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Investigating plant processes from enzymes to ecosystems

  • Thu 29 Jun 23

    13:00 - 14:00

  • Colchester Campus

    STEM 3.1

  • Event speaker

    Dr Caitlin Moore

  • Event type

    Lectures, talks and seminars
    Life Sciences Seminar Series

  • Event organiser

    Life Sciences, School of

  • Contact details

    Dr Amanda Cavanagh

Ensuring our native and managed ecosystems remain resilient to climate change is a global challenge facing humanity

 

To meet this challenge, we require a better understanding of how ecosystem processes, such as carbon and water cycling, respond to climate variability and extreme climate events. We also need to be able to link understanding of plant processes across scales to achieve this. My talk will focus on how my research has applied a suite of measurements and modelling approaches, in collaboration with a diverse team of people, to answer questions about photosynthesis from the enzyme to ecosystem scale.

Speaker

Dr. Caitlin Moore's research seeks to understand how plant processes, from enzymes to ecosystems, change over time and space. She established her foundations in this field during her PhD at Monash University in Australia (2012-2017), where she quantified tropical savanna productivity and phenology. Caitlin expanded these skills as Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, 2017-2020) in the USA. There she worked in the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) on quantifying the sustainability of bioenergy crops grown in the United States, and on the Water Efficient Sorghum Technologies (WEST) project to build knowledge about agricultural systems and how to measure them in a high-throughput way. She also collaborated on projects aimed at improving food security, such as the Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) project. Now, Caitlin is a Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia (2020-current), where she is combining her interests in native and agricultural ecosystem processes to understand how these systems in Australia respond to climate variability over time and space.

How to attend

This seminar is being held in person in STEM 3.1 (STEM Centre on Square 1, Colchester campus). You can also watch via Zoom (meeting ID: 916 2270 2239)

If you have any queries about this seminar please email Dr Amanda Cavanagh (a.cavanagh@essex.ac.uk).

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