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