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SUMMARY:Eduardo Rocha // Horizontal gene transfer: from acquisition to fun
 ctional innovation
DTSTART:20190402T121500
DTSTAMP:20260510T064842Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Eduardo Rocha\, Department of Genomes and Genetics\, Institut 
 Pasteur\, Paris\nEvolutionary processes are typically described as the res
 ult of mutation\, descent and selection. Many microbes lack sexual reprodu
 ction but have the ability to  acquire genetic information from very dist
 antly related organisms. Horizontal gene transfer allows the instantaneous
  acquisition of new complex adaptive traits and their transmission to subs
 equent generations. This speeds up evolutionary processes as exemplified b
 y the acquisition of virulence traits in emerging infectious agents and by
  antibiotic resistance in many human bacterial pathogens. In this talk\, I
 'll describe how bacteria control and organize the influx of novel genetic
  information\, and how this results not only in the spread of adaptive fun
 ctions\, but also on radical functional innovation.\n 
LOCATION:SV 1717 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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