This fall, the Glor Lab’s weekly meetings will focus on the topic of island biogeography. The plan is to work through a new edited volume on The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited. Before digging into this volume, however, we’re going to kick things off with a discussion of MacArthur and Wilson’s classic monograph – The Theory of Island Biogeography. Our discussion of this monograph will take place this Thursday or Friday at a time that has yet to be determined (pending availability of course schedules). If you want to be kept informed of our plans, just drop Rich an e-mail.
Author Archives: Rich Glor
New Fall Discussion Group: Speciation by Coyne and Orr
A small group has just started meeting to discuss Coyne and Orr’s 2004 monograph on speciation. Our meetings are scheduled for 2PM on Mondays in the graduate student lounge, but that time may change when classes get underway. We discussed chapter 1 today, and will be moving on to chapter 2 for next week. Contact Anthony Geneva if you want to get on the mailing list for this group.
Fall EEB Seminar Schedule Released
We’re going to have some excellent seminars this fall, including a nice mix of distinguished visitors (Mollie Manier, Syracuse University; Angela Douglas, Cornell University; Thomas Kocher, University of Maryland; Tristan Stayton, Bucknell University) and updates from students (Cattani, McNabney, Laport), postdocs (McFrederick), and faculty (Orr, Glor, Seluanov, Garrigan) in our group. PDF version of schedule
EtOH Group Meeting Tonight
Dicky’s at 9ish? The last official outing of summer – the freshman are coming!
Lecture Schedule for Fall 2010 Topics Course
We have a tentative schedule available for students enrolled in the graduate core course this fall (BIO473). This semester will feature field ecology (Ramsey), evolution and development (Lambert), phylogenetics and comparative methods (Glor), and philosophy of evolutionary biology (Weslake).
9/2 – Introduction to the graduate program
9/7 – Field Ecology (Ramsey)
9/9 – Field Ecology (Ramsey)
9/14 – Field Ecology (Ramsey)
9/16 – Field Ecology (Ramsey)
9/21 – Field Ecology (Ramsey)
9/23 – Field Ecology (Ramsey)
9/28 – Field Ecology (Ramsey)
9/30 – Field Ecology (Ramsey)
10/5 – Field Ecology (Ramsey)
10/7 – Evolution & Development (Lambert)
10/12 – Evolution & Development (Lambert)
10/14 – Evolution & Development (Lambert)
10/19 – Evolution & Development (Lambert)
10/21 – Evolution & Development (Lambert)
10/26 – Phylogenetics and Comparative Methods (Glor)
10/28 – Phylogenetics and Comparative Methods (Glor)
11/2 – Phylogenetics and Comparative Methods (Glor)
11/4 – Phylogenetics and Comparative Methods (Glor)
11/9 – Phylogenetics and Comparative Methods (Glor)
11/11 – Phylogenetics and Comparative Methods (Glor)
11/16 – Phylogenetics and Comparative Methods (Glor)
11/18 – Phylogenetics and Comparative Methods (Glor)
11/23 – Phylogenetics and Comparative Methods (Glor)
11/25 – THANKSGIVING
11/30 – Philosophy of Biology (Weslake)
12/2 – Philosophy of Biology (Weslake)
12/7 – Philosophy of Biology (Weslake)
12/9 – Philosophy of Biology (Weslake)
Reading List for Journal Club on Population Genomics
Dan Garrigan has provided this preliminary list for the Fall 2010 journal club:
1. Pool et al. (2010) Population genetic inference from genomic sequence variation. Genome Research 20: 291-300. [doi link]
2. Mardis (2008) Next-generation DNA sequencing methods. Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics 9: 387-402. [doi link]
3. Begun et al. (2007) Population genomics: whole-genome analysis of polymorphism and divergence in Drosophila simulans. PLoS Biology 5: 2534-2559. [doi link]
4. Liti et al. (2009) Population genomics of domestic and wild yeasts. Nature 458: 337-341. [doi link]
5. Neafsey et al. (2010) Population genomic sequencing of Coccidioides fungi reveals recent hybridization and transposon control. Genome Research 20: 938-946. [doi link]
6. Xia et al. (2009) Complete resequencing of 40 genomes reveal domestication events and genes in silkworm (Bombyx). Science 326: 433-436. [doi link]
7. Korbel et al. (2007) Paired-end mapping reveals extensive structural variation in the human genome. Science 318: 420-426. [doi link]
8. Ossowski et al. (2008) Sequencing of natural strains of Arabidopsis thaliana with short reads. Genome Research 18: 2024-2033. [doi link]
9. Hellmann et al. (2008) Population genetic analysis of shotgun assemblies of genomic sequences from multiple individuals. Genome Research 18: 1020-1029. [doi link]
10. Cridland and Thornton (2010) Validation of rearrangement break points identified by paired-end sequencing in natural populations of Drosophila mealnogaster. Genome Biology & Evolution 2: 83-101.
11. Lynch (2009) Estimation of allele frequencies from high-coverage genome-sequencing projects. Genetics 182: 295-301. [doi link]
12. Hahn (2006) Accurate inference and estimation in population genomics. Molecular Biology and Evolution 23: 911-918. [doi link]
Welcome New Postdoc Quinn McFrederick
Quinn McFrederick joined the Jaenike lab in mid-June. He hails originally from the west coast and after finishing his B.Sc. at UC-Berkeley he spent a good bit of time working in various zoos taking care of raptors, arthropods and other interesting wildlife. He returned to academia at San Francisco State University, where he did a Master’s on bumblebee diversity in urban parks with Gretchen LeBuhn. Finally, it was time for Quinn to see how the world outside of California lives, so he started a PhD at Univ. of Virginia in the lab of Doug Taylor. His PhD was on the evolutionary ecology of nematodes that are known to live only in bees and appear to be commensals. In the Jaenicke lab he has expanded his worm work to nematodes that cause diseases among mammals. He is an avid cyclist and has traveled widely- be sure to spend some time talking to him soon as he will be leaving for a NSF post-doc at UT-Austin in December.
Thursday Night Services
Image cribbed from Metromix Rochester: http://rochester.metromix.com/bars-and-clubs/bar/dickys-rochester/558323/content
Join us for some drinks tonight at Dicky’s in the South Wedge. It sounds like folks are going to start gathering around 8:30 or 9. There is some discussion of going to part of the double feature at the Cinema Theater beforehand; Get Him to the Greek is the second feature and starts at 8:50.
Bioperl Group Moving On
The bioperl group is mostly finished with Tisdall’s Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics and are ready to face a new challenge. They’re going to have an open discussion about initiating a small bioinformatics project tomorrow at 1PM in the graduate student lounge.
Glor Lab Returns from Summer Expedition to Dominican Republic
Another in our series of band photos: Anthony Geneva, Rich Glor, Audrey Kelly, Ali Ossip-Klein, Julienne Ng, Ryane Logsdon, Miguel Landestoy
The Glor Lab has just returned from its largest field trip to date, with a team of seven having spent the last two weeks in the Dominican Republic. The team spent recorded behavioral data for a complex of closely related trunk anoles in varying stages of the speciation process. We spent most of our time improving sampling of molecular, behavioral, and environmental data across a transect running along the famous Recodo Rd. We took time on our last day for a band photo at the second river crossing on the Recodo Rd. (see our lab web page for somewhat more light-hearted take on this photo).