报告人简介🍚：Dr. Elizabeth R. Waters earned her Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Grinnell College, in Grinnell Iowa. She earned her M.S. degree in Botany from North Carolina State University.  Dr. Waters earned her PhD degree in Evolutionary Biology from Washington University in St. Louis where she studied under the direction of Dr. Barbara Schaal.  After earning her doctorate Dr. Waters conducted post-doctoral research in Biochemistry with Dr. Elizabeth Vierling at The University of Arizona.  During her post-doc Dr. Waters started her research on the heat shock proteins and thermotolerance.  After her post-doctoral research, Dr. Waters was a Bioinformatics Research Scientist at Diversa Corporation.  Dr. Waters was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Biology at San Diego State University in 2002.  Dr. Waters is currently a Professor of Biology and the Director of the Evolutionary Biology PhD program at SDSU.  Dr. Waters is also an Associate Editor of the journal, Scientific Reports.

报告摘要：The Waters lab has been examining thermotolerance in the Boechera genus (Brassicaceae), a group of native California plants.  The Boechera inhabit a wide range of habitats including: cool coastal regions, chaparral, deserts, and high elevation mountains.  We have documented considerable diversity in the extent of thermotolerance in these species. One species in particular (Boechera depauperata) has high thermotolerance. We have also shown that this high thermotolerance is not due to the up-regulation of the well-studied heat shock proteins. Today, I will discuss our most recent data including transcriptomics of heat stressed Boechera and Arabidopsis.