This week’s seminar in the Biology Colloquium series will be given by Dr. Holly Moeller from the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at UC Santa Barbara. Moeller studies a very special class of symbiotic interaction, in which host species acquire useful metabolic functions from their symbionts — up to and including stealing the cellular components that make the metabolic function possible. Her seminar will be titled “Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How acquired metabolism fuels ecological opportunity and evolutionary innovation.”
The Biology Colloquium series is held every Friday during the semester, at 2:00pm in Chaparral Hall room 5125.