Episode 26 - The evolutionary time machine

Slightly Evolved Podcast

Welcome to Episode 26 of Slightly Evolved! This week our guest is Dr Luisa Orsini, lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK. Luisa talks to us about her work on Daphnia, a fascinating system where you able to "resurrect" dormant individuals that are sometimes 100s of years old. We talk about how you can use the system to test for recent adaptation, and discuss the importance of taking a multi -omics approach for studying evolution. As always you can contact us via email ([e-mail]), Twitter (twitter.com/slightlyevolpod) or join on our Facebook group (www.facebook.com/groups/664596143711550/). Remember you can also subscribe on iTunes (itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sligh…d1197890502?mt=2), and we would really appreciate it if you could leave a rating/comment there! You can read more about Luisa's research here (https://lorsini5.wixsite.com/luisaorsini) and follow her on Twitter (twitter.com/luorgen).