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SUMMARY:Saunders Genetics Lecture - Professor Richard Lenski
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CONTACT:Charlotte Groocock
DESCRIPTION: This will be the first of a prestigious series of lectures he
 ld in commemoration of the life and work of Edith Rebecca (Becky) Saunders
  who made major contributions to the understanding of genetics and heredit
 y at the beginning of the 20th century. Saunders entered Newnham College i
 n 1884\, continued her postgraduate research as a Bathurst student from 18
 88 to 1889\, and later became the director of the Balfour Biological Labor
 atory for Women in 1899.  She was Director of Studies for Natural Sciences
  at Newnham between 1918 and 1925 and President of the Genetical Society f
 rom 1936-1938. \n\n The Saunders Genetics Lectures will celebrate the best
  contemporary research in Genetics today\, with invited speakers being sel
 ected on the basis of their contribution to research that resonates with t
 he activities of the Department of Genetics and more widely across the Sch
 ool of Biological Sciences. We are delighted to welcome Professor Richard 
 Lenski from Michigan State University as our inaugural speaker for the 201
 8 Saunders Genetics Lecture to deliver a talk on Dynamics of Phenotypic an
 d Genomic Evolution in a Long-Term Experiment with E. coli. For further in
 formation about Richard and his research please visit http://myxo.css.msu.
 edu/\n\nAbstract: Evolution is an on-going process\, one that can be studi
 ed experimentally in organisms with rapid generations.  We have maintained
  12 populations of Escherichia coli in a simple environment for over 65\,0
 00 generations.  The aims of this experiment are to characterise the tempo
  and mode of evolution\, and to examine the repeatability of phenotypic an
 d genomic changes.  We have quantified the dynamics of adaptation by natur
 al selection\, documented many cases of parallel evolution\, observed chan
 ges in the underlying mutation rate\, and seen the appearance of a novel m
 etabolic function that transcends the usual definition of E. coli as a spe
 cies.  We have sequenced hundreds of complete genomes to find the mutation
 s in time-series of samples from the populations.  These genomic data prov
 ide insights into the dynamic coupling of phenotypic and genotypic evoluti
 on during periods of optimisation and innovation.\n\n Further information 
 about this event can be found at http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/department/edith
 -saunders
LOCATION:Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building\, New Museums 
 Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge\, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB
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