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ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #06

Prof. John McCutcheon (Arizona State Univ., USA)
"The origins and endpoints of cell-in-cell symbioses"

Abstract: Mitochondria and chloroplasts are now called organelles, but they used to be bacteria. Understanding the genetic, biochemical, and cell biological events that happened during the transition from 'bacterial endosymbiont' to 'organelle’ has been obscured by both time and by a lack of comparative examples. In this talk I will show how the long-term, stable endosymbioses of sap-feeding insects resemble the classic organelles in many ways, and describe some of the remarkably convoluted outcomes that occur when two (or more) cells become integrated with each other.

ERATO Evolving Symbiosis Project International Seminar Series #06
Sponsored by ERATO FUKATSU Evolving Symbiosis Project
https://www.jst.go.jp/erato/fukatsu/english/

Co-sponsored by ERATO NOMURA Microbial Community Control Project
https://www.jst.go.jp/erato/nomura/en/index.html

Co-sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "Post-Koch Ecology”
https://postkoch.jp/about/

Co-sponsored by Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability (MiCS), University of Tsukuba
https://www.mics.tsukuba.ac.jp/en

Co-sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas "Constrained & Directional Evolution”
http://constrained-evo.org/english.html