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Late lunch talk by Maja Tarka

This week, the journal club Maecovo reads Monroe's "Does competition drive character differences between species on a macroevolutionary scale?" Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25: 2341-2347

Discussion on the program SNAPP (SNP and AFLP package for Phylogenetic Analyses) and the associated paper by Bryant et al. 2013 Inferring Species Trees Directly from Biallelic Genetic Markers: Bypassing Gene Trees in a Full Coalescent Analysis (MBE 29: 1917-1932).

This week, the journal club Maecovo reads Slater, Harmon & Alfaro's "Integrating fossils with molecular phylogenies improves inference of trait evolution" (2012 Evolution 66: 3931-3944)

Discussion of Hufford et al. 2012 Comparative population genomics of maize domestication and improvement (Nature Genetics 44: 808-811).

The journal club "Macroevolution and Red Queen" is this week discussing:  "Interplay Between Changing Climate and Species’ Ecology Drives Macroevolutionary Dynamics" by Ezard et al. 2011 Science, 332:349-51.

Discussions on Epigenetics and Transgenerational Inheritance: Schmitz et al. 2013 Nature LatestOnline

Late lunch talk by Richard Bailey

Discussion on two (!) papers: (i) Le & Durbin 2011 (Genome Research 21:952-960) and (ii) Roesti et al. 2012 (BMC Evolutionary Biology 21:94).

This week we're reading "Dietary Change and Evolution of Horses in North America" by Mihlbachler et al. (2011) Science 331, 1178-1181.

Late lunch talk by Wolf Isbert, Universitat de València

We meet at the now usual place to discuss Rosindell & Phillimore 2011 Ecology Letters 14: 552-560

Discussions on Epigenetics and Transgenerational Inheritance: Alison G. Scoville et al. 2011 New Phytologist 191: 251–263

A collection of recent CEES publications

Discussion on the program fineSTRUCTURE described in Lawson et al. 2012 Plos Genetics 1:e1002453.

This week we're reading "Niche dimensionality links biodiversity and invasibility of microbial communities" by Eisenhauer et al. 2013 Functional Ecology 27:282-288 For additional background, see Jousset et al. 2011 ISME Journal 5:1108-1114.

Speakers: Adam Rutherford, Christina Richards, Tatum Simonson and Richard Myers

Music and popular science. Hosts: Åse Kleveland and Nils Chr. Stenseth. Tickets sold at the door for 100 NOK (NB: Cash only).

Late lunch talk by Hiroko H. Solvang

Late lunch talk by Trond Reitan

This week's reading is Stone et al. Current Biology 2012. Baird refers to this work as "Next generation inference," check it out here! We'll be in the cozy room with long sofas.

Late lunch talk by Jannike Falk-Petersen

This week we will discuss Godsoe and Harmon's paper that begins to integrate species interactions with species distribution models. Note that we are having our discussion at lunch time: bring your lunch! And in yet another location!