Abstract

We live in a microbial world. All higher organisms have evolved with and in response to microbes and consequently, symbiotic associations are ubiquitous in nature. The transition from a free-living to a host-associated life-style has huge implications for the genome evolution of microbial symbionts. Marie Braad Lund is using symbiotic bacteria in earthworms as a model system for the genome evolution of host-associated extracellular symbionts.

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Marie Braad Lund is a Dale T. Mortensen Fellow at AIAS. She did her undergraduate and graduate studies at Aarhus University where she studied the function and evolution of earthworm symbionts. After obtaining her PhD degree in winter 2009, she moved to California where she studied marine nitrogen cycling at Stanford University for three years. Now, she has returned to Aarhus University and the earthworm symbiosis system, which she is using as a model for understanding basic evolutionary principals.

Lotte Phillipsen, Jens Christian Skou Junior Fellow, will introduce the seminar.

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