For this week’s journal club, we will continue our discussion on clade selection. The paper we will be reading is Diversity in Relation to Body Size in Mammals: A Comparative Study.
EEB Seminar, April 27: Presents the Scientific Duo Emily Landeen and Julienne Ng
Graduate students Emily Landeen and Julienne Ng of the University of Rochester, will be presenting talks entitled “Regulation of X Chromosome in Drosphila Male Germline” and “Adaptive Dewlap Divergence in Anolis Distichus,” on Friday, April 27.
EEB Seminar, April 20: Animal Communication
Dr. Molly Cummings of the University of Texas, Austin, is presenting a talk titled “Predicting Diversity in Animal Communication: Insights from Mechanistic Studies,” on Friday, April 20. For information on Dr. Cummings research, check out her lab webpage.
Journal Club, 4/17
The next two weeks of journal club will focus on species/clade selection. Next week we’ll read and discuss how Species Selection Maintains Self-Incompatibility. An additional review, Species Selection: Theory and Data, is suggested reading.
Bob Minckley in the D&C on Ground Bees
From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
Our own Bob Minckley weighs in on a recent report in the Democrat and Chronicle about the abundance of ground bees in Rochester this Spring. Apparently people have been rather impressed with the emergence this year!
Journal Club 4/10
The topic of discussion for this week’s journal club is: Cell selection — Multicellular organisms and Cancer. We are reading Tao et al. 2011 paper entitled ‘Rapid growth of a hepatocellular carcinoma and the driving mutations revealed by cell-population genetic analysis of whole-genome data’
An additional review on this topic by Greaves and Maley (2012) ‘Clonal evolution in cancer‘ will also be discussed.
EEB Seminar, April 6: Mammalian X Chromosome Specialization
Dr. Jacob Mueller of Whitehead Institute, MIT, will be giving a seminar on “Recent Specialization of the Mammalian X Chromosome,” on Friday April 6.
Journal Club 4/3
We will be reading Repression of competition favours cooperation: experimental evidence from bacteria by Kummerli et al. for Journal Club on Tuesday A paper by Travisano and Velicer will provide background on how microbes may prevent cheating.
EEB Special Seminar, March 29: Genetics of Drosophila Pigmentation
Ryan Bickel from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln is here today to talk about “Identification of quantitative genetic variation affecting Drosophila pigmentation.” His seminar is at 2PM in Hutch 316.
Y Chromosome Evolution on the Cobert Report
Did you ever think you’d seen an insightful commentary on Y chromosome evolution on Comedy Central? Check out the original Page Lab paper in Nature for more details.
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