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IBV Department and CEES Extra seminar by Darren E. Irwin from Beaty Biodiversity Museum & University of British Columbia
CEES Extra seminar by David Righton & Julian Metcalfe from Cefas.
This LLT will be held as a CEES Extra seminar by David Righton & Julian Metcalfe from Cefa
Late lunch talk by Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar and Trond Reitan.
Friday seminar by Andreas Hejnol, Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology
This week, Andreas Hejnol will be visiting and we will read a perspective paper relevant to his group's reserach, namely "Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough" pulished in PLoSBiology in 2011 by Philippe et al. For background on metazoan phylogenies see Dunn et al. 2014
Late lunch talk by Meike Wortel, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
This Friday 30th of January we discuss a paper on why ungulates that have more friends also have larger brains. "Gregariousness increases brain size in ungulates", by Pérez-Barbería and Gordon (2005). NOTE: Change of time - journal club starts at 11:15!
Late lunch talk by Ryan Easterday
Friday seminar by Rolf A. Ims
We read a paper by on bryozoan evolution in the Isthmus of Panama in Evolutionary Ecology 2012 by Jagadeeshan and O'Dea.
This weeks MaEcovo journal club will discuss Charles Nunn and Natalie Cooper's recent paper in Evolution; Investigating evolutionary lag using the species-pairs evolutionary lag test (SPELT). Welcome all!
Friday seminar by Terrence W. Deacon from Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. Now with abstract.
It is time for this year's last TGAC meeting, where we'll discuss the current "Flock of genomes" special issue of Science about 48 newly released bird genomes. With eight research articles and one review, this special issue could keep the TGAC busy for weeks, but for now I propose to focus on the article of Jarvis et al. entitled "Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds".
This Friday we'll be enjoying a discussion on Phylogenetic Path Analysis, a chapter from the recently published book Modern Phylogenetic Comparative Methods and Their Application in Evolutionary Biology, edited by László Zsolt Garamszegi. Whole book is available in the link above, we're gonna talk about Chapter 8: An Introduction to Phylogenetic Path Analysis by Alejandro Gonzalez-Voyer and Achaz von Hardenberg. To keep spirits high there's a number of cartoons in the chapter as well as a footnote stating that pun is intended, so it'll be a fun read.
This week we will read an a bit more ecological paper on hybridization and evolutionary outcomes entitled "Hierarchical behaviour, habitat use and species size differences shape evolutionary outcomes of hybridization in a coral reef fish" by Gainsford and colleagues to be published in Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Please note that the meeting will take place at a different location this time!
Friday seminar by Arnaud Le Rouzic. NEW TIME: 12.15
This week we'll be learning when species richness should be energy limited (I think the right answer is "sometimes"), and more interestingly; how would we know? An idea and perspective paper by Hurlbert and Stegen in Ecology Letters 2014.
Same time, same place, same people. Welcome!
Bank et al. (2014) looks like the perfect paper for a TGAC discussion: Highly relevant (arguing that selective sweep detection needs to take demography and background selection into account), brand new (currently in press corrected proof), and short (7 pages). So let's have a TGAC meeting on Tuesday, at 1 pm as usual.
This week we'll be discussing a paper by Brockhurst and co-workers in Proceedings B: Running with the Red Queen: the role of biotic conflicts in evolution
2-day conference on the history of plague, at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, with summarizing thoughts of Jared Diamond. Please register.
Late lunch talk by Melissah Rowe
Friday seminar by Annelise Binois
This week we will discuss a paper entitled "Maximum likelihood inference of reticulate evolutionary histories" by Yu and co-authors from PNAS. The paper presents a new method for inferring reticulate evolutionary histories while accounting for incomplete lineage sorting.
In a second edition of TGAC-with-original-authors, we'll discuss Marcussen et al. (2014), a recent Science paper on ancient hybridization of polyploid wheat genomes. The first author Thomas Marcussen will join our discussion, and since Kjetill Jakobsen was involved in the study, we may even have two authors present to answer all our questions. We're switching back to the old meeting time, starting at 1 pm.