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Erin Nuccio, Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, presents "Fungal-bacterial interactions in the mycorrhizal hyphosphere".
Erin Nuccio is a soil microbial ecologist who studies how roots and their associated microbiome affect microbial processes in soil. She has a DOE Early Career award to study how tripartite plant-mycorrhizal-soil interactions impact terrestrial nutrient cycling and ecosystem sustainability. She uses metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, isotope technologies (e.g., stable isotope probing, Chip-SIP, radiocarbon), and microscopy as tools to determine the mechanisms that underpin plant-microbial-soil interactions. She is particularly interested in ecological factors that shape the microbial communities living on and around plant roots and hyphae—soil microhabitats known as the rhizophere and hyphosphere—and near-surface carbon cycling (0-3m).
Host: Dr. Laura Bogar (lmbogar@ucdavis.edu)