The Botanics looks forward to hosting the next Botanical Society of Scotland's lecture on 21 May featuring Professor Enrico Coen.
Whole genome sequences have become the gold standard of evolutionary biology, superseding classical taxonomy in defining species relationships and history. That perspective rests on the assumption that the genome behaves as a single coherent entity, with a single story to tell.
Prof Coen shall explore this idea through their recent studies on variation in wild populations of the Snapdragon, Antirrhinum majus. Through a combination of genetics, phenotypic analysis and population genomics you will see that different genes have different stories to tell, giving us a much richer and nuanced picture of evolution than we might have imagined.
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With thanks to the Botanical Society of Scotland for creating this lecture series and welcoming our members to it. You can find out more about BSS here
Venue note: To access the lecture please enter via the Science Buildings main reception, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR and follow the signs to the Lecture Theatre.
Note this is NOT the public entrance to the Gardens.