The Glor Lab is hosting this months TGIF event. Come join us on the patio this Friday, May 17th at 4pm for some beer and dim sum!
Graduate Invited Speaker
We are now collecting suggestions for the graduate student invited speaker. Have any good ideas of researchers relevant in the EEB field? Email Emily with your speaker suggestion and a few sentences about their research by Friday, May 17th!! In the next few weeks we’ll be voting on these suggestions. Thanks!!
EEB Seminar May, 10: “Speciation and the Large X Effect”
Emily Landeen from the Presgraves Lab will be presenting her work about the large X effect and its implications on speciation. Sex chromosomes play an important role in hybrid incompatibilities, a pattern Emily has been investigating in her thesis research.
EEB Seminar, Friday, May 3: “Host-parasite coevolution between sigma virus and Drosophila”
Dr. Marta Wayne, Associate Professor of the Department of Biology at the University of 
Florida, is presenting a talk titled, “Host-parasite coevolution between sigma virus and Drosophila,” on Friday, May 3.
“I study evolutionary genetics because I am fascinated by the world around us. With every small breakthrough, more questions emerge. That infinite variety and complexity, accompanied by the illusion that ‘the answer’ is just around the corner, keeps me in science. At the same time, the interplay between genetic knowledge and society, particularly with respect to ethics, informs my research and teaching.”
TGIF Today
The Department is holding its monthly TGIF party today at 4pm
This month is hosted by the Eickbush and Sia Labs
Food, cake, and drinks will be served! Hope to see you all there!
EEB Seminar, Friday, April 26: “The evolution of sex within populations: testing theory”
Dr. Aneil Agrawal, Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of the University of Toronto, is presenting a talk titled, “The evolution of sex within populations: testing theory,” on Friday, April 26.
He is an evolutionary geneticist who is interested in general properties of genetic systems more so than the history or function of specific genes. He asks questions such as: Are sexually-derived offspring more fit than asexually-derived offspring (and why)? Do mutation and recombination rates change with condition? If so, why would it matter? To what extent are populations burdened by deleterious alleles? How do ecological and genetic factors affect this load? “I approach these problems both theoretically and empirically using the mighty fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.”
GWIS talk today
Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) is hosting a seminar today that might interest some graduate students:
“Leveraging Opportunities in Graduate School to Build the Career You Want”
Invited Speaker: Wendi Heinzelman, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Dean of Graduate Studies for Arts, Sciences, Engineering
University of Rochester
Natapow Room (1-9545) 3:00 pm
Congratulations Dr. Presgraves!
Congratulations to Dr. Daven Presgraves for his promotion to full Professor. In a recent message to the department, chair Dr. Gloria Culver put it best:
“The promotion is timely and deserved, and we wish him the best in the years to come!”
That sentiment is shared by everyone in EEB, congrats Daven!
Donut talk today
Dr. Michael Shapiro will be presenting today’s donut talk at 12:00 in Hutchison 431
Endless pigeons most beautiful: Darwin’s favorite birds in the genomics age
EEB Seminar, Friday, April 19: “Exploring lineage-specific genes in Lophotrochozoa by comparative genomics”
Longjun Wu, a second-year graduate student in the Lambert lab, will be giving a talk entitled, “Exploring lineage-specific genes in Lophotrochozoa by comparative genomics,” on Friday, April 19th. Longjun comes from the Southeast coast of China, where he received his B.S. in Biology from Xiamen University, studying the genome evolution of Amphixous in Dr. Yiquan Wang’s lab.