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This week we will discuss a paper by Rolshausen et al. (2015, Evolution) on the the effects of gene flow on selection.

Late Lunch Talk by Anna Runemark and Michael Matschiner

This Friday the 4th we will be discussing: "Fitness of multidimensional phenotypes in dynamic adaptive landscapes", on how dynamic adaptive landscapes link phenotypes to fitness across environments.

Georgina Mace: "How should we value nature in a human-dominated world?". James Wilsdon: "The science and art of scientific advice"

Macroevolution journal club is back and on Friday the 28th we will be discussing: "The adaptive landscape as a conceptual bridge between micro- and macroevolution", a review by Arnold et al. (2001). 

Early Lunch Talk by Katie Dean

This Friday we will be discussing: "Iterative adaptive radiations of fossil canids show no evidence for diversity-dependent trait evolution" by Slater 2015. The paper is a part of the Special issue: "The future of the fossil record: Paleontology in the 21st century."

Late Lunch Talk by Michael Garratt from the University of Reading, UK

This week, we discuss: "Age-Dependent Speciation Can Explain the Shape of Empirical Phylogenies" by Hagen et al. 2015, as a follow-up to last week's discussion.

This week, we continue reading about the debate at the 2014 ASN meeting: "Species Diversity Is Dynamic and Unbounded at Local and Continental Scales" by Harmon and Harrison in Am Nat.

This week we will discuss a paper by Cong et al. (2015, Cell) on the genomics of speciation in butterflies.

Please note that it will take place in the aquarium on Friday the 8th at 12!

This week we discuss a new paper by Hunt et al. (2015) on models of trait evolution: "Simple versus complex models of trait evolution and stasis as a response to environmental change". This paper is a part of the Special issue: "The future of the fossil record: Paleontology in the 21st century."

This week we will discuss a paper by Janousek et al. (2015, Molecular Biology and Evolution) on the role of genomic functional organization on introgression.

Please note that the meeting will take place in the aquarium on Friday the 24th at 12!

Late Lunch Talk by Heidi Nistelberger

This week we will discuss a paper by Feulner et al. (2015, PLoS Genetics) on genome-wide divergence between stickleback populations.

Please note that the day and time of the meeting have changed, it will take place in the aquarium on Friday the 17th at 12!

This week we read about brain evolution in the mammalian context. "The remarkable, yet not extraordinary, human brain as a scaled-up primate brain and its associated cost" by Herculano-Houzell 2012 PNAS

Early Lunch Talk by Johan Watz from Karlstad University, Sweden.

Early lunch talk by Emiliano Trucchi.

Late Lunch Talk by Emanuela Di Martino

This week we will discuss a paper by Kemppainen et al. introducing a new methodology for studying linkage disequilibrium with genomic data.

In the Macroevolution Journal Club this week we'll discuss a method paper from 2014 on how to include as much fossil data as possible in calibrating phylogenies by Heath, Huelsenbeck and Stadler in PNAS: The fossilized birth-death process for coherent calibration of divergence-time estimates.

Bring a friend!

This week in the macroevolution journal club we will read a paper by Hopkins and Smith newly published (2015) in PNAS: Dynamic evolutionary change in post-Paleozoic echinoids and the importance of scale when interpreting changes in rates of evolution. 

This week we will discuss a paper by Pujolar et al. (Molecular Ecology 2014) on genome-wide signatures of local adaptation.

Please note that the day and time of the meeting have changed, it will take place in the aquarium on Friday the 27th at 11!

Continuing the discussion of papers related to graph based representation of reference genomes, we will read a paper on the cortex assembler, which actually builds a graph based on sequencing data from multiple samples.