Combi Seminars
Co-sponsored by the Department of Genomes Sciences and the Computational Molecular Biology (CMB) Program, the Combi Seminars focus specifically on developments in molecular and computational biology-related research and often feature UW faculty and researchers from regionally affiliated centers and institutes.
All Combi Seminars take place on Wednesdays from 1:30 - 2:30 in Foege Auditorium unless otherwise noted.
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Autumn 2019
December 4 - Dr. Larry Ruzzo
University of Washington
"The Persistence of Unicellular Sex"
Most eukaryotes are sexual, despite the fact that (all else being equal) asexual reproduction is much more efficient. The contrast is especially acute in unicellular eukaryotes, where mitotic division is essentially always an option, and the relative cost of meiosis is large. An expected consequence is loss-of-sex, and I will present a case study showing what I believe to be a snapshot of loss-of-sex in action---relatively simple genetics presumably underlies the loss, and the asexual advantage presumably has allowed a rapid, global expansion of the asexual sub-population. Given the apparent simplicity of this asexual transition, why aren't there many more examples, why does sex persist? I have no special insights into the long-term benefits of outcrossing, but assuming they exist, I will speculate on life history characteristics that may serve to block potential asexual transitions in many lineages, thus allowing those long-term benefits to accrue.
December 11 - session to be used by Genome 371 to 3:30
Winter 2020
January 8 - Dr. Jesse Bloom
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
January 15 - Dr. Cole Trapnell
University of Washington
January 22 - Dr. Neda Bagheri
University of Washington
January 29 - Dr. Mary Kuhner
University of Washington
February 5 - Dr. Phil Bradley
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
February 12 - Dr. John Mittler
University of Washington
February 19 - Dr. Elizabeth Thompson
University of Washington
February 26 - Dr. Kelley Harris
University of Washington
March 4 - Dr. Nathan Price
Institute for Systems Biology
March 11 - Dr. Frank DiMaio
University of Washington
Spring 2020
Spring Quarter sessions are reserved for postdoctoral research talks.
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