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SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Anja Spang: Archaea and the evolving Tree of Life (T
 oL)
DESCRIPTION:Planetary Biology Lectures\nSpeaker: Anja Spang\nInstitution: R
 oyal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)\, Netherlands\nHost: Pe
 er Bork\nAbstract: ZOOM Meeting ID: 984 5970 3567   PASSCODE: 085719\n\nEv
 er since the recognition of Archaea as a separate domain of life\, their p
 lacement in the Tree of Life (ToL) and role in life’s evolution has been c
 ontroversially discussed. For a long time\, data was limited to a restrict
 ed number of cultivated archaeal representatives\, which were thought to b
 e predominantly confined to extreme environments. However\, recent improve
 ments of sequencing technologies and the use of single cell and metagenomi
 cs approaches to reconstruct genomes of uncultivated microorganisms\, has 
 enabled the generation of a wealth of genomic data of previously unknown a
 rchaeal lineages of high taxonomic rank. Detailed analyses of genomes of t
 hese novel archaea taxa has not only provided fundamental new insights int
 o the metabolic diversity and potential role of archaea in their natural h
 abitats but enabled analyses aiming to robustly place Archaea in the ToL a
 nd determine their role in key evolutionary transitions such as the diverg
 ence between archaea and bacteria as well as origin of the eukaryotic cell
 . \n	I will present a historical perspective of the ‘evolution’ of the arc
 haeal tree of life and give a synopsis of our current knowledge of archaea
 l taxonomic and metabolic diversity today.  In particular\, I will discuss 
 how genome analyses of the Asgard archaea have allowed fundamental new ins
 ights into the evolution of eukaryotes and how the investigation of enigma
 tic DPANN archaea has started to change our view on the earliest transitio
 ns in the tree of life.\nLink: https://intranet.embl.de/embl-programme/tra
 nsversal-themes/planetary-biology/index.html\nStream link: https://embl-or
 g.zoom.us/j/98459703567\n
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