NYU will host Joan Roughgarden, a professor emerita at Stanford University, for “The Gender Binary in Nature, Across Human Cultures and in the Bible,” its annual Darwin Lecture, on Tues., Feb. 16.
New York University will host Joan Roughgarden, a professor emerita at Stanford University, for “The Gender Binary in Nature, Across Human Cultures and in the Bible,” its annual Darwin Lecture, on Tues., Feb. 16 at 4 p.m.
Roughgarden, who founded and directed Stanford’s Earth Systems Program, was a professor of biology and geophysics at the university until 2011. She has published more than 190 papers and eight books, including Evolution’s Rainbow, which won the Stonewall Prize for nonfiction from the American Library Association. Her recent research pertains to the evolution of holobionts, which are composite organisms, such as corals, where the host contains a symbiotic microbial community called its microbiome.
Roughgarden, who received bachelor’s degrees in biology and philosophy from University of Rochester and a Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University, is currently a researcher at the University of Hawaii’s Institute of Marine Biology.
An RSVP for the lecture, sponsored by NYU’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, is required by emailing biology@nyu.edu. Zoom coordinates will be sent to attendees the day of the event.
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