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By Elisabeth Oberzaucher from University of Vienna, Austria (winner of the Ig Nobel Prize!)

By Juan Bonachela from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland

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). 

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.

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

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). 

By Johan Höjesjö from University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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.  

Popular science lecture by author and researcher Marlene Zuk from University of Minnesota

Welcome to the 11th annual Darwin Day celebration at the university of Oslo! This open event is for everybody interested in science and history. All are welcome! Speakers: Richard E. Lenski, Ludovic A. A. Orlando, Peter Zimmerman and Marlene Zuk.

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

Open for students and researchers at IBV. Send an email to n.c.stenseth@ibv.uio.no & tore.wallem@ibv.uio.no if you would like to participate.

CEES Extra seminar by Richard Lenski

Sandra Gran Stadniczenko (PhD student, AQUA)

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!

Friday seminar by Benjamin Weigel

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.

Friday seminar by John M. Fryxell, University of Guelph, Canada

Friday seminar by Indrė Žliobaitė

Francisco José Bullejos Carrillo (post doc, AQUA)

Key Words: Saharan aerosol nutrient inputs; UVR; phyto-zooplankton coupling

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!

By Sigrun Jonasdottir

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.

Raoul Wolf, PhD student AQUA, IBV