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“The rise and fall of the epithelial phenotype”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140“Bacterial life inside insects”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140“Evolutionary conflict and rapid evolution”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140
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Laboratory Technician, The Fay Lab
I’m currently using yeast to study how selective history can impact an organism’s ability to adapt to stress and changing environments. By using experimental evolution techniques, we can examine how the frequency and intensity of exposure to stress in a strain’s evolutionary history impact its performance in different environments, and explore whether an adaptation to one environment is costly under different conditions... Read more >
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