Staff
Guénolé Le Pennec
Dr. Guénolé Le Pennec
About Me
My interest in biology is to get an integrative understanding of evolution. That is, grasping how one level of organization affects the others and the cascade of events that lead to long-lasting evolutionary change. This requires studying the interaction between molecular changes on the level of the genome, the variation on the level of phenotypes, and that of populations.
I study these questions in the coevolution of a virus that infects (and kills) unicellular algae in the lab. This setup is very useful as huge populations can grow, allowing us to observe how viruses and algae adapt to each other in a situation where many mutations can be picked up by “natural” selection. These experimental populations can also be replicated with almost similar initial conditions to tackle, in my opinion, one of the most interesting questions in evolutionary biology: is evolution deterministic such that the same causes gives the same results, or are there so many possible evolutionary paths that an adaptive solution (such as evolving resistance to the viral infections) seldom gets picked twice?
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Curriculum Vitae
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Address
| E-Mail: | guenole.lepennec@cluttereawag.ch |
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| Fax: | +41 58 765 2168 |
| Address: | Eawag
Seestrasse 79 6047 Kastanienbaum |
| Office: | CA B04 |
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Research Group
FishEc