{"id":411,"date":"2017-03-23T08:26:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T16:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/?p=411"},"modified":"2017-03-23T08:26:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T16:26:05","slug":"march-cafe-scientifique-with-holly-moeller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/2017\/03\/23\/march-cafe-scientifique-with-holly-moeller\/","title":{"rendered":"March Caf\u00e9 Scientifique with Holly Moeller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers, our next caf\u00e9 will happen on <strong>Tuesday\u00a0March 28th, 7:30pm<\/strong> in the back room at <strong>Yagger\u2019s Downtown<\/strong> (433 W Pender). Our speaker for the evening will be <strong>Dr. Holly Moeller<\/strong>, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution &amp; Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. \u00a0The title of her talk is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How Life Exceeds its Metabolic Potential<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Living organisms are fundamentally constrained by their metabolisms: The ways that they get and use energy affect where they can live, how they respond to changing environments, and how they interact with one another. We usually think of metabolisms as fixed, permanent features of each species, fundamentally set by the genes encoded in their DNA. But what if metabolisms could be changed, within an individual\u2019s lifetime, by borrowing (or stealing!) from other species? My talk will describe examples of this \u201cacquired metabolism,\u201d exploring how organisms from microbes to humans to trees extend their metabolisms and transform their ecological roles and evolutionary paths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Caf\u00e9 Scientifiquers, our next caf\u00e9 will happen on Tuesday\u00a0March 28th, 7:30pm in the back room at Yagger\u2019s Downtown (433 W Pender). Our speaker for the evening will be Dr. Holly Moeller, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution &amp; Marine Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. \u00a0The title of her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}