{"id":64949,"date":"2009-09-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-to-sponsor-lecture-series-to-celebrate-charles-darwin-anniversaries\/"},"modified":"2009-09-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T00:00:00","slug":"uri-to-sponsor-lecture-series-to-celebrate-charles-darwin-anniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2009\/09\/uri-to-sponsor-lecture-series-to-celebrate-charles-darwin-anniversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 to sponsor lecture series to celebrate Charles Darwin anniversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 September 14, 2009 \u2013 As part of the global celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin\u2019s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his On the Origin of Species, the 溏心vlog免费B站 will host a public lecture series featuring three noted biologists who will address evolutionary approaches to various aspects of modern biology and Darwin\u2019s influence on 21st century science.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe lectures are free and open to the public and will be held in the auditorium of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences at 7:30 p.m.

\n\u201cThe invited speakers each take a different approach to studying evolution, using molecular techniques that could not even be imagined in Darwin\u2019s time, but that draw upon the central tenets of Darwinian evolution to understand biological complexity,\u201d said Christopher Lane, assistant professor of biological sciences and co-organizer of the lecture series with Professor Jacqueline Webb.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe legacy of Charles Darwin\u2019s theory of natural selection is central to modern biological inquiry and discovery,\u201d added Webb. <\/p>\n


\nThe lecture series will kick off on Thursday, Sept. 24 with a presentation by Michael Bell, professor of ecology and evolution at Stony Brook University, discussing \u201cDarwinian Gradualism and How the Stickleback Lost Its Pelvis.\u201d Bell studies micro-evolutionary processes in fishes, and he will speak about his research into evolutionary changes in populations of the threespine stickleback, a fish that can be found in Rhode Island waters and has become a model system for studying microevolution.<\/p>\n


\n\tAccording to Bell, the threespine stickleback exhibits major morphological differences both within and among populations. These differences are comparable to interspecific differences in many groups of organisms and can evolve over short periods of time. Therefore, it provides an excellent opportunity to study the evolution of \u201cspecies-level\u201d differences using contemporary populations.<\/p>\n


\n\tBell\u2019s interest in sticklebacks started when, as a freshman at the University of California, San Diego, he happened to collect fossil sticklebacks with differences in their pelvis size. This became the basis of his research for graduate degrees at UCLA. He began studying stickleback populations in Cook Inlet, Alaska, in 1990, which led to the publication of his book The Evolutionary Biology of the Threespine Stickleback and his involvement in the sequencing of the stickleback genome in 2006.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe other speakers in the lecture series are:<\/p>\n


\n–\tOct. 19, Margaret McFall-Ngai, professor of medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, whose presentation is entitled \u201cIn Sickness and in Health: Our Co-Dependence with our Beneficial Microbial Partners.\u201d This lecture is sponsored by the 溏心vlog免费B站 College of Pharmacy.

\n–\tNov. 16, Debashish Bhattacharya, professor of ecology, evolution and natural resources at Rutgers University, on \u201cGenomic Approaches to Understanding Red Tide.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe lecture series is sponsored by the University\u2019s Alexander M. Cruickshank Endowed Lectureship, the College of the Environment and Life Sciences, the College of Pharmacy, the Honors Program, and the 溏心vlog免费B站 chapters of Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa. Each of the speakers will also give a research seminar at noon on the day of their visit and will be available for discussions with both faculty and students. <\/p>\n


\n For additional information, contact Dr. Christopher Lane at clane@mail.uri.edu or 401-874-2683.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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