{"id":308,"date":"2011-03-02T17:57:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T21:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=308"},"modified":"2011-03-09T17:41:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T21:41:38","slug":"hammerstein-explains-how-plants-manipulate-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/02\/hammerstein-explains-how-plants-manipulate-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammerstein Explains How Plants Manipulate Brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_310\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/withpostdocs_scaled.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-310\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-310\" title=\"Hammerstein and NIMBioS Postdocs\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/withpostdocs_scaled-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/withpostdocs_scaled-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/withpostdocs_scaled-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/withpostdocs_scaled.jpg 1958w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NIMBioS Postdoctoral Fellows Invited Distinguished Visitor Peter Hammerstein (center) visits with NIMBioS Postdocs, from left, Erol Akcay, Will Godsoe, Xavier Thibert-Plante, Tucker Gilman, Emily Moran, Fola Agusto<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Peter Hammerstein from the Institute for Theoretical Biology at Humboldt University in Berlin was NIMBioS&#8217; Postdoctoral Fellows Invited Distinguished Visitor at Tuesday&#8217;s Interdisciplinary Seminar. Hammerstein investigates the evolution of living organisms using evolutionary game theory. In his talk, &#8220;Manipulative strategies and their evolution,&#8221; Hammerstein discussed how manipulative strategies affect the decisions of others to one&#8217;s own advantage. Using parallels in biology, Hammerstein discussed how microorganisms often manipulate regulatory networks of their hosts in  ways that are &#8220;strategic&#8221; and are based on subtle  interference with these networks. Taking the analogy further, Hammerstein gave examples of the ways in which plants, such as <em>Nicotiana tabacum<\/em> or cultivated tobacco, manipulate brains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Peter Hammerstein from the Institute for Theoretical Biology at Humboldt University in Berlin was NIMBioS&#8217; Postdoctoral Fellows Invited Distinguished Visitor at Tuesday&#8217;s Interdisciplinary Seminar. Hammerstein investigates the evolution of living organisms using evolutionary game theory. In his talk, &#8220;Manipulative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/02\/hammerstein-explains-how-plants-manipulate-brains\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,25,22],"tags":[107,105,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}