INVITED SYMPOSIA AND DEPARTMENTAL TALKS
2020 Ecosystems Center and Semester in Environmental Science Webinars, MBL. Death Defying Down-regulation Among Algae Living High and Dry in Desert Ecosystems. (2020). Copresenter with Zoe Cardon.
2019 Invited Speaker Bay Paul Center Seminar (MBL), "Genetic adaptations during habitat transitions in photosynthetic organisms'. (Woods Hole, MA, May 2019).
2019 Invited Speaker: SICB 2019 Integrative Plant Biology Symposium -- Division of Integrative Plant Biology (Tampa, FL, January 2019).
2014 Invited Speaker The Ecosystems Center Seminars series (MBL) "Habitat transitions in Aquatic plants' (Woods Hole, MA, June 2014).
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
(𐎇 denotes oral presentation).
𐎇Peredo EL*, Austin J, Bezanilla M, Dohnalkova A, Cardon Z. Characterization at cellular and subcellular level of desert-evolved and aquatic green microalgae within the Scendesmaceae. Botany 2022, Anchorage (Alaska, USA)- Hybrid, 24-27 July 2022.
𐎇Peredo EL*, Pérez Castro S*, Mason O, Vineis J, Bowen J, Mortazavi B, Ruff SE, Paul B, Ganesh A, Giblin AE, Cardon Z. Uncultivated diversity of sulfur-cycling bacteria occurring in ecologically diverse vegetated salt marsh sediments. Botany 2022, Anchorage (Alaska, USA)- Hybrid, 24-27 July 2022.
𐎇Peredo EL, Paul B, Ganesh A, Pérez Castro S, Mason O, Vineis J, Bowen J, Mortazavi B, Ruff SE, Giblin AE, Cardon Z. Diversity-generating Retroelements identified in uncultivated salt marsh bacteria. ASM2022, Washington DC (DC, USA), 9-12 June, 2022.
𐎇Peredo EL*, Pérez Castro S*, Mason O, Vineis J, Bowen J, Mortazavi B, Ruff SE, Paul B, Ganesh A, Giblin AE, Cardon Z. Genomic diversity of uncultured sulfur cycling bacterial communities isolated from rhizosphere sediments in Massachusetts and Alabama salt marshes. Botany 2021, Virtual Conference, 18–23 July 2021.
𐎇Peredo EL*, Pérez Castro S*, Mason O, Vineis J, Bowen J, Mortazavi B, Ruff SE, Paul B, Ganesh A, Giblin AE, CardonZ. Genomic diversity of uncultured sulfur cycling bacterial communities isolated from rhizosphere sediments in Massachusetts and Alabama salt marshes. ASLO, Virtual conference, 22–27 June 2021.
𐎇Peredo EL, Cardon Z. Downregulation distinguishes desert from aquatic green algal response to desiccation. Botany 2020, Virtual Conference, 27 June, July –3 2020.
Peredo EL, Cardon Z. Contrasting responses to desiccation in desert-evolved and freshwater green microalgae. Joint Genome Institute User meeting 2019, San Francisco (California, USA) 3–5 April 2019.
𐎇Peredo EL, Cardon Z, Thomas S, Bruce D. Genetic bases of desiccation tolerance among independently-evolved desert species within the green algal genus Scenedesmus. ESA Annual Meeting, Portland (Oregon, USA), August 6-11, 2017.
Peredo EL, Cardon Z, Thomas S, Bruce D. Protecting photosynthesis during desiccation: do the genomes of desert derived and aquatic Scenedesmus species hold the key to understanding extreme desiccation tolerance among green algae?. Joint Genome Institute User meeting 2017, Walnut Creek (California, USA) 20–23 March 2017.
𐎇Peredo EL, Cardon Z, Thomas S, Bruce D. De novo transcriptome assembly and gene expression profiling of the desiccation-tolerant desert green alga Scenedesmus rotundus during desiccation and rehydration. Botany 2016, Savannah (Georgia, USA) 30 July –3 August 2016.
