Welcome to the Evolution Discussion Group (EDG) at the Zoology Department of the University of British Columbia.
Meetings are Friday at 12pm in BRC Room 224. Wear a mask if you feel comfortable to do so. For access join the listserv or the Zoom link to join EDG meetings, email combrink(at)zoology.ubc.ca
Meetings are Fridays at 12pm. Our purpose is to discuss recent (or foundational!) research papers in evolutionary biology.
All graduate students, postdocs, and faculty interested in evolutionary biology are welcome. Feel free to bring your lunch!
For information about subscribing to the mailing list and previous papers discussed please see the bottom of this page
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| September 12: 12pm | Tom Booker | Metheringam et al., 2025 Rapid polygenic adaptation in a wild population of ash trees under a novel fungal epidemic. |
| September 19: 12pm | Avery Kruger | Juvé et al., 2025 One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants. |
| September 26: 12pm | Lucia Combrink | Miller et al., 2024 Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes. |
| October 3: 12pm | Asher Leeks | Kubota et al., 2025 Filamentous chater phages drive bacterial and phage populations to lower fitness. |
| October 10: 12pm | Diego Beltran | Goutte & Boissinot 2025 Long-term evolutionary persistence of a cryptic color polymorphism in frogs. |
| October 17: 12pm | Wouter van der Bijl | Neville et al., 2025 Sperm sequencing reveals extensive positive selection in the male germline. |
| October 24: 12pm | Liya Miksovsky | Hunter & Fusco, 2022 Superinfection exclusion: A viral strategy with short term benetfits and long-term drawbacks. |
| October 31: 12pm | Sally Otto | Lesaffre et al., 2024 The joint evolution of separate sexes and sexual dimorphism. |
| November 7: 12pm | Discussion | Pennings 2025 Explaining the stable coexistence of drug-resistant and -susceptible pathogens: the resistance acquisition purifying selection model. |
| EcoEvo Retreat | No Meeting | EcoEvo 2025 Have fun at the retreat!! |
| November 21: 12pm | Kung-Ping Lin | Lin et al., manuscript. On the maintenance of standing genetic variation by migration-selection balance. |
| November 28: 12pm | Linley Sherin | Delph et al., 2011 Elimination of a genetic correlation between the sexes via artificial correlational selection. |
| December 5: 12pm | Rosie Redfield | Idea discussion. |
| December 12: 12pm | ||
| TBD | TBD | TBD |
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