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SUMMARY:EEB Tuesday Seminar Series - Speakers: Julia Boyle & Marianne Aze
 vedo Silva
DESCRIPTION:Speaker 1: Julia Boyle from Weber lab Title: Microbes mediate
  extrafloral nectary ecology Description: Plant-arthropod defense mutual
 isms involve specialized plant traits that provide food or shelter to ar
 thropods in return for protection against natural enemies\, including he
 rbivores and pathogens. Two examples of such traits are extrafloral nect
 aries\, plant organs that secrete sugary amino-acid-rich nectar to feed 
 beneficial arthropods\, and leaf domatia\, small structures on the under
 sides of leaves that shelter predatory and fungivorous mites. Despite th
 eir widespread distribution and convergent evolution\, little is known a
 bout how domatia and extrafloral nectaries interact with plant microbiom
 es\, and whether microbes mediate the costs and benefits of these traits
 . Here\, I combine field observations and manipulative common gardens to
  demonstrate that both microbes and mites play an underappreciated role 
 in the ecology and evolution of extrafloral nectaries. Speaker 2: Marian
 ne Azevedo Silva from Weber lab Title: A Tale of Mutualism Exploitation\
 , Told Twice: The Science We Present and the Stories We Leave Untold Des
 cription: In this talk\, I will present a study investigating potential 
 exploitation in one of the most ancient mutualisms between plants and ar
 thropods: the plant–mite mutualism mediated by leaf domatia. Herbivoro
 us eriophyid mites (often referred to as “gall mitesâ€) have long been
  hypothesized to exploit this mutualism\, yet this hypothesis has remain
 ed untested. By combining leaf observations with molecular data\, I inve
 stigated whether the gall mite Acalitus ferrugineum acts as an exploiter
  of the domatia-mediated mutualism in American beech (Fagus grandifolia)
 . But this talk is about more than the scientific findings. I will tell 
 the story of this research twice: first\, as the polished\, seemingly st
 raightforward narrative we typically present at scientific conferences\,
  and then as the much less predictable journey behind it. From the initi
 al idea to unexpected challenges\, changes in direction\, and the decisi
 ons that ultimately shaped our findings\, I will share some of the stori
 es that scientific talks often leave untold.\n\nMore info: https://event
 s.umich.edu/event/153627\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/6a33e45c-3
 8ef-4eea-aa76-6b11f3c71117
LOCATION:The University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, MI
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/6a33e45c-38ef-4eea-aa76-6b11f3c7111
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