{"id":3630,"date":"2026-09-07T13:40:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seminar.xtbg.ac.cn\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2026-09-07T13:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:40:59","slug":"drivers-of-phyllosphere-biodiversity-from-genomes-to-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seminar.xtbg.ac.cn\/?p=3630","title":{"rendered":"Drivers of Phyllosphere Biodiversity: From Genomes to Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Abstract:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Steven W. Kembel is a Full Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al (UQAM), and Director of the UQAM\u2011CERMO\u2011FC Genomics Platform. He obtained his Honours Bachelor\u2019s degree in Botany from the University of Manitoba (1993\u20111997), followed by a Master\u2019s and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Environmental Biology at the University of Alberta. He completed his postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley, and later worked as a Research Associate at the University of Oregon before joining UQAM as a full professor in August 2012. His research focuses on host\u2011microbiome relationships, plant\u2011microbe ecology and evolution, as well as the microbial communities of preterm infants. He has secured major Canadian research grants, including funds from CIHR, NSERC and FRQNT. Professor Kembel serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, such as <em>Ecological Monographs<\/em>, <em>Phytobiomes Journal<\/em>, and <em>Methods in Ecology &amp; Evolution<\/em>. He has published more than 108 peer\u2011reviewed papers and taken an active role in organizing international ecology and microbiology conferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Prof. Steven W. Kembel<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affiliation: <\/strong>Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, Canada<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time: <\/strong>4:30 PM, Wednesday, April 22, 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue: <\/strong>The Conference Hall in XTBG<\/p>\n<p>Online: Tencent Meeting&nbsp; &nbsp;ID: 664 441 249<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-container-1 wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Prof. Steven W. Kembel<br \/>\nAffiliation: Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, Canada<br \/>\nTime: 4:30 PM, Wednesday, April 22, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seminar.xtbg.ac.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seminar.xtbg.ac.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seminar.xtbg.ac.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seminar.xtbg.ac.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seminar.xtbg.ac.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/seminar.xtbg.ac.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3633,"href":"http:\/\/seminar.xtbg.ac.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions\/3633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seminar.xtbg.ac.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seminar.xtbg.ac.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seminar.xtbg.ac.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seminar.xtbg.ac.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}