The Laboratory of Evolutionary and Functional Genomics, led by Dr. Josefa González at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF) from Barcelona (‘González Lab’), is a research lab focused on understanding how organisms adapt to their environments. The lab combines omics approaches with detailed molecular and phenotypic analyses to get a comprehensive picture of adaptation.
LCATM has partnered with the lab in order to promote their research towards the general public through the design, fundraising, development, and implementation of science communication and science outreach activities, as well as accelerating, economizing and widening the scope of the research activities of the lab and the consortium it leads, DrosEU, through crowd sampling within the Spanish citizen science project ‘Melanogaster: Catch the Fly!’ (#MelanogasterCTF) and its international counterpart ‘aDaptNAtion’.
