California Botanical Society
28th Graduate Student Symposium
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2021 Botany Speaker Series
The CalBotSoc botany speaker series aims to showcase and promote the work of early career botanists. If you are an early career botanist interested in giving a talk of general interest to our members, please email us at membership@calbotsoc.org.
Jenna Ekwealor
Suzanne Pierre
Natalie Love
Justin Luong
Adriana Hernandez
Lorena Villanueva-Almanza
Thursday, June 10, 2021 7-8pm PT
Jenna Ekwealor
"Adaptation, acclimation, and refugia: How mosses survive and thrive in the desert"
While the thought of mosses may conjure up a scene of a damp, dark forest, mosses are actually common in deserts. This talk will cover some of my recent research on the genetic, physiological, and ecological adaptations that mosses in the genus Syntrichia (Pottiaceae) have to survive in the high light and low water habitat of California's Mojave Desert.
Jenna is a postdoctoral researcher studying plant genomics and evolution at the Smithsonian Institution Data Science Lab. After three years conducting biomedical research as an undergraduate student, Jenna switched trajectories to explore environmental and field research, eventually earning a master’s degree in Environmental Science, Biology Option, at California State University, Los Angeles working with Dr. Kirsten Fisher. This work, population genetics of the Mojave Desert moss Syntrichia caninervis, is what sparked her interest in mosses. In 2020, Jenna graduated with her PhD in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley where she studied molecular and physiological desiccation and UV tolerance in Syntrichia using a variety of field and lab experiments.
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2021 Schedule of Talks
14-Jan: Lorena Villanueva-Almanza
11-Feb: Adriana Hernandez
11-Mar: Justin Luong
8-Apr: Natalie Love
13-May: Suzanne Pierre
10-Jun: Jenna Ekwealor
8-Jul: Maria Jesus
12-Aug: Rachael Olliff-Yang