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Biology symposium focuses on plant, animal interactions

By Phil Williams
phil@franklin.uga.edu

Several noted scientists, including a winner of a MacArthur “genius grant,” will speak at UGA during February as part of the sixth annual Winter Evolutionary Biology Symposium, this year focusing on interactions among and within plants and animals.
Each speaker will deliver two lectures. The Sunday evening presentations are geared more toward specialists in the field and are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. The Monday lectures, all scheduled for 11:10 a.m., are aimed at a general audience. All presentations will be in room C127 of the life sciences building, and all are open free to the public.
The first lecturer in the series will be Edmund D. Brodie III, associate professor of biology at Indiana University. Brodie’s research focuses on interactions between predators and their prey as well as the interactions among traits within organisms. His first seminar, Feb. 2, is titled “Indirect Genetic Effects of Parent-Offspring Interactions: Who Cares?” His second seminar will be Feb. 3, and is titled “Eye of Newt and Fillet of Fenny Snake: The Witches’ Brew of Co-Evolutionary Arms Races.”
Nancy Moran, Regents’ Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and professor of entomology at the University of Arizona, will be the second speaker this year. A 1997 MacArthur Award winner, Moran’s pioneering work has focused on the evolution of interactions between parasites and their animal hosts. Her first lecture, on Feb. 9, will deal with genome reduction in obligate symbionts. Her second seminar will be Feb. 10 and will discuss symbiosis in insects.
The third presenter will be Jeffrey Palmer, Distinguished Professor of Biology at Indiana University. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Palmer is one of the pioneers of plant molecular systematics. His current work focuses on gene and genome evolution and the transfer of gene functions from the mitochondria to the nucleus. He will speak on Feb. 16 and 17.
The final presenter will be Janis Antonovics, Lewis and Clark Professor of Biology at the University of Virginia. A Fellow in the Royal Society, Antonovics works on the interactions of plants and a sexually transmitted fungal disease. He will speak on Feb. 23 and 24.

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