Chapter 8: Multiple Sites and Loci
We will discuss 8.1-8.3.ii this Wednesday at 12:45pm in the Garrigan lab (Hutch. 313).
Associated topics include haplotype frequencies, measures of LD, empirical results on LD, causes of LD, effects of population size on LD and much more!
Thursday 4pm, Hutch 316
This week, we will be reading papers with applied topics related to the University of Rochester Organic Garden…Composting!
The UR Organic Garden is a project started by Annalise Kjolhede and Caitlin Smigelski in collaboration with the Ramsey Lab as part of a fifth year Kauffman Entrepreneurial Year scholarship. Fall Buzz, the U of R’s back-to-school guide, wrote a nice story on their work last year.
Adhikari, B.K., Tremier, A., Martinez, J., and S. Barrington. 2010. Home and community composition for on-site treatment of urban organic waste: perspective for Europe and Canada. Waste Management & Research 28:1039-1053. [doi link]
Schwarz, M, et al. 2010. Effectiveness of composting road-killed deer in New York state. Composting Science & Utilization 18:232-243. [doi link]
Thursday 4 pm, Hutch 316
How can you determine the age of a tree, and thus its “value” (economically, historically, or ecologically)? You might undertake the laborious process of taking a core and counting rings. But, more typically this is achieved by measuring the diameter of the tree and referencing a chart compiled with usual ages for the given species at that diameter. This week we will be reading about the compiling of this data and its uses for understanding past land use history and ecological dynamics.
Bowles, M.L., and M.D. Jones. 2008. Chronological change in old-growth forests of the Chicago region. Report to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and the Chicago Wilderness Society. The Morton Arboreum, Lisle, IL.
Jones, T., Bowles, M., and M. Jones. 2006. Telling a tree’s age. Chicago Wilderness Magazine.
After a brief hiatus, the Charlesworth and Charlesworth reading group is back at it tomorrow. We’ll discuss the first three sections of Chapter 6 (pages 245-279). 10am in the _Graduate Student_ Lounge.
This Friday (2/4) we will discuss Chapter 5.3 of Elements of Evolutionary Genetics, Jeffrey has agreed to lead. Tentatively we are scheduled for 10 am but, due to low attendance last week and a conflict with a chalk talk, we are open to a time change, please list better times in the comments.
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.
Next Monday at 2PM we will be discussing a review of speciation in Ficedula flycatchers from a special issue of Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B on the “genomics of speciation” [doi link]. Decades of intense work on Ficedula provides much fodder for discussion. Given that the paper is a review, I was going to suggest we read a companion paper with original research; however, I think it might be more interesting if everyone makes a point to check out one or two cited papers that they find particularly intriguing. (Given our recent discussions of reinforcement, I’m personally keen to check out Servedio et al.’s 2009 paper on reinforcement and learning from a special issue of Evolutionary Ecology on “speciation: from diversification to reproductive isolation.”)
UPDATED DEC.6:
Monday: Speciation Reading Group. 2PM in Hutch 341. Ideas meeting – come with suggestions on what you’d like to read in the coming weeks and months.
Tuesday: Journal Club. 12:30PM in the Bryant Room. Lynch, M. 2009. Estimation of allele frequencies from high-coverage genome-sequencing projects. Genetics. 182(1):295-301 [doi]
Wednesday: Glor Lab meeting on research related to the dog genome. Noon in Hutch 341. Details here.
Friday: Charlesworth Group. 10AM in Hutch 341. Chapter 4.3 through 4.5
We’ll be covering sections 1-2 of chapter 4 in Charlesworth & Charlesworth for this week’s meeting. Jeffrey will lead the discussion starting at 1oAM on Friday in the graduate student lounge.
