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Carolyn Tepolt<\/a>\u00a0and I will be teaching a new course on Marine Adaptation in Spring 2019! The class will be offered to students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program as a \u201cTopics Course.\u201d Topics Courses meet once per week and typically provide a mix of lecture and in-depth discussion of primary literature, kind of like a seminar course on steroids. They provide a lot of flexibility to our curriculum, as the subjects change each semester. This allows students and faculty to explore modern and emerging aspects of marine science and to match the curriculum with current research directions.<\/p>\n I\u2019m excited to have the opportunity to collaborate with Carolyn on this class. She joined our Scientific Staff in 2017 and is doing innovative work on evolution and adaptation by invasive species. We\u2019ll draw from the new edition of the classic text \u201cBiochemical Adaptation<\/em>.\u201d This most recent version, subtitled \u201cResponse to Environmental Challenges from Life\u2019s Origins to the Anthropocene<\/em>\u201d has been substantially updated with a wealth of new examples, current understanding of underlying mechanisms, and an increased emphasis on responses to human impacts. I\u2019ll sheepishly confess that I haven\u2019t read the earlier version, so this will be a great opportunity for me to dig into the material. I\u2019m really looking forward to reviewing pathways of energetic metabolism, and particularly plasticity within those pathways.<\/p>\n While we will draw from the text for some lectures, we\u2019ll be more broadly framing the class to examine the adaptive patterns and processes that characterize the marine environment. That\u2019s a big topic, and it\u2019s a challenge to think about how to structure this exploration. I\u2019ll be coming into the class fresh off an\u00a0Antarctic cruise<\/a>, so I\u2019m also looking forward to talking about adaptations by polar organisms. Hopefully I\u2019ll have some new thoughts on that topic!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Carolyn Tepolt\u00a0and I will be teaching a new course on Marine Adaptation in Spring 2019! The class will be offered to students in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program as a \u201cTopics Course.\u201d Topics Courses meet once per week and typically provide a mix of lecture and in-depth discussion of primary literature, kind of like a seminar…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}