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Upcoming Seminar by Internationally recognized Zoologist

Posted by Stephanie Rogers on April 2, 2013 in News, Research

The Faculty of Agriculture is pleased to welcome Dr Thomas Bosch, Zoological Institute, Kiel University to our campus on April 18, 2013.

He will present a seminar entitled: “Metaorganisms as the new frontier in biology”.  

What are metagoranisms?

“ … it appears that almost all organisms are part of an interdependent metaorganism, an understanding of the underlying host-microbe species associations and of evolution and molecular underpinnings, has become the new frontier in zoology” (Bosch, 2012)

How are hydra informing our knowledge of symbiotic interactions? Come and hear this internationally renown speaker!

Please mark your calendars now! Thursday April 18th 2:30-3:30 Cox 257. All are welcome.

For more information contact B. Prithiviraj (bprithiviraj@dal.ca) or N. Pitts (nancy.pitts@dal.ca)