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Susanne Erd­mann: Vir­uses in­fect­ing ar­chaea from "ex­treme" en­vir­on­ments: what we can learn from them

Feb 23, 2018, 15:00

INVITATION 

Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 23, 2018 
in the New Aud­it­or­ium (4012) at 3:00 p.m. (15:00h) 

Susanne Erdmann (Uni­versity of Tech­no­logy Sydney, Aus­tralia)

will give a sem­inar with the title: 

Virus infecting archaea from "extreme" environments: what we can learn from them

Hörsaal

Ar­chaea are present in en­vir­on­ments that re­semble early Earth, habe re­vealed novel lin­eages that are pos­sible rel­ics of an an­cient past and of­fer in­sight into cel­lu­lar evol­u­tion. By com­par­ison, the evol­u­tion of virus, in­clud­ing their ori­gin and re­la­tion­ship to other ex­tra­chromo­somal ele­ments and an­ces­tral cel­lu­lar life, is less cer­tain. I have been study­ing virus from di­verse 'ex­treme' en­vir­on­ments in­clud­ing hot springs and Ant­arc­tic lakes and dis­covered novel virus and ex­tra­chromo­somal ele­ments pos­sess­ing unique mor­pho­lo­gies, gen­ome con­tent and in­ter­ac­tions with their hosts. My stud­ies aim to im­prove our un­der­stand­ing of viral evol­u­tion and virus-host re­la­tion­ship.

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