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.
For information about subscribing to the mailing list and previous papers discussed please see the bottom of this page
| Date | Presenter | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 13 | Ken Thompson | Singhal et al. 2018 Does Population Structure Predict the Rate of Speciation? A Comparative Test across Australia’s Most Diverse Vertebrate Radiation |
| Sep 20 | Ailene MacPherson | Urban 2015 Accelerating extinction risk from climate change |
| Sep 27 | None | None Global Climate Strike! |
| Oct 4 | Linnea Sandell | Kraemer 2017 Fitness change in relation to mutation number in spontaneous mutation accumulation lines of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii |
| Oct 11 | Takuji Usui | Benning et al. (2019) Biotic Interactions Contribute to the Geographic Range Limit of an Annual Plant: Herbivory and Phenology Mediate Fitness beyond a Range Margin. |
| Oct 18 | Matt Pennell | Wang 2019 The architecture of intra-organism mutation rate variation in plants |
| Oct 25 | None | None Eco-Evo Retreat! |
| Nov 1 | Mackenzie Urquhart-Cronish | Koski et al. 2019 Selfing ability and drift load evolve with range expansion |
| Nov 8 | Pirmin Nietlisbach | Bozzuto 2019 Inbreeding reduces long-term growth of Alpine ibex populations |
| Nov 15 | Silu Wang | Xu 2019 Dynamic evolutionary history and gene content of sex chromosomes across diverse songbirds |
| Nov 22 | Andrea Thomaz | Semenov 2019 Unifying Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on Genomic Differentiation |
| Nov 29 | Cassandra Elphinstone | Song et al. 2017 Epigenomic and functional analyses reveal roles of epialleles in the loss of photoperiod sensitivity during domestication of allotetraploid cottons |
| Dec 6 | No EDG Huts! | |
| Dec 13 | Gil Henriques | Reznick et al. 2019 Eco-Evolutionary Feedbacks Predict the Time Course of Rapid Life-History Evolution |
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