ÿþ<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><!-- -*-nxml-*- --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>EDG: Evolution Discussion Group</title> <link rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" media="all" /> <link rel="Stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet-print.css" media="print" /> </head> <body> <div class="banner"> <img src="pics/edg-banner.jpg" alt="Banner image"/> </div> <h1>Evolution discussion group</h1> <p>Welcome to the Evolution Discussion Group (EDG) at the <a href="/">Zoology Department</a> of the <a href="http://www.ubc.ca">University of British Columbia.</a></p> <p>We meet at <strong>12:00 noon</strong> 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.</p> <p>All graduate students, postdocs, and faculty interested in evolutionary biology are welcome. Feel free to bring your lunch.</p> <p>For information about subscribing to the mailing list please see the <a href="#mailinglist">bottom</a> of this page</p> <p>Paper choosers: Please avoid selecting papers from Nature, Science, and PNAS.</p> <h1>Current schedule</h1> <table> <thead> <tr> <th class="date">Date</th> <th>Presenter</th> <th>Paper</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td class="date">9 Sept</td> <td class="presenter">Leithen M'Gonigle</td> <td class="article"> <!-- doi: 10.5061/dryad.8653 --> <a href="pdfs/Pekar_2011.pdf">Pekar et al 2011</a> Limits to the evolution of assortative mating by female choice under under restricted gene flow. 2011. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278: 179-187. </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="date">16 Sept</td> <td class="presenter">Kate Ostevik</td> <td class="article"> <a href="pdfs/hopkins_2011.pdf">Hopkins et al 2011</a> Molecular signatures of selection on reproductive character displacement of flower color in <i>Phlox drummondii</i>. In press. Evolution. </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="date">23 Sept</td> <td class="presenter">Jon Mee</td> <td class="article"> <a href="pdfs/Carneiro_2010.pdf">Carneiro et al 2010</a> Speciation in the European rabbit (<i>Oryctolagus cuniculus</i>): islands of differentiation on the X chromosome and autosomes. </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="date">30 Sept</td> <td class="presenter">Kieran Samuk</td> <td class="article"> <a href="pdfs/Bezault_2011.pdf">Bezault et al 2011</a> Population genetic tests of models of adaptive radiation in Lake Victoria region cichlid fish.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="date">7 Oct</td> <td class="presenter">Karen Magnuson-Ford</td> <td class="article"> <a href="pdfs/DeLeon_2011.pdf">DeLeón et al 2011</a> Exploring possible human influences on the evolution of Darwin's finches.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="date">14 Oct</td> <td class="presenter">Sara Miller</td> <td class="article"> <a href="pdfs/Kunte_2011.pdf">Kunte et al 2011</a> Sex choromosome mosaicism and hybrid speciation among Tiger Swallowtail butterflies.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="date">21 Oct</td> <td class="presenter">Seth Rudman</td> <td class="article"> <a href="pdfs/Rabosky_2011.pdf">Rabosky et al 2011</a> Species Interactions Mediate Phylogenetic Community Structure in a Hyperdiverse Lizard Assemblage from Arid Australia.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="date">28 Oct</td> <td class="presenter">Carla Crossman</td> <td class="article"> <a href="pdfs/Egger_2011.pdf">Egger et al 2011</a> A Sensory Bias Has Triggered the Evolution of Egg-Spots in Cichlid Fishes.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="date">4 Nov</td> <td class="presenter">Diana Rennison</td> <td class="article"> <a href="pdfs/Rutschmann_2011.pdf">Rutschmann et al 2011</a> Parallel ecological diversification in Antarctic notothenoid fishes as evidence for adaptive radiation. </td> </tr> <tr class="nomeeting"> <td class="date">11 Nov</td> <td colspan="2">Remembrance Day</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="date">18 Nov</td> <td class="presenter">Jasmine Ono</td> <td class="article"> <a href="pdfs/Jovelin_2011.pdf">Jovelin and Cutter 2011</a> MicroRNA sequence variation potentially contributes to within-species functional divergence in the nematode <i>Caenorhabditis briggsae</i>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="date">25 Nov</td> <td class="presenter">Michael Scott</td> <td class="article"> <a href="pdfs/Inglis_2011.pdf">Inglis et al 2011</a> Spite and the Scale of Competition in <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa<i>. </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h1>Mailing list information<a name="mailinglist"/></h1> <p>The email address for edg is: <a href="mailto:edg@zoology.ubc.ca">edg@zoology.ubc.ca</a></p> <p>To <b>join</b> this mailing list, send an email to <a href="mailto:edg-request@zoology.ubc.ca">edg-request@zoology.ubc.ca</a> from your own account with the word "subscribe" in the subject line, without the quotation marks.</p> <p>To <b>remove</b> yourself from the list, send an email to <a href="mailto:edg-request@zoology.ubc.ca">edg-request@zoology.ubc.ca</a> from your own account with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line, without the quotation marks</p> <h1>Questions?</h1> <p>Just email me at <a href="crossman@zoology.ubc.ca">crossman@zoology.ubc.ca</a> </p> <h1>Other information</h1> <p>Other reading groups of interest</p> <ul> <li><a href="/veg">VEG: Vancouver Evolution Group</a>: it's like EDG with beer. Casual monthly meetings joint with people from <a href="http://www.sfu.ca">SFU</a>.</li> <li><a href="/~cornwell/bdg.html">BDG: Biodiversity Discussion Group</a>.</li> <li><a href="/~fitzjohn/let">Let's Assume</a> (The League of Extraordinary Theoreticians Assessing and Understanding Models in Evolution): theory discussion group.</li> </ul> <h2>Previous schedules</h2> <ul class="nav"> <li><a href="previous/2010-fall.html">Fall 2010</a></li> <li><a href="previous/2010-spring.html">Spring 2010</a></li> <li><a href="previous/2009-fall.html">Fall 2009</a></li> <li><a href="previous/2009-spring.html">Spring 2009</a></li> <li><a href="previous/2008-fall.html">Fall 2008</a></li> <li><a href="previous/2008-spring.html">Spring 2008</a></li> <li><a href="previous/2007-fall.html">Fall 2007</a></li> <li><a href="previous/2007-spring.html">Spring 2007</a></li> </ul><ul class="nav"> <li><a href="previous/2006-fall.html">Fall 2006</a></li> <li><a href="previous/2006-spring.html">Spring 2006</a></li> <li><a href="previous/2005-fall.html">Fall 2005</a></li> <li><a href="previous/2005-spring.html">Spring 2005</a></li> <li><a href="previous/2004-fall.html">Fall 2004</a></li> </ul> <div class="badges"> <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"> <img src="pics/w3-valid-xhtml.png" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict" class="badges" /> </a> <!-- grr; missing a bit here.--> <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer?profile=css3"> <img src="pics/w3-valid-css.png" alt="Valid CSS" class="badges"/> </a> <!-- --> </div> </body> </html>