SCHOOL OF GEOGRAPHY & EARTH SCIENCES,
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
is pleased to welcome
Professor
Jillian Banfield
as a Hooker Distinguished
Visiting Professor
The Importance of
the Microbiome to Health
and Environmental Research
please join us
March 31st
2:30
2015
Jillian Banfield grew up in a small country
town in Australia. She began her career
as a mineralogist/geochemist and later
transformed herself into a microbiologist
who works at the crossroads of the geobio-hydro-spheres. Banfield has been a
professor at universities worldwide,
including the University of WisconsinMadison and the University of Tokyo.
Since 2001, she has been a professor at
the University of California Berkeley. Her
pioneering work regularly populates
Science and Nature. She is a member of
the National Academy of Sciences. Most
recently (2011), Jill was awarded the
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth and
Environmental Science and the L'OrealUNESCO Award for exceptional women
in science.
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Professor Jill Banfield
University of California – Berkeley
Across all of Earth's ecosystems, ranging from the deep subsurface
through aquifers contaminated by mining activities to the human
body, microbial communities play absolutely fundamental roles. In
such environments, commonalities relate to ecosystem processes,
and much may be learned through study of multiple systems.
Interesting and general ecosystem phenomena are the processes
of initial colonization and the following patterns of succession. In this
talk I will discuss new and rapidly evolving methods to study
microbial communities and present results from contaminated
aquifer, acid mine drainage and necrotizing enterocolitis in
premature babies studies that underline the importance of the high
resolution view provided by these methods compared to those
currently used.
Michael G. DeGroote Centre
for Learning and Discovery,
MDCL, Room 1110
All are Welcome to Attend!