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CEES Extra Seminar by Per-Arne Amundsen (NB: New time!)

Discussion on the program SNAPP (SNP and AFLP package for Phylogenetic Analyses) and the associated paper by Bryant et al. 2013 Inferring Species Trees Directly from Biallelic Genetic Markers: Bypassing Gene Trees in a Full Coalescent Analysis (MBE 29: 1917-1932).

This week, the journal club Maecovo reads Slater, Harmon & Alfaro's "Integrating fossils with molecular phylogenies improves inference of trait evolution" (2012 Evolution 66: 3931-3944)

CEES Extra seminar by Juan A. Bonachela from Levin Lab

Discussion of Hufford et al. 2012 Comparative population genomics of maize domestication and improvement (Nature Genetics 44: 808-811).

The journal club "Macroevolution and Red Queen" is this week discussing:  "Interplay Between Changing Climate and Species’ Ecology Drives Macroevolutionary Dynamics" by Ezard et al. 2011 Science, 332:349-51.

CEES Extra seminar by Erick Denamur

Discussions on Epigenetics and Transgenerational Inheritance: Schmitz et al. 2013 Nature LatestOnline

Late lunch talk by Richard Bailey

Discussion on two (!) papers: (i) Le & Durbin 2011 (Genome Research 21:952-960) and (ii) Roesti et al. 2012 (BMC Evolutionary Biology 21:94).

This week we're reading "Dietary Change and Evolution of Horses in North America" by Mihlbachler et al. (2011) Science 331, 1178-1181.

Now with the programme.

CEES Extra seminar by Christophe Pelabon

(The seminar first announced for this time slot, "Is evolution predictable?" by Mats Björklund is cancelled)

Late lunch talk by Wolf Isbert, Universitat de València

Friday seminar by Camilla Stoltenberg

We meet at the now usual place to discuss Rosindell & Phillimore 2011 Ecology Letters 14: 552-560

Discussions on Epigenetics and Transgenerational Inheritance: Alison G. Scoville et al. 2011 New Phytologist 191: 251–263

A collection of recent CEES publications

Discussion on the program fineSTRUCTURE described in Lawson et al. 2012 Plos Genetics 1:e1002453.

Friday seminar by Daniele Silvestro

This week we're reading "Niche dimensionality links biodiversity and invasibility of microbial communities" by Eisenhauer et al. 2013 Functional Ecology 27:282-288 For additional background, see Jousset et al. 2011 ISME Journal 5:1108-1114.

Extra seminar by Audun Rikardsen

Extra seminar by Henkjan Honing (the Darwin Day vorspiel lecturer!)