Primate Genomics and Dietary Ecology

Melin博士将讨论包括人类在内的灵长类动物适应性辐射的关键争议领域。特别是，她问灵长类动物如何1)使用他们的感官来定位和选择食物，2)通过饮食，行为和与微生物群落的共生来适应资源丰富的环境变化。通过评估物种之间和物种内部的差异，她将探讨自然选择如何塑造感官系统和觅食生态的进化。她的工作开辟了新的跨学科途径，将分子遗传学和基因组学、稳定同位素分析、行为生态学田野调查和动物视觉的计算模型结合起来。

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.