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SUMMARY:Elongation of the neuronal axis in early chordates: Insights into 
 the origin of the vertebrate CNS
DTSTART:20190927T093000
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DESCRIPTION:Èlia Benito-Gutiérrez\, she did her PhD in the University of
  Barcelona on the Evolutionary Origins of the Neurotrophic System using Am
 phioxus as a model system. She made a field-changing discovery by demonstr
 ating that the Neurotrophic System\, previously thought to be a pre-requis
 ite for evolving a complex brain in vertebrates\, predated the origin of t
 he vertebrates themselves. She received several prizes for this discovery 
 and thereafter she moved to the EMBL where she continued developing amphio
 xus as a lab-based model system. In EMBL\, she developed an automated cult
 uring system for cephalochordates\, validated by using species collected f
 rom all over the world. She has participated in two cephalochordate Genome
  Projects and she is currently working on those of rare cephalochordate sp
 ecies. She is building up on all these resources as a Junior Group Leader 
 in the University of Cambridge\, to try and reconstruct the molecular path
 s that lead to morphological innovation in vertebrates.\n
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