ANBG Friends Plant Science Group Technical Talk

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Monday, 5 August 2019 - 10:30am

Francisco Encinas-Viso (CANBR - CSIRO) will talk on 'A window to the past: using museum specimens to study temporal changes of plant-pollinator interactions'

Research collections have multiple uses to answer ecological and evolutionary questions. Importantly, they can provide us with crucial data to look at the past to understand the present. The recent progress of new sequencing technologies and genomics, in general, has allowed us to answer novel research questions using museum specimens that were not possible before. In this talk, Francisco will provide an overview of their project about plant-pollinator interactions and how the use of genomics and museum specimens can help us to answer questions about the effects of climate change in Australian plant-pollinator communities.