Please join us for our weekly journal club next Tuesday. Ching-Ho will lead the discussion of the following paper:
Does adaptive radiation of a host lineage promote ecological diversity of its bacterial communities? A test using gut microbiota of Anolis lizards
Ren et al. 2016. Molecular Ecology (2016) 25, 4793–4804
The Genetics Society of America awarded Ching-Ho Chang with a travel award to present his work at the Population, Evolutionary & Quantitative Genetics (PEQG) meeting this summer in Orlando, Florida. The PEQG meeting is part of The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC) – a giant conference combining meetings from 7 different genetics communities for the first time. Ching-Ho is a 2nd year grad student in the Larracuente lab. He will present his work on Y chromosome evolution in Drosophila. Congratulations, Ching-Ho!
Please join us for a special EEB seminar on 4/21 at 3:30pm in Lander Auditorium. Dr. Michael Lynch will present a talk titled “Mutation, Drift, and the Origin of Cellular Features”. Dr. Lynch is the Distinguished Professor of Biology at Indiana University, Bloomington, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Fireflies! These silent fireworks on warm summer nights fill us with wonder. But so much about these fascinating critters remains shrouded in mystery- from the details of how they light up their lanterns to the way some species are disappearing. The Larracuente lab is part of a diverse group of biologists collaborating to sequence the genome of the Big Dipper Firefly, Photinus pyralis, your common backyard firefly. This project is part of the PacBio “Explore your most interesting genome contest” contest. If you’d like to see the firefly genome sequenced, please go to the firefly genome project page and place a vote. Voting opens Monday, April 11 and runs through Sunday, May 1st. One person can vote once per day. Help us shed light on the genome of these captivating creatures!
Please join us for EEB seminar this Friday 4/8 in HH316 where Binshuang Li will present a talk titled: “Finding the aphid wing dimorphism locus: phylogenetic and expression analyses”. Binshuang is a graduate student in the Brisson lab.
Please join us for journal club this Tuesday 4/5 in HH316, where Adam will lead discussion of:
Justin B. Lack, Matthew J. Monette, Evan J. Johanning, Quentin D. Sprengelmeyer, and John E. Pool. 2016. Decanalization of wing development accompanied the evolution of large wings in high-altitude Drosophila. PNAS. 113(4):1014-1019.
Please join us for EEB seminar at 3pm in HH 316 where Ching-Ho will give a talk titled: “Drosophila Y chromosome evolutionary dynamics: Y-to-autosome reversal in D. pseudoobscura and rapid Y evolution in the simulans clade”. Ching-Ho is a graduate student in the Larracuente Lab.
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.
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.
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
