The School of Biological Sciences Fall 2024 Seminar Series presents Dr. Greer Dolby

Earth’s landscape and climate are dynamic over evolutionary timescales and this dynamism is a major force shaping the diversification, evolution, and adaptation of species. Our research in the emerging field of geogenomics combines geological data that records landscape change together with population genomic data of animals and plants to understand how organisms evolve and diverge in response to those external changes. To demonstrate how we can disentangle these complex relationships, I will show examples from diverse settings: sea-level change and diversification of estuarine fishes, ecologically mediated speciation of desert tortoises, and complex co-divergence on the Baja California peninsula, Mexico. Finally, I’ll give examples of some new, generalizable statistical frameworks we can use to think about and integratively model these relationships more explicitly.

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