Reminder - Upcoming Seminar 5th December 2024

[Mersor cium]

Hello,

This is a reminder of our seminar tomorrow.

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We will have the pleasure to hear from Zohra Zahir talking about: Microbial Communities and Methylmercury Dynamics in Prairies Wetland Ponds.

"I’m Zohra Zahir, a PhD candidate in Biology at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. My academic background includes a Bachelor’s in Environmental Science and a Master’s in Genetics. Over the past four years, I’ve been studying prairie wetlands, focusing on how environmental factors shape microbial communities and, in turn, drive ecosystem functions. Working with Dr. Britt Hall, a biogeochemist specializing in mercury cycling, my research explores the role of microbes in the production of methylmercury. Using high-throughput sequencing, I’ve investigated how environmental factors like dissolved organic carbon and sulfate influence microbial diversity and methylmercury production. Understanding the mercury cycle in wetlands is like navigating a dark room while touching parts of an elephant—you might gather pieces of information, but without connecting the dots, the bigger picture remains elusive. Wetlands, often overlooked, play an important role in the mercury cycle, and my work aims to illuminate the processes driving mercury methylation in these ecosystems."

The seminar will be on Thursday December 5th at 3:00PM UTC time. Here is the zoom link: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/66019509975

More information can be found on our website.

Please share this information with whomever you may think is interested and feel free to share the poster (see attached) in your social media.

Thank you for your time and see you at the seminar!

Mersorcium committee board

[Isabel Sanz]

Hello all!

First, I will like to thank again Zohra for her presentation!

And following the discussion we had afterwards about identifying true merA and merB genes I would like to share the pipeline we had publish and make available so you could check if you find it useful for your work together with the published paper where we used it: 

https://gitlab.com/pablo.sanchez/merverifyer/-/tree/main

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c00663

Thank you so much!

Best wishes,

Isabel

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