Jan. 25, 2020
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A Celebration of NASA Astrobiology NAI: CAN-7 Grand Finale
Reliving the Past: Experimental Evolution of Major Transitions in the History of Life
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A Celebration of NASA Astrobiology: NAICAN-7 Grand Finale
Reliving the Past: Experimental Evolution of Major Transitions in the History of Life
MONDAYJANUARY 27 IBB Suddath Seminar Room
08h15– 08h50: Continental Breakfast, Suddath Room, IBB
08h50 – 09h00: Frank Rosenzweig, PI. Georgia Tech: Welcoming Remarks and Overview
09h00 – 09h20: Vaughn Cooper, co-I. University of Pittsburgh: The timescale and limits of evolutionary parallelism *Work of Caroline Turner (NPP Fellow), new faculty at Univ Loyola-Chicago
09h20 – 09h40: Kimberly Chen, postdoc. Georgia Tech: Evolution of multicellularity in the volvocine algae
09h40 – 10h00: Kennda Lynch, DDF Fellow. Georgia Tech; now Staff Scientist Lunar Planetary Institute: S3 (Subsurface, Subaqueous, and Salty): Looking for life in all the right places
10h00 – 10h20: Peter Conlin, Georgia Tech (NPP Fellow): Stabilizing the evolutionary transition to multicellularity against reversion
10h25 – 10h55: COFFEEBREAK
11h00 – 11h20: Shelley Copley, co-I. University of Colorado: Mutations that enable assembly of a novel metabolic pathway from promiscuous enzyme activities (and a surprise)
11h20 – 11h40: Gavin Sherlock, co-I. Stanford University: Pareto fronts constrain initial adaptation in yeast
11h40 – 12h00: Paul Sniegowski, co-I. University of Pennsylvania: Mutational load and the functional fraction of the human genome
12h00 – 13h00: LUNCHANDDISCUSSION
13h00 – 13h20: Will Ratcliff, co-I. Georgia Tech: Getting cool things for “free”: what we’ve learned from our multicellularity LTEE
13h20 – 13h40: McCutcheon Lab: Deanna Bublitz, Research Scientist. University of Montana: Peptidoglycan: one ring to bind them
13h40 – 14h00: Miller Lab: Nikea Ulrich, PhD candidate. University of Montana: Emergence of a generalist: How horizontal gene transfer and gene duplication contribute to niche breadth in Acaryochloris marina
14h00 – 14h20: Ben Galeota-Sprung, recent PhD. University of Pennsylvania: Mutational load in mismatch-repair-deficient yeast
14h20 – 14h50: Eric Smith, co-I. Georgia Tech/Tokyo Tech-ELSI and Anton Petrov, Research faculty. Georgia Tech: The genetic code as a record of interdependent major transitions in biosynthesis and folding by biopolymers
14h50 – 15h20: COFFEEBREAK
15h20 – 15h40: Nick Hud, PI. Center for Chemical Evolution. Georgia Tech: Proto-Biopolymers: Before the Inception
15h40 – 16h00: Loren Williams PI, Center for Origin of Life. Georgia Tech: RNA and protein: At the inception.
16h00 – 16h20: Amanda Stockton PI, PSTAR. Georgia Tech: Searching for life at Earth’s extremes and beyond.
16h20 – 16h30: Frank Rosenzweig, Concluding remarks.
16h30 – 19h00: Happy Hour and ExplOrigins Poster Session (MoSE 1st and 2nd Floor Atrium)
Exploration and Origins Colloquium: GT ExplOrigins
MONDAY January 27 MoSE 1st and 2nd Floor Atrium
17h00 – 19h00: Poster Session
TUESDAY January 28 IBB Suddath Seminar Room
- Each contributed talk will be scheduled for 20 minutes
8h00 – 8h45: Coffee and Poster Viewing
8h45 – 9h00: Welcome notes
9h00 – 10h00: PLENARY 1: Mariel Borowitz
10h00 – 10h15: COFFEEBREAK
10h20 – 12h00: MORNINGSESSION (5 TALKS)
12h00 – 13h00 LUNCH: MoSE 1st and 2nd floor atrium
13h00 – 14h00 PLENARY 2: Chris Carr
14h00 – 15h00 AFTERNOONSESSION 1 (3 talks)
15h05 – 15h15 COFFEEBREAK
15h15 – 17h00 AFTERNOONSESSION 2 (4 talks)
17h00 – 19h00 BREAK-OUT/POSTER SESSION