Physiological and evolutionary responses to environmental stress: from microbiome-mediated adaptation to host defence.

How organisms respond and adapt to environmental stress is a fundamental question spanning ecology and evolution. My research seeks to understand why individuals and populations differ in their responses to environmental challenges by investigating both the physiological mechanisms involved and the evolutionary processes that shape them.

In this seminar, I will present an overview of my research using complementary study systems to investigate responses to both abiotic and biotic stressors, namely anthropogenic pollution and bacterial infection. Specifically, I will discuss research exploring the role of host-associated microbiomes in responses and adaptation to pollution, and work on the experimental evolution of disease tolerance to pathogenic infection. Finally, I will discuss ongoing work aimed at developing a unified conceptual framework linking resistance and tolerance across abiotic and biotic stressors.

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