UT Tyler, TJC to host public lectures on bacterial evolution celebrating Darwin Day
TYLER, Texas (KETK) — UT Tyler and Tyler Junior College will host two public lectures with UT Austin molecular biosciences professor, Dr. Jeffrey Barrick, on Feb. 15 and 16.
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In 2006, Barrick started publishing on the Long-Term E. coli Evolution Project (LTEE) that began back in 1988. According to TJC, his work covers “bacterial evolution, microbiome-insect interactions, synthetic biology and directed evolution of viruses for phage therapy.”
On Feb.15, Barrick will hold the first of the two free public lectures in the Apache Rooms of Rogers Student Center on TJC’s central campus. This first lecture, “The Long-Term Evolution Experiment: Watching Bacteria Evolve for More Than Three Decades,” will start at 6 p.m. following a reception at 5 p.m.
The second lecture “How Bacteria Evolve to More Rapidly Evolve: Implications for Medicine and Biotechnology” will be held at 6 p.m. on Feb. 16 in the UT Tyler University Theatre, after free food and beverages starting at 5 p.m.
TJC, UT Tyler, The Earth and Space Science Center at TJC, Discovery Science Place, the National Science Foundation and the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society sponsored the lectures as a part of their annual Darwin Day activities. To learn more visit Darwin Day Tyler online.
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