Greetings--
It's late spring here in New England, and that means one thing: an invasion of snapping turtles, in search of a place to lay their eggs. Here's a story I told two years ago about learning to love my monstrous neighbors.
If you are in Austin, or if you'll be there for the Society for the Study of Evolution meeting, please join me on June 17 for a public lecture, "The Surviving Branch: How Genomes Are Revealing The Twisted Course of Human Evolution." Details here
Crispr has become famous as a powerful new gene-editing technology. But it started out as a way for bacteria to kill viruses. It turns out that bacteria have lots of these defenses, and there may be many more technologies to draw from their evolutionary exuberance. I take a look at a couple new examples in my new column for the New York Times.
June 17: Austin, Texas. Public Lecture for the Stephen Jay Gould Award. Details here
June 23-25: Durham North Carolina: International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Plenary Lecture. Here's the meeting site.
June 29: Boston: Festival of Genomics, Plenary Lecture, "Tales from the genome beat: how journalists explore (& sometimes get lost in) our DNA." Details here.
July 31: Plenary lecture at the annual meeting of the Botanical Society of America in Savannah. The talk is entitled, "Plants Are Weird: Epigenetics, Journalism, and the Alien Beauty of Botany"
September 8: University of Nebraska. Lecture: A Journey to the Center of the Brain. Details to come
January 28-29, 2017 Rancho Mirage Writers Festival
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Best wishes, Carl
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