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Princeton ACS Section Dinner Meeting
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
our
guest speaker will be
Dr. Aaron Goldman
Princeton University Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
| Location: |
Frick Laboratory, Princeton University |
| Social mixer: |
5:30 pm in CaFe, Taylor Commons |
| Presentation: |
6:30 pm in Taylor Auditorium |
| Dinner: |
Immediately following presentation in CaFe |
"Emergence and Expansion of the Ancient Protein Repertoire"
Abstract
Proteins play the primary functional role in nearly all of life's physiological processes. They are, themselves, the final
products of the translation system, life's oldest and most highly conserved of these processes. The early expansion of
protein functions and complex functional networks created the foundation from which cellular life emerged. Here, I
describe ancient transitions in protein evolution that ultimately led to the sophisticated protein repertoire of the universal
ancestor at the root of the tree of life.
Biography
Dr Aaron Goldman is a NASA research fellow in the Landweber Laboratory in the Department of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology (EEB).
The theory of evolution provides a coherent explanation for all biological phenomena. All of the Faculty in the EEB
Department pursue research interests to a greater or lesser extent connected to evolution. A core group of Faculty
address evolutionary questions directly, at very different scales of biological organization, and they all use techniques of
molecular biology to answer those questions.
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