There and Back Again: Five Years Among Novel Multicellular Organisms, Warrior Bacteria, and Biophysicists

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Event Details
  • Date/Time:
    • Thursday September 27, 2018
      10:55 am
  • Location: Room 1005, Roger A. and Helen B. Krone Engineered Biosystems Building (EBB), 950 Atlantic Dr NW, Atlanta, GA 30332
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Contact

Jasmine Martin

Summaries

Summary Sentence: A Biological Sciences Seminar by Will Ratcliff, Ph.D.

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Will Ratcliff, Ph.D.
School of Biological Sciences
Georgia Institute of Technology
 
Abstract
This is my tenure talk. I'll thus tell you all about the work we've done over the last five years at Tech, focusing on the great collaborations I've developed since coming here. This talk will mainly span two domains: multicellularity and microbial social evolution. On the topic of multicellularity, I'll show results from the first couple years of our long-term evolution experiment (which I hope to run for 30+ years), in which we evolve snowflake yeast that are ~1,000 times larger than their ancestors and a million times more physically robust. We've used this system to glean new insights in to how development can arise de novo, how cells evolve from autonomous individuals into mutually-dependent parts of a new multicellular organism, and how early multicellular life cycles can catalyze the evolution of increased complexity. On the microbial social evolution side, I'll tell you about our work examining the surprisingly complex social lives of bacteria- cooperation, conflict, and even risk aversion (bet hedging). 

Additional Information

In Campus Calendar
Yes
Groups

School of Biological Sciences

Invited Audience
Faculty/Staff, Postdoc, Public, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
Categories
Seminar/Lecture/Colloquium
Keywords
School of Biological Sciences Seminar, School of Biological Sciences, Will Ratcliff
Status
  • Created By: Jasmine Martin
  • Workflow Status: Published
  • Created On: Aug 30, 2018 - 4:31pm
  • Last Updated: Aug 30, 2018 - 4:32pm