For this month's Evolutionary Application's research highlights, I look at recent work exemplifying the use of model systems in addressing questions of applied interest: "Our ability to apply evolutionary theory is necessarily limited by our understanding of natural systems. Unfortunately, given the finite amount of researcher time and funding, we are faced with a trade-off … Continue reading The utility of model system research for applied evolutionary questions
Predicting the evolutionary response of populations to climate change
For this month's research highlight in Evolutionary Applications, I chose to focus on recent approaches to studying evolutionary responses to climate change: "Given the increasingly unpredictable weather patterns associated with global climate change, a key aim of current research is to predict whether and how populations will be able to respond. Major advances are being … Continue reading Predicting the evolutionary response of populations to climate change
Predicting evolution
For this month's research highlights in Evolutionary Applications I thought I'd take a look at some of the recent work addressing the predictability of Evolution."Whether evolution is predictable becomes a key question when deciding how to translate and apply evolutionary theory to solve real-world problems. Mutations arise by chance, and therefore, it seems fair to question … Continue reading Predicting evolution
What’s been keeping me busy?
What a whirlwind of a few months it's been! Stay tuned, as we have some great new data rolling out and a couple of new review/synthesis papers. My lack of blogging recently (which I hope to remedy) is also the result of too many papers to review, lots of travel to and from (with the … Continue reading What’s been keeping me busy?
Koskella Lab at UC Berkeley 