Join us for a beer after today’s seminar! I picked up two growlers from Nathaniel Square Corner Store, one of a pale ale and another of IPA. Bring a cup or mug so you can enjoy these brews.
Author Archives: Rich Glor
Journal Club, Feb. 1
Next week in Journal Club will we be reading the following two papers about the amplification of genes on the Y or W chromosome (Backstrom et al. 2005, Hughes et al. 2010). As a reminder, Journal Club has been pushed back to 1:15. – Emily Landeen
Avian Genome Art Opening Today (Thursday)
From megmitchell.com
This isn’t usually a place for reporting art openings, but the exhibit opening today in the University’s Hartnett Gallery is by an artist who “uses custom software to interpret and represent the genetic sequences of various bird species, illustrating the similarities in the data despite the visual and morphological differences between the birds.” The artist will be speaking at 4 in the Gowen Room and the opening reception will be at 5 in the Hartnett Gallery in Wilson Commons. I’ll probably head over at around 5:30, so drop by my lab if you’d like to walk over with me.
EEB Seminar: Michael Clark on Lateral Gene Transfer
Charlesworth & Charlesworth Reading Group
Anthony will be leading a discussion of Chapter 5 – sections 5.1 and 5.2 – from Charlesworth and Charlesworth this Friday at 10AM in the graduate student lounge.
EEB Journal Club – Spring 2011
Topics for this semester’s journal club are expected to include: Y chromosome evolution (palindromes, strata); sex determination; ecological speciation; application of functional/molecular methods to comparative problems (i.e., evodevo, evolutionary physiology, and use of new sequencing and genomic methods for evolutionary problems). We are expecting these topics to expand or change as we go along, and we are open to other topics as well. Please feel free to email me if you want to sign up for a date. – Dave Lambert
Jan 25: Y-chromosome palindromes (Geneva)
Feb 1: Carroll, wing patterning (Lambert)
Feb 8: More Y-chromosome evolution, strata? (Landeen)
Feb 15: (Loehlin)
Feb 22: (Unckless)
Seminar by Xiao Liu
Xiao Liu from Stuart Kim’s lab at Stanford University is in town today and tomorrow presenting on his work with C. elegans. Today he discussed a method to quantify gene expression at the individual cell level in C. elegans (Liu et al. 2009). Tomorrow at 10AM in Hutch 316, he will tell us more about how he plans to expand on this work in the years to come.
Check Out the New Anolis Blog
Some of us from the Glor Lab are involved in editing and writing a new blog dedicated to Anolis lizards. Check it out!
Dicky’s Tonight (Thursday)
EEB Seminar: David Loehlin on the Genetic Basis of Wing Size Evolution in Nasonia
David Loehlin from the Werren Lab will be presenting the latest on his thesis work on Nasonia wing size evolution for this Friday’s EEB seminar. See you there!