Research events - Page 30

We will discuss Opazo et al. 2013 Whole-Genome Duplication and the Functional Diversification of Teleost Fish Hemoglobins (MBE 30: 140-153).

Note different time and day!

Friday seminar by Reidun Sirevåg

This Friday we read a new PNAS paper on "Environmental and biotic controls on the evolutionary hsitory of insect body size" by Clapham & Kerr (PNAS 109: 10927-10930).

The NorMER node at CEES is organising a GAM workshop given by Lorenzo Ciannelli

CEES Extra seminar by Mark Grabowski

This Thursday, we will read "THE IMPACT OF REGIONAL CLIMATE ON THE EVOLUTION OF MAMMALS: A CASE STUDY USING FOSSIL HORSES" by Eronen et al. 2010. The paper can be found in Evolution 64: 398-408

Discussion of Linnenbrink et al. 2013 The role of biogeography in shaping diversity of the intestinal microbiota in house mice (Molecular Ecology 22: 1904-1916).

The journal club "Macroevolution and Red Queen" is this week discussing:  "Phylogenetic limiting similarity and competitive exclusion" by Violle et al. 2011 in Ecology Letters

CEES Colloquium 2 seminar. Registration deadline: 30 April.

Friday seminar by Olav Sigurd Kjesbu

Friday seminar by Matina Donaldson-Matasci

The journal club "Macroevolution and Red Queen" is this week discussing:  "Eco-evolutionary dynamics in response to selection on life-history" by Cameron et at. 2013 in Ecology Letters

A collection of recent CEES publications

This week at TGAC we have the pleasure to listen to Geir Kjetil Sandve and Sveinung Gundersen from IFI, who will give a presentation about "Doing bioinformatics more efficiently and reproducible with the Galaxy platform"

The journal club "Macroevolution and Red Queen" is this week discussing:  "Assessing the role of cladogenesis in macroevolution by integrating fossil and molecular evidence" by Strotz and Allen 2013. PNAS 110;2904–2909

Late lunch talk by Maja Tarka

This week, the journal club Maecovo reads Monroe's "Does competition drive character differences between species on a macroevolutionary scale?" Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 2341-2347

CEES Extra Seminar by Göran Englund (NB: New time)

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.