Journal clubs - Page 6

Time and place: , The Aquarium

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)

Time and place: , Room 3302

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!

Time and place: , Aquarium (3302)

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

 

 

Time and place: , Room 3302

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). 

Time and place: , The Aquarium

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

Time and place: , Room 3302

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). 

Time and place: , Aquarium (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

 

Time and place: , The Aquarium

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

Time and place: , Room 3302

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). 

Time and place: , Aquarium (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.

Time and place: , The Aquarium

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

Time and place: , Room 3302

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). 

Time and place: , The Aquarium

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.  

Time and place: , Room 3302 (Aquarium)

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

 

Time and place: , Room 3513

The journal club is back and this Friday 5th of February we will start with a paper from 2015 on Tempo and Mode in phylogenetic comparative methods (Kaliontzopoulou and Adams). Same time and place!

Time and place: , The Aquarium

This week we’ll discuss a paper by vonHoldt and collaborators in Genome Research from 2011 and a short, but interesting follow up by Rutledge et.al, published in 2015 in Biology Letters.

Time and place: , Room 3513

This Friday we will focus on a book chapter from Symonds and Blomberg (2014) on Phylogenetic Generalised Least Squares from a recently published book on phylogenetic comparative methods. This will be an introduction for a discussion on the use of appropriate methodology when it comes to comparative methods. If you yourself are wondering what to use in your own research, come join the discussion!

Time and place: , The Aquarium

This week we will discuss a paper on patterns of opercle shape evolution in a cichlid radiation by Wilson et al. which use geometric morphometrics and the comparative methods to draw some interesting conclusions.

Time and place: , Corner room

This week we'll discuss a recent paper in Systematic Biology on the use of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Model to investigate patterns of adaptive evolution in phylogenies.

Friday, corner room @11 as usual.

Time and place: , The Aquarium

This week we will discuss a paper on transposable elements as agents of rapid adaptation may explain the genetic paradox of invasive species that was recently published in Molecular Ecology by Stapley and colleagues.

Time and place: , The Aquarium

This week we will discuss a paper by Lamichhaney and colleagues recently published in Nature Genetics. The study addresses the genomic architecture explaining the striking morphological and behavioural polymorphism seen among three distinctive male morphs of the lekking wader Ruff.

Time and place: , The Aquarium

This week we will discuss a paper on how structural variation such as copy number variation can tell a different story than SNPs. This study by Sudmant and coworkers was recently published in Science. Please note that we have changed the time to 11:30 this time too!

Time and place: , Room 3513

Welcome back! This Friday 13th of November, we will read a paper by Zelditch et al. 2015 "Relationships of diversity, disparity,and their evolutionary rates in squirrels (Sciuridae)".

Time and place: , The Aquarium

This week we will discuss a paper on how a novel prey life history leads to sympatric divergence in a predator species that was recently published in Nature Communications by Brodersen and colleagues. This will bring some ecology back to the journal club after some more molecular papers!