Symposium “Evolutionary Applications” – report

A meet­ing report pub­lished in Evol­u­tion­ary Applic­a­tions high­lights the sym­posi­um “Evol­u­tion­ary Applic­a­tions” which ESEB con­trib­uted to last year’s 3^rd Joint Con­gress on Evol­u­tion­ary Bio­logy. The vir­tu­al sym­posi­um fea­tured six talks on a diversity of top­ics: domest­ic­a­tion of cheese-mak­ing fungi, cor­al reef con­ser­va­tion, res­tor­a­tion of long-lived bird pop­u­la­tions, anti­bi­ot­ic and herb­i­cide res­ist­ance, and gene-drive sys­tems for biocon­trol of Mal­aria vectors.

Besides a sum­mary of the sym­posi­um, the report provides brief gen­er­al intro­duc­tions to the top­ics and dis­cusses con­nec­tions between fields of applic­a­tion. Read­ing it, young sci­ent­ists can thus learn by a set of excit­ing examples how evol­u­tion­ary bio­logy can con­trib­ute to address­ing con­tem­por­ary prob­lems in con­ser­va­tion, agri­cul­ture and food pro­duc­tion, and medi­cine and pub­lic health.

Read the report