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报告题目： Clocks, roots and nodules: communication underground

报 告 人：Miriam Gifford 教授

报告时间：2024年10月22日（星期二）16:00

报告地点：草业学院228报告厅

报告人简介：

Miriam Gifford，PhD，Prof., Head of School of Life Sciences，the University of Warwick (UK).

Her interests are in studying signalling networks involved in plant responses to the environment. There is a particular focus on the regulation of root-rhizobia symbiosis and the impact of the circadian clock on nodulation in the rhizosphere; both of which can help enable more sustainable plant productivity. After postdoctoral work at New York University (USA) she started her lab at Warwick University (UK) in 2009 where she is now Professor and the Head of School of Life Sciences.

She has an international reputation for studying complex networks involved in plant responses to the environment and plasticity, with a particular focus on modelling cell type specific mechanisms, gene networks enabling symbiosis with rhizobia (BB/P002145/1) and currently the impact of the circadian clock on nodulation (BB/T015357/1). The lab’s collaborations with mathematical and computational scientists have resulted in advances in bioinformatic methods, such as network inference and meta-transcriptomics, including in tomato on the EU ROOTOPOWER project in which MG led one of the six work packages. At the evolutionary level, MG has investigated connections between nodulation and lateral root development (BB/H019502/1, BB/J001872/1). Work has also included using population level studies (GWAS) and discovery of genes that control specific root architecture traits under distinct nitrogen environments, including of the first nitrogen-regulated microRNA and its role in controlling plant root architecture (US Patent# 60/918,443, Filed April 2007). Her research work published on Nature Communications （2022，2023）、Journal of Experimental Botany （2024，2022）Plants (2023) and Microbiome (2023), etc..

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