BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:EventsCalendar PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T053451Z TZURL:https://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Lectures and Seminars,SMAST,SMAST Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Seminar Announcement Department of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences " Marine symbioses powered by wood: a genomic exploration."Daniel DistelDi rector of Ocean Genome Legacy Center, Northeastern University Marine Scien ce Center Wednesday, April 8, 202612:30 - 1:30 pmSMAST E 101-103 and via Z oom Abstract: Shipworms are the most important consumers of wood in marine environments, causing billions of dollars in damage each year to wooden v essels, piers, and fishing equipment, but also playing beneficial roles in marine carbon and nitrogen cycles. They digest wood and fix nitrogen with the help of enzymes made by symbiotic bacteria that live, not in their di gestive system, but inside specialized cells in their gills. Symbiont-made enzymes are then transported to the digestive system via an incompletely understood mechanism that is as biologically strange and surprising as it is ecologically and economically influential. I will describe how research ers at the Ocean Genome Legacy Center are using genomics and metagenomics, as well as traditional fieldwork, tank experiments, and microbiology, to unravel the mysteries of these unique, important, and often overlooked mar ine species. Join Meeting https://umassd.zoom.us/j/97440069270 Note: Meeti ng ID and passcode required, please email contact to obtain. For additiona l information, please contact Callie Rumbut at c.rumbut@umassd.edu\nEvent page: https://www.umassd.edu/events/cms/smast-seminar--marine-symbioses-po wered-by-wood-a-genomic-exploration-by-daniel-distel.php\nEvent link: http s://umassd.zoom.us/j/97440069270 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Seminar Announcement

De partment of Estuarine and Ocean Sciences
" Marine symbioses powered b y wood: a genomic exploration."
Daniel Distel
Director of Ocean Genome Legacy Center\, Northeastern University Marine Science Center

Wednesday\, April 8\, 2026
12:30 - 1:30 pm
SMAST E 101-103 an d via Zoom

Abstract:

Shipworms are the most important cons umers of wood in marine environments\, causing billions of dollars in dama ge each year to wooden vessels\, piers\, and fishing equipment\, but also playing beneficial roles in marine carbon and nitrogen cycles. They digest wood and fix nitrogen with the help of enzymes made by symbiotic bacteria that live\, not in their digestive system\, but inside specialized cells in their gills. Symbiont-made enzymes are then transported to the digestiv e system via an incompletely understood mechanism that is as biologically strange and surprising as it is ecologically and economically influential. I will describe how researchers at the Ocean Genome Legacy Center are usi ng genomics and metagenomics\, as well as traditional fieldwork\, tank exp eriments\, and microbiology\, to unravel the mysteries of these unique\, i mportant\, and often overlooked marine species.

Join Meeting

https://umassd.zoom.us/j/97440069270

Note: Meeting ID and passc ode required\, please email contact to obtain.

For additional info rmation\, please contact Callie Rumbut at c.rumbut@umassd.edu

Event page: https:/ /www.umassd.edu/events/cms/smast-seminar--marine-symbioses-powered-by-wood -a-genomic-exploration-by-daniel-distel.php
Event link: https://umassd.zoom.us/j/97440069270

DTSTAMP:20260519T022612 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T133000 LOCATION:SMAST East 101-103 SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:SMAST Seminar " Marine symbioses powered by wood: a genomic exploration." by: Daniel Distel UID:b982d0407285d55db1dab2a05eba1235@www.umassd.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR