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Physics Colloquium: Noel Goddard

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Physics Colloquium, Noel Goddard, Hunter College, CUNY

Physics Department Colloquium

Noel Goddard, Hunter College, CUNY

"Safety in Numbers"

Abstract: Microbes utilize population strategies to manage error

and acquire competitive advantage. I will discuss ongoing efforts

to measure the error spectrum of the protein pool in bacteria, and

its implications about the structure of the genetic code. Also I

will discuss the measurement and modeling of the dynamics of genetic

elements which enable phenotypic novelty. These elements are known

to persist at abnormally high rates in natural microbial populations.

We study this persistence and its relation to selection.