Grant: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
$44,000.00
The building of the genetic load in natural populations: a study of the dynamics between environmental changes, genomic selection, and life history
FY 2023-24
Summary
Rapid biological evolution can alter ecological processes such as demography or predator-prey dynamics. Ecology and evolution can thereby influence each other at timescales as short as a few generations. The idea that evolution by natural selection could be a regular contributor to the contemporary dynamics of living systems has implications that are far reaching, not only for our comprehension of evolutionary processes, but potentially for issues like the biodiversity crisis or the bioecology of human societies. The transition to modernity has produced perhaps the fastest modification ever of the Earth's conditions, coined the "Anthropocene era". The proposed programme aims to study how, in this context, natural selection and demography have interacted to modulate genomes and the mutation load at the scale of a whole (human) population across multiple generations. I will use the FrenchCanadian population from Québec as a model to address these evolutionary questions
Program
Discovery Grants Program - Individual
Location
Quebec, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
RGPIN-2023-05842
Name nom
Milot, Emmanuel
Department département
Chimie, biochimie et physique - Chimie, biochimie et physique
Organization id
59
Institution établissement
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Province en
Québec
Province fr
Québec
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2023
Competition year année de concours
2023
Award amount
44000
Program id
RGPIN
Program name en
Discovery Grants Program - Individual
Program name fr
Programme de subventions à la découverte - individuelles
Group en
DISCOVERY RESEARCH
Group fr
RECHERCHE AXÉE SUR LA DÉCOUVERTE
Committee code
1503
Committee name en
Evolution and Ecology
Committee name fr
Évolution et écologie
Area of application code
407
Area of application group en
Environment
Area of application group fr
Environnement
Area of application en
Conservation and preservation
Area of application fr
Conservation et préservation
Research subject code
5005
Research subject group en
Genetics
Research subject group fr
Evolutionary genetics
Research subject en
Génétique
Research subject fr
Génétique évolutive
Application title
The building of the genetic load in natural populations: a study of the dynamics between environmental changes, genomic selection, and life history
Keyword
Anthropocene; evolutionary demography; evolutionary genomics; genetic load; genotype-by-environment interactions; Homo sapiens model; microevolution; natural selection; quantitative genetics; transition to modernity
Application summary
Rapid biological evolution can alter ecological processes such as demography or predator-prey dynamics. Ecology and evolution can thereby influence each other at timescales as short as a few generations. The idea that evolution by natural selection could be a regular contributor to the contemporary dynamics of living systems has implications that are far reaching, not only for our comprehension of evolutionary processes, but potentially for issues like the biodiversity crisis or the bioecology of human societies. The transition to modernity has produced perhaps the fastest modification ever of the Earth's conditions, coined the "Anthropocene era". The proposed programme aims to study how, in this context, natural selection and demography have interacted to modulate genomes and the mutation load at the scale of a whole (human) population across multiple generations. I will use the FrenchCanadian population from Québec as a model to address these evolutionary questions
