LIFE NASA RCN Seminar Series 12 May 2026

Time: May 12th, 9 a.m. PDT/12 p.m. EDT
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Title: Multicellularity is context: environmental cues driving unicellular-to-multicellular transitions in close relatives of animals

Dr. Núria Ros-Rocher is a CNRS research associate at Institut Pasteur. She conducts multidisciplinary research on the origin of multicellularity that elucidates how environmental factors regulate multicellular behaviors in close animal relatives. She also develops genetic tools for these non-model organisms.

Title: Volvocine cellular differentiation evolves rapidly and repeatedly through changes in plastic responses to the environment

Dr. Dinah Davison is a postdoctoral fellow at Augusta University. Her research focuses on how interactions between genes, the environment, and development shaped the evolution of differentiated multicellularity.

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