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This week, Andreas Hejnol will be visiting and we will read a perspective paper relevant to his group's reserach, namely "Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough" pulished in PLoSBiology in 2011 by Philippe et al. For background on metazoan phylogenies see Dunn et al. 2014
Per Åberg, Universitetet i Göteborg
Sequential Assignment of the Heat-labile Enterotoxin Backbone for Lipopolysaccharide Interaction Studies
Late lunch talk by Meike Wortel, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
This Friday 30th of January we discuss a paper on why ungulates that have more friends also have larger brains. "Gregariousness increases brain size in ungulates", by Pérez-Barbería and Gordon (2005). NOTE: Change of time - journal club starts at 11:15!
Late lunch talk by Ryan Easterday
Friday seminar by Rolf A. Ims
We read a paper by on bryozoan evolution in the Isthmus of Panama in Evolutionary Ecology 2012 by Jagadeeshan and O'Dea.
"Effekter av miljøgifter på torsk (Gadus morhua) fra indre Oslofjord"
This weeks MaEcovo journal club will discuss Charles Nunn and Natalie Cooper's recent paper in Evolution; Investigating evolutionary lag using the species-pairs evolutionary lag test (SPELT). Welcome all!
Vitamin D responsiveness of multiple sclerosis associated genes in CD4+ T cells
Friday seminar by Terrence W. Deacon from Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. Now with abstract.
"The thermal effects on selected life history traits in an arctic and a temperate population of the Collembola Hypogastrura viatica”
"Oxidative stress as a mechanism for silver particle toxicity"
For this week's journal club, we have a paper on robustly estimating microbial diversity from NGS data, a topic that is probably relevant for a lot of us.
Robust estimation of microbial diversity in theory and in practice
Molecular characterization of the C-type lectin like domain family 16A (CLEC16A)
Molecular mechanisms for antibody-induced endocytosis of ErbB2
TIP60 –– a selective inhibitor of activated c-Myb.
”The genus Pleuranthodium (K.Schum.) R.M.Sm. (Zingiberaceae): taxonomy and phylogeny”
It is time for this year's last TGAC meeting, where we'll discuss the current "Flock of genomes" special issue of Science about 48 newly released bird genomes. With eight research articles and one review, this special issue could keep the TGAC busy for weeks, but for now I propose to focus on the article of Jarvis et al. entitled "Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds".
Genetic and molecular analysis of the functional role of the AGL36 MADS-box Type I transcription factor.
”Cardamoms of South East Asia: phylogeny and taxonomy of the genus Elettaria Maton”
”Optimal habitats enhance establishment, but do not influence gender frequencies or genetic diversity of Silene acaulis in Svalbard (Norway)”
Quantitative methylation-specific PCR - optimization and application.
This Friday we'll be enjoying a discussion on Phylogenetic Path Analysis, a chapter from the recently published book Modern Phylogenetic Comparative Methods and Their Application in Evolutionary Biology, edited by László Zsolt Garamszegi. Whole book is available in the link above, we're gonna talk about Chapter 8: An Introduction to Phylogenetic Path Analysis by Alejandro Gonzalez-Voyer and Achaz von Hardenberg. To keep spirits high there's a number of cartoons in the chapter as well as a footnote stating that pun is intended, so it'll be a fun read.