2026 LIFE RCN Seminar Series Episode 5: Dr. Núria Ros-Rocher and Dr. Dinah Davison.

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.

Her talk on the evolution of multicellular development is titled "Multicellularity is context: environmental cues driving unicellular-to-multicellular transitions in close relatives of animals". 

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.

 Her talk on the experimental evolution of somatic differentiation is titled "Volvocine cellular differentiation evolves rapidly and repeatedly through changes in plastic responses to the environment".

You can join the meeting here.