Evolution Cluster Faculty Search Seminar: "Human development and naturalistic social interactions in chimpanzees: Understanding prosociality in the human lineage"
Bailey House, MPI Leipzig
Both evolved adaptations and acquired information likely shape cooperation in many social animals. As such, to resolve the origins of human prosociality we must learn how uniquely human capacities for cultural…
Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar
Daniel Scolnic (Johns Hopkins University)
High Energy Theory
Matthew Williams (McMaster)
Evolution Cluster Faculty Search Seminar: "Cheaters and collaborators: the evolution of cooperative animal societies"
Christina Riehl, Harvard University
Most social animals live in family groups, in which cooperation is thought to be partly maintained by kin selection. But how do cooperative interactions evolve among unrelated individuals? Theory predicts that such…
Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar
Jens Chluba (Johns Hopkins University)
http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~jchluba/Science_Jens/Science_Jens.html
Department Colloquium: TBD
Carl Haber, LBL
Evolution Cluster Faculty Search Seminar: "Adaptive modeling of dynamic periodicity and trend with heteroscedastic and dependent errors---with clinical applications"
Hau-Tieng Wu, Stanford University
Periodicity and trend are features describing an observed sequence, and extracting these features is an important issue in many scientific fields. However, it is not an easy task for existing methods to analyze…
Evolution Cluster Faculty Search Seminar: "Revolving door evolution of essential DNA packaging proteins"
Mia Levine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Our genomic DNA is packaged into distinct compartments that support essential, highly conserved cellular processes. Paradoxically, the 'chromatin' proteins that establish and maintain these compartments are…
Evolution Cluster Faculty Search Seminar: "Hydrodynamics and collective behavior of the tethered bacterium Thiovulum majus"
Alexander Petroff, Rockefeller University
The ecology and dynamics of many microbial systems, particularly in mats and soils, are shaped by how bacteria respond to evolving nutrient gradients and microenvironments. Here we show how the response of the…