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Immunity in Ecology and Evolution: 'Hidden' costs of disease, immune function and their consequences for Darwinian fitness

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LUNDS UNIVERSITET 

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address: Paradisgatan 5c
city: LUND
postcode: 22100
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 Coordinator Country Sweden [SE]
 Total cost 2˙500˙000 €
 EC max contribution 2˙500˙000 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
 Code Call ERC-2016-ADG
 Funding Scheme ERC-ADG
 Starting year 2017
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2017-08-01   to  2022-07-31

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1    LUNDS UNIVERSITET SE (LUND) coordinator 2˙500˙000.00

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 Project objective

Eco-immunology targets one of the great challenges in biology and medicine - how the immune system has evolved to optimize protection and minimize immunopathology (incl. autoimmune) costs. A primary target of my proposal is to study low-virulent pathogens causing mild infections, which for long have been considered harmless. Recent research suggests that this notion is false and that seemingly harmless pathogens entail delayed (‘hidden’) fitness costs. However, the mechanisms mediating these costs are still unknown. I will experimentally test if accelerated telomere degradation is a causative mechanism through which small immune costs can accumulate and be translated into senescence and reduced Darwinian fitness. Another key target is immune costs, which may be ‘hidden’ because of sexually antagonistic effects, and I will study how this may affect immune gene variation, immune costs and Darwinian fitness. These aspects are central for advancing our understanding of the evolution of disease resistance and immune function, incl. immune over-reactions (autoimmunity).

My project exploits a comprehensive 32-year study of great reed warblers to analyze selection patterns in the wild (Fig. 1a), and uses established captive songbird set-ups to conduct carefully designed experiments. The exceptional quality of the long-term data set, together with cutting-edge techniques to measure and manipulate parasite infection, telomere length, oxidative stress and immune gene diversity, provides exciting opportunities to conduct research that previously was unfeasible, pushing the rapidly growing field of eco-immunology (Fig. 1b) to new frontiers. The work integrates theory and methods of evolutionary ecology, immunology and molecular biology, and has broad significance including for e.g. epidemiology and ageing research. I envision my research to change how we look upon causes, consequences (and precautions) of mild infectious, autoimmune and degenerative diseases.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
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2020 Jacob Roved, Bengt Hansson, Martin Stervander, Dennis Hasselquist, Helena Westerdahl
Non-random association of MHC-I alleles in favor of high diversity haplotypes in wild songbirds revealed by computer-assisted MHC haplotype inference using the R package MHCtools
published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.1101/2020.03.24.005207
2020-04-01
2019 Jacob Roved
MHC polymorphism in a songbird: Fitness, mate choice, and sexual conflict
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2020-04-01
2020 Emily A. O\'Connor, Dennis Hasselquist, Jan-Ã…ke Nilsson, Helena Westerdahl, Charlie K. Cornwallis
Wetter climates select for higher immune gene diversity in resident, but not migratory, songbirds
published pages: 20192675, ISSN: 0962-8452, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2675
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287/1919 2020-03-05
2018 Jacob Roved, Bengt Hansson, Maja Tarka, Dennis Hasselquist, Helena Westerdahl
Evidence for sexual conflict over major histocompatibility complex diversity in a wild songbird
published pages: 20180841, ISSN: 0962-8452, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0841
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285/1884 2019-06-11

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