2023 Seminar Series

HIE seminar series – 2023

• Manon Rumeau: BioFOR FACE overview – Nitrogen cycling in forest soils under elevated CO2: response of a key soil nutrient to global change.
• * Klaske van Wijngaarden: BioFOR FACE overview – From branch to forest to globe: understanding woody structure in Oak canopy under elevated CO2.
• Nine Douwes Dekker - BioFOR FACE overview – Inter-annual variability in the response of soil respiration to elevated CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere.
• * Ms Fiona Backhouse from HIE presented “Geographic variation in the vocal displays of male Albert's lyrebirds”.
• Associate Professor David Lowry from Michigan State University presented “The genetic and physiological mechanisms of evolutionary adaptations in plants”.
• * Dr Donovin Coles from WSU presented “Exploration of plant and pathogen signalling during the biotrophic to necrotrophic switch in hemibiotrophic interactions, and beyond”.
• Associate Professor Han Wang from Tsinghua University presented “Predicting the vegetation carbon cycle from eco-evolutionary optimality”.
• Dr Manish Kumar from the Dr YSparmar Horticulture & Forestry University, Solan Himachal, India presented “Horticulture & Forestry University - Research Activities and Teaching priorities”.
• Dr David Forrester from CSIRO presented ‘Carbon cycling and vegetations processes’.
• Dr Zenon Czenze from the University of New England presented ‘The heat is on: using behaviour, ecology and physiology to measure how endotherms keep cook in a warming world’.
• Professor Bernadette McCabe from the University of Southern Queensland presented ‘Integrated closed loop organic waste management’.
• Associate Professor Lucas Cernusak from James Cook University presented ‘Unsaturation of the relative humidity inside leaves – new insights into an old question’.
• Dr Simon Law from CSIRO Canberra presented ‘Metatranscriptomics captures dynamic shifts in mycorrhizal coordination in boreal forests’.
• Dr Kathryn Baragwanath from the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne presented ‘Indigenous collective property rights and forests in Brazil’.
• Professor Adrienne Nicotra from Australian National University presented ‘Living on the Edge: Understanding the relevance of thermal tolerance in threatened ecological communities under climate change’.
• Dr Felix de Tombeur from University of Western Australia and CEFE-CNRS (France) presented ‘Why do plants silicify? On the adaptive significance of silicon accumulation in plants’.
• Professor Heloise Gibb from La Trobe University presented ‘Black Saturday, Black Summer: Dark days for invertebrates of the litter layer?’.
• Dr Jane Oja from the University of Tartu, Estonia presented ‘Never home alone: global study of dust-associated microbial communities’.
• Dr Claudia Coleine from the University of Tuscia, Italy presented ‘Black fungi from extreme environments: challenges to thrive in the most prohibitive conditions’.
• Michael Gillings and Vanessa McPherson from Macquarie University presented ‘Natural history of fungi in the Lane Cove Valley’.
• Associate Professor Jessica Weir from ICS, WSU presented ‘Collaborative environmental management and the shifting relationships between the academy, the public sector and Indigenous peoples’.
• Dr Frédérik Saltré from Flinders University presented ‘Pathways to Australia: past environmental context of modern human expansion’.
• Dr Hervé Sauquet from the Royal Botanic Gardens presented ‘Key questions on flowering plant diversification’.
• Dr John Dwyer from the University of Queensland presented ‘How does climate sort rainforest tree strategies into assemblages across the subtropics’.
• Dr Allan Thomas from Kerala Agricultural University presented ‘Harmony in Farming Systems: Revealing the Interplay of Technology, Psychology, and Behaviour in Fostering Biodiversity, Livelihood, and Climate Resilience’.
• Dr Andrew Letten from the University of Queensland presented ‘Why resource dynamics matter in microbial communities’.
• Professor Maurizio Rossetto from the Sydney Botanical Gardens presented ‘Temporal dynamics and assembly patterns of Australian rainforests, and implications for biodiversity conservation’.
• Dr Jon Page from the University of New South Wales presented “Are Plant Functional Types Fit for Purpose?”
• Laura Babian from NSW Department of Planning and Environment presented ‘Purpose Driven - conservation and restoration science’.
• Dr Stefan Olin from Lund University, Sweden presented ‘Including heterogeneity in a Dynamic Vegetation Model: from region to landscape to stand to canopy’.
• Distinguished Professor Usha Allan from Kerala Agricultural University presented ‘Innovative fodder production technologies for dairy farmers in Kerala- an overview’.
• Associate Professor Rachel Standish from Murdoch University presented ‘Role of Plant-Soil Feedbacks in Ecological Restoration’.
• Dr Hagai Shemesh from Tel-Hai College, Israel presented ‘The effect of ectomycorrhizal fungi on ecological processes at  varying temporal and spatial scales’.
• Dr Mohamed Zakeel from CSIRO, Canberra presented his research interests including developing integrated disease management strategies to combat plant diseases.
• Marian Turner from the Nature Portfolio of Journals will talk to us about how editors at the Nature portfolio work with authors and peer reviewers to consider primary research, review and opinion content, and how NEE is trying to support the research community’s contributions to global and local environmental policy.

* Denotes HIE employee/graduating student