KLI Colloquia are informal, public talks that are followed by extensive dissussions. Speakers are KLI fellows or visiting researchers who are interested in presenting their work to an interdisciplinary audience and discussing it in a wider research context. We offer three types of talks:
1. Current Research Talks. KLI fellows or visiting researchers present and discuss their most recent research with the KLI fellows and the Vienna scientific community.
2. Future Research Talks. Visiting researchers present and discuss future projects and ideas togehter with the KLI fellows and the Vienna scientific community.
3. Professional Developmental Talks. Experts about research grants and applications at the Austrian and European levels present career opportunities and strategies to late-PhD and post-doctoral researchers.
- The presentation language is English.
- If you are interested in presenting your current or future work at the KLI, please contact the Scientific Director or the Executive Manager.
Event Details
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Meeting ID: 588 186 1923
Topic description / abstract:
When we study genotype-phenotype maps, we are mostly focusing on the relationship between genetic variation and the average trait value per genotype. However, there is mounting evidence that phenotypic variance can be understood as a trait on its own, with potentially independent genetic regulation and evolutionary trajectories, when compared to the mean trait value. In this talk, we will focus on Drosophila melanogaster populations exposed to different dietary conditions, and discuss to which extent phenotypic variance in response to environmental changes (i.e., phenotypic robustness) is genetically regulated, whether it propagates across different layers of the G-P map, and under which conditions it could evolve.
Biographical note:
Luisa Pallares was born in Ocaña, a city in the north east of Colombia, and got her Bachelors degree in Biology from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá. Then, with a fellowship from the Max-Planck Research School for Evolutionary Biology (IMPRS), she moved to Plön, Germany, where she did her PhD at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, under the supervision of Diethard Tautz. Later on, with a Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Human Frontiers Science Program (HFSP) she moved to Princeton University in the US where she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Ayroles Lab affiliated to the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics.
Since February 2022, she leads the Max Planck Research Group on “Evolutionary Genomics of Complex Traits.” Her research group is located in the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society (FML) and the Max Planck Institute for Biology in Tübingen (Germany).
