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Hi QSB,<br>
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Happy new semester!<br>
Our first QSB seminar speaker will be <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://evoldynamics.org/people/claudia-bank-2/">Claudia
Bank</a> from the Gulbenkian Institute in Portugal.<br>
<br>
Seminar:<br>
<b>"Fitness landscapes and the predictability of evolution"<br>
</b><i>Friday August 25, 1:30PM. COB2 170</i><br>
The analogy of a fitness landscape, which links a genotype or
phenotype to the fitness of its carrier, has inspired scientists for
almost a decade. Work in the Evolutionary Dynamics lab revolves
around the study of both theoretical and empirical fitness
landscapes, with the aim to address various questions: What is the
role of epistasis (i.e., genetic interactions for fitness) in
adaptation and speciation? Can we predict evolution based on our
knowledge of fitness landscapes? How much information do we need to
infer the shape of a fitness landscape? I will elucidate our
approach to these questions using examples from recent and ongoing
work in the lab, in which we make use of experimental data from
yeast and influenza virus.<br>
<br>
<br>
Sign up to speak with her on Friday: <br>
<a
href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cQHALSbmoTMmXt3WfzKmZwze7M3oRXcZgGHz9btS5mA/edit#gid=1678944281">Bank
Friday Schedule</a><br>
or email me if you would like to meet with her earlier in the week.<br>
<br>
Thank you, <br>
Emily Jane McTavish<br>
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Emily Jane McTavish
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Sciences
University of California, Merced
5200 N. Lake Rd, Merced CA 95343
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ejmctavish@gmail.com">ejmctavish@gmail.com</a>, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ejmctavish@ucmerced.edu">ejmctavish@ucmerced.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mctavishlab.github.io/">https://mctavishlab.github.io/</a></pre>
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