Please join us for Friday EEB seminar at 3pm
today in HH316. Emerson Khost will present a talk titled “Detailed structure and variation of complex satellite DNA loci in Drosophila melanogaster”. Emerson is a graduate student in the Larracuente lab.
Biology seminar 3/24: Dr. Cedric Feschotte
Dr. Cedric Feschotte will give a talk titled “Regulatory evolution of 
mammalian innate immunity via co-option of endogenous retroviruses” Thursday 3/24 at 3:30pm in the Lander auditorium. Dr. Feschotte is an Associate Professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City. His lab studies transposable elements and genome biology.
Journal Club 3/22: ERVs and immunity
Please join us at 12:30pm in HH316 to discuss a new paper on how endogenous retroviruses contribute to the evolution of gene regulatory networks.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6277/1083
Pinpoints of Perception: 1000 Native Bees
Sometimes art and biology do mix! Our very own Bob Minckley collaborated with Arizona artist Heather Green on an exhibition featured in Hartnett Gallery. The exhibition- Pinpoints of Perception: 1000 Native Bees– illustrates the diversity of bees in the American Southwest. To learn more, check out this article and video describing the student-run gallery, and the scientific significance behind the art. The exhibit wont be up for much longer, so go check it out!
Journal club 3/15
Please join us for journal club Tuesday 3/15 at 12:30 in HH316 where Binshuang will lead discussion of the following paper:
Journal club 3/1: Lack of TEs in asexual arthropods
Please join us for journal club on Tuesday 3/1 and 12:30pm in HH316. Emerson will lead discussion of the following MBE paper:
http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/33/3/697.full.pdf
EEB journal club Tuesday 2/23: host-virus horizontal transfers
Please join us for journal club at 12:30pm in HH 316 on Tuesday. Rome will present an article on host-virus horizontal transfers: http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1005838.
EEB Journal Club 2/16: Candida centromeres
Please join us for EEB journal club Tuesday 2/16 at 12:30 in HH316 where Ching-Ho will discuss a recent paper on centromeres in Candida tropicalis: http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1005839.
Journal Club 2/9: supergenes in ants!
Please join us Tuesday in HH316 at 12:30pm for Journal Club. This week, Rome is presenting this pair of papers on “supergenes” in ants:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v493/n7434/full/nature11832.html
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2814%2901267-6
Congratulations to Daven Presgraves
Dr. Daven Presgraves, an EEB Professor of Biology, was named the University Dean’s Professor in recognition of his achievements. Dr. Presgraves is a population geneticist studying speciation genetics, recombination and meiotic drive in Drosophila species. Read more about his lab’s work here.