Multiple Forces Shape Microbial Community Structure in the Phyllosphere

Multiple Forces Shape Microbial Community Structure in the Phyllosphere

Statistics and Genomics Seminar
Feb 28, 2019, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Norma Morella, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley
As our knowledge of host-associated microbial communities (microbiomes) continues to deepen, there remain key unresolved questions across multiple systems. Among these is an understanding of the forces underlying the assembly of, selection within, and co-evolution among microbiota, all of which depend in part on microbiome transmission mode. My PhD thesis research has focused on characterizing...