Friday, September 15, 9:15 – 10:45 a.m
Beckman Institute Room 1025 – Auditorium
Chair: Katy Heath
Microbes and the Environment Session
Presenters:
Adaptation of plants and microbial neighbors to shared abiotic stress
Maggie Wagner, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas
Sparsity of higher-order interactions enables learning and prediction for microbiome
Shreya Arya, PhD student in O’Dwyer lab in the Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois
Causal microbes: what microbial ecologists can learn from causal graphs
Tony Yannarell, Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois
Roots of Change: understanding the influence of bioenergy sorghum breeding on the root metabolome and microbiome
Sierra Raglin, PhD student in Angela Kent’s lab, Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois