• My interests reach throughout evolutionary biology and my work has made contact a wide range of topics, including developmental modeling, morphological evolution in both invertebrates and vertebrates, population and quantitative genetics, macroevolution, and the philosophical and conceptual basis of evolutionary theory. (ttu.edu)
  • However, new findings and approaches from genetics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology now question these assumptions. (phys.org)
  • Applicants should ideally have a background in evolutionary genetics and computational biology. (mpg.de)
  • Evolutionary biology has historically approached the genetics of adaptation from two perspectives. (beacon-center.org)
  • Studied biology at University of Cologne (BSc (hons) in Biological Sciences) from 2003-2006 followed by a Fast-Track Masters Programme in 2007 (MSc in Genetics). (mpg.de)
  • We do not encourage projects focusing on single-genes and/or single-organisms, nor studies and approaches with a strong focus on ecological, taxonomic, comparative physiology, population genetics or short-term adaptation. (dfg.de)
  • To be admitted to the course, students must have 90 credits in Natural Science studies, including 5 credits in statistics and 60 credits including genetics, cell biology, ecology and zoology/bothany. (lu.se)
  • Profile: We are seeking a student with a strong background in bioinformatics, coupled with a keen interest and a solid understanding of population genetics and evolutionary genomics. (lu.se)
  • In evolutionary biology, developmental bias refers to the production against or towards certain ontogenetic trajectories which ultimately influence the direction and outcome of evolutionary change by affecting the rates, magnitudes, directions and limits of trait evolution. (wikipedia.org)
  • In modern evolutionary biology, the idea of developmental bias is embedded into a current of thought called Structuralism, which emphasizes the role of the organism as a causal force of evolutionary change. (wikipedia.org)
  • In organismal biology, the coordination of subunits within a whole (e.g. mammalian limb bones, floral and leaf traits, parts of wings, individual organs, etc.) has long been known as morphological integration [ 7 ], which was renamed by evolutionary developmental biologists as modularity ( [ 8 ], and references therein). (biomedcentral.com)
  • My theoretical work currently focuses on two broad areas: 1) developing a rigorous theoretical framework for the study of developmental evolution, and 2) the mathematical and conceptual foundations of evolutionary theory. (ttu.edu)
  • But the idea that developmental experiences can have evolutionary consequences persisted. (santafe.edu)
  • What is transmitted are the developmental means to reconstruct life cycles, raising the possibility that non-genetic mechanisms of heredity can contribute to the evolutionary process in ways that standard conceptualizations struggle to accommodate. (santafe.edu)
  • The February workshop includes 30 researchers who are discussing the history of our understanding of inherited information and how epigenetic inheritance, cultural inheritance, and developmental processes complicate standard evolutionary theory. (santafe.edu)
  • A second SFI workshop funded by the same grant is planned for November, which will discuss how developmental experiences bias evolutionary outcomes. (santafe.edu)
  • Recent developments in evolutionary & developmental biology and cognitive science provide some very exciting new avenues for research. (phys.org)
  • With a partially duplicated eye, simultaneous aerial and aquatic vision, and a single optic nerve, Anableps consists in a unique model to study the developmental and genetic bases of evolutionary novelty. (lsu.edu)
  • Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Evo-Devo) Research in Latin America. (lsu.edu)
  • An evolutionary and developmental biology approach to gastroschisis. (bvsalud.org)
  • This module will focus on the genetic and developmental basis of adaptive change and evolutionary novelty. (lu.se)
  • The course will explain how the history of life can be unravelled through studies of genes and genomes, developmental biology, and the features of extant organisms and fossils. (lu.se)
  • I am a researcher at Lund University with broad interests in ecology and evolutionary biology, including the fundamental processes of ecology, evolution and biogeographical processes that underpin community and ecosystem structure and dynamics. (lu.se)
  • Currently Working Group Principal Investigor (Junior-Arbeitsgruppenleiterin) at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology. (mpg.de)
  • The program provides a timely collaborative forum to integrate and implement the new technologies as well as bioinformatics and experimental approaches. (helsinki.fi)
  • At the Masters level, we deliver specialisations in bioinformatics, conservation biology, marine biology and zoology within the Master of Biological Sciences, as well as a Master of Science Communication. (edu.au)
