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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Join the Marion Natural History Museum, Friday, August 20 at the Marion Music Hall, 7 – 8 pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">How trees communicate – Exploring the underground network of trees<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">with Valentina Lagomarsino, PhD student, Biological Biomedical Sciences program at Harvard University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Trees are considered to be the oldest living organisms on the planet. Over centuries, they have been </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.13785"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">resilient</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">to
changes in their environment due to their symbiotic relationship to fungi and other microbes.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">When scientists first studied the structure of nerve cells that comprise the human brain, they noted
their strong resemblance to trees. In fact, dendrites, the term to describe projections from a nerve cell, comes from the Greek word Dendron, for “tree.”
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222;background:white">The comparison may have been more apt than originally realized: scientists are starting to uncover
that trees have their own sort of nervous system that is capable of facilitating </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324710824_Mycorrhizal_Networks_Facilitate_Tree_Communication_Learning_and_Memory"><span style="color:black;background:white;text-decoration:none">tree
communication, memory and learning.</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#222222">Let’s discuss how trees communicate and the invisible microbes that keep our ecosystems in
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">harmony.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Donation: $8.00 members, $10.00 non-members. Registration in advance is recommended. To register please go to the museum’s
website: <a href="http://www.marionmuseum.org"><span style="color:black">www.marionmuseum.org</span></a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-style:normal">This program is supported in part by a grant from the Marion Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural
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