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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:OEB Seminar Series: Samuel H. Church
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SUMMARY:OEB Seminar Series: Samuel H. Church
DESCRIPTION:<p><a href="https://shchurch.github.io/#people">Samuel H. Church</a>&nbsp;<br>Assistant Professor<br>New York University</p><p><em>Sailing jellies and Hawaiian flies: model-clade approaches to evolutionary genomics</em></p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> Evolution endlessly generates biodiversity. Model clades, lineages selected for intensive research into their evolutionary history, present opportunities to examine the evolutionary mechanisms at play across biological scales. Here I present two such clades: sailing siphonophores in the genus Physalia that live at the fascinating and understudied habitat at the open ocean surface; and hundreds of species of flies in the genus Drosophila endemic to the Hawaiian archipelago. Using an integrative phylogenomics approach, we can describe patterns in the distribution of traits within these clades and their implications for the evolutionary processes that generate them.</p><p><strong>Host:</strong> OEB Graduate Students</p>
LOCATION:Northwest Building, B101, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA
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