Research events - Page 15

Time and place: , Room 3302

Friday the 9th of December we will discuss a recent paper by Halley (2016): Prenatal Brain-Body Allometry in Mammals

 

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Time and place: , The Aquarium

This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper entitled "Divergence and Functional Degradation of a Sex Chromosome-like Supergene" by Tutte et al. in Current Biology (2016)

Time and place: , Aquarium (3302)

Effective population size is an important concept in evolutionary biology, providing information about genetic variability, inbreeding and the efficiency of directional selection. Despite its obvious relevance, it has rarely been discussed in the context of fishery-induced selection.  

Time and place: , The Aquarium

This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper entitled "Neighboring genes for DNA-binding proteins rescue male sterility in Drosophila hybrids" by Lienard et al. in PNAS (2016)

Time and place: , Seminar room 3508

By Jaap A. Kaandorp from University of Amsterdam

Time and place: , Aquarium

This Friday the journal club will discuss a paper by Sánchez et al (2004): Branching and Self-Organization in Marine Modular Colonial Organisms: A Model.

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Time and place: , Holmen Fjordhotell (Storsalen), Slemmestadveien 64, 1394 Nesbru

Dear all CEES members: We are pleased to invite you to the Annual Student Conference! Update: The program is available at the conference website!  

Time and place: , Aquarium

This Friday the journal club will discuss a paper by Bush, Hunt and Bambach (2016) in PNAS: Sex and the shifting biodiversity dynamics of marine animals in deep time.

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Time and place: , Aquarium (3302)

Integral projection models (IPMs) have become a popular tool to assess questions relating to eco-evolutionary dynamics. Within IPMs, change in a continuous trait of interest (body length, leaf area, horn size etc.) are modelled both within generations (growth) and across generations (inheritance). However, current methods of estimating growth and inheritance inherently fail to properly estimate phenotypic evolution.

Time and place: , The Aquarium

This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper entitled "

Making sense of genomic islands of differentiation in light of speciation" by Wolf and Ellegren,  published in 2016 in Nature Reviews Genetics

Time and place: , The Aquarium

This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper entitled " Feralisation targets different genomic loci to domestication in the chicken" by Johnsson et al. 2016 in Nature Communications

Time and place: , Room 3508

By Oscar Puebla from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany

Time and place: , Aquarium

This Friday the journal club will discuss a paper by Sakamoto et al. (2016): ‘Residual diversity estimates’ do not correct for sampling bias in palaeodiversity data.

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Time and place: , The Aquarium

This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper entitled "Genomic variation at the tips of the adaptive radiation of Darwin's finches" by Chaves et al. 2016 in Molecular Ecology.

Time and place: , Room 3315

Diseases can induce detectible genetic changes in host populations by exerting infectious pressure. It has been hypothesized that past plague pandemics have shaped susceptibility to infections in modern European populations. In this journal club, we will discuss immune pathways that have been shaped by convergent evolution in European and Rroma populations in response to plague and other infections.

Time and place: , Aquarium (3302)

Estimates of fishing mortality commonly used in stock assessment models are often conditional on restrictive assumptions about natural mortality. However, integrating data from various sources in bayesian state-space models can allow to independently estimate mortalities of different sources.

Time and place: , The Aquarium

This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper entitled "detection of human adaptation during the past 2000 years" by Field et al. 2016 in Science.

Time and place: , Aquarium

This Friday we'll discuss a paper from the future American Naturalist presenting a new tool; "Phylogenetic ANCOVA: Estimating Changes in Evolutionary Rates as Well as Relationships between Traits" by Fuentes-G., Housworth, Weber and Martins.

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Time and place: , Seminar room 3508

By Malin Pinsky from Rutgers University, United States

Time and place: , Aquarium (3302)

In many harvested ecosystems, laws and regulations protect animals below a certain size from being killed. However, in species such as fish, it is often the large, old animals that represent the reproductive capital of a population, and that might need protection even more.