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Recent NewsNuzhdin Research LaboratoryUSC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Nuzhdin Research Laboratory Recent News Projects People Publications Grants Nuzhdin Lab Alumni Lab Meetings Recent News At the Nuzhdin Lab, we are focused on interdisciplinary questions rather than a single model system. Our research is at the interface of quantitative genetics, population genetics, and development. Our lab members work on a variety of systems including drosophila, shellfish and plants. Our topics include genotype-environment interactions, the evolution & development of complex structures, plant genome assembly, and industry-based technological applications Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund, Ocean Sustainability Initiative On January 17th the Nuzhdin lab hosted an industry-level meeting between seafood industry members Red Chamber Co., Del Mar Seafoods and Holdfast Aquaculture with a focus on the future of the California Squid fisheries. Together, researchers and industry members discussed sustainable research initiatives focused on the physiology and phylogeography of California squid, Loliginidae. Below please find notes from the meeting provided by USC Sea Grant’s Science, Research & Policy Specialist, Marika Schulhof: Ocean_Sustainability_Initiative_Notes.pdf Undergraduate Poster Session on Catalina The USC Undergraduate Poster Symposium took place on Wednesday, August 14th and incorporated undergraduate research from both the USC Wrigley Marine Institute and the Zinsmeyer Institute. Talks were given by Wrigley Fellows and Graduate Advisors, Kelly DeWeese and Jose Diesel. Kelly: https://youtu.be/sHPwvoax6u4 José: https://youtu.be/unb1kOA3jKg Zumberge Industry Collaboration at Wrigley Marine Science Institute The August, 2019 Aquaculture Summit hosted by the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island was comprised of over 25 attendees from industry, academia, non-profits, and regulatory agencies ( Aquaculture_Contact_List_August_2019.pdf ). The overarching goal of this conference was to strengthen the growing sustainable aquaculture industry in the Pacific Southwest region by fortifying a network of academic and industry partners and engaging policy makers, educators and outreach specialists. Specific goals included: Providing a networking space for industry and academic entities to share information, resources, opportunities and challenges Interfacing with policy, education and outreach specialists Generating specific targets and collaborative groups for future RFP (Requests For Proposals) and RCN (Research Coordination Network) opportunities Below is a list of shared presentations as well as notes and a white paper by Karen Gray of GreenWave: Lovell_R_2019.pdf Wilcox_C_2019.pdf Zumberge_Initiative_2019.pdf Leach_W_2019.pdf Aq_Summit_Notes_Aug_2019.pdf Gray_k_White_Paper_2019.pdf Anthropogenic Dawn: Light Pollution and Ecology Ariel Levi Simons recently attended the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendevous at UCLA and gave a presentation on Light Pollution and Ecology. 4th Annual Meeting of the Chickpea Innovation Lab Members of the lab attended the 4th Annual Meeting of the Chickpea Innovation Lab in Hyderabad, India. Read about it here. Landraces as a source of cultivated diversity Sergey Nuzhdin recently attended the Annual Meeting of the Chickpea Innovation Lab in Hyderabad, India and gave a presentation on the use of landraces as a source of cultivated diversity. [PDF] Unraveling the history of selection in wild and cultivated lineages Peter Chang recently attended the Annual Meeting of the Chickpea Innovation Lab in Hyderabad, India and gave a presentation on the history of selection in wild and cultivated chickpea lineages. [ PDF] Reference Sequences of the Genomes of Cultivated and Wild Cicer Species Vasantika Suryawanshi recently attended the Annual Meeting of the Chickpea Innovation Lab in Hyderabad, India and presented a poster on the the assembly of reference sequences of the genomes of cultivated and wild Cicer. Nested Association Mapping Analysis for Chickpea Hybrid Populations Asif Zubair recently attended the Annual Meeting of the Chickpea Innovation Lab in Hyderabad, India and presented a poster on the NAM analysis of chickpea hybrid populations. GWAS for Identifying Flowering Time Loci in Wild Cicer Genus Anupam Singh recently attended the Annual Meeting of the Chickpea Innovation Lab in Hyderabad, India and presented a poster on the use of GWAS to identify flowering time loci in wild...