Journal club 3/15

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Amanda Larracuente

Please join us for journal club Tuesday 3/15 at 12:30 in HH316 where Binshuang will lead discussion of the following paper:

McDonald, Rice & Desai. 2016. Sex speeds adaptation by altering the dynamics of molecular evolution. Nature531,233–236(10 March 2016)doi:10.1038/nature17143

Journal club 3/1: Lack of TEs in asexual arthropods

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Amanda Larracuente

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

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Amanda Larracuente

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

Posted on February 16, 2016 by Amanda Larracuente

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!

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Amanda Larracuente

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

Posted on February 5, 2016 by Amanda Larracuente

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.

Journal club paper for 2/2

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Amanda Larracuente

Please join us this week for Journal club where Steve will present a paper on the genomics of social parasitism in ants: http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/32/11/2919.

If you have a topic to discuss, please comment below. If you have a slide to share, please e-mail Amanda (alarracu@bio.rochester.edu) by noon on Tuesday.

Journal club paper for 1/26/16

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Amanda Larracuente

Please join us for journal club this week. We’ll be talking about R2D2 and meiotic drive in mice. Emerson Khost will present the following paper:
A Multi-Megabase Copy Number Gain Causes Maternal Transmission Ratio Distortion on Mouse Chromosome 2
http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1004850

If you have an idea to share, topic to discuss or just want to let the group know about an exciting paper, then please add comment below. If you have a slide to add to the rapid fire session, please e-mail it to Amanda (alarracu@bio.rochester.edu) before 12pm on Tuesday 1/26.