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Friday seminar by Arnar Pálsson from University of Iceland
This weeks MaEcovo paper is Automatic Detection of Key Innovations, Rate Shifts, and Diversity-Dependence on Phylogenetic Trees by Rabosky 2014 in PloS One.
We restart journal club this week with Bookstein's 2012 Paleobiology paper on Random walk as a null model for high-dimensional morphometrics of fossil series: geometrical considerations.
CEES extra seminar by Dr. Monica Hagedorn
Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg Germany
Friday seminar by Moritz Muschick from University of Sheffield
CEES Extra seminar by Jason Miller from J. Craig Venter Institute
In possibly the last TGAC+CELS meeting before the summer break, we will discuss genomic adaptations to cold temperatures, as reported for polar bears by Liu et al. (2014) in Cell.
Friday seminar by Louis W. Botsford from University of California
This week Friday the 20th macroevolution journal club will be discussing a paper entitled: "Dietary innovations spurred the diversification of ruminants during the Caenozoic" by Cantalapiedra et al. 2013.
Early Lunch Talk by Per Åberg (Professor of Marine Ecology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden).
This week in the macroevolution journal club we will read a paper entitled: "Modelling the ecology and evolution of communities: A review of past achievements, current efforts, and future promises" by Brännström et al. 2012.
CEES Extra seminar by Melissah Rowe from NHM
This week in the macroevolution journal club we will be discussing "Tempo and mode in plant breeding system evolution" from Goldberg & Igić (2012). Keywords: Comparative methods; Dollo’s law; macroevolution; self-incompatibility; Solanaceae. Join us!
This week we will discuss a paper entitled "Genomic divergence in a ring species complex" by Alcaide and co-authors which was recently published in Nature.
CIME & CEES Extra seminar by Timothy D. Read from Emory University School of Medicine
CEES Extra seminar/Faculty of Dentistry seminar by Bill Hanage from Harvard School of Public Health
This week, we'll discuss a new paper by Feng et al. (2014) that shows that for some toothed and baleen whales, all food just tastes salty. Again, all CELS members are very welcome to join!
Late lunch talk by Neus Mari-Mena.
We will be discussing a recent paper by Roesti et al. (2014) which uses simulations and stickleback data to test for patterns of adaptive divergence in the genome. We particularly invite participants of the CELS endringsmiljø!
Friday seminar by Anna Iglikowska from Institute of Oceanology of Polish Academy of Sciences
This week in the macroevolution journal club we will read a paper by Althoff et al. 2014 : "Testing for coevolutionary diversification: linking pattern with process". Join us for a discussion of this short review on potential mechanisms of coevolutionary diversification and ways to test it.
This week we will read a recent paper by Patrik Nosil and colleagues on the repeatability of the genetic changes driving the divergence of populations into new species. The paper is entitled "Stick Insect Genomes Reveal Natural Selection’s Role in Parallel Speciation" and was recently published in Science. The reported findings indicate that natural selection can drive parallel phenotypic evolution via parallel genetic changes.
Late lunch talk by Claudia Junge.
Friday seminar by Per Ahlberg from Uppsala University
Join us this week, Friday 16th of May, to discuss a paper by Monroe & Bokma (2009): "Do speciation rates drive rates of body size evolution in mammals?" and continue last weeks discussion on phylogenetic analysis of speciation.