#  OEB Seminar Series: Fay-Wei Li 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 17, 2025** 

 03:30PM - 04:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Northwest Building B101, 52 Oxford Street**  



 

 



 

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[Fay-Wei Li](https://www.fernway.net/)  
Assistant Professor  
Boyce Thompson Institute

*Sex, symbiosis, and CO2-concentrating mechanism: the secret life of hornworts*

**Abstract:** Hornworts are one of the three lineages of bryophytes and are distinct in many aspects. They diverged from other extant land plants over 480 million years ago; as such, hornworts are of paramount importance to retrace plant evolutionary history. Furthermore, hornworts have evolved a suite of unique traits, including sex chromosomes, endophytic symbiosis with N2-fixing cyanobacteria, and pyrenoids composed of phase separated Rubisco for CO2-concentrating mechanism. To facilitate hornwort research, we have generated a “pan-phylum” genomic dataset and greatly improved the efficiency of genetic transformation. Here I will present how we have been applying these new resources and tools to study hornwort sex chromosomes, cyanobacteria symbiosis, and Rubisco phase separation.

**Host:** OEB Postdoctoral Fellows



 

 



 

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