’
• Professor Pil Joo Kim presented ‘Cover cropping & its biomass application: Trade-off between soil carbon sequestration & greenhouse gas emission in rice cropping system’
• Professor Eric Davidson from the University of Maryland, USA presented ‘Manure happens: unintended consequences of nourishing over seven billion human omnivores’
• Dr Jessie Uehling from University of California, Berkeley USA presented ‘Causes and consequences of microbial symbioses; insights from comparative genomics of plant associated bacterial-fungal interactions’
• Professor Justin Seymour from the University of Technology Sydney presented ‘Marine microbial ecology: from ocean basins to individual drops of seawater’
• Dr Charles Cranfield from the University of Technology, Sydney presented Tethered membrane biosensors for pathogen detection’
• Dr Treena Burgess from Murdoch University presented ‘Pathogens on the move: a 100 year global experiment with planted eucalypts’
• * Coline Deveautour presented ‘Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal responses to altered rainfall regimes’ beetles’ as part of the HDR Student Completion Seminar initiative
• Dr Ling Pan from Sichuan Agricultural University, China presented ‘Multi-Omics studies reveal molecular mechanism of drought tolerance in annual ryegrass’
• Dr Rose Andrew from the University of New England presented ‘Speciation in eucalypts - history of promiscuity?’
• Dr Matthew Paul from Rothamstead Research in the UK presented ‘Improving crop yield and resilience with sugar’
• Dr Edward Narayan from the School of Science and Health presented ‘Frogs, bears to sheep: Applying conservation physiology theme in animal science’
• Dr Susan Jacobson from the University of Florida, USA presented ‘Creative environmental problem-solving through art and ecology integration’
• * Dr Michaela Blyton presented ‘Understanding the Koala Microbiome’
• Professor Russel Bonduriansky presented a book he co-authored with  Troy Day ‘Extended Heredity: A New Understanding of Inheritance and Evolution’
• Dr Brett Ferguson  from the University of Queensland presented ‘Molecular mechanisms driving the development and control of legume nodulation’
• Dr Michael Loranty from Colgate University, USA presented ‘Fire severity influences on ecosystems and climate in Siberian boreal forests’
• Professor Philip Hulme from theUniversity of Lincoln, New Zealand presented ‘Ornamental to detrimental: The invasion of New Zealand by non-native plants’
• Dr Nural Cokcetin and her PhD student Daniel Bouzo from the University of Technology, Sydney presented ‘Honey: a sweet solution for drug-resistant infections’
• Dr Fernando Lattanzi from the Pastures and Forage program at INIA in Uruguay  presented ‘Summer survival of temperate grasses in subtropical environments - Implications for pasture persistence’
• Dr Patrick Baker from the University of Melbourne presented ‘Climates of the past, forests of the future’
  Associate Professor Brian Jones from the University of Sydney presented ‘Improving the efficiency of CRISPR in plants?’
• Dr Tobias Rütting from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden presented ‘Who is doing what? – linking microbial ecology with biogeochemistry in studying the soil nitrogen cycles’
• Dr Beatriz Duguy from the University Barcelona presented ‘Planning post-fire restoration in Mediterranean landscapes’
  * Denotes HIE employee/graduating student