Peredo EL, Cardon Z, Thomas S, Bruce D. Library construction using RNA customized target removal for simultaneous nuclear and organelle expression profiling in species of the green microalgae Scenedesmus. Botany 2016, Savannah (Georgia, USA) 30 July –3 August 2016.
𐎇Peredo EL, Simmons SL. Microscale imaging of microbial communities on Arabidopsis thaliana L. leaf surfaces using confocal laser scanning microscopy and fluorescence in situ hybridization. ASM Microbe 2016 (American Society of Microbiology), Boston (MA, USA) 16–20 June 2016.
Peredo EL, Shapira O, Thomas S, Cardon Z. Photosynthetic response upon rehydration after desiccation is habitat-dependent among species of the algal genus Scenedesmus. Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference (ERPC) 2015, Woods Hole (MA, USA) 17–19 April 2015.
Cardon ZG, Peredo EL, Thomas S, Shapira O, Bruce D. Photosynthetic capacity persists during multiple desiccation/rehydration cycles in green algae subjected to slow, but not fast, desiccation. Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference (ERPC) 2015, Woods Hole (MA, USA) 17–19 April 2015.
Les DH, Peredo EL, King U, Tippery N. In guad we trust? Exposing the real Najas guadalupensis (Hydrocharitaceae). Botany 2014. The Boise Centre (ID) 26-30 July 2014.
King U, Peredo EL, Les D. Investigation of genetic variation in Najas flexilis using 454 genome sequencing. 5th International Conference on Comparative Biology of Monocot. New York 7-13 July 2013.
Les DH, King U, Peredo EL, Benoit L. Adaptive evolution of the chloroplast genome in Najas (Hydrocharitaceae) Monocots V. 5th International Conference on Comparative Biology of Monocot. New York 7-13 July 2013.
Tippery N, Peredo EL, Les D. New taxonomic and biogeographical insights in Nymphoides (Menyanthaceae). Botany 2012, Columbus (OH) 7-11 July 2012.
𐎇Peredo EL, Les DH, Benoit L, Tippery N. Cryptic speciation in Najas marina. Botany 2011, Saint Louis (MO) 9-13 July 2011.
Les DH, Benoit L, Peredo EL, King U. 'Now that is not Najas!' a genetic marker for identifying water sprites. Botany 2011, Saint Louis (MO) 9–13 July 2011.
𐎇King U, Peredo EL, Les D. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in Najas flexilis (Hydrocharitaceae) using 454 genome sequencing. Botany 2011, St Louis (MO) 9–13 July 2011.
𐎇Peredo EL, Cires E, Arroyo-García R, Revilla A. Genetic and epigenetic stability of Humulus lupulus after in vitro culture. Scientific Conference of the Int.l Hop Growers Convention, Spain, 21-25 June 2009.
𐎇Peredo EL, Revilla A, Jiménez-Alfaro B, Bueno A, Cires E, Fernández Prieto JA, Abbott R. Applications of molecular markers prior conservation actions on the Spanish endemic Senecio boissieri. CRYOPLANET-COST 871 Wakehust Place, UK, 17-18 February 2009.
Peredo EL, Revilla A, Jiménez-Alfaro B, Bueno A, Cires E, Fernández Prieto JA, Abbott R. Population genetic structure and phylogeography of Senecio boisseri, a rare Spanish endemic alpine plant. History, Evolution and Future of Arctic and Alpine Flora (British Ecological Society), St Andrews, Scotland, 25-27 June 2007.
𐎇Peredo EL, Reed B, García-Arroyo R, Revilla A. Assessment of genetic stability of cryopreserved and cold stored hop samples. CRYOPLANET-COST 871, Oviedo, April 13–14 2007.
𐎇Peredo EL, Revilla A, Martínez-Zapater JM, Arroyo-García R. Callus-derived hop plants show correlation between epigenetic instability and time in culture. Scientific Conference of the International Hop Growers Convention, George, South Africa, 20 – 25 February 2005.
