Maurine Neiman, Universität Iowa, USA
Sex in the Wild (and especially in New Zealand)
Vortrag am 19.03. 2025, 14 Uhr in Präsenz und online
Seminarraum 1. Stock
Abstract:
Professor Neiman’s research program focuses primarily on the study of sexual reproduction and why sex is so common, one of the most important unanswered questions in evolutionary biology. In particular, she’s interested in using comparison of sexual and asexual individuals, lineages, and genomes to better understand the advantages and disadvantages of sexuality, evolutionary constraints that limit asexual success, and why sex persists in some natural populations but not others. More information about her lab group and her work can be found at http://bioweb.biology.uiowa.edu/neiman/.
Her seminar, “Sex in the Wild (and especially in New Zealand)” will focus on how she and her lab group are using her snails and their genomes to assess key hypotheses for the advantages of sex and disadvantages of asexual reproduction, and then applying these insights to better understand the maintenance of sex in nature.