Primate Genomics and Dietary Ecology

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Dr. Melin will address key areas of debate concerning the adaptive radiation of primates, including humans. In particular, she asks how primates 1) use their senses to locate and select foods, and 2) adapt to environmental shifts in resource abundance through diet, behaviour, and symbiosis with microbial communities. By evaluating variation between and within species, she will ask how natural selection shapes the evolution of sensory systems and foraging ecology. Her work forges new transdisciplinary pathways, uniting molecular genetics and genomics, stable isotope analysis, behavioural ecology fieldwork, and computational models of animal vision.