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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | TBD |
| February 20: 12pm | Diego Beltran | TBD |
| 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 | TBD |
| March 13: 12pm | Lucia Combrink | Combrink et al., The title of the thing. |
| March 20: 12pm | ||
| March 27: 12pm | ||
| April 3: 12pm | ||
| April 10: 12pm | ||
| April 24: 12pm | ||
| May 1: 12pm |
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