Genomic insights into metabolism and fitness
Date:
Monday, May 16, 2022 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker:
Flo Camus (UCL)
Location:
Mondi Seminar Room 2, Central Building
Series:
EvoLunch
Host:
Beatriz Vicoso
Contact:
PAL Arka
Understanding the link between genotype to fitness has been a major challenge over the past decades. However, to fully understand how a genotype modulates fitness we need to investigate the intermediate steps that drive these phenotypic responses - physiology. Here I will explore how different genotypes across both sexes respond to metabolic changes (via nutrition) and the fitness consequences they elicit. I will then break down the level of the genotype to mitochondrial and nuclear DNA. I will present evidence on how mito-nuclear incompatibilities impact the intermediate metabolic phenotype, plus how these responses impact fitness and adaptive traits.