[QSB-grads] QSB Seminar August 25 -Claudia Bank

[Emily Jane McTavish]

Hi QSB,

Happy new semester!
Our first QSB seminar speaker will be Claudia Bank 
<https://evoldynamics.org/people/claudia-bank-2/> from the Gulbenkian 
Institute in Portugal.

Seminar:
*"Fitness landscapes and the predictability of evolution"
*/Friday August 25, 1:30PM. COB2 170/
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.


Sign up to speak with her on Friday:
Bank Friday Schedule 
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cQHALSbmoTMmXt3WfzKmZwze7M3oRXcZgGHz9btS5mA/edit#gid=1678944281>
or email me if you would like to meet with her earlier in the week.

Thank you,
Emily Jane McTavish

-- 
Emily Jane McTavish
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Sciences
University of California, Merced
5200 N. Lake Rd, Merced CA 95343
ejmctavish at gmail.com, ejmctavish at ucmerced.edu
https://mctavishlab.github.io/

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