Seminar by Agnese Seminara @ SISSA, via Bonomea

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

SISSA, via Bonomea 265 - October, 30 (Room 128-129, First Floor)

09:00 - 09:45 -- Talk: Agnese Seminara, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice 
(France)

Title: "Strategies for Fungal Spore Dispersal"

Abstract:
Fungi range from decomposers to symbionts, parasites and pathogens and 
are among the worst threats and at the same time the most fundamental 
components of many ecosystems. The fungi may lack legs or wings for 
locomotion, but they routinely translocate even across oceans by 
dispersing their spores, causing the spread of major diseases of crops, 
animals and humans. Most fungi use a spectacular discharge mechanism 
based on osmotic pressure to accelerate spores at rates nearly unmatched 
elsewhere in nature.

Erica Sarnataro
Group Secretary
Quantitative Life Sciences
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Trieste,  Italy
Tel. +39-040-2240623
www.ictp.it/research/qls.aspx
e-mail: qls at ictp.it