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Functionally stratified encoding in a biological gyroscope
Dr. Bradley Dickerson, Princeton
Abstract: Flies are among nature’s most agile flying creatures. This exquisite maneuverability is due in part to their possession of specialized mechanosensory organs known as the halteres. The halteres are…
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Dr. Maria Tătulea-Codrean, University of Cambridge
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Dr. Avery Montie, Boston University
It’s too late to Mitigate: Resilience & Adaptation in plants
Dr. Joanne Chory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
The 2024 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Sciences is presented to Joanne Chory for her research combining genetic, biochemical & genome-wide analyses to elucidate how plants respond to light, & for inspiring…
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Dr. Cecilia Diniz Behn, Colorado School of Mines
Finding a needle in a haystack: looking for non-coding RNA functions
Dr. Martin Crespi, Université Paris-Saclay
Abstract: The non-coding genome is the major part of the eukaryotic transcriptome and many long noncoding RNAs, or lncRNAs, were shown to act as positive or negative quantitative regulators of gene expression in…
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Dr. Sebastien Roch, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The tempo of adaptation to agriculture across timescales in weeds and crops
Dr. Julia Kreiner, University of Chicago
Abstract: Genomic time-series data from natural and cultivated populations are increasingly being recovered from herbarium and archeological records. These resources provide the opportunity to directly observe…
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Dr. Thomas Fai, Brandeis University