The Mathematical Biology and Dynamical Systems Seminar presents Dr. Zakee Sabree discussing “Insect-Bacterial Symbioses or The Consequences of Intimacy” on Tuesday, Feb. 13, at 4 p.m. in Irvine 159.
Sabree, Assistant Pr0fess0r of Microbiology at Ohio State University, is “fundamentally interested in how different animal species collaborate to improve their overall fitness. His research program focuses on mutualisms between microbes and their eukaryotic hosts, primarily in nonmodel systems, towards identifying key adaptive features conferred upon hosts by their microbial partners and the evolutionary consequences of these relationships. Major goals of his lab efforts are to link specific bacterial species to beneficial host outcomes, determine if shared digestive anatomy and physiology observed between deeply diverged animals is evidence of convergent evolution driven by microbial symbionts and develop useful approaches for identifying consequential linkages between hosts and their microbiota.”
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