Please join us for a seminar with Zachary Cheviron, Associate Professor, University of Montana Division of Biological Sciences. He will present Of mice and mountaintops: the physiological and genetic determinates of performance and survival at high elevation. Zac's research is aimed at understanding the physiological and genetic mechanisms that allow organisms to survive in challenging environments.  He uses integrative approaches that draw on techniques from physiological ecology, population genetics, and functional genomics to addresses a broad range of topics. These topics range from mechanistic studies of evolutionary adaptation and acclimatization responses to comparative analyses of the importance of environmental gradients in population divergence, speciation, and biodiversity conservation. Due to a prolonged lack of topographic relief during his childhood in central Illinois, Cheviron developed an early and deep fascination with montane environments, and much of his current work focuses on birds and mammals that are distributed along elevational gradients in mountain ranges around the world. In this talk, he will cover recent work focused on exploring the genetic basis of traits that influence fitness at high elevation in deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus).

This will be a hybrid experience so if you are not able to join us in person, please join us via Zoom at https://beav.es/GradSpkr or on our YouTube channel at https://beav.es/IBYouTube.

For accommodations related to a disability, please contact the Integrative Biology Office at (541) 737-2993 or ib@oregonstate.edu.