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By Mikael Fortelius

Shuo-Wang Qiao, Associate Professor - Department of Immunology

This Friday the 18th of March we will discuss an EvoDevo paper by Levin et al. 2016: "The mid-developmental transition and the evolution of animal body plans”.

Please mind the change of location, we will be permanently moving to the "Aquarium" (3rd floor, 3302). 

Upcoming short presentation from MSc/PhD students in meteorology and oceanography:

Speaker: Birthe Marie Steensen, (MET Norway)

Title: Volcanic ash and plume modelling

This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on Hybridization and Genome Stabilization by Schumer et al. 2016 (Molecular Ecology)

Abstract: In this follow-up talk, I shall outline how the boundary quotient diagram may be useful for K-theoretic considerations. We start with the diagram within the context of integral dynamics, and then speculate about potentially promising directions of generalizations.

Riccardo Catena, Chalmers (Göteborg)

About five-sixths of all matter in the Universe remain hidden from our view and behave like a dissipation-less fluid called dark matter. The experimental technique known as direct detection (DD) will play a pivotal role in shedding light on the nature of dark matter during the next decade. It searches for nuclear recoil events induced by the non-relativistic scattering of Milky Way dark matter particles in low-background detectors. An effective theory approach is a solid strategy to interpret DD experiments when the momentum transferred in the dark matter scattering by nuclei is small compared to the mass of the particle mediating the interaction. In this talk I compare a recently developed non-relativistic effective theory for dark matter-nucleon interactions to current DD data, including the observation of a modulation signal in the nuclear recoil energy spectrum reported by the DAMA collaboration. Emphasis will be placed on the strength of the proposed effective theory approach and on how it compares to the standard paradigm for DD.

(The slides are now available)

Late Lunch Talk by Masahito Tsuboi. 

MSc. Pharm Marianne Arnemo at School of Pharmacy will be defending the thesis The use of Toll-like receptor ligands as adjuvants in fish vaccines for the degree of Ph.D..

Master i farmasi Marianne Arnemo ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: The use of Toll-like receptor ligands as adjuvants in fish vaccines.

The main attractions of this Mingle meeting will be Luc Rouppe, who will talk about his Toppforsk (and some recent news from the NOT), and Sven Wedemeyer who will talk about ALMA.

Otherwise there will be updates from Kristine and Viggo on the running of the institute. But fear not, there will also be plenty of time for informal chat and eating of cake.

All are welcome to the lobby on the first floor.

Zebrafish embryos: a useful tool for the study of nanoparticle behavior in real time in a vertebrate

This Friday the 11th of March we will be discussing mass extinctions and a paper from Barnosky et al. 2011: "Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?".

Please mind the change of location, we will be permanently moving to the "Aquarium" (3rd floor, 3302). 

Arvid Siqveland (HBV), gives the Seminar in Algebra and Algebraic Geometry:

K3 surfaces seminar: Endomorphism fields and Mumford–Tate groups

Usually, we model demographic rates and use them to make inferences about population-level processes. The idea of doing the reverse - using population time-series to make conclusions about demographic rates - is not new, but challenging and bound by many assumptions.

In this session, we will discuss a very recent paper on reverse parameter estimation using IPM methodology, to see what new developments have been made for this idea.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.12519/abstract

Upcoming seminar in meteorology and oceanography:

Speaker: Lars Petter Røed, (MET Norway)

Title: Fundamentals of two-way nesting of atmosphere and ocean models

M.Sc. Thomas Berg at School of Pharmacy will be defending the thesis Development of accurate, precise, and selective analytical methods for determination of drugs of abuse in biological samples for the degree of Dr. Philos.

M.Sc. Thomas Berg ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden Dr. Philos.: Development of accurate, precise,and selective analytical methods for determination of drugs of abuse in biological samples.

This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on Genomics of Rapid Incipient Speciation in Sympatric Threespine Stickleback, by Marques et al. 2016

Abstract: In this follow-up talk, we shall review the results on the structure of KMS states from the case studies of - the ax+b semigroup over the natural numbers (Laca-Raeburn and Brownlowe-an Huef-Laca-Raeburn), - integer dilation matrices (Laca-Raeburn-Ramagge), - self-similar actions (Laca-Raeburn-Ramagge-Whittaker), and - Baumslag-Solitair monoids (Clark-an Huef-Raeburn) from the perspective of the boundary quotient diagram for the respective right LCM semigroups. We will also discuss (to some extent) similarities and differences of the proofs among these cases.

Thore Egeland (NMBU) will give a seminar in the lunch area, 8th floor Niels Henrik Abels hus at 14:15.

Guest lecture by Dr Maren Preis, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Guest lecture by Professor Niklas Sandler, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

CEES Extra seminar/AQUA seminar by Nancy Denslow and Peter Hodson