  • The course is structured around four key problem agendas in evolutionary biology. (lu.se)
  • We will gather datasets from public genome databases and apply statistical inference models to infer evolutionary properties of the genomes, such as the history of substitutions in gene families and the rate of adaptive substitutions in populations. (mpg.de)
  • New experimental and computational techniques provide exciting opportunities to study the evolutionary history of genomes using comparative genomics. (dfg.de)
  • A genomic approach to microbiology (editorial, special issue)Nat Rev Genet, May 17, 2019. (cdc.gov)
  • Observing details, such as processes of segmentation and coarticulation, in whistled speech can serve to advance and inform the development of new approaches for the analysis of whistle repertoires of dolphins, and eventually other species. (frontiersin.org)
  • These empirical approaches will be further complemented with in silico evolution experiments, allowing us to finely control the fitness landscape and test hypotheses about its impact on adaptive processes. (mpg.de)
  • We adopt a multidisciplinary approach to exploring selective processes acting on the morphological and life-history traits of whole organisms and their gametes. (edu.au)
  • You will learn to analyse and understand the evolutionary processes that give rise to novelty, adaptation and diversity. (lu.se)
  • The latest schedule for the course Evolutionary Biology - Patterns and Processes in the schedule software TimeEdit. (lu.se)
  • This graduate course in evolutionary biology emphasises the various evolutionary processes rather than descriptions of states, patterns and the methods to establish them. (lu.se)
  • Most of my research is theoretical in nature and I use eco-evolutionary simulation models to study how assembly processes across spatiotemporal scales affect community patterns. (lu.se)
  • The aim of this project is to study how biodiversity (e.g. phylobetadiversity) is generated and maintained by interacting ecological and evolutionary assembly processes along environmental gradients. (lu.se)
  • We use an integrative approach including theoretical, methodological and applied subparts that enable: i) a better understanding of observed diversity gradients, ii) inference of assembly processes from community data and iii) prediction of biodiversity to novel conditions. (lu.se)
  • We focus on the phylogenetic distance between communities (phylobetadiversity) as it contains signals from both ecological and evolutionary processes and we construct spatially explicit eco-evolutionary community models that generate phylobetadiversity patterns, given different degrees of ecological interactions, dispersal propensity of the organism and properties of the environmental gradient. (lu.se)
  • The course will enable students to acquire extensive knowledge and understanding of fundamental topics in evolutionary biology. (lu.se)
  • The evolutionary dynamics that retain long neutral genomic sequences in face of indel deletion bias: a model and its application to human introns. (tau.ac.il)
  • In: Comparative genomics: Empirical and analytical approaches to gene order dynamics, map alignment and the evolution of gene families (D.Sankoff and J.H. Nadeau, eds. (umontreal.ca)
  • Insects are the most species rich class of metazoans with a huge variation in various traits making them the ideal system to investigate general principles of the evolutionary dynamics underlying major innovations based on a comparative genomics framework. (dfg.de)
  • Specifically, we solicit proposals that use a genome wide comparative approach to reveal the genomic dynamics, which underlie the evolution of novel traits. (dfg.de)
  • We adopt a modeling framework for spatiotemporal predator-pest dynamics that in addition to landscape structure, explicitly includes eco-evolutionary dynamics and adaptation in functional traits (e.g. body size, feeding specialization and dispersal). (lu.se)
  • This project offers a unique opportunity to delve into the dynamics of genetic variation and its implications for conservation biology, providing valuable contributions to the field and paving the way for future research in biodiversity conservation. (lu.se)
  • The rationale behind the role of the organism, or more specifically the embryo, as a causal force in evolution and for the existence of bias is as follows: The traditional, neo-Darwinian, approach to explain the process behind evolutionary change is natural selection acting upon heritable variation caused by genetic mutations. (wikipedia.org)
  • Theoretical approaches to the evolution of development and genetic architecture. (ttu.edu)
  • Assess connectivity between past and present eelgrass meadows using bio-physical models and population genetic methods and to assess genetic diversity with the aim to identify vulnerable and valuable eelgrass areas. (gu.se)
