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Armando Bravo, PhD, Principal Investigator & Assistant Member, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, presents "Unveiling insights into the most ancient plant-microbe mutualism through comparative phylogenomics".
Dr. Armando Bravo graduated the University of Oxford, UK with a PhD in Plant Science. Their thesis was on the evolution of chloroplast development using Arabidopsis and moss. Dr. Bravo then completed their postdoc with Maria Harrison at the Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University in New York. There they worked on molecular mechanisms regulating arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis (AMS) in Medicago and Brachypodium. Now they work as an Assistant Member and Principal Investigator at the Donald Danforth Center. Their group is focused on nutrient exchange and evolution of AMS. To accelerate their understanding of the role of the most impactful genes in AMS, Dr. Bravo and their group are currently developing a phenotyping framework using the liverwort Marchantia paleacea. They also use other plant models including tomato, Medicago, Brachypodium and maize to further their research.
Host: Dr. Laura Bogar (lmbogar@ucdavis.edu)