Centre for Marine Science - Seminar Series - 7th September @ 1 pm
Event Details
- Date:
- Tuesday, 07 September 2021 - Tuesday, 07 September 2021
- Time:
- 1:00 pm
- Room:
- https://uqz.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAscOivpjMuHdYD6l4bE8hn3LPfp_7oXRnh
- Location:
- https://uqz.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAscOivpjMuHdYD6l4bE8hn3LPfp_7oXRnh
- URL:
- https://marine.uq.edu.au/community/events/uq-marine-seminars
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Pam Engelberts
- Phone:
- 0450271561
- Email:
- s4556136@student.uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Science
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Hi everyone!
Hope this finds you well.
The Centre for Marine Science is happy to invite you this month’s marine postgraduate seminar, next Tuesday 7th September at 1pm.
The seminar will be held on Zoom. Please register in advance for this meeting: https://uqz.zoom.us/.../tZAscOivpjMuHdYD6l4bE8hn3LPfp_7oXRnh
We will be joined by two speakers: PhD students Paul O’Brien, from James Cook University/Australian Institute of Marine Science, and Gretel Waugh, from the Australian Centre for Ecogenomics/SCMB. Join us in exploring reef symbiont cophylogeny and in determining microbial stress response to stress in marine ecosystems!
You can find the abstracts of the talks below.
Using cophylogeny as a tool to uncover key symbionts in coral reef invertebrates
Paul O’Brien, PhD candidate (AIMS@JCU)
Marine invertebrates harbour a complex suite of microbial symbionts, a subset of which are likely linked to host health and homeostasis. Within a complex community it can be difficult to tease apart beneficial or parasitic symbionts from non-essential commensal or transient microorganisms. Here, I used a cophylogenetic analysis to uncover key symbionts in coral reef invertebrates and subsequently characterised their functional adaptation to the host.
Quantifying the impacts of environmental stress on marine microorganisms
Gretel Waugh, PhD candidate (UQ SCMB)
Water quality guidelines are a critical management tool informing marine risk assessments. Despite that microbial communities form the foundations of marine ecosystems, they are not considered in the derivation of water quality guideline values due to methodological challenges and a lack of rigorous data. Here, I will introduce a novel framework combining ecotoxicology and microbial ‘omics, which aims to determine and quantify microbial response to stress in marine ecosystems.
We hope to see you on Zoom next Tuesday!
Cheers,
The Centre for Marine Science
More information available at: https://marine.uq.edu.au/community/events/uq-marine-seminars 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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