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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2023

Evolutionary mechanisms of gene regulation in dynamic environments

Living systems are the product of evolution in a dynamically changing world; they endlessly adapt to new challenges imposed by their environment. Yet, our understanding of evolutionary mechanisms involved in adaptation to dynamic environments is very sparse. Even though gene regulation is well-known to endow cells with the ability to adjust their phenotype according to environmental fluctuations, we know little about genetic changes that fuel regulatory evolution or about the benefits and costs of regulatory changes. This lack of knowledge impacts several fields in biology: from the biomedical challenge of cancer plasticity where evolved gene regulations allow cancer cells to escape…

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