Exploring the Unseen Mayority
Experimental Evolution with Microoganisms
Snowflake project
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Who am I?
DVM, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher at the Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Department at the University of Minnesota. I am also a fellow of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science since 2019. I am interested in how adaptive possibilities do, or do not, become evolutionary realities to understand the origin of novel traits and the diversity of life (past and present). To address these questions I make use of microbial experimental evolution with microorganisms. When I am not evolving microbes in the lab, mentoring students or broadcasting science, you could find me in the middle of a forest, submerged in a lake, or doing field trips with middle and high school kids.
Current Projects
SNOWFLAKE
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Multicellularity is a major evolutionary transition in evolution. Learn more about the first steps of this leap.
Trade-off
motility & multicellularity
Most plants do not actively move. Therefore, motility might be the trade-off for multicellularity rise in plants. Want to know what we discovered?
Harvesting from extreme
Bioprospecting from Anthropogenic Extreme Environments can have important taxonomic implications, as well as bioremediation and industrial applications.
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Contact information
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior - University of Minnesota
e-mail: bbaselga@umn.edu
Researchgate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Beatriz_Baselga_Cervera
ORCID: 0000-0003-3423-4780
Lab contact: http://micropop.cbs.umn.edu/lab-groups/travisano-lab-group.html