Seminar: Gautam Dey
Speaker: Dr. Gautam Dey (EMBL Heidelberg)
Title: Mitotic rewiring on evolutionary timescales
Date & Time: Thursday February 8th, 15:30
Venue: Room C3033, Orion Building
Organizer: Dolf Weijers
Abstract:
Despite the fundamental role of cell division in the propagation of cellular life, eukaryotes have evolved a diverse range of strategies to remodel and partition organelles and cellular contents in mitosis. What drives the evolution of mitotic mechanisms? Bridging lab and field expeditions, we use a range of microbial model systems, comparative genomics, imaging and experimental evolution to probe mitotic diversity on short and long evolutionary timescales. I will present our recent work on karyotype evolution in budding yeast, on mitotic mechanisms in close holozoan relatives of animals and fungi, the Ichthyosporea, and finally our initial efforts to generate a eukaryotic mitotic atlas.
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Orion Building
WUR – Orion
Bronland 1, Wageningen