Primate Genomics and Dietary Ecology

梅林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论领域。她特别询问灵长类1)如何使用感官来定位和选择食物，2)如何通过饮食、行为以及与微生物群落的共生来适应资源丰度的环境变化。通过评估物种之间和物种内部的差异，她将询问自然选择如何塑造感觉系统和觅食生态的进化。她的工作打造了新的跨学科途径，将分子遗传学和基因组学、稳定同位素分析、行为生态学田野工作和动物视觉计算模型结合在一起。

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.