Welcome to the Evolution Discussion Group (EDG) at the Zoology Department of the University of British Columbia.
We meet at 12:00 noon on Fridays in Biodiversity room 224 (the big meeting room on the second floor). Our purpose is to discuss recent research papers in evolutionary biology.
All graduate students, postdocs, and faculty interested in evolutionary biology are welcome. Feel free to bring your lunch.
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| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Sept | None | General planning and discussion |
| 18 Sept | Sam Yeaman | Mery et al. (2007) Natural polymorphism affecting learning and memory in Drosophila. PNAS 104: 13051-13055. Supp. mat. |
| 25 Sept | Jon Mee | Kellermann et al. (2009) Fundamental evolutionary limits in ecological traits drive Drosophila species distributions. Science 325: 1244-1246. |
| 2 Oct | Itay Mayrose | Mitchell et al. (2009) Adaptive prediction of environmental changes by microorganisms. Nature 460: 220-4. (Supp. mat.) |
| 9 Oct | Dave Toews & Sampath Seneviratne |
White et al. (2009) Ardipithecus ramidusand the paleobiology of early hominids. Science 326: 64 & 75-85. |
| 16 Oct | Jasmine Ono | Tirosh et al. (2009) A yeast hybrid provides insight into the evolution of gene expression regulation. Science 324: 659-662. (Supp. mat.) |
| 23 Oct | Anne Dalziel | Hanifin et al. (2008) Phenotypic mismatches reveal escape from arms-race coevolution. PLoS Biology 6: 471-482. (Synopsis, Supp. mat.) |
| 30 Oct | Kieran Samuk | Linksvayer et al. (2009). Honeybee social regulatory networks are shaped by colony‐level selection. The American Naturalist 173: E99-E107. |
| 6 Nov | Symposium | The Meaning and Role of Theory in Evolutionary Biology, Green College, all day. Normal EDG cancelled this week. |
| 13 Nov | Laura Southcott | Barrick et al. (2009) Genome evolution and adaptation in a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli. Nature 461: 1243-1247. |
| 20 Nov | Gina Conte | Roberts et al. (2009) Sexual conflict resolved by invasion of a novel sex determiner in Lake Malawi cichlid fishes. Science 326: 998-1001. (Supp. mat.) |
| 27 Nov | Gwylim Blackburn | |
| 4 Dec |
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