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With among others David Sloan Wilson and Dag O. Hessen

Friday seminar by Julian Catchen

This week we will meet and discuss two papers: one by The Heliconius Genome Consortium entitled: "Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species" and another by Durand et al. entitled "Testing for Ancient Admixture between Closely Related Populations".     

This Friday we will discuss a new review paper by Vermeij on his "Escalation" theory, which he sees as the viable alternative to the Red Queen hypothesis. The paper is a long verbal argument, but gives some context to the points made about the Red Queen in the recent paper by Vermeij & Roopnarine in Paleobiology. 

This week we discuss a paper by Berenos, Schmid-Hempel and Wegner entitled "Antagonistic Coevolution Accelerates the Evolution of Reproductive Isolation in Tribolium castaneum".

We'll have a brainstorm on SNP calling from whole genome sequencing data. I'll briefly describe the pipeline I've run up to now, which is mostly preceding actual SNP calling, and then want to focus the discussion on how to get a high quality SNP dataset from low coverage resequencing - i.e. how to call SNPs, what filtering criteria to use to distinguish high from low quality SNPs, and how this may vary depending on the subsequent analyses we want to do with our SNP data. This will really be a brainstorm, an open discussion, all ideas welcome. If you would like to read up a bit beforehand, I can recommend the guide form the Broad Institute which has been one of my guidelines along the way (http://www.broadinstitute.org/gatk/guide/best-practices).

Friday seminar by Dr. Matthew Van Ert, VEN Consulting LLC

This Friday we read Jablonski's new paper in PNAS on an old topic: "out of the tropics". 

Special IBV/CEES seminar by Laurie E. Comstock

This Thursday we will meet and discuss Christopher H. Martin and Peter C. Wainwright's paper "Multiple Fitness Peaks on the Adaptive Landscape Drive Adaptive Radiation in the Wild" published in Science earlier this year.

Friday seminar by Candy Rowe

Our journal club reading this Friday will be "Testing the link between phenotypic evolution and speciation: an integrated palaeontological and phylogenetic analysis" by Gene Hunt, published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution in August 2013.

Forskningsdagene - åpent for alle: "Havet brukes til transport og ferie, som matkammer og søppeldunk. Publikumsakvarier tilbyr levende kunnskap om hvordan vi påvirker havet og kan leve godt sammen med havet. Vi inviterer til en marin aften om mennesker og havet – bli med på reisen!" (This event it held in Norwegian.)

This week we discuss a paper by Parchman et al. entitled "The genomic consequences of adaptive divergence and reproductive isolation between species of manakins".

We'll be discussing the following paper this week: D. Tilman Am Nat. 2011 178:355-371 Diversification, biotic interchange, and the universal trade-off hypothesis

Friday seminar by Adrian Dyer

There is no scientific controversy over whether evolution is right and creationism is wrong. But do you know the scientific arguments for evolution? This evening, geneticist and popular science author Steve Jones will tell you "Why evolution is right and creationism is wrong". Even though there is no scientific controversy, this topic is still controversial. Eugenie C. Scott, the executive director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE, USA) since 1987, will talk about why that is - and why we still need to defend evolution and other sciences in the classrooms - and elswhere.

This year at the annual Kristine Bonnevie lectures, the geneticist and popular science author Steve Jones from University College London will tell you "What sex really means". Eugenie C. Scott from The National Center for Science Education will draw on her long experience in defending science education in the U.S., and explain why communicating science is so important in her lecture "Defending evolution - and some other sciences". The Kristine Bonnevie lecture on evolutionary biology is part of the University’s annual celebration.

We heard Fitzjohn speak at ESEB and would like to discuss his models in greater detail. Join us in discussing his paper from Sys Biol 2010

CEES members present their work for the SAB. Open for all.

CEES Extra seminar by Paul D. Taylor

Friday seminar by Peter J. Fashing & Nga Nguyen