Previous events - Page 70

By Martijn van de Pol & Callum Lawson

This Friday the 15th of April we will discuss a paper by Benson et al. (2016): "Near-Stasis in the Long-Term Diversification of Mesozoic Tetrapods".

Hope to see you there!

”Red deer migration and dietary quality: testing the role of landscape characteristics for the forage maturation hypothesis”

This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper entitled 

"Excavating Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from the genomes of Melanesian individuals" by Vernot et al. 2016 (Science)

Late Lunch Talk by Michael Matschiner, CEES

Synergistic induction of macrophage tumoricidal activity  

Adriana Lopes dos Santos, Post Doc, Station Biologique,  Roscoff, France

By Mike Benton (Note the time and venue!)

This Friday the 8th of April we will discuss a paper by Mueller and Newman (2005): "The innovation triad: an EvoDevo agenda".

Hope to see you there!

This thursday, at the Speciation Journal Club, we will discuss a paper on Genomic introgression in sticklebacks by Yoshida et al. 2016 (Ecology and Evolution)

Late Lunch Talk by Mhairi Alexander, University of the West of Scotland, UK

Nanoparticle delivery of anti-tuberculosis drugs 

Formulation and testing of clofazimine containing nanoparticles using a zebrafish embryo tuberculosis model

This Friday the 1st of April we will discuss a paper by Thurman and Barrett (2016): "The genetic consequences of selection in natural populations." Hope to see you there!

Ultrastructural characterization of Francisella tularensis subspecies novicida intracellular life cycle in macrophages. Study of bacterial adherence, phagosome maturation and phagosomal escape.

Traditional population models are often limited to the female half of the population, but acknowledgement of the importance of males is spreading. There are fundamental differences between male and female demographies, and these differences can strongly affect population dynamics and provide important insights into the evolution of life histories.

In this upcoming session, we will be discussing a recent paper dealing with sex-specific demography and its abilities to inform life history theory:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v526/n7572/abs/nature14968.html

By Mikael Fortelius

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). 

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

Late Lunch Talk by Masahito Tsuboi. 

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). 

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

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

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

Two guest lectures on the environmental impacts of oil spills and the evaluation of contaminants by Nancy Denslow and Peter Hodson