Events

KLI Colloquia are informal, public talks that are followed by extensive dissussions. Speakers are KLI fellows or visiting researchers who are interested in presenting their work to an interdisciplinary audience and discussing it in a wider research context. We offer three types of talks:

1. Current Research Talks. KLI fellows or visiting researchers present and discuss their most recent research with the KLI fellows and the Vienna scientific community.

2. Future Research Talks. Visiting researchers present and discuss future projects and ideas togehter with the KLI fellows and the Vienna scientific community.

3. Professional Developmental Talks. Experts about research grants and applications at the Austrian and European levels present career opportunities and strategies to late-PhD and post-doctoral researchers.

  • The presentation language is English.
  • If you are interested in presenting your current or future work at the KLI, please contact the Scientific Director or the Executive Manager.

Event Details

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Round Table on Darwinian Agriculture
George PERRY (Penn State University)
2019-05-23 12:00 - 2019-05-23 14:00
KLI
Organized by KLI

Topic:

George Perry will be visiting the KLI to participate in discussions about Darwinian Agriculture and to spend time speaking to fellows about topics in genetics, human evolution, dietary adaptation, behavioral ecology, and anthropogenic modification of the evolutionary trajectories of non-human species. We look forward to his visit and our mini science camp about human evolution and ecological impacts of human activity.

 

Biographical note:

George (PJ) Perry and members of his anthropological genomics laboratory at Penn State University are broadly motivated by hypotheses about human evolutionary ecology -- how we have adapted to our variable or changing environments -- and how human behavior has affected the evolutionary biology of other species that share our ecosystems. Among their major current project areas, one is focused on the evolutionary ecology of human rainforest hunter-gatherers, including the identification and characterization of convergent adaptation among genetically distinct African and Southeast Asian populations. Another research area considers the evolutionary biology of various human parasites, including tapeworms and lice, as proxies from which to make inferences about our own evolution. PJ is an Associate Professor and Harry J. & Elissa M. Sichi Early Career Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Biology at the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State University. He is also a fellow at the DFG Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Tuebingen, Germany.