Seminar

Life after death: Soil microbes and their role in carcass decomposition

We are excited to announce the next IN-PERSON SSA Seminar speaker Dr. Allison Gill,  Assistant professor of Biology, Williams College, hosted by Dr. Ashley Keiser.

More information about the speaker can be found at https://allisongill.weebly.com/research.html

The Afterlife of Leaves: Nitrogen Fertilizations, Plant Litter Decomposition, & Soil Formation

Talk summary:

Dr. Scott Ebdon,  Professor at SSA, University of Massachusetts, hosted by Dr. Michelle DaCosta (more information about the speaker can be found at https://stockbridge.cns.umass.edu/j-scott-ebdon).

The seminar will be IN-PERSON, join the seminar in Agricultural Engineering building North, room 119, or via zoom link for the seminar: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/99970847656

Part of our Stockbridge School of Agriculture Spring 2022 Seminar Series.  All events are free and open to the public.

The speaker is Dr. Trisha Andrew,  Associate Professor in Chemistry, the University of Massachusetts hosted by Dr. Michelle DaCosta.

More information about the speaker can be found at https://www.chem.umass.edu/faculty/trisha-andrew

and https://welab.umass.edu/

Part of our Stockbridge School of Agriculture Spring 2022 Seminar Series.  All events are free and open to the public.

Speaker Information: https://www.ars.usda.gov/people-locations/person?person-id=12032

Event is on ZOOM at 3:30pm: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/99970847656

Dear All, 

We are excited to announce the next  IN-PERSON SSA Seminar. The speaker is Dr. Analena Bruce, Assistant Professor at the University Of New Hampshire (more information about the speaker can be found at https://colsa.unh.edu/person/analena-bruce and  https://www.analenabr....

The Food Systems Lab at UNH is led by Dr. Analena Bruce and housed in the Department of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Food Systems in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

The speakers are: 

1.Ian Eggleston, advisor Dr. Baoshan Xing

Title: Quantitative analysis of microplastics in tap water

2.Corey Palmer, advisor Dr. Ashley Keiser

Title:  Invasive species impacts on home-field advantage in soils

3.Gurpal Singh, Dr. Om Parkash Dhankher

Title: Role of AtOXP1 gene in providing tolerance to toxic metals via Glutamate recycling

4.Nathan Chin, advisor Dr. Marco Keiluweit

Title: Manganese availability controls organic matter degradation across redox interfaces

Seminar summary

The seminar will be IN-PERSON, join the seminar in Holdsworth, room 305, or via zoom link for the seminar: https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/j/99970847656