Evolution discussion group

Welcome to the Evolution Discussion Group (EDG) at the Zoology Department of the University of British Columbia.

Meetings are in BRC Room 225. 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 11am (Sep. 13th-Oct. 4th) and 12pm (Oct. 18 - Nov. 29) . 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

Current schedule

Date Presenter Paper
Sep 13: 11am Get to know each other! Maybe a trivia!
Sep 20: 11am Lydia Fong Oren et al., 2024 Vocal labeling of others by nonhuman primates.
Sep 27: 11am Mike Whitlock Rohner & Berger 2023 Developmental bias predicts 60 million years of wing shape evolution.
Oct 4: 11am Linley Sherin Rowe & Houle 1996 The lek paradox and the capture of genetic variance by condition dependent traits.
Oct 11: 11am Penny Kahn Giger et al., 2024 Inducing novel endosymbioses by implanting bacteria in fungi.
Oct 18: 12pm Ali Tafreshi De Roode et al., 2008 Virulence-transmission trade-offs and population divergence in virulence in a naturally occurring butterfly parasite.
Oct 25: 12pm Lucia Combrink Heckwolf et al., 2020 Two different epigenetic information channels in wild three-spined sticklebacks are involved in salinity adaptation.
Nov 1: 12pm Amy Forsythe Bonnet et al., 2016 Bigger Is Fitter? Quantitative Genetic Decomposition of Selection Reveals and Adaptive Evolutionary Decline of Body Mass in a Wild Rodent Population
Nov 8: 12pm None EcoEvo Retreat!!!! Go enjoy!!!
Nov 15: 12pm No EDG.
Nov 22:12pm Asad Hasan TBD
Nov 29: No EDG
Dec 6: No EDG

Suggested Papers

  • Google Doc of Suggested Papers.
  • Mailing list information

    The email address for edg is: zoology-edg@lists.ubc.ca

    To join this mailing list, send an email to listserv@lists.ubc.ca from your own account with "subscribe zoology-edg" in the body with no quotation marks (and nothing else, delete your signature!)

    To remove yourself from the list, send an email to listserv@lists.ubc.ca from your own account with "unsubscribe zoology-edg" in the body with no quotation marks (and nothing else, delete your signature!)

    Questions?

    Email ljmfong(at)zoology.ubc.ca

    Other information

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