The evolutionary genetics of climate change adaptation (and extinction)

Evolutionary ecologist and plant geneticist Moisés (Moi) Expósito-Alonso is a Staff Associate at the Carnegie Departments of Plant Biology and Global Ecology, and Assistant Professor (by courtesy) of Biology at Stanford University. Moi received a BSc in biology from the University of Seville, Spain, working as an ecologist in the Doñana Biological Station (CSIC). After he earned his PhD in plant genomics at the Max Planck Institute (Germany) he conducted a short postdoc in statistical evolutionary genetics at the University of California Berkeley. With his group at Carnegie he combines experimental ecology, population genomics, and gene editing to study how evolutionary genetic processes may enable or hinder species adaptation to the ongoing climate change.

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