Tidligere arrangementer - Side 39
This week we will discuss a paper by Lamichhaney et al. (Nature, 2015) on the genomic basis of beak divergence in Darwin's finches.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7539/full/nature14181.html
Please note that the meeting will take place on wednesday the 25th and not thursday, at 12 as usual!
This week, between the trial lecture and lunch, we'll be discussing a not-so-box-fresh paper from 2012 in Proceedings B by Smith, Lloyd and McGowan titled Phanerozoic marine biodiversity: rock record modelling provides an independent test of large-scale trends
Essentially it compares subsampling (Alroy's SQS) and a much applied bias-correction method to try to reconstruct diversity from fossil data.
Bring a friend and see you Friday.
IBV Department and CEES Extra seminar by Darren E. Irwin from Beaty Biodiversity Museum & University of British Columbia
Asbjørn Vøllestad, CEES
CEES Extra seminar by David Righton & Julian Metcalfe from Cefas.
This LLT will be held as a CEES Extra seminar by David Righton & Julian Metcalfe from Cefa
Speakers: Michaela Jarkovská, Staffan Müller-Wille, Stig Omholt and Aoife McLysaght
Late lunch talk by Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar and Trond Reitan.
Friday seminar by Andreas Hejnol, Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology
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.
"Global DNA methylation and persistent organic pollutants in ringed seals (Phoca hispida) from Svalbard and the Baltic Sea"
This week we will read an a bit more ecological paper on hybridization and evolutionary outcomes entitled "Hierarchical behaviour, habitat use and species size differences shape evolutionary outcomes of hybridization in a coral reef fish" by Gainsford and colleagues to be published in Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Please note that the meeting will take place at a different location this time!
Friday seminar by Arnaud Le Rouzic. NEW TIME: 12.15
This week we'll be learning when species richness should be energy limited (I think the right answer is "sometimes"), and more interestingly; how would we know? An idea and perspective paper by Hurlbert and Stegen in Ecology Letters 2014.
Same time, same place, same people. Welcome!
This week we’ll move away from the opisthokonts, and will talk about a group of rhizarian parasites; the phytomyxids.
The effect of intermittent hypoxia on Hypoxia inducible factor 1α in rat skeletal muscle.
Bank et al. (2014) looks like the perfect paper for a TGAC discussion: Highly relevant (arguing that selective sweep detection needs to take demography and background selection into account), brand new (currently in press corrected proof), and short (7 pages). So let's have a TGAC meeting on Tuesday, at 1 pm as usual.
This week we'll be discussing a paper by Brockhurst and co-workers in Proceedings B: Running with the Red Queen: the role of biotic conflicts in evolution
At the parasite journal club this week we will try again to discuss the myxozoans, a weird group of parasites within the opisthokonts. They are a strange group of microscopic sized metazoans related to the Cnidaria, and are found in aquatic habitats where they act as parasites of fish, amphibians, reptiles and rarely invertebrates.
The paper we will discuss on Thursday will be presented by Håvard.
SWARM: robust and fast clustering method for amplicon-based studies
”Sperm Morphology, Sperm Motility and Paternity Success in the Bluethroat (Luscinia s. svecica)”
2-day conference on the history of plague, at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, with summarizing thoughts of Jared Diamond. Please register.
Late lunch talk by Melissah Rowe
Friday seminar by Annelise Binois
This week we will discuss a paper entitled "Maximum likelihood inference of reticulate evolutionary histories" by Yu and co-authors from PNAS. The paper presents a new method for inferring reticulate evolutionary histories while accounting for incomplete lineage sorting.