  • He has used several model organisms to probe for parsimonious conservation of molecular mechanisms within motor plasticity, but most recently has combined novel genetic and physiologic approaches in the larval fruit fly preparation to understand macro-protein structural plasticity. (amherst.edu)
  • We apply phylogenetic, population genetic and genomic approaches, working with datasets overlaid with analyses of acoustic and trait variation to examine spatial and temporal patterns of diversification. (researchgate.net)
  • The number of landscape genetic studies is growing rapidly, and landscape genetic approaches are increasingly used in practical conservation and management. (epfl.ch)
  • Genetic tool development in marine protists: Emerging model organisms for experimental cell biology. (umontreal.ca)
  • MAPIT - a semi-automated approach to the representation of genetic maps. (umontreal.ca)
  • We learn about population history and underlying evolutionary biology through patterns of genetic polymorphism. (blogspot.com)
  • Using this approach, we show that human evolutionary models that include archaic admixture in Africa, Asia, and Europe provide a much better description of patterns of genetic diversity across the human genome. (blogspot.com)
  • Genetic and phenotypic approaches are introduced that conceptualize, document and quantify selection and its outcome. (lu.se)
  • High-throughput robotic genetic technologies can be used to study the fitness of many thousands of genetic mutant strains of yeast, and the resulting data can be used to identify novel genetic interactions relevant to a target area of biology. (lu.se)
  • The methods will be applied to data from experiments designed to highlight networks of genetic interactions relevant to telomere biology. (lu.se)
  • This typical y ment more traditional approaches for the Genetic Epidemiology Group (GEP) occurs within GEP. (who.int)
  • It's is a polite and non-vituperative but very eloquent defense of the scientific approach in general, and of modern evolutionary biology in particular. (vdare.com)
  • Chaurasia S, Dutheil JY (2022) The Structural Determinants of Intra-Protein Compensatory Substitutions, Molecular Biology and Evolution 39(4): msac063. (mpg.de)
  • This approach is used to study the evolution of realized phenotypes compared to those that are theoretically possible but inexistent. (wikipedia.org)
  • We still use a similar thought relating protein evolution, since domains are accepted as the protein evolutionary modules, and its modular reuse has been demonstrated in all domains of life [ 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We combine field, museum, and genomic approaches to document and delineate biological diversity and to study the basis of animal diversity, evolution, and biogeography. (researchgate.net)
  • First, if creationists and Intelligent Design advocates say that creatures look designed because they are designed, then we need a working theory of engineered biology-not just a focus on identifying problems with evolution. (icr.org)
  • Evolution: Herbivore-type teeth in a Cretaceous Tuatara Current Biology 30, 395-397. (rochester.edu)
  • Senior author Professor Kevin Laland, former president of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association, states: "The current evolutionary psychology paradigm made sense in the 1980s, when modularity of mind was all the rage and everyone thought that evolution was slow. (phys.org)
  • 2008). On the nature of fur evolution: A phylogenetic approach in Actinobacteria . (up.pt)
  • The overarching aim of his lab can be summed up with the saying: 'Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • The evolution of complex traits is one of the major enigmas in evolutionary biology. (beacon-center.org)
  • Evolution affects biology at all levels - from genes to ecosystems. (lu.se)
  • Understanding evolution requires the integration of knowledge across genomics, molecular and cell biology, development and ecology. (lu.se)
  • It will explain why evolution by natural selection gives rise to adaptation, what are the causes of diversification and novelty, and how the evolutionary process itself can evolve. (lu.se)
  • I am a palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist who studies the anatomy, phylogeny, and evolution of fossil vertebrates, particularly dinosaurs, birds, and mammals. (lu.se)
  • Christina Agapakis is a biologist, designer, and writer with an ecological and evolutionary approach to synthetic biology and biological engineering. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Savolainen is a world-renowned evolutionary biologist who approaches many of the same questions Darwin did, but from a contemporary perspective. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • I am a comparative anatomist, paleontologist, and evolutionary biologist. (lu.se)
  • For the past 30 years, evolutionary interpretation of human cognition has been dominated by the field of evolutionary psychology. (phys.org)
