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
On March 7th, 2022, AltaSea along with the Nuzhdin Lab and the Holdfast Aquaculture Laboratory hosted 250 guests at their 35-acre ocean research facility in the Port of Los Angeles. Noted attendees included USC President Carol L. Folt and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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
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
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:
Below is a list of shared presentations as well as notes and a white paper by Karen Gray of GreenWave:
Ariel Levi Simons recently attended the Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendevous at UCLA and gave a presentation on Light Pollution and Ecology.
Members of the lab attended the 4th Annual Meeting of the Chickpea Innovation Lab in Hyderabad, India. Read about it here.
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]
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]
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.
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.
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 Cicer.
