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.
Our purpose is to discuss topics in evolutionary biology. Presenters should pick a paper (recent or classic), book chapter or review at least a week out from their presentation date to give people time to read. (See 'Suggested Papers' below if you need ideas). Presenters should plan to present for 5-10 minutes explaining why they chose the paper. Please bring a laptop to hook up to the projector and prepare either a powerpoint with the main figures or the pdf of the paper. The rest of time will be freeform discussion :)
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
For other questions, please email linley(at)zoology.ubc.ca
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| January 23: 12pm | Rowan Green | Oman, Alam & Ness 2022 How Sequence Context-Dependent Mutability Drives Mutation Rate Variation in the Genome. |
| January 30: 12pm | Meg Smith | Lee et al. 2024 The tree-dimensional genome drives the evolution of asymmetric gene duplicates via enhancer capture-divergence. |
| February 6: 12pm | Yasmine McDonough | Tichkule et al. 2025 Host range expansion of asexual parasite can be explained by loss of adaptions in Muller’s Ratchet. |
| February 13: 12pm | Abi Brown | Schmidlin et al. 2025 Environment-by-Environment Interactions Differ Across Genetic Backgrounds. |
| February 20: 12pm | Diego Beltran | Quintero et al. 2025 Loss of macroevolutionary species fitness explains the rise and fall of clades. |
| February 27: 12pm | Amy Forsythe | Shenhar et al. 2026 Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50% when confounding factors are addressed. |
| March 6: 12pm | Mike Blazanin | Macadangdang et al. 2025 Targeted protein evolution in the gut microbiome by diversity-generating retroelements. |
| March 13: 12pm | Linley Sherin | TBA |
| March 20: 12pm | Son Rongbundit | Doughty et al. 2025 Ecosystem engineers alter the evolution of seed size by impacting fertility and the understory light environment. |
| March 27: 12pm | ||
| April 3: 12pm | Lydia Fong | TBA |
| April 10: 12pm | Asad Hasan | TBA |
| April 24: 12pm | ||
| May 1: 12pm |
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Email linley(at)zoology.ubc.ca
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