Concepts drawn from the field of evolutionary genetics are now routinely used to inform applications in conservation biology, animal and human health, and sustainable agriculture. In this course we will first review basic concepts in evolution and genetics. We will then learn how these can be applied to understand how mutations arise, how can they lead to the formation of new species, and how they can be used to reconstruct the history of our planet's biodiversity. Lastly, we focus on a few case study to showcase how these concepts are and have been applied to major societal challenges, including to understand how we domesticated our pets, how and why species go extinct, or even how we can treat cancer and infectious disease better in the future.
- Dozent/in: Alberto Carmagnini
- Dozent/in: Evangelos Dimopoulos
- Dozent/in: Laurent Frantz