Dr. Vicky Cattani

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Vicky and her committee, from left to right: Dean of Graduate Studies Margaret Kearney, Allen Orr, Vicky Cattani, Daven Presgraves, Trisha Wittkopp (external committee member).

Presgrave’s Lab student Vicky Cattani just successfully defended her dissertation on “Genetic analysis of postzygotic isolation and recombination rate differences in Drosophila.”  Congratulations to Dr. Cattani! Vicky will soon be heading off to start a post-doc in Matt Rockman’s lab at NYU.

Toasting Vicky's successful thesis defense.

Darwin Day Lectures

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The Secular Student Alliance hosted Darwin Day lectures yesterday in Goergen Hall.  Philosophy professor Brad Weslake used his lecture to challenge the widely held notion that Darwin was a materialist.  I followed with a lecture that broke Darwin’s theory down into the five core components identified by Mayr.  Thanks to the SSA and its president Gerard Markham for organizing this event.

2-14 Journal Club

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We will be reading ‘Ancestral capture of syncytin-Car1, a fusogenic endogenous retroviral envelope gene involved in placentation and conserved in Carnivora’ at the next Journal Club.  Everyone is welcome to come at 12:30 on Tuesday!

Speciation Day, May 7, Cornell

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Speciation Day will be an opportunity for researchers from Cornell, Syracuse, and Rochester to share their latest speciation research.  The symposium will feature both talks and posters.  Registration is currently open to groups at Cornell, Syracuse and Rochester.  If you did not receive an invitation to participate, please consider contacting the event organizers through the links available at the registration page.

EEB Seminar, 27 January 2012

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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.

Scantlebury on Species Diversification

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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”