The population genetics of adaptation
Event details
| Date | 06.11.2014 |
| Hour | 12:15 › 13:15 |
| Speaker | Dr Jeffrey Jensen, EPFL/SV/ IBI-SV UPJENSEN |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Understanding the relative frequencies and proportions of selective effects of newly arising, segregating, and fixed mutations - central to population genetics over the last century - stands as a major focus of the present and future Jensen Lab. This underlying question has inspired our approach integrating toolsets from computer science, mathematics and statistics with evolutionary biology, medical and ecological genetics, experimental evolution, and population genomics. I will here highlight our current and future work studying adaptively important mutations as they arise, transit through the population, and ultimately achieve fixation – discussing applications ranging from mouse to yeast to influenza virus. Thus, while our research program is topically diverse in terms of approach and organism, the dominant and central underlying theme is the study of adaptation, and the strongly coupled development of theoretical and statistical tools with novel data analysis. With these tools at our disposal, I will make the case that population genetics is on the verge of important breakthroughs in both our general understanding of the process of adaptation, but also in the ability of evolutionary analysis to provide important ecologically and clinically relevant insights to other research communities as well.
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- SV Faculty
Contact
- M. Mary / Dr Hirling