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SUMMARY:EESS talk on "The metaorganism frontier - we are not alone"
DTSTART:20191126T121500
DTEND:20191126T130000
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Christian R Voolstra\, Professor of Genetics of Adaptation 
 in Aquatic Systems\,Dpt of Biology\, University of Konstanz\, DE.\n \nAbs
 tract:\nRecent years have brought a changing imperative in life sciences s
 parked by the revolution of genomic tools to study the molecular compositi
 on and functional organization of organisms. The development of next-gener
 ation sequencing changed our understanding of microbial diversity associat
 ed with organisms and environments. There are now a multitude of studies t
 hat support the notion that a host-specific microbiome associates with mul
 ticellular organisms and provides functions related to metabolism\, immuni
 ty\, and environmental adaptation\, among others. Consequently\, interacti
 ons and communication mechanisms of members in this metaorganism presumabl
 y play a major role in maintaining host health\, organismal homeostasis\, 
 and resilience to environmental disturbance. The seminar will highlight an
 d discuss recent efforts to investigate metaorganism function and evolutio
 n using a suite of ecological\, physiological\, and molecular approaches.\
 n\nHis research area is environmental genomics with a focus on acclimation
  and adaptation of marine invertebrates. In particular\, Dr. Voolstra stud
 ies coral metaorganism function combining ecological\, environmental\, mic
 robial\, and molecular approaches. Corals are metaorganisms composed of th
 e coral host\, intracellular photosynthetic dinoflagellate symbionts\, and
  associated microbiota. Together these so-called coral holobionts form the
  keystone species of reef ecosystems. Dr. Voolstra’s most recent researc
 h has particularly advanced knowledge of how the bacterial microbiome cont
 ributes to coral animal host acclimation and adaptation. Dr. Voolstra has 
 published over 150 peer-reviewed research papers\, various book chapters\,
  and holds patents related to bioactive lead structures from marine organi
 sms. Dr. Voolstra is a Scientific Coordinator of the Tara Pacific consorti
 um and a steering committee member of the Global Invertebrate Genomics All
 iance (GIGA). Dr. Voolstra received his PhD at the Institute for Genetics 
 in Cologne\, Germany in 2006 and was a Postdoctoral scholar at the Univers
 ity of California\, Merced from 2007-2009. He was appointed Assistant Prof
 essor of Marine Science at KAUST’s Red Sea Research Center in 2009\, and
  in 2015 was promoted to Associate Professor. From 2016 to 2019\, Dr. Vool
 stra served as the Associate Director of the Red Sea Research Center at KA
 UST. In 2019\, Dr. Voolstra became Professor of Genetics of Adaptation in 
 Aquatic Systems at the University of Konstanz\, Germany.
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