About
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The Evolution in Action project was founded in 2017 by a group of postdocs and PhD students in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. It was initially funded by an ESEB Outreach Initiative grant. Our workshops are based on our own research and include practical activities designed to promote critical thinking skills, and inquiry-based learning.
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We also work with the teacher education program at the University to create instruction packs to allow teachers to run our workshops themselves. We create high-quality content that helps teachers gain confidence presenting scientific ideas, while also linking with the new Finnish Science curriculum.
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Meet the team
Aigi Margus is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, in the Invasion Biology Research Group under the supervision of Leena Lindström. Her research goal is to contribute to understanding the invasion success of the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say) by studying adaptation to anthropogenically induced stressful environments. She will study changes in life-history and physiological traits as well as target site mutations to test if increased tolerance through anthropogenically induced stressors can promote invasions.
Aigi Margus is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, in the Invasion Biology Research Group under the supervision of Leena Lindström. Her research goal is to contribute to understanding the invasion success of the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say) by studying adaptation to anthropogenically induced stressful environments. She will study changes in life-history and physiological traits as well as target site mutations to test if increased tolerance through anthropogenically induced stressors can promote invasions.
Emily Burdfield-Steel is an assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam. Her research investigates how intra- and inter-specific species communication, particularly chemical communication, shapes evolutionary processes. She focuses on insect mating systems, looking both at how the use of multiple sensory modalities can influence the evolution of mating systems and how reproductive interference can occur and shape pheromone communication.
Carita Lindstedt is a researcher at the University of Jyväskylä. She aims to understand the role of natural selection in shaping the adaptive genetic and phenotypic variation in antipredator strategies. She studies the life-history costs of cooperative antipredator defences and how ecological and social conditions shape the evolution of antipredator strategies and animal signalling. She uses a combination of behavioural, physiological, quantitative genetic and functional ecological techniques both in the field and in the laboratory.
