Assistant Professor
Pennsylvania State University
State collage, Pennsylvania
Liana Burghardt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Science at Pennsylvania State University. Her research program focuses on how plants (and microbes that live in and on their roots) respond and adapt to environmental variability in natural and agricultural systems. She received a BA in Biology from Carleton and a Ph.D. in Biology from Duke University. During her Ph.D. in the lab of Kathleen Donohue, she built environmentally-driven models of plant life cycles of the weedy annual Arabidopsis thaliana. During her postdoc at the University of Minnesota, she developed sequencing methods to measure selective processes and the genomic basis of legume-rhizobia interactions.
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
4:20 PM – 4:40 PM EDT