On Friday, July 23, 2021, ISOP and ISEP jointly hosted the “Tree of life” symposium in memory of Tom Cavalier-Smith and his remarkable contribution to protistology.
Schedule:
Opening remarks – Sonja Rueckert and Gaytha Langlois
Geoff McFadden: A single origin of two membrane plastids, nucleomorphs, Kingdom Cabozoa, plastid minicircles, & Kingdom Chromista (watch)
Puri Lopez-Garcia: On the tree of life and the origin of eukaryotes (watch)
Andrew Roger: The evolution of Tom Cavalier-Smith's views on the history of life over five decades (watch)