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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Dr Y. Liu
DTSTART:20210519T160000
DTEND:20210519T164500
DTSTAMP:20260531T005553Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr Yang Liu\n16:00 – 16:45 – Dr Y. Liu\nPostdoc at Univers
 ity of British Columbia\, Vancouver\, Canada\n\nGenomic and phenotypic pre
 diction of climate adaptation in forest trees\n\nAnthropogenic climate cha
 nge is causing widespread maladaptation in natural ecosystems and poses a 
 potent threat to global biodiversity. Geographic distributions of about 50
 % of plant and animal species surveyed are already shrinking. The implicat
 ion of this is that genetic diversity within species is progressively bein
 g lost before species go extinct. That said\, there must be many species t
 hat are becoming genetically depauperate\, leading to the global gene pool
  decaying faster than the loss of species. Therefore\, combining genomic a
 nd climatic data provides an avenue for assessing putative genetic maladap
 tation of populations to climate change\, eventually in the hopes of enhan
 cing conservation and ecosystem restoration efforts. My research program b
 roadly pursues questions in how populations of forest trees respond to env
 ironmental variation at the evolutionary scale and how we can apply popula
 tion genomics to the conservation of forest plant diversity. This talk foc
 uses on two key areas of my research based on a space-for-time analysis: (
 1) how can we forecast genomic vulnerability under future climatic scenari
 os\; and (2) how are the adaptability and evolvability of phenotypes alter
 ing in a changing climate?\n\n\nShort bio:\nDr. Liu is an evolutionary gen
 eticist. He completed a Master degree at Chinese Academy of Sciences and t
 hen earned a PhD degree from the University of British Columbia. During hi
 s PhD\, he joined Sorbonne University for one year for a theoretical model
 ing project. Since 2017\, he has begun postdoc research\, appointed jointl
 y by University of British Columbia and University of Alberta. Dr. Liu’ 
 research covers multiple topics\, including genetics and molecular biology
 \, ecological modeling\, epigenetics and bioinformatics\, quantitative gen
 omics and evolution. By using multidisciplinary approaches\, Liu’s resea
 rch aims at understanding the demographic\, ecological\, and genetic mecha
 nisms of evolutionary adaptation in plants\, with an emphasis on forest tr
 ees\, and how those adaptations contribute to the formation of new populat
 ions and/or species.
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62066860928
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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