Welcome to the Evolution Discussion Group (EDG) at the Zoology Department of the University of British Columbia.
Meetings are in BRC Room 225. Please wear a mask. For access join the listserv or the Zoom link to join EDG meetings, email ljmfong(at)zoology.ubc.ca
Meetings are Fridays at 12:00 noon. 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 15 | Introductions | |
| Sep 22 | Lydia | Hallast et al. 2023 Assembly of 43 human Y chromosomes reveals extensive complexity and variation |
| Sep 29 | Dr. Frank Seebacher at BEATY BIODIVERSITY MUSEUM AUDITORIUM | Annual Peter Hochachka Memorial Lecture: Responses to environmental change: plasticity and epigenetics |
| Oct 6 | Mackenzie | Zeitler et al. 2023 Purging due to self-fertilization does not prevent accumulation of expansion load |
| Oct 13 | Markus | Rose et al. 2023 Dating the origin and spread of specialization on human hosts in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes |
| Oct 20 | Asad | Xu 2023 Population rescue throughan increase in the selfing rate under pollen limitation: Plasticity versus evolution |
| Oct 27 | None | EcoEvo Retreat! |
| Nov 3 | Lucia | Meier et al. 2023 Cycles of fusion and fission enabled rapid paralleladaptive radiations in African cichlids |
| Nov 10 | Penny | Gomez et al. 2023 The evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour in mammals |
| Nov 17 | None | Midterm Break |
| Nov 24 | Kung-Ping | Shine & Baeckens 2023 Rapidly evolved traits enable new conservation tools: Perspectives from the cane toad invasion of Australia |
| Dec 1 | HUTS!!!!!! | |
| Dec 8 | No EDG! |
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