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CBER External Seminar - Dr. Eyal Privman, University of Haifa, Israel
15 November 2021, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Title: 'Social Supergenes'
Event Information
Open to
- UCL staff | UCL students | UCL alumni
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Amy Godfrey
Location
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Hybrid Meeting ZoomG01 Lankester Lecture Theatre, Medawar Building---
Abstract: Supergenes are large genomic regions that determine complex polymorphic traits. The most well known example are sex chromosomes. A large portion of the X and Y chromosomes do not recombine, which allows them to diverge and evolve sex-specific traits. In general, supergenes allow for the evolution of a diverse range of complex traits, including floral morphology in primroses, mimetic wing patterns in butterflies, and morphs with distinct reproductive strategies in birds and lizards. All these examples constitute complex traits of high fitness impact.
About the Speaker
Dr. Eyal Privman
Senior Lecturer at Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Israel
Eyal Privman is a Senior Lecturer in the Department for Evolutionary and Environmental Biology, Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Israel. He studied bioinformatics at Tel Aviv University and did his Ph.D. with Tal Pupko on computational methods for molecular evolutionary analysis. He did his postdoc with Laurent Keller in the University of Lausanne, working on evolutionary genomics of fire ants, and evolution of sex determination. He started his lab in the University of Haifa in 2013, which uses genomic approaches to study the evolution of nestmate recognition and of social structure, primarily using the lovely Cataglyphis desert ants.
https://deeb.haifa.ac.il/faculty/eyal-privman-senior-lecturer/