BRS Fuwen Wei: Molecular Ecology Prize Winner "Conservation Genomics and Metagenomics of the Giant Panda"

host: Rieseberg Lab

Molecular Ecology Prize Winner presentation

Title: Conservation Genomics and Metagenomics of the Giant Panda

Abstract: During past decades, genomics and metagenomics have developed very fast, and are widely applied to non-model species especially wild animals to provide new insights to properly conserve the wildlife. The giant panda is not only the symbol of the world biodiversity conservation, but also a model to address questions of the evolutionary biology, especially the adaptive evolution to specialized bamboo diet. In this talk, I will address the population history, adaptive evolution to the bamboo diet from different aspects such morphology, behavior, ecology, physiology, genetics, genomics and metagenomics of gut microbiomes.

This seminar was not recorded at the request of the speaker.