Outside Lecture Oppurtunity: Micro-paleo stuff

Day: Thursday, March 11th
Time: 5:30
Location: A218? (possible room change)
Speaker: Dr. James D. Schiffbauer, Virginia Tech Geobiology Research Group
Title: The Origin of Complexity in Single-celled Organisms: Views from taphonomy, ultrastructure, and microchemistry

The Precambrian Earth housed some of the most important transitions in the development of the biosphere as we know it- from the oxygenation of the atmosphere and hydrosphere to the beginnings of complexity in both single-cellular and later multicellular organisms. This talk will focus on one of these transitions- the shift from a bacterial world to a eukaryote world- and perhaps more importantly, how we can recognize this event in the fossil record.