Prof. Neil Blackstone Evolutionary Biology, Northern Illinois University, USA

Neil Blackstone is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Northern Illinois University. He received his Ph.D. in biology from Yale University. Neil’s current areas of interest include (i) the regulation of hydroid colony growth and form by the redox state of groups of mitochondrion-rich cells, (ii) trade-offs between symbiont death... read moreand migration in coral bleaching, (3) levels-of-selection transitions in the history of life, particularly the origins of eukaryotes and multicellularity.