<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><img src="cid:ii_mfbofqxi1" alt="IIGB logo.jpg" style="margin-right: 0px;"></div><p style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;line-height:1.2;margin-top:4.2pt;margin-right:48.8pt;margin-bottom:0px"><b style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:xx-large">Moises Exposito-Alonso</b></p><p style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;line-height:1.2;margin-top:4.2pt;margin-right:48.8pt;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley</font></p><p style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;line-height:1.2;margin-top:4.2pt;margin-right:48.8pt;margin-bottom:0px"><a href="https://moilab.science/" target="_blank"><font face="georgia, serif">https://moilab.science</font></a></p><div style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;line-height:1.2;margin:0px 48.8pt 0px 0px;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(23,78,134)"><img src="cid:ii_mfbocua90" alt="image.png" width="370" height="396" style="margin-right:0px"><br></div><div style="direction:ltr;text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin:0px 48.8pt 0px 0px;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(23,78,134)"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><p style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;line-height:1.2;margin:0px 48.8pt 0px 0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4" color="#073763"><b>Rapid Adaptation and Extinction Across Climates in Synchronized Outdoor Evolution Experiments of Arabidopsis Thaliana</b></font></p><p style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0.5pt;margin-right:48.8pt;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><b>Date:</b> Thursday, September 11</span></font></p><p style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0.5pt;margin-right:48.8pt;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Time:</b> 1:00 pm-2:00pm</font></span></p><p style="text-align:center;direction:ltr;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0.5pt;margin-right:48.8pt;margin-bottom:0px"><b style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:black;font-size:12pt">Location: </b><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:black;font-size:12pt">Genomics Auditorium 1102</span></p><p style="direction:ltr;text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0.5pt;margin-right:48.8pt;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="direction:ltr;text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0px;margin-right:48.8pt;margin-bottom:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><b><font face="georgia, serif">Abstract:</font></b></span></p><p style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0px;margin-right:48.8pt;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Increased threats of climate change in the survival of plant species, has put a spotlight on evolutionary adaptive processes that could aid in short ecological timescales. Although the paradigm that genetic evolution is a slow process is breaking down with new genomic data of wild populations, long-term plant evolution experiments across climates that can test the speed of evolution or its predictability do not exist yet. Here we conduct a synchronized evolution experiment with the plant Arabidopsis thaliana in over 30 outdoor experimental facilities across Europe, the Levant, and US—we called this GrENE-net.org. Genome sequencing of >70,000 surviving plants across climates allowed us to detect clear signals of climate-driven rapid adaptation, map genetic loci involved in adaptation in different environments, and test the repeatability of adaptation. This work showcases the importance of understanding the genetic basis of environmental adaptation of species to anticipate the impacts of global change in nature.</font></p></div>
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