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Phytoplankton Need Their Vitamins Too: Microbial Interactions and Nutrition at the Base of the Food Web in a Changing Ocean

354 Aubert Hall 354 Aubert Hall, Orono

Dr. Erin Bertrand Assistant Professor Dept. of Biology and Canada Research Chair in Microbial Proteomics Dalhousie University Marine phytoplankton are responsible for roughly half of global net primary production, support marine food webs and play critical roles in the global carbon cycle. Phytoplankton often require exogenous sources of specific organic and organometallic micronutrients for growth; […]

Direct observations of cavitation in plants

107 Norman Smith Hall orono

Dr. Alexandre Ponomarenko Harvard University Dr. Alexandre Ponomarenko is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is a physicist fascinated by plants and how they achieve the movement of large amounts of sap in the xylem. In particular, Dr. Ponomarenko is interested in how this mechanism fails […]

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