Jordan Dowell, Ph.D. Louisiana State University, presents "Examining the metabolic battlefield of plant-biotic interactions".

Jordan Dowell is an Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University, where his lab focuses on the evolutionary ecology of plant-plant interactions and the impacts of multifunctional traits on biotic interactions from single-cells to landscapes using various techniques, from metabolomic and genomic approaches to remote sensing and field-based studies. Dr. Dowell recently finished a postdoc at UC Davis with Dan Klibenstein, working on the impacts of volatile compounds on plant-fungal interactions. Previously, he completed his Ph.D. in 2021 with Chase Mason at the University of Central Florida, working on examining the genetic architecture of ecophysiological and metabolomic variation of wild and cultivated sunflowers while developing new remote sensing tools for predicting Plant-plant chemical communication. Before that, Dr. Dowell did his bachelor’s and master’s at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, with Dale Devitt, working on the impacts of aridity gradients on plant co-occurrence and ecophysiology.

Host: Amanda Agosto Ramos (aagostoramos@ucdavis.edu)