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SUMMARY:Geometrical Aspects of Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellularit
 y - Professor Raymond Goldstein FRS\, Alan Turing Professor of Complex Phy
 sical Systems\, DAMTP\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Alison Warrington
DESCRIPTION:This talk will describe recent experimental and theoretical ad
 vances in understanding the dynamics and architecture of organisms that se
 rve as models for evolutionary transitions to multicellularity. I will foc
 us on four interrelated subjects: the fluid dynamical and elastic properti
 es of the recently discovered choanoflagellate _C. flexa_\, which dynamica
 lly interconverts between two hemispherical forms of opposite curvature\, 
 the recent discovery of common probability distributions of cellular neigh
 bourhood volumes in both “snowflake yeast” and the green alga _Volvox_
 \, embryonic “inversion” and the spontaneous curling of the extracellu
 lar matrix of _Volvox_. Taken together\, these studies shed light on a fun
 damental question: “How do cells produce structures external to themselv
 es in an accurate and robust manner?”
LOCATION:  Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2\, CMS
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