Choices and Selection, hybrid and mixed è il titolo della conferenza inaugurale del professor Gil Rosenthal, esperto internazionale in biologia evoluzionistica e comportamento animale che dallo scorso settembre si è trasferito dal Texas all’Università di Padova.

L’appuntamento è per martedì 30 novembre, alle ore 15:00, presso l’Aula Magna del Polo Biologico Vallisneri, in Viale Giuseppe Colombo 3 – Via Ugo Bassi 58b, Padova. 

Per seguire l’evento in presenza è necessaria la registrazione.

Sarà anche possibile seguire la conferenza di Gil Rosenthal anche a distanza, come webinar, via Zoom, oppure in streaming sul canale Youtube del Dipartimento di Biologia dell’Ateneo.

Choices and selection, hybrid and mixed

Biological diversity, including our own human species, ultimately depends on the decisions of individual organisms. Few decisions are as consequential as one’s choice of mating partners. At the same time, few scientific questions are as sensitive to human prejudice as the study of how mate choice evolves, and in turn shapes evolution. Collaborative research centered at the CICHAZ research station, located in a rural indigenous area of Mexico’s Sierra Madre Oriental, provides a starting point for new models of collaboration and cultural miscegenation. Here, natural hybrid zones of swordtail fish in mountain streams have developed into a powerful model for leveraging new genomic and behavioral tools to understand how behavioral mechanisms of mate choice shape reproductive outcomes and biological species.

Fonte: Dipartimento di Biologia dell’Università di Padova