Centre for Marine Science - Seminar Series - 20th April @ 1 pm
Event Details
- Date:
- Tuesday, 20 April 2021 - Tuesday, 20 April 2021
- Time:
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- Location:
- https://uqz.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sdeiuqTIjGdEIKRTkMdAt4nmAFkpjVdtl
- URL:
- https://marine.uq.edu.au/community/events
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Pam Engelberts
- Phone:
- 0450271561
- Email:
- s4556136@student.uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Marine Science
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Hi everyone!
Hope this finds you well.
The Centre for Marine Science is happy to invite you to the second marine postgraduate seminar of 2021, next Tuesday 20th April at 1pm.
The seminar will be held on Zoom. Please register in advance for this meeting: https://uqz.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sdeiuqTIjGdEIKRTkMdAt4nmAFkpjVdtl
We will be joined by two speakers: PhD students Olivia Hewitt, from the School of Biological Sciences, and Alysha Johnson, from the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Join us in exploring the intricacies of host-symbiont interactions in marine sponges, and in a deep-dive into bathymetric mapping of the Tasmantid Seamount Chain!
1) The role of Reactive Oxygen Species in regulating host-symbiont interactions in the marine sponge Amphimedon queenslandica
Olivia Hewitt, PhD candidate (UQ SBS)
For animals to live in association with microbial symbionts they must successfully discriminate symbiotic partners from non-symbiotic microbes. The innate immune system assists animals to achieve this. Redox signalling, via reactions of electron transfer, can sensitively mediate diverse innate immune responses. Here we explore redox signalling within a marine sponge, the oldest extant animal lineage, to investigate the origins of innate immunity and establishment and maintenance of animal-bacterial symbiont relationships.
2) Voyaging aboard the R/V Falkor: Guyots and reefs in the Tasmantid Seamount Chain
Alysha Johnson, PhD candidate (UQ SEES)
From late December 2020 to March 2021, scientists from Australian Universities joined the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R/V Falkor to complete bathymetric mapping and other scientific investigations in the Tasman and Coral seas. After two months at sea, over 75,000km2 of the seafloor was mapped, including northern reefs and guyots in the Tasmantid Seamount Chain. By interpreting the bathymetry of selected reefs and guyots, we can attempt to recreate the erosional and geomorphic history of these sites. Additionally, these voyages gave students hands-on experience with scientific research and life aboard a research vessel.
We hope to see you on Zoom next Tuesday!
Cheers,
The Centre for Marine Science
More information available at: https://marine.uq.edu.au/content/seminar-series or on our Facebook page 'UQ Marine'.
If you would like to present in the future, please contact marine@uq.edu.au
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