Events List

DateEvent TypeSpeaker
09/06/2023Informal Astro TalkTaeho Ryu [ + ]
09/06/2023HEP Journal Club [ + ]
09/06/2023HEP SeminarBobby Acharya [ + ]
09/06/2023Oral DefenseJack Donahue [ + ]
09/07/2023Physics Dept ColloquiumDaniel Rokhsar [ -- ]

Title: The Past Has Left Its Traces On The World, And We Only Have To Know How To Read Them
Abstract: Animals arose over five hundred million years ago, and by the end of the Cambrian had diversified into today's phylum-level forms. This early history is obscured by the fact that the first animals were soft-bodied and left only enigmatic fossils. Here we take a comparative genomic approach to inferring the early evolutionary history of early animals and the subsequent events that gave rise to vertebrates. We show that, with a few notable exceptions, animal chromosomes are remarkably stable and evolve slowly over hundreds of millions of years, and that some gene linkages extend even further back in time. We then use these deeply conserved aspects of genome organization to (1) show that ctenophores rather than sponges are the earliest branching lineage of living animals, which has implications for the evolution of nervous systems, and (2) decipher the history of Paleozoic polyploidy and promiscuity in our vertebrate lineage. (4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, 726 Broadway, 940, CCPP Seminar)
09/11/2023CCPP Brown BagMichael Blanton [ + ]
09/12/2023Astro SeminarKaze Wong [ + ]
09/12/2023Informal HEP TalkTom Shachar [ + ]
09/12/2023Cosmic Happy HourCalvin Chen [ + ]
09/13/2023HEP Journal Club [ + ]
09/13/2023HEP SeminarDa Liu [ + ]
09/13/2023MeetingGaston Giribet [ + ]
09/14/2023Physics Dept ColloquiumLaure Zanna [ + ]
09/15/2023Informal HEP TalkGleb Aminov [ + ]
09/18/2023CCPP Brown BagMichael Blanton [ + ]
09/19/2023Astro SeminarNia Imara [ + ]
09/20/2023HEP Journal Club [ + ]
09/20/2023HEP SeminarHirosi Ooguri [ + ]
09/20/2023CCPP Pheno Journal Club [ + ]
09/21/2023Physics Dept ColloquiumHiroshi Oguri [ + ]
09/22/2023ArXiv DiscussionPostdocs [ + ]
09/25/2023CCPP Brown BagAhmed Almheiri [ + ]
09/25/2023Informal Astro TalkJordan Flitter [ + ]
09/26/2023Astro SeminarGiulio Fabbian [ + ]
09/27/2023HEP Journal Club [ + ]
09/27/2023HEP SeminarJosh Foster [ + ]
09/27/2023Informal HEP TalkGabriele Rigo [ + ]
09/28/2023Informal Astro TalkChristopher Tiede [ + ]
09/28/2023Physics Dept ColloquiumMiles Stoudenmire [ + ]
09/29/2023ArXiv DiscussionPostdocs [ + ]
09/29/2023HET Discussion SessionZare [ + ]