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SUMMARY:Quantitative studies of rapid evolutionary adaptation - Dmitri Pet
 rov\, Stanford University
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CONTACT:Dr Emily Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:Adaptation by natural selection is the central process in evol
 ution and is at the core of some of the greatest problems facing humanity.
  From cancer to viral and bacterial pathogenicity\, to evolution of drug a
 nd pesticide resistance\, to agriculture and survival of biological divers
 ity in the face of rapid global change\, many of our most daunting challen
 ges are related to rapid evolutionary adaptation. Application of genomic a
 nd other high-throughput technologies to the study of rapid evolution is r
 evolutionizing our understanding of evolution by allowing us to observe ad
 aptive change in real time in the laboratory and (semi)natural experimenta
 l systems and to study signatures left by positive natural selection in th
 e genomic sequences. Our lab focuses on the development and application of
  such genomic and analytical methods in order to build theoretically and e
 mpirically rich theory of adaptive evolution.
LOCATION:Online (ask organizers for link)
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