{"610667":{"#nid":"610667","#data":{"type":"event","title":"There and Back Again: Five Years Among Novel Multicellular Organisms, Warrior Bacteria, and Biophysicists","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWill Ratcliff, \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPh.D\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSchool of Biological Sciences\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EThis is my tenure talk. I\u0026#39;ll thus tell you all about the work we\u0026#39;ve done over the last five years at Tech, focusing on the great collaborations I\u0026#39;ve developed since coming here. This talk will mainly span two domains: multicellularity and microbial social evolution. On the topic of multicellularity, I\u0026#39;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\u0026#39;ve used this system to glean new insights in to how development can arise\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Ede novo, \u003C\/em\u003Ehow 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\u0026#39;ll tell you about our work examining the surprisingly complex social lives of bacteria- cooperation, conflict, and even risk aversion (bet hedging).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A Biological Sciences Seminar by Will Ratcliff, Ph.D."}],"uid":"27964","created_gmt":"2018-08-30 20:31:33","changed_gmt":"2018-08-30 20:32:38","author":"Jasmine Martin","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2018-09-27T11:55:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2018-09-27T11:55:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2018-09-27T11:55:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2018-09-27 15:55:00","gmt_time_end":"2018-09-27 15:55:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2018-09-27 15:55:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"166892","name":"School of Biological Sciences Seminar"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"108591","name":"Will Ratcliff"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jasmine.martin@biosci.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJasmine Martin\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}