Tidligere arrangementer - Side 44

We will discuss Fang et al. 2013 Genome-wide mapping of methylated adenine residues in pathogenic Escherichia coli using single-molecule real-time sequencing (Nature Biotechnology 30: 1232-1239).

Friday seminar by Anita Kozyrskyj from University of Alberta

In the Macroevolution and Red Queen Journal Club on Friday we will read a recent 2013 paper from Overballe-Petersen et al on the uptake of damaged, fragmented or ancient DNA by naturally competent bacteria and the potential of "anachronistic evolution". Bacterial natural transformation by highly fragmented and damaged DNA.

CEES Extra seminar by Jonas Korlach, Chief Scientic Officer, Pacific Biosciences

This Friday we will discuss a recent paper on human evolution by Helen Kurki: 'Bony Pelvic Canal Size and Shape in Relation to Body Proportionality in Humans'. 

CEES Extra seminar by Juan Antonio Bonachela Fajardo from Princeton University.

This week we will read a paper entitled "Genetic incompatibilities are widespread within species" by Corbet-Detig et al. (Nature 2013). The authors have used Drosophila melanogaster lines to detect the genomic footprints of epistasis.  

We will discuss sequencing technologies for transcriptome dat. We will focus on the downstream analyses and use the Pacbio human transcriptome paper as a starting point for our meeting (Sharon et al. 2013 A single-molecule long-read survey of the human transcriptome. Nature Biotechnology 31: 1009-1014).

Friday seminar by Simon MacKenzie from University of Stirling, UK

In the Macroevolution and Red Queen Journal Club on Friday 15th we will discuss Hiroshi C. Ito et al. 2009 paper on food-web development, 'Coevolutionary dynamics of adaptive radiation for food-web development'.

This week we will meet and discuss a paper on convergent macroevolutionary landscapes and Anolis radiations by Mahler et al. published in Science earlier this year.

This Friday we will discuss Carl Simpson's 2013 paper on species selection and macroevolutionary change, "SPECIES SELECTION AND THE MACROEVOLUTION OF CORAL COLONIALITY AND PHOTOSYMBIOSIS".

This Thursday we will meet and discuss genome-wide patterns of introgression and how divergence evolves during the speciation process. The paper of the week is entitled "Hybridization Reveals the Evolving Genomic Architecture of Speciation" (Kronforst et al. 2013, Cell Reports). The authors have compared full genome sequences of five species of hybridizing Heliconius butterflies to gain insight into how the genome diverges during speciation.

Lex Nederbragt will present visualisations in the demonstrate the IGV Genome Browser from the Broad Institute, using two validated assemblies. 

In the Macroevolution and Red Queen Journal Club on Friday we will read the Lang et al 2013 paper on experimental macroevolution, 'Pervasive genetic hitchhiking and clonal interference in forty evolving yeast populations'

This week we will discuss a recent paper by Gagnaire et al. entitled The genetic architecture of reproductive isolation during speciation-with-gene-flow in lake Whitefish species pairs assessed by RAD sequencing (Evolution, 2013) in the Speciation Journal Club.

A collection of recent CEES publications

Friday seminar by Mikael Fortelius, University of Helsinki

Mikael Fortelius is visiting this week, so we will discuss a ruminant paper by Heywood (Bio. J Linn. Soc. 99:657-672)

This week we will read about variation in human skull fossils and its connection with species diversity in early Homos (A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary Biology of Early Homo - Science 2013), and to add to that, another small perspective paper on hybridization in archaic humans (Did the Denisovans Cross Wallace's Line? - Science 2013), which will surely provide plenty of material for a very interesting discussion. All from the latest issue of Science.

Late lunch talk by Silva Uusi-Heikkilä

We will discuss quality control! The following paper will be a starting point for our discussion: Guo et al. 2013 Three stage quality control strategies for DNA resequencing data (Briefings in Bioinformatics 2013: online early)

In the Macroevolution and Red Queen Journal Club we will stick with the topic of punctuated equilibrium for one more week and we will read Pennell et al.'s recent paper 'Is there room for punctuated equilibrium in macroevolution'?

