Genetic Determinants of Adaptability and Trade-Offs in Yeast

Genetic Determinants of Adaptability and Trade-Offs in Yeast Laboratory Evolution

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On January 13, 2016, Elizabeth Jerison (Harvard) delivered a talk on Stanford campus for the Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG). She discussed her study of trade-offs after adaptation to different environmental conditions, for which she evolved 260 populations of budding yeast to 13 different environmental conditions.

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