Tapahtumakalenteri (vanha)

Professor Sven Gould, Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine-University

Düsseldorf,Germany will give a talk in the HiLIFE seminar series on April 28^th at 13.00-14.00. 

The title of this seminar is "The impact of endosymbiosis on life" .

Coffee and pulla will be served in front of the lecture hall 30 minutes prior to the seminar.

Sven is interested in the big questions of eukaryogenesis. The eukaryotic cell is characterized by unparalleled compartmentalization, but where did the compartments come from, where are they going, how are they targeted? His research team analyses the cell biology of eukaryotes and their compartments on the ground of biodiversity and under the umbrella of evolutionary trajectories. In their research, his team uses a wide variety of organisms across the tree of life to provide empirical evidence for predicted concepts. His team have identified new protein sorting motifs, entire translocation machineries, and have provided evidence for the first protein to be translocated across five biological membranes.

Sven is also a passionate science communicator, explaining the complexity of biology in an

entertaining manner at schools and museums, on German television and radio, and notably the BBC World Service. In the summer of 2023, Sven set up an exhibition at the Botanical Garden of Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf that received such positive feedback from the general public that he is now compiling an illustrated book of the event for distribution.

Welcome to this exciting seminar!

Selected publications:

Gould SB, Magiera J, García García C, Raval PK. 2024. Reliability of plastid and mitochondrial localisation prediction declines rapidly with the evolutionary distance to the training set increasing. PLoS Comput Biol. 20(11):e1012575.

Raval PK, MacLeod AI, Gould SB. 2024. A molecular atlas of plastid and mitochondrial proteins reveals organellar remodeling during plant evolutionary transitions from algae to angiosperms. PLoS Biology 22: e3002608.

Raval PK, Martin WF, Gould SB. 2023. Mitochondrial evolution: Gene shuffling, endosymbiosis, and signaling. Science Advances. 9(32):eadj4493.

Raval PK, Garg SG, Gould SB. 2022. Endosymbiotic selective pressure at the origin of eukaryotic cell biology. eLife 11:e81033.

Knopp MR, Garg SG, Handrich M, Gould SB. 2020. Major changes in plastid protein import and the origin of the Chloroplastida. iScience 23: 100896

Nishiyama T, ... Gould SB, Rensing SA. The Chara Genome: Secondary Complexity and Implications for Plant Terrestrialization. Cell. 2018. 174(2):448-464.e24.

Gould SB (2018). Membranes and Evolution. Current Biology 28:381-385

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University of Helsinki students please note: If you wish to obtain credits (DPBM, ILS) from this seminar series, please sign the participant list in the lecture hall or use your first name + last name in Zoom.