On Monday March 5th Olga Zhaxybayeva from West Virginia University will be here to talk about “Evolutionary Bioinformatics in the Postgenomic and Metagenomic Eras.”  For more information on Zhaxybayeva’s research you can check out her lab’s web page.

This week we have another double-header. Yasir Ahmed from the Orr Lab will present on “The genetics of pupal case color difference in the virilis group of Drosophila” and Mahul Chakraborty from the Fry Lab will present on “Phenotypic effects of single nucleotide polymorphisms: Insights from aldehyde dehydrogenase of D. melanogaster“. See you 3:00-4:00 pm on Friday (March 2) in Hutchison 316.

This Friday we have two student presentations.  Jing Zhu from the Fry Lab will be talking about “Ethanol preference in Drosophila melanogaster” and LeAnne Lovato from the Garrigan Lab will be speaking on “Whole-genome polymorphism in multiple wild isolates of C. elegans.”  The Presgraves Lab has generously offered to provide beer following the seminar, so please join us for happy hour in the lounge immediately after the talks.

Andre Pires da Silva is here today to talk about “Evolution of animals with three sexual morphologies: how and why?”  His seminar is at 2PM in Hutch 473.

As the blog of record for the EEB group, we post on all seminars, past and present.  Last Friday, Jack Werren presented his seminar entitled Winging It: Phoenix or Icarus? Jack detailed current and ongoing research in his lab, focusing on the efforts of Drs. Loehlin and Wheeler.

Images from flickrhivemind.net/Tags/uroplatus/Interesting, scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/above-6500-feet-two-rare-chameleons/, www.fonozoo.com/Heterixalus_andrakata.htm, and www.flickriver.com/photos/tags/paroedura/interesting/

Daniel Scantlebury from the Glor Lab will be speaking at tomorrow’s EEB seminar on “A Post MacAurthur-Wilson Perspective of Island Biogeography: The View from Madagascar”

Jim Fry will be speaking this week on “Genetics of Adaptation to Ethanol in Sophophora melanogaster.”

Some endosymbionts can protect from this type of gruesome outcome.

This Friday, our own John Jaenike will be giving a seminar titled “Mondo Bizarro: tales of flies and their endosymbionts”

Image from http://basementbettas.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/culturing-daphnia/

Dr. John Colbourne from Indiana University is in town today to discuss “Duplicating Genes Allow Daphnia Populations to Thrive in Toxic Environments.”

Daven will be talking this Friday on “New findings on the evolution, expression, and regulation of the Drosophila X chromosome.” See you at Hutch 316 at 3PM!