  • Professor Johan Bolhuis and colleagues describe how the field of evolutionary psychology had been dominated by a set of widely held assumptions e.g., that human behavior is unlikely to be adaptive in modern environments, that human cognition is task-specific, and that there is a universal human nature. (phys.org)
  • 1 But where's the creationist theory of biology that, for instance, models how biological adaptation operates like it was truly engineered? (icr.org)
  • With Oscillator and Icosahedron Labs she works towards envisioning the future of biological technologies and synthetic biology design. (scientificamerican.com)
  • He is attempting to develop a body of theory applicable to several levels of biological organization from cells to social systems, unifying concepts of life, information and knowledge across the paradigmatic disciplines of epistemology, biology, and the sciences of cognition, organization, information and knowledge management. (evodevouniverse.com)
  • In doing so you will learn how to unravel the evolutionary history of biological systems. (lu.se)
  • The general aim of the course is to enable students to understand the aims, theories, models and methodologies of contemporary evolutionary biology, and how these are applied to different biological systems. (lu.se)
  • Ultimately, it examines how an evolutionary perspective can be applied to phenomena at all levels of biological organisation, from molecules to ecosystems. (lu.se)
  • It does so by a conceptual and general approach, although ample reference will be made to well-known organisms and biological systems. (lu.se)
  • 2009, PLoS Biology). (rochester.edu)
  • In an article published July 19 in the online, open access journal PLoS Biology , a team of biologists, psychologists and philosophers from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, the University of Cincinnati in America, and the University of St Andrews in Scotland, suggest a new framework for the evolutionary analysis of the mind that draws on recent work from a variety of related subjects. (phys.org)
  • In March 2021, the Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) established the Priority Programme "Genomic Basis of Evolutionary Innovations (GEvol)" (SPP 2349). (dfg.de)
  • My research interest is to understand the mechanisms and evolutionary forces driving morphological changes in the visual system, combining morphology and genomic/transcriptomic approaches. (lsu.edu)
  • In addition, I hope to bridge part of the gap between theoretical and empirical research using Bayesian approaches (e.g. (lu.se)
  • Research in this field has important potential to inform various scientific disciplines like conservation biology and evolutionary ecology. (epfl.ch)
  • We study evolutionary biology with an emphasis on species endemic to tropical biomes and W North America. (researchgate.net)
  • In the century and a half since Charles Darwin's publication of The Origin of Species, evolutionary theory has become the bedrock of modern biology, yet its application to the understanding of the human mind remains controversial. (phys.org)
  • Currently, my primary research interest is to study evolutionary innovations of the visual system, using the four-eyed fish Anableps anableps as a research species. (lsu.edu)
  • This module will explain and exemplify how scientists unravel evolutionary patterns - from the biogeography of species to the origin of new phyla. (lu.se)
  • Among my research interests are building large family trees of extinct species, understanding major evolutionary transitions (when organisms drastically change their body plans and expand into new environments), and using computed tomography scanning to study the biology and behaviours of extinct species. (lu.se)
  • My lab's mission is ultimately to "flesh out" dinosaurs and related species, combining classical anatomy with high-tech CT scanning and 3D modeling to shed light on dinosaur biology. (lu.se)
  • We propose a graph-theory approach with significance and power testing to identify modules in protein structures. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Evolutionary Theory: Mathematical and conceptual foundations. (ttu.edu)
  • Bill's experiences as a child watching living marine and fresh water microorganisms through the microscope and teaching general and invertebrate biology in the 1960s led him to ask "What is life? (evodevouniverse.com)
  • A LASSO-based approach to sample sites for phylogenetic tree search. (tau.ac.il)
  • My research interests include: biohydrodynamics, larval ecology, ecological & evolutionary effects of dispersal, chemical ecology, effects of biodiversity loss and design of Marine Protected Areas. (gu.se)
  • Such an approach has the potential for revealing histological links and improving synergy between various colitis mouse model studies to identify new therapeutic targets and pathophysiological mechanisms. (biorxiv.org)
