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SUMMARY:Belowground plant-fungal interactions in forests - Sofia Gomes\, V
 incent Merckx
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230210T161500Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230210T171500Z
UID:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0b5baf09-3b20-47a0-a37c-70817acdb449/
DESCRIPTION:Soil fungi play a major role in shaping forest ecosystems: the
  roots of trees interact with a myriad of fungi and the trees’ ability t
 o cope with environmental change can be mediated by these interactions. In
  this talk\, Sofia Gomes will illustrate how fungal community structure ch
 anges during forest development\, and she will discuss the potential of ro
 ot-associated fungi in the protection of trees against drought. Vincent Me
 rckx will focus on a specific guild of root-associated fungi – mycorrhiz
 al fungi – and how forest understory plants potentially use the ability 
 of these fungi to link different plants to gain carbon.\n\nSofia Gomes is 
 a junior group leader at Leiden University\, where she works on tree-micro
 be interactions and their resilience to stressors. After obtaining her PhD
  at Leiden University\, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of
  Bayreuth and Wageningen University and Research.\n\nVincent Merckx is a s
 enior researcher at Naturalis Biodiversity Center\, where he leads the Und
 erstanding Evolution research group. He is also an Associate Professor at 
 the University of Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD at the University of Leuv
 en in Belgium\, and before coming to the Netherlands\, he was a postdoc at
  the University of California in Berkeley. His research focuses on the int
 eractions between plants and mycorrhizal fungi.\nSpeakers:\nSofia Gomes\, 
 Vincent Merckx
LOCATION:Dyson Perrins Building (Atmosphere room)\, off South Parks Road O
 X1 3QY
TZID:Europe/London
URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/0b5baf09-3b20-47a0-a37c-70817acdb449/
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