Summary: Since Eric Davidson's work on the organization of regulatory elements in enhancers, syntactic properties of the arrangements - order, distances, orientation - of regulatory sites have been evaluated. There are thus various “enhancer grammars”. In that context I show the difference with the grammatical model of microbial transcriptional regulation. On the other hand, the […]

Resumen de la plática At a big picture level, my group at CMU is focused on studying the adaptive properties of spatial structure, across different biological systems. Spatially-resolved datasets are revolutionizing knowledge across many areas in biology, yet are under-utilized for questions in evolutionary biology. When it comes to understanding the role that population structure […]