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SUMMARY:Lack of synchronization: a key for collective systems robustness? 
 - Professor Corina Tarnita (Princeton University)
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CONTACT:Dr. Adrien Hallou
DESCRIPTION:Loners — individuals out of sync with a coordinated majority
  — occur frequently in nature\, from microbial aggregates to locust swar
 ms\, from the wildebeest migration to bamboo flowering or cicada emergence
 . Are loners incidental byproducts of large-scale coordination attempts\, 
 or are they part of a mosaic of life-history strategies? I will draw on th
 eoretical modeling and empirical evidence of naturally occurring heritable
  variation in loner behavior in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum
  to propose that imperfect coordination of collective behaviors might be a
 daptive by enabling diversification of life-history strategies. In particu
 lar\, for D. discoideum\, I will argue that loners are critical to underst
 anding collective and social behaviors\, multicellular development\, and e
 cological dynamics.
LOCATION:Webinar
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