Elongation of the neuronal axis in early chordates: Insights into the origin of the vertebrate CNS
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27.09.2019
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09:30
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Èlia Benito-Gutiérrez, she did her PhD in the University of Barcelona on the Evolutionary Origins of the Neurotrophic System using Amphioxus as a model system. She made a field-changing discovery by demonstrating that the Neurotrophic System, previously thought to be a pre-requisite for evolving a complex brain in vertebrates, predated the origin of the vertebrates themselves. She received several prizes for this discovery and thereafter she moved to the EMBL where she continued developing amphioxus as a lab-based model system. In EMBL, she developed an automated culturing system for cephalochordates, validated by using species collected from all over the world. She has participated in two cephalochordate Genome Projects and she is currently working on those of rare cephalochordate species. She is building up on all these resources as a Junior Group Leader in the University of Cambridge, to try and reconstruct the molecular paths that lead to morphological innovation in vertebrates.
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Conferences - Seminars |
