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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Drinking Water as a Source of Micro- and Nanoplastic Exposure
DESCRIPTION:Zoom webinar registration required https://myumi.ch/d8pk9\n\n\"Drinking Water as a Source of Micro- and Nanoplastic Exposure\" presented by John Lenhart\, PhD (Ohio State Univ).\n\nThe Integrated Health Sciences Core's (IHSC) webinar series is an interdisciplinary forum for interested researchers to come together to learn and discuss wide-ranging issues in the field of environmental health.\n\nJohn J. Lenhart is a Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Civil\, Environmental\, and Geodetic Engineering at The Ohio State University and Co-Director of the Ohio Water Resources Center. His research focuses on contaminant fate and transport\, with an emphasis on characterizing interfacial processes in heterogeneous systems. His current microplastics research examines their occurrence in natural and drinking waters\, with particular emphasis on quantifying and identifying the sub-micron\, or “nanoplastic\,” fraction.\n\nOrganized by the Integrated Health Sciences Core (IHSC) of the University of Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center (M-LEEaD). Past webinars available on M-LEEaD's YouTube Channel.
UID:154296-21917520@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154296
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Graduate,Health,Health & Wellness,Interdisciplinary,Kinesiology,Lecture,Life Science,Lifelong Learning,Nursing,Nutrition,Free,Pre-Health,Public Health,Public Policy,Rackham,Research,Science,seminar,Talk,Virtual,environmental,Environment,Ecology,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Chemistry,Biosciences,Biology,Basic Science
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20261022T150756
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Tuesday Seminar Series - Multi-environment fitness landscapes suggest effectively endless adaptation
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - The number of beneficial substitutions (N) required for an adapting population to reach a fitness peak is a fundamental but unknown parameter of evolution. We find that N increases linearly with the number of variable sites in empirical fitness landscapes\, regardless of prior adaptation in another environment. Extrapolation suggests a minimal N of 10⁵ for typical prokaryotes and 10⁷ for mammals. In contrast\, in highly rugged shuffled landscapes\, N is markedly reduced\, while fitness gains also shrink. The relatively smooth empirical landscapes therefore enable greater fitness gains while lengthening adaptive walks\, rendering even local fitness peaks effectively unreachable because natural environments inevitably change. These results explain the persistence of fitness gains in long-term evolution experiments under constant environments and the widespread occurrence of beneficial mutations across species. They suggest that populations continuously adapt while remaining far from fitness optima\, challenging the long-held view that adaptation culminates at fitness peaks.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153995
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Research,Professional Development,Science,seminar,Talk,Workshop
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 3150
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