Darwin Day at Olin College with Featured Speaker Dianne Newman, February 12, 2009

Post date: Feb 02, 2009 9:41:1 PM

February 12, 2009 at 4pm in the Olin Auditorium, Milas Hall, F.W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA

www.olin.edu for directions

Dianne K Newman from the Departments of Biology and Earth and Planetary Sciences at M.I.T. will be lecturing on:

"From Oxides to Infections"

Dianne K. Newman, Ph.D. John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Biology and Geobiology states that "Our laboratory is interested in the co-evolution of life and Earth specifically, we take an interdisciplinary approach to studying the molecular mechanisms that underlie putatively ancient forms of metabolism. By understanding the way extant organisms function at the molecular level, we hope eventually to gain insights into the evolution of ancient metabolic and biomineralization pathways, interpret the chemical signatures of early life found in the geologic record, and understand how multicellular bacterial communities survive in the context of anaerobic infections"