  • EvoRator2: predicting site-specific amino acid substitutions based on protein structural information using deep learning Journal of Molecular Biology: 435(14):168155. (tau.ac.il)
  • To do so, we will use computational approaches such as phylogenetic sequence comparative analysis and population genomics. (mpg.de)
  • In the late 1970's, responding to critics of his use of the comparative approach to study speciation, Bill spent most of a two year postdoc in Australia studying the history and philosophy of science and epistemology to evaluate his research methodology (Hall 1983 ). (evodevouniverse.com)
  • Applicants will need to make a statement (cover letter) how they are planning to contribute to the training of early career scientists in comparative and evolutionary genome analyses (and other OMICs). (dfg.de)
  • A comparative fluctuating asymmetry study between two walnut (Juglans regia L.) populations may contribute as an early signal for bio-monitoring. (sisef.it)
  • In the long-term, my research program aims to shed light into the evolutionary adaptations of the visual system and improve our understanding of the gene regulatory networks behind these changes. (lsu.edu)
  • The Centre for Evolutionary Biology is a UWA Centre of Excellence, delivering excellence in research and research training. (edu.au)
  • Our teaching promotes active, inquiry-based learning that takes advantage of our Department's world-leading research on the evolutionary biology of microbes, plants and animals. (lu.se)
  • Describing and understanding the drivers of the distribution of phenotypic variation in nature is one of the main goals in evolutionary biology. (wikipedia.org)
  • Among the researchers leading the way is Vincent Savolainen, Professor of Organismic Biology at Imperial. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Pardis Sabeti, MD, DPhil, is a member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a professor at the Center for Systems Biology and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. (medscape.com)
  • An approximate Bayesian computation approach for modeling genome rearrangements. (tau.ac.il)
  • So, someone who believes evolutionary biology is the cat's meow, and who finds a widespread human practice, so widespread that we have never encountered a single culture where it is absent, and one into which a huge amount of energy is poured, would have to say it is most likely adaptive, right? (consultingbyrpm.com)
  • The course is the first course on the MSc programme in Evolutionary Biology. (lu.se)
  • SFI, with its emphasis on complexity and interdisciplinary approaches, is an important hub for the debate. (santafe.edu)
  • Antibiotic resistant pathogen outbreak investigation: an interdisciplinary module to teach fundamentals of evolutionary biology. (cdc.gov)
  • The Department of Biology offers courses at a postgraduate level to both internal and external PhD students. (lu.se)
  • The course is about the Department of Biology, PhD student rights and responsibilities, the history of biology, introduction to the philosophy of science, scientific publishing, science and society, and sustainable graduate education. (lu.se)
  • This could provide a complementary, spatially-aware approach to further characterize populations identified by other methods. (biorxiv.org)
  • The Modern Synthesis says, in essence, that natural selection drives evolutionary change by changing gene frequencies in populations of organisms. (santafe.edu)
  • Fluctuating asymmetry as a bio-indicator in isolated populations of the Taita thrush: a Bayesian perspective. (sisef.it)
  • We've developed new imaging and quantitative approaches to track brain-surface structure observed today into the fossil record. (lu.se)
  • The aim of this project is to develop methodologies for a landscape approach for forested areas, demonstrate how synergies and trade-offs between ecosystem services can be analyzed using this approach and highlight the advantages compared to business as usual approaches. (lu.se)
  • However, this approach is seriously impeded by lack of information on dispersal and connectivity between habitats, the value of the ecosystem services, and methods to integrate this information in management. (gu.se)
  • More specifically, we aim to answer calls for an eco-evolutionary trait-based perspective on ecosystem services. (lu.se)
  • However, the evolutionary history of these regions in deep time is poorly understood. (nature.com)
  • These results indicate that geological events such as the Indo-Asian Collision, the TP uplift, and the aridification of the Asian interior underpinned the evolutionary history of the zoogeographical regions surrounding the TP over different time periods. (nature.com)
  • A phylogenomic study of birds reveals their evolutionary history. (palass.org)
  • Dr. Linda Odenthal-Hesse uses single molecule and small pool allele specific PCR approaches to study de-novo recombination in germ. (mpg.de)