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<div class="">Our fall seminar series kicks off tomorrow, with a talk by <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://evoldynamics.org/people/claudia-bank-2/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">
Claudia Bank</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> from the Gulbenkian Institute in Portugal.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Seminar:</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">
<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">"Fitness landscapes and the predictability of evolution"<br class="">
</b><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Friday August 25, 1:30PM. COB2 170</i><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">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.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Seminars are Fridays, 1:30 - 2:45, in COB2 170. The full schedule is </span><a href="http://qsb.ucmerced.edu/events/seminar-series" class="">here</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">. </span></div>
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<div class="">Jessica</div>
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