CFOS Seminar: 'Stuck in the Cold'

March 1, 2021

Alice Bailey

The College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences will hold its weekly seminar on Wednesday, March 3, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. via Zoom. The talk will be offered by Kevin Bilyk, who is an assistant professor of biology at Montclair State University.

Stuck in the cold: Investigating the routes to adaptation and loss using species native to extreme cold environments

Animals living in freezing environments face strong selective pressure from severe cold. Many also face a relaxation of selective pressure from reduced thermal variability in these habitats. Bilyk is interested in using animals from frigid environments to investigate common themes and varied routes to adaptation and loss. A central model in this work has been the Antarctic notothenioids, a group of fishes that has evolved within the freezing waters of the Southern Ocean. In this seminar, he will discuss how this research has begun to delineate the transcriptional gains and losses that can result from evolution in an extreme environment, and his ongoing work to expand this research to a wider group of cold-adapted fauna.

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Meeting ID: 880 8296 4152
Passcode: 064031

Please email Andrés López at jalopez2@alaska.edu for more information.