The SFB project ‘Polygenic Adaptation’ consists of three research pillars built upon specific but synergistic expertise within the SFB:

GWAS of adaptive traits

• Magnus Nordborg: Genetic architecture in the presence of selection
• Kelly Swarts: Adaptation to dynamically changing environments in Norway Spruce (Picea abies) forests

Modelling polygenic adaptation

• Nick Barton: Understanding polygenic adaptation, despite polygenic selection and ancestral noise
• Joachim Hermisson: Polygenic adaptation beyond sweeps and shifts
• Himani Sachdeva: Can the infinitesimal model reconcile observations from GWAS and E&R?

Estimating parameters using experimental evolution

• Neda Barghi: Genetic and adaptive architecture of polygenic traits
• Robert Kofler: Genetic and adaptive architecture of body size variation under truncating selection in Drosophila
• Christian Schlötterer: Polygenic adaptation with reduced genetic variation