The Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology's weekly Plant Pathology 250 seminar series is presented this week by Dr. Nicolas Corradi from the University of Ottawa.

Seminar Title: "The Genetics of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi”

Abstract: The genetics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are notoriously difficult to study. In particular, their perpetual multinucleated state, with thousands of nuclei floating in the same cytoplasm, and their obligate biotrophy, makes it difficult to isolate good quality DNA and capture information about their nuclear complexity and overall biology. My presentation will discuss how the latest advances in the field of genomics and single cell/nuclei isolation is now shifting long held paradigms regarding the genetics and (para)sexual potential of these organisms.

Faculty Host: Sydney Glassman; sydney.glassman@ucr.edu