NON OFFERTO - Genomi e Biologia: l'evoluzione delle organizzazioni cellulari (Disciplinare) - Genomes and Biology : Evolution of Cell Organization

Responsabile didattico: Claudio Schneider

Durata: 28 ore

Periodo didattico: primo semestre

Programma

Lecture/Discussion-Subjects

PhyloGenomics and Cellular Domains : the Tree or the Ring of life?
Biopolymers , self-organization and the organization of compartments : phase-transitions in an aqueous-world.
Energy-harnessing and Homeostatic Self-defense for Replicative conservation and variation.
Autotrophic versus Eterotrophic basis for the Origin of Life : Hydrothermal Vents as energy providing geochemical compartments.
The transition from Geochemistry to Biochemistry : LUCA(LastUniversalcommonAncestor) and the transition from Sulphur to Phosphate biochemistry.
Major Evolutionary Transitions : RNA and the origins of the Genetic Code.
Membrane Compartments and the Origins of Archaea and Bacteria.
Horizontal Gen Transfer for Prokaryote diversification and evolution.
The Prokaryotic impact for the Evolution of the Biosphere
Archaea and Bacteria : Biofilms, the organization into Multicellular Consortia and Symbiosis.
From Archaea and Bacteria Consortia to the Origins of Eukaryotes : E Pluribus Unum.
Eukaryotes and the establishment of Vertical Gene Transfer.
System Level Evolution in Ecological Communities : Cooperation versus Competition.

Prof. Schneider, 28 ore.