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30

May

How can evolution biology contribute to solving real-world issues?

30 May 2023 09:00 to 16:30 | Conference

There is no registration for the event and you are welcome to join for all or part of it.

Program

Biotechnology

Chair: Charlie Cornwallis
09.00 Welcome
09.10 Christer Löfstedt The evolution of pheromone biofactories
09.40 Chiara De Pasqual Pathogen resistance in plants

10.00 Coffee

Medicine

Chair: Tyra Westelius
10.30 Tobias Uller Evolutionary Biology and the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
11.00 Sandra Breum Andersen Cooperation and cheating in pathogens - an evolutionary medicine approach to understand microbial adaptation
11.30 Jörgen Ripa The evolution of cancer diagnostics

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch

Chair: Kajsa Karlsson
13.00 Emma Hammarlund Cancer through an evolutionary lens – finally

Ecosystems, conservation and agriculture

Chair: Kajsa Karlsson
13.30 Anna Runemark Anthropogenic change and the adaptive potential of pollinators
14.00 Mats Hansson Crop plant evolution

14.30 Fika

Chair: Mart Groenendal
15.00 Mikael Pontarp Evolutionary perspectives on conservation of populations and their functions in agro-ecosystem
15.30 Hernán Morales Integrating biodiversity conservation and genomics
16.00 Edith Hammer The importance of plant-fungi coevolution in carbon sequestration

16.30 End and mingel over drinks and snacks

 

Organisationgroup: Tyra Westelius, Kajsa Karlsson, Mart Groenendal and Charlie Cornwallis.

About the event

Location:

Blue Hall, Ecology building, Lund

Contact:

charlie [dot] cornwallis [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se