2019 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:

• * Jennifer Peters presented ‘Hydraulic failure in Australian forests: leaves, stems and roots’.
• Deborah Apgaua from James Cook University presented ‘How drought transforms trees, and other hot, carbonated, hydraulic tales of Wet and Dry forests’.
• Dr Adam Frew from Charles Sturt University presented ‘How do mycorrhizae alter plant-herbivore interactions belowground?’.
• Professor Yoichi Sakata from Tokyo University of Agriculture presented ‘Conserved and diversified signalling mechanisms revealed by molecular studies of ABA responses in bryophytes’.
• Dr Brian Pickles from the University of Reading presented ‘Mycorrhizal interactions in North America: past, present, and future’.
• Associate Professor Adrian Dyer from RMIT University presented ‘Pollinator shopping behaviour: How important pollinators make decisions and the implications for ecology and agriculture’.
• Dr Danielle Way from Western University presented ‘Climate Change Impacts on Trees: from glasshouse to the field’.
• Dr Michael Whitehead from the University of Melbourne presented ‘Linking pollinator behaviour and floral evolution’.
• * Dr Anne Griebel presented ‘Rectifying flux tower-based productivity estimates in heterogeneous ecosystems’.
• Sam Andrew from CSIRO presented ‘Using Genomics to understand adaptation to future environments’.
• * Dr Amy-Marie Gilpin presented ‘Pollination dynamics of Australian ecosystems’.
• Professor Hormoz Bassiri Rad from the University of Illinois presented ‘Nitrogen deposition contributes to oak regeneration failure in temperate forests of the USA: Potential role of the mycorrhizal function’.
• Dr Caitlin Byrt from the Australian National University presented ‘Dialysis-like mechanisms in plants’.
• Professor Nancy Glenn from Boise State University presented ‘Quantifying ecosystem structure and function with remote sensing’.
• * Jon Finch presented ‘The co-evolution and maintenance of obligate pollination mutualisms in the Australian Phyllantheae’.
• Dr Karan Odom from Cornell University presented ‘Losing or choosing?  The evolution of elaborate song in female and male songbirds’.
• * Dr Amy Churchill presented ‘Working at the extremes: plant community and ecosystem responses to global change’.
• Dr Simon Ernstons from the University of Florida presented ‘Pre-invasion assessments: Which Asian Bark beetles pose the greatest threats?’.
• * Distinguished Professor Belinda Medlyn presented ‘A unified dynamic vegetation model for Australia’.
• Dr Stephanie Watts-Williams from the University of Adelaide presented ‘Exploring the effects of mycorrhizal fungi on plant zinc nutrition: from the molecular to the whole-plant scale’.
• Dr Monika Gorzelak from Agriculture Canada presented ‘Microbes in sustainable agriculture’.
• Professor Franciska de Vries from the University of Amsterdam presented ‘Soil C cycling in a changing world: the role of root-microbe interactions’.
• Dr Shun Hasegawa from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences presented ‘The effects of long-term nitrogen addition on the composition and sequestration of SOM in a boreal forest’.
• Dr Mark Bonner from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences presented ‘A quest for microbial wisdom: elucidating the ecology of oxidative decomposition using nitrogen addition to boreal forests’.
• Associate Professor Jaco Le Roux from Macquarie University presented ‘Australian Acacias - one of the most fascinating experiments in global biogeography’.
• * Dr Laura Brettell presented ‘Parasites, pathogens & bee colony losses’.
• Michael White, senior editor with Nature Journal presented ‘Publishing with Nature’.
• Professor Cory Cleveland from the University of Montana presented ‘Nutrient Constraints on Future Productivity and Carbon Storage in Terrestrial Ecosystems’.
• Dr Vahid Fallahzadeh from Azarbijan shahid Madani University presented ‘Identifying microbial chemicals that trigger plant immunity in a quest to breed healthier plants’.
• Kaleigh Rusgrove, an artist, photographer and US Fulbright Scholar presented ‘Now was too late: Art answers as science is questioned’.
• Dr Marie Spohn from the University of Bayreuth presented ‘Phosphorus mobilization and storage in soils’.
• Dr Tim Curran from Lincoln University presented ‘What can shoot flammability tell us about community flammability, plant evolution, and the traits that allow plants to burn?’.
• Jinquan Li from Fudan University presented ‘Local to continental soil carbon cycling: the role of physico-chemical protection’.
• Junmin Pei from Fudan University presented ‘The effect of biochar on microbial carbon use efficiency and rhizosphere priming effect’.
• Professor Shinichi Nakagawa from the University of New South Wales presented ‘A behavioural ecologist meets meta-analysis and falls in love…’
• Professor Torgny Näsholm from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences presented ‘Nitrogen nutrition of boreal forests’.
• Dr Mike Garratt from the University of Reading presented ‘Ecological Intensification: Working with biodiversity to support sustainable crop production’.
• Dr Oscar Perez-Priego from Macquarie University presented ‘The effect of water supply on Water Use Efficiency’.
• Professor Frank Seebacher from the University of Sydney presented ‘Mechanisms underlying plasticity in physiological rates of animals’.

* Denotes HIE employee/graduating student