#  OEB Seminar Series 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 5, 2016** 

 12:00PM - 12:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St.**  



 

 



 

   ![Nicole King](/sites/g/files/omnuum6811/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/oeb/files/nicole_king.jpg?itok=-BWqjhiD) 

 

[Nicole King](http://kinglab.berkeley.edu/)  
Howard Hughes Medical Institute  
University of California, Berkeley  
*"Choanoflagellates and the origin of animal multicellularity"* **Abstract:** All animals are multicellular, yet little is known about how animal multicellularity first evolved. The choanoflagellate *S. rosetta* is one of the closest living relatives of animals and its study promises to illuminate the origin of animal multicellularity*.* Just as animals develop from a single cell – the zygote – a single cell of *S. rosetta* can produce a multicellular rosette colony through multiple rounds of cell division coupled with stable cell adhesion. In my seminar, I will describe my lab’s studies of intrinsic and extrinsic factors that regulate the switch to rosette development and discuss the implications of our findings for understanding animal origins and development.



 

 

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