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SUMMARY:Environmental stress\, cryptic variation and innovation in the sim
 plest molecular systems - Professor Andreas Wagner\, Dept. of Evolutionary
  Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich
DTSTART:20180201T140000Z
DTEND:20180201T150000Z
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CONTACT:Caroline Newnham
DESCRIPTION:Phenomena such as cryptic variation and the role of environmen
 tal stress in evolutionary adaptation have first been discovered in comple
 x multicellular organisms and their complex morphological traits. To study
  them in such systems is made difficult by the fact that complex traits ar
 e affected by many genes whose interactions are poorly understood. I will 
 discuss laboratory evolution experiments that highlight the advantages of 
 much simpler systems\, such as evolving RNA and protein molecules in study
 ing these phenomena. These systems can help understand the significance of
  cryptic variation\, robustness\, and noise for evolutionary adaptations a
 nd innovations on all scales of biological organization.  
LOCATION:Biffen Lecture Theatre\, Department of Genetics\, Downing Site
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