Research events - Page 18

Late Lunch Talk by Michael Matschiner, CEES

By Mike Benton (Note the time and venue!)

This Friday the 8th of April we will discuss a paper by Mueller and Newman (2005): "The innovation triad: an EvoDevo agenda".

Hope to see you there!

This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on Genomic introgression in sticklebacks by Yoshida et al. 2016 (Ecology and Evolution)

Late Lunch Talk by Mhairi Alexander, University of the West of Scotland, UK

This Friday the 1st of April we will discuss a paper by Thurman and Barrett (2016): "The genetic consequences of selection in natural populations." Hope to see you there!

Traditional population models are often limited to the female half of the population, but acknowledgement of the importance of males is spreading. There are fundamental differences between male and female demographies, and these differences can strongly affect population dynamics and provide important insights into the evolution of life histories.

In this upcoming session, we will be discussing a recent paper dealing with sex-specific demography and its abilities to inform life history theory:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v526/n7572/abs/nature14968.html

By Mikael Fortelius

This Friday the 18th of March we will discuss an EvoDevo paper by Levin et al. 2016: "The mid-developmental transition and the evolution of animal body plans”.

Please mind the change of location, we will be permanently moving to the "Aquarium" (3rd floor, 3302). 

This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on Hybridization and Genome Stabilization by Schumer et al. 2016 (Molecular Ecology)

Late Lunch Talk by Masahito Tsuboi. 

This Friday the 11th of March we will be discussing mass extinctions and a paper from Barnosky et al. 2011: "Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?".

Please mind the change of location, we will be permanently moving to the "Aquarium" (3rd floor, 3302). 

Usually, we model demographic rates and use them to make inferences about population-level processes. The idea of doing the reverse - using population time-series to make conclusions about demographic rates - is not new, but challenging and bound by many assumptions.

In this session, we will discuss a very recent paper on reverse parameter estimation using IPM methodology, to see what new developments have been made for this idea.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.12519/abstract

This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on Genomics of Rapid Incipient Speciation in Sympatric Threespine Stickleback, by Marques et al. 2016

CEES Extra seminar/AQUA seminar by Nancy Denslow and Peter Hodson

By Elisabeth Oberzaucher from University of Vienna, Austria (winner of the Ig Nobel Prize!)

By Juan Bonachela from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

This Friday the 26th of February we will discuss a paper from Sieg at al. 2009: "Mammalian metabolic allometry: do intraspecific variation, phylogeny, and regression models matter?"

Please mind the change of location, we will be permanently moving to the "Aquarium" (3rd floor, 3302). 

This week we will look at a paper that investigated the connection between autocorrelation and individual heterogeneity, as well as the consequences of ignoring them. Furthermore, we will discuss how to handle these two issues, particularly BEFORE diving too deep into analyses.

This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on how gene flow from North Africa contributes to differential human genetic diversity in southern Europe, by Botigué et al. 2013

This Friday the 19th of February we will discuss a paper from Jaeger and Monk, 2014: "Bioattractors: dynamical systems theory and the evolution of regulatory processes". Please mind the change of location, we will be permanently moving to the "Aquarium" (3rd floor, 3302). 

By Johan Höjesjö from University of Gothenburg, Sweden

This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on the extent of parallelism in genomic divergence in cichlid adaptive radiations by Mc Gee et al. 2016 in Molecular Ecology.  

We will discuss the basics underlying the construction and analysis of Integral Projection Models (IPMs), a class of structured population models which allow the inclusion of continuous individual covariates such as body size.

In doing so, we discuss a recent paper coming from our midst with an interesting extension of the standard IPM methodology:

"Individual heterogeneity in life histories and eco-evolutionary dynamics" (Vindenes & Langangen, 2015)

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12421/full