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​​​​3-part Webinar Series: ​The Role of the Microbiome in Forest Disease, Regeneration, and Biodiversity

Series Summary

Plant disease is an important factor in global food and income security worldwide, but also has important ecological and social impacts on the world’s forests. Across the globe, forests are foundational to ecosystem and economic services, from the biosphere to clean water, food, fiber, fuel and forest products on which all people rely.

Plant and soil microbiomes are environmental factors in the disease triangle. Research on the microbiome in plant disease has largely focused on efforts to manage and guide it to promote yield and resistance. In the context of forest pathology, the impact of the plant and soil microbiome extend far beyond yield and crop protection due to the important ecological role that forest microbiota, including pathogens, play in ecosystems and ecological processes. In the realms of agroecology, agroforestry, and forest ecology, the role of the microbiome extends to the maintenance of local diversity in tropical forests by pathogens of seeds and seedlings; modulation of disease severity of forest trees; and the involvement of consortia of pathogens, their interaction with other environmental factors, and/or dysbiotic microbial communities in the etiology of diseases that affect trees. Expanding scientific knowledge of the many roles that pathogens, the microbiome, the environment, and their interaction play in forest ecosystems will lead to holistic management and resilience of forest ecosystems.​

Pricing

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• Part 1: Forest Microbiomes: Prospective Studies of Forest Health and Response to Disease

  Part 1: Forest Microbiomes: Prospective Studies of Forest Health and Response to Disease

  Broadcast Date: October 11, 12:00pm Central Time​
  

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  Webinar Topics:

  The maple mycobiome: deciphering fungal communities to help identify contemporary threats to maple health Matt Kasson | Associate Professor of Forest Pathology and Mycology West Virginia University

  Applications of Illumina and MinION sequencing in forests: soil feedbacks and culture-free diagnosis of emergent pathogens Geoffrey Williams | USDA Forest Service, International Programs

  Responses of Juglans nigra microbiome to Geosmithia morbida infection and candidate Thousand Cankers Disease Management Strategies Aaron Onufrak | Ph.D. Candidate, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

  The endophytic mycobiome of Nothofagus: Patterns of fungal diversity across environmental and host variables Lucia Molina | Postdoctoral Fellow, Centro de Investigación y Extensión Forestál Andino-Patagonico (CIEFAP) and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina

  
  
• Part 2: Microbiomes of Seeds and Seedlings and Consequences for Forest Regeneration

  Part 2: Microbiomes of Seeds and Seedlings and Consequences for Forest Regeneration

  Broadcast Date: October 12, 12:00pm Central Time

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  Webinar Topics:

  The core mycobiota of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) seeds from across the Pacific Northwest, USA. Gillian Bergman | Ph.D. Student, University of California, Davis

  Role of multi-host pathogens in tropical forest diversity Erin Spear | Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

  Bacterial endosymbionts of seed-associated fungi: Context-dependent outcomes surrounding seed survival and germination ​Justin Park Shaffer, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Diego

  Seed microbiomes: implications to understand tropical tree species diversity Paul Camilo Zalamea | Assistant Professor, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

  
  
• Part 3: Applications of Microbiome To Understand Complex and Emergent Diseases & Soil Feedbacks in Temperate Forests

  Part 3: Applications of Microbiome To Understand Complex and Emergent Diseases and Pest Management in Temperate Forests

  Broadcast Date: October 19, 12:00pm Central Time

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  Webinar Topics:

  The soil microbiome associated with root rot pathogens – implications for disease management Jane Stewart | Associate Professor, Colorado State University

  A next-generation survey of fungi associated with emerging needle diseases on loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) in the southeast United States Colton Meinecke | Research Professional, University of Georgia

  Host Microbiome Variation of an Emergent Multihost Pest–Pathogen Complex in California Shannon Lynch | Assistant Professor of Forest Pathology, SUNY, Syracuse, NY

  Diagnosing the unknown: How metabarcoding uncovered more questions regarding the causal agent of beech leaf disease Carrie Fearer | Post-doctoral fellow, University of New Hampshire