Please join us this Tuesday at 11:05 – 12:15 in Hutch 316. Lindsey and Songeun will be presenting these papers:
“Disruptive selection and the genetic basis of bill size polymorphism in the African finch Pyrenestes” by Smith (1993)
“Growth factor gene IGF1 is associated with bill size in the black-bellied seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus” by vonHoldt et al (2018)
“Divergence and Functional Degradation of a Sex Chromosome-like Supergene” by Tuttle et al (2016)
Please join us this Tuesday at 11:05 – 12:15 in Hutch 316. Rose and I will be presenting these papers:
“Barson et al. 2015. “Sex-dependent dominance at a single locus maintains variation in age at maturity in salmon”
Ruzicka et al. 2019. “Genome-wide sexually antagonistic variants reveal long-standing constraints on sexual dimorphism in fruit flies”.
Please join us this Tuesday at 11:05 – 12:15 in Hutch 316. Songeun and Lauren will be presenting these papers: “Rapid and adaptive evolution of MHC genes under parasite selection in experimental vertebrate populations.” by Eizaguirre et al., 2012 and “Immunogenetic novelty confers a selective advantage in host-pathogen coevolution.” by Phillips et al., 2018.
Please join us this Tuesday at 11:05 – 12:15 in Hutch 316. Emery and Rose will be presenting these papers focusing on negative frequency dependent selection: “Mating advantage of rare males in wild guppy populations” by Hughes et al., 2013 and “Herbivore-Mediated Interaction Promotes the Maintenance of Trichome Dimorphism through Negative Frequency-Dependent Selection” by Sato and Kudoh, 2017.
Last week many people in the department got involved in some holiday festivities. Whether it was handing out candy in Hutchinson Hall for the Society of Undergraduate Biology Student’s trick-or-treating, carving pumpkins, or just getting dressed up in costume, we had a spooky time!
Please join us this Tuesday at 11:05 – 12:15 in Hutch 316. Omid and I will be presenting the papers “Genomic Evidence of Rapid and Stable Adaptive Oscillations over Seasonal Time Scales in Drosophila” by Bergland et al. (2014), and “Signatures of Environmental Genetic Adaptation Pinpoint Pathogens as the Main Selective Pressure through Human Evolution” by Fumagalli et al. (2011).
Please join us this Tuesday at 11:05 – 12:15 in Hutch 316. Emery and Omid will be presenting the papers Field et al., 2016 “Detection of human adaptation during the past 2000 years” and Uricchio et al., 2019 “An evolutionary compass for detecting signals of polygenic selection and mutational bias”.
To start a new semester of Journal Club, please join us this Thursday at 11:05 – 12:15 in Hutch 316. Nilima and Lauren will be presenting the papers Berg and Coop, 2014 “A population genetic signal of polygenic adaptation” and Turchin et al., 2012 “Evidence of widespread selection on standing variation in Europe at height-associated SNPs”.
The Biology department sponsors our graduate student team which actually won two games this season!
We’re happy to announce the recruitment of Drs. Al Uy and Floria Mora Kepfer Uy to Rochester’s E2G2 program! Al and Floria will move their Tropical Biology Lab from the University of Miami to our own Biology Department in January 2020. Al brings his research program on the ecology and genomics of speciation in birds, and Floria hers on the evolution and neural basis of cooperative behavior in social wasps.
