{"id":286,"date":"2014-09-01T09:20:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T09:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/?p=286"},"modified":"2014-10-09T14:27:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T14:27:56","slug":"a-talk-at-the-evolution-and-ecology-center-at-the-university-of-oslo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/2014\/09\/01\/a-talk-at-the-evolution-and-ecology-center-at-the-university-of-oslo\/","title":{"rendered":"A talk at the Evolution and Ecology center at the University of Oslo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Friday (August 29th. 2014) I enjoyed the great fortune of visiting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mn.uio.no\/cees\/english\/\">Center for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis<\/a> at the University of Oslo. A colleague from the Chicago years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mn.uio.no\/cees\/english\/people\/researcher-postdoc\/leehl\/index.html\">Lee Hsiang Liow<\/a> was our host.<\/p>\n<p>The title of our talk was \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mn.uio.no\/cees\/english\/research\/news\/events\/research\/guest-lectures\/friday-seminars\/2014\/palsson.html\">On rapid and repeated evolution via transcriptional cooption and decay<\/a>\" and the abstract reads like:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">The function and evolution of gene regulatory mechanisms and networks has implications for development, diseases and ecology. In this talk I will describe our work on transcriptional evolution, drawing on studies in two systems. I will outline population genetic, morphometric and transcriptomic analyses of parallel evolution of recently evolved dwarfism and associated phenotypes in Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus). Secondly I will focus on naturally occuring deletions of transcription factor bindings sites in characterized enhancers of the <em>even-skipped<\/em> gene in <em>Drosophila melanogaster<\/em>. Lastly I will outline musings about general principles of evolution by gene recruitment and transcriptional decay, and predictions that follow.<\/p>\n<p>The talk summarized the Arctic charr work that we participate in and two projects on regulatory evolution. I got great questions and had wonderful conversations while in Oslo. Hopefully I can visit again soon.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Friday (August 29th. 2014) I enjoyed the great fortune of visiting the Center for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis at the University of Oslo. A colleague from the Chicago years, Lee Hsiang Liow was our host. The title of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/2014\/09\/01\/a-talk-at-the-evolution-and-ecology-center-at-the-university-of-oslo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13971,13969],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-biology","category-talks-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/apalsson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}