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Event Details

Type

Friday Lecture Series

Speaker(s)

David Kingsley, Ph.D., professor, developmental biology, Stanford University; investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Speaker bio(s)

The molecular changes that underlie evolutionary change in vertebrates are still unknown. Dr. Kingsley's lab is developing three-spine stickleback fish as a powerful model system for studying how new traits evolve in natural populations. They have used this system to identify several molecular mechanisms underlying repeated evolution of both morphological and physiological traits. They have also been able to generalize from stickleback case studies to larger genome-wide patterns of evolutionary change. Similar principles are seen in genome-wide studies of adaptive loci in both sticklebacks and humans, suggesting the importance of regulatory differences for a detailed understanding of the molecular basis of evolutionary change in vertebrates.

Dr. Kingsley did graduate work on the the somatic cell genetics of LDL receptor expression with Monty Krieger at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received his Ph.D. in biology in 1986. He then moved to the laboratory of Neal Copeland and Nancy Jenkins at NCI-Frederick MD for postdoctoral training in mouse skeletal genetics from 1987 to 1991. He established his own laboratory in the developmental biology department at Stanford University in 1991, where he has continued work in mouse genetics. At Stanford, he is now professor of developmental biology and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Kingsley has received a Lucille P. Markey Scholar Award, an NIH merit award for outstanding genetic analysis of bone morphogenetic proteins and the Conklin Medal for distinguished research from the Society for Developmental Biology. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

Open to

Public

Reception

Refreshments, 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m., Abby Lounge

Contact

Alena Powell

Phone

(212) 327-7745

Sponsor

Alena Powell
(212) 327-7745
apowell@rockefeller.edu

Readings

http://librarynews.rockefeller.edu/?p=3467