Bios Departmental Seminar- “Plastic Fantastic: How nutritional plasticity affects shape, size and sex in Drosophila” by Alex Shingleton
September 14, 2021
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Alex Shingleton will present "Plastic Fantastic: How nutritional plasticity affects shape, size and sex in Drosophila" on September 14th at noon. Please join us in person in SEL 4289.
Abstract: In almost all animals, malnutrition during development leads to a reduction in adult body and organ size, a phenomenon called nutritional plasticity. Work over the last twenty years has revealed the molecular, developmental and physiological mechanisms that underlie nutritional plasticity. Nevertheless, we still have a remarkably poor understanding of the genetic basis for variation in nutritional plasticity, fundamental if we are to understand how nutritional plasticity evolves. In this talk I will discuss our research exploring genetic variation in nutritional plasticity among isogenic Drosophila lineages, and the implication this research has for the evolution of two aspects of morphology: sexual size dimorphism and morphological scaling relationships.
The seminar will also be simulcast on Zoom- please contact Emily Beaufort (ebeauf2@uic.edu) for details.
Date posted
Jul 26, 2021
Date updated
Aug 27, 2021