AIAS FORMER FELLOW
Current position: Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics, Aarhus University, Denmark
During her AIAS-AUFF fellowship, Anna Maria Langmüller will be working on the project 'How does environmental heterogeneity influence the genomic footprint of adaptation?'
Understanding how organisms adapt to rapidly changing environments is crucial, especially in the context of global climate change. Adaptation often involves evolutionary trade-offs, where adjusting to one challenge, such as insecticides, may affect other traits like heat tolerance. My research investigates how environmental heterogeneity influences the spread of adaptive mutations, considering these pleiotropic effects.
In this context, classic population genetic models only provide limited insights as they assume random mating and spatial homogeneity. To address this, I employ individual-based simulations and statistical frameworks to explore how environmental heterogeneity shapes the genomic footprint of insecticide resistance and affects adaptation dynamics across time and space.
Project title: How does environmental heterogeneity influence the genomic footprint of adaptation?
Area of research: Evolutionary biology
Fellowship period: 1 Sep 2024 - 31 Jul 2026
Fellowship type: AIAS-AUFF Fellow
This fellowship has received funding from The Aarhus University Research Foundation (AUFF)