View the program (pdf).

With among others David Sloan Wilson and Dag O. Hessen

Friday seminar by Julian Catchen

This week we will meet and discuss two papers: one by The Heliconius Genome Consortium entitled: "Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species" and another by Durand et al. entitled "Testing for Ancient Admixture between Closely Related Populations".     

This Friday we will discuss a new review paper by Vermeij on his "Escalation" theory, which he sees as the viable alternative to the Red Queen hypothesis. The paper is a long verbal argument, but gives some context to the points made about the Red Queen in the recent paper by Vermeij & Roopnarine in Paleobiology. 

This week we discuss a paper by Berenos, Schmid-Hempel and Wegner entitled "Antagonistic Coevolution Accelerates the Evolution of Reproductive Isolation in Tribolium castaneum".

A collection of recent CEES publications

We'll have a brainstorm on SNP calling from whole genome sequencing data. I'll briefly describe the pipeline I've run up to now, which is mostly preceding actual SNP calling, and then want to focus the discussion on how to get a high quality SNP dataset from low coverage resequencing - i.e. how to call SNPs, what filtering criteria to use to distinguish high from low quality SNPs, and how this may vary depending on the subsequent analyses we want to do with our SNP data. This will really be a brainstorm, an open discussion, all ideas welcome. If you would like to read up a bit beforehand, I can recommend the guide form the Broad Institute which has been one of my guidelines along the way (http://www.broadinstitute.org/gatk/guide/best-practices).

Friday seminar by Dr. Matthew Van Ert, VEN Consulting LLC

This Friday we read Jablonski's new paper in PNAS on an old topic: "out of the tropics". 

Special IBV/CEES seminar by Laurie E. Comstock

This Thursday we will meet and discuss Christopher H. Martin and Peter C. Wainwright's paper "Multiple Fitness Peaks on the Adaptive Landscape Drive Adaptive Radiation in the Wild" published in Science earlier this year.

Friday seminar by Candy Rowe

Our journal club reading this Friday will be "Testing the link between phenotypic evolution and speciation: an integrated palaeontological and phylogenetic analysis" by Gene Hunt, published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution in August 2013.

Forskningsdagene - åpent for alle: "Havet brukes til transport og ferie, som matkammer og søppeldunk. Publikumsakvarier tilbyr levende kunnskap om hvordan vi påvirker havet og kan leve godt sammen med havet. Vi inviterer til en marin aften om mennesker og havet – bli med på reisen!" (This event it held in Norwegian.)

This week we discuss a paper by Parchman et al. entitled "The genomic consequences of adaptive divergence and reproductive isolation between species of manakins".

Late Lunch Talk by Casper van Leeuwen

We'll be discussing the following paper this week: D. Tilman Am Nat. 2011 178:355-371 Diversification, biotic interchange, and the universal trade-off hypothesis

Late lunch talk by Hiro Sakamoto

Friday seminar by Adrian Dyer

There is no scientific controversy over whether evolution is right and creationism is wrong. But do you know the scientific arguments for evolution? This evening, geneticist and popular science author Steve Jones will tell you "Why evolution is right and creationism is wrong". Even though there is no scientific controversy, this topic is still controversial. Eugenie C. Scott, the executive director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE, USA) since 1987, will talk about why that is - and why we still need to defend evolution and other sciences in the classrooms - and elswhere.

This year at the annual Kristine Bonnevie lectures, the geneticist and popular science author Steve Jones from University College London will tell you "What sex really means". Eugenie C. Scott from The National Center for Science Education will draw on her long experience in defending science education in the U.S., and explain why communicating science is so important in her lecture "Defending evolution - and some other sciences". The Kristine Bonnevie lecture on evolutionary biology is part of the University’s annual celebration.

We heard Fitzjohn speak at ESEB and would like to discuss his models in greater detail. Join us in discussing his paper from Sys Biol 2010

CEES members present their work for the SAB. Open for all.