10/10/95
Sam Hendrix (334) 844-3698
POPULATION GENETICS/BACTERIA EVOLUTION EXPERT TO SPEAK AT AU
AUBURN -- A world authority on population genetics and the evolution of bacteria will lecture Friday at Auburn UniversityÕs College of Veterinary Medicine.
Daniel Dykhuizen, a professor of ecology and evolution at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, will speak on "Pathogenesis and Genetic Transfer Between Bacteria" at 1:10 p.m., at Greene Hall, Room 121. DykhuizenÕs presentation is sponsored by the universityÕs Distinguished Lecture Series and is open to the public. A reception will follow.
Dykhuizen, who has an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Stanford University, earned a Ph.D. in population genetics at the University of Chicago. After a post-doctoral fellowship at Stanford, he\ was a research fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra.
He later worked at Purdue University and the University of Washington before joining the faculty at SUNY-Stony Brook.
Dykhuizen uses E. coli as a model organism to look at mechanisms in bacterial evolution. He recently published a landmark paper in the acclaimed journal Science, showing that clonal divergence in E. coli is the result of recombination, not mutation.
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CONTACT: Dr. Bernard Kaltenboeck, 334/ 844-2665.