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SUMMARY:E&amp\;E Seminar: "From shallow waters to the deep: revealing hidden animal biology with invertebrate genomics" by Tauana Cunha (Loyola University Chicago)
DESCRIPTION:Join us October 6\, 2026 at 12:30pm in SELE 4289 for an E&amp\;E Seminar featuring "From shallow waters to the deep: revealing hidden animal biology with invertebrate genomics" by Dr. Tauana Cunha (Loyola University Chicago)    Profile    Host: Ignacio Escalante Meza    Abstract: Invertebrates hold the greatest diversity of animals\, and with it the greatest potential to understand animal biology — hidden in habitats we rarely visit\, on museum shelves\, and in genomes that have never been sequenced. I will show how field exploration\, natural history collections\, and genomics together bring them to light. First\, hidden diversity: from a reef survey in the Maldives that recovered over 100 gastropod species (half never recorded there)\, to deep-sea footage of seamounts at 3\,500 m\, we document marine life with vouchers\, images\, and DNA sequencing to elucidate species distributions and divergence across oceans. Second\, hidden history: we combine genomic datasets with models that accommodate phylogenomic conflict to resolve gastropod relationships spanning more than 400 million years\, and to show why some questions resist resolution. Third\, hidden biology: with the first chromosome-level genome for parasitic hairworms (phylum Nematomorpha)\, we find the loss of genes that build cilia — organelles otherwise conserved across eukaryotes — providing the genomic basis for a phenotype previously only hypothesized from morphology\, and marking a unique transition in animal evolution. | Event post: https://bios.uic.edu/events?page_id=12427
LOCATION:SELE 4289    Select 
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