# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Me, Myself & Microbes: The Microbial Roots of Complex Life
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 28 Jul, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Tue, 28 Jul, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join symbiosis expert Prof. Matthias Horn (University of Vienna) to explore how ancient microbes shaped complex life and modern pathogens.About this EventWelcome to a Hood Lecture with Professor Matthias Horn, "Me, Myself & Microbes: The Microbial Roots of Complex Life"Join us in MLT2 Lecture Theatre 303-102, on July 28, 2026 at 5:00pm for some light refreshments prior to the lecture at 5:30pm.AbstractMicrobes rule our planet. As Earth’s oldest and most diverse organisms, they drove global biogeochemical cycles for billions of years before a profound evolutionary leap gave rise to eukaryotes - the complex cells that made plants, animals, and humans possible. Today, advances in genome sequencing and analysis are fundamentally rewriting our understanding of this tree of life and our own origins.In this lecture, we will explore the deep microbial roots of our existence. We will examine what the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) might have looked like, how simple microbial cells interacted to create the first eukaryotes, and what we know about their closest living microbial relatives. Finally, we will trace how the rise of complex life forced certain microbes to specialize inside host cells, paving the evolutionary path for major modern human pathogens.Join us for an evolutionary journey revealing that the history of microbes is, ultimately, the history of ourselves.BiographyMatthias Horn is a Professor at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental System Science (CeMESS) at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is a world-leading researcher on microbial symbioses, focusing on the hidden world of strictly intracellular bacteria. His research demonstrated the global distribution and unexpected genomic diversity of chlamydiae as symbionts across diverse eukaryotic hosts, reshaping our understanding of chlamydial biology and evolution. Matthias has worked at the Technical University of Munich (Germany), the University of Washington (Seattle, USA), and the Australian Institute for Marine Sciences (Townsville, Australia), backed by prestigious ERC and FWF START grants. He is a member of the European Academy of Microbiology (EAM) and was the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal µLife.Agenda?: 05:00 PM - 05:30 PMRefreshments?: 05:30 PM - 06:30 PMLecture
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- **Event Highlights**: 
  - Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
  - Location: MLT2 Lecture Theatre, 303-102, Level 1, Science Centre
  - Languages: English

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- **city**: Auckland
- **state**: AU
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: MLT2 Lecture Theatre, 303-102, Level 1, Science Centre
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- **full address**: MLT2 Lecture Theatre, 303-102, Level 1, Science Centre, 38 Princes Street, Auckland, New Zealand

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- **Q**: When and where is Me, Myself & Microbes: The Microbial Roots of Complex Life being held?
  - **A:** Me, Myself & Microbes: The Microbial Roots of Complex Life takes place on Tue, 28 Jul, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Tue, 28 Jul, 2026 at 06:30 pm at MLT2 Lecture Theatre, 303-102, Level 1, Science Centre, 38 Princes Street, Auckland, New Zealand.
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