<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:rgb(39,78,19);font-family:"times new roman",serif">The CEES Seminar Series presents:</span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dr. Hannah Locke, </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Assistant Professor of Biology, LaSalle University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">How Novel are Hybrid Hosts? Soil Microbial Communities Associated with Oak Hybridization</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Soil microbial communities play many critical roles in ecosystem health and function, including nutrient cycling, decomposition, carbon storage, plant growth, and disease dynamics. Thus, it is important to understand the complex ecological and evolutionary dynamics that give rise to the unique bacterial and fungal communities associated with many plant species. Here we characterize and explore soil microbial communities associated with a range of Texas oak populations—</span><i style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Quercus fusiformis</i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> in Central Texas, </span><i style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Quercus virginiana</i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> in </span>coastal, Eastern<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> Texas, and the </span><i style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Quercus</i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"> hybrids emerging in the sympatric zone in the middle.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><div><b>Friday November 2</b><b>1st</b><b> 3:30</b><b>pm. </b></div><div><div><div><div><div><b>Hudson 106</b></div></div><div><b>Reception prior to the talk at 3:00</b></div></div><div><br></div><div>You can add the full seminar schedule to your <a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=Y18xMDhkNjVlMjY1ZGVmNjI5MTU3NDJhNzU0ZmQyMTE4ZjBhNmRhYmJjNDg2MDE0MGU3NmUwMTU0YzNiOGFmZTQwQGdyb3VwLmNhbGVuZGFyLmdvb2dsZS5jb20" target="_blank">Google Calendar</a><br></div></div><div><div><div>You can also get weekly updates by following our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SUNYPlattsburghCEES" target="_blank">Facebook</a> or <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cees_sunyplattsburgh/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> pages<br></div><div><br></div><div>Please advertise broadly and distribute to anyone you think might be interested.</div></div></div></div><img src="cid:ii_mhuxlyyt1" alt="Slide1.JPG" width="520" height="390" class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;"><br></div></div>