Seminars and Reading Groups

Evolution Seminar Series
Date and Time: Thursdays 12:00:00

Location: 1360 Genetics/Biotech

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Additional Information: Weekly seminar series on on topics of interest to evolutionary biologists. Presenters include faculty, postdocs, and students from on campus and off. *********************************************************************** Jan. 31 Jason Weir University of Chicago Evolution of the latitudinal species diversity gradient of New World birds. *********************************************************************** Feb. 7 Joungyoun Kim Statistics Estimating divergence times of African gorilla populations *********************************************************************** Feb 14 Jenny Boughman Zoology Ecology drives the evolution of sexual isolation *********************************************************************** Feb 21 Karl Broman Biostatistics and Medical Informatics Genetic maps: past, present, and future *********************************************************************** Feb 28 Gene Hunt Smithsonian Trends, punctuations, and stasis: testing models of phenotypic evolution in fossil lineages *********************************************************************** March 6 Cécile Ané Botany and Statistics More taxa may not help for ancestral trait or shift reconstruction *********************************************************************** March 13 Clark Johnson Geology Evolution of microbial metabolisms in the Precambrian using isotopic biosignatures *********************************************************************** March 20 Spring Break *********************************************************************** March 27 Margaret Koopman Botany Species maintenance among three sympatric species of Hibiscus in Southern Madagascar *********************************************************************** April 3 Nicole Perna Genetics To be announced *********************************************************************** April 10 Michael Wollenberg Medical Microbiology and Immunology Local light? Intraspecific diversity of the bioluminescent marine bacteriaVibrio fischeri in two Hawaiian Euprymna scolopes populations *********************************************************************** April 17 John Willis Duke University Genetic basis of adaptation in Mimulus *********************************************************************** April 24 Adrian Pinto Bacteriology Leaf-cutting ant agriculture benefits from the presence of nitrogen-fixing bacteria *********************************************************************** May 1 Karen Strier Anthropology Primate populations: behavioral variation and its implication for comparative analyses *********************************************************************** May 8 Matthew L. Rise Memorial University Comparative toxicogenomics and immunogenomics using fish models *********************************************************************** After the talks, visit and stay for snacks and drinks. For more information and updates visit evolution.wisc.edu


Evolution Reading Group
Date and Time: Firdays 14:30:00:00

Location: First floor conference room Zoology Research (Johnson near Charter)

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Additional Information: Feb 8: Prologue and Ch 1 "In the Beginning?" (pp 1 - 15) (N.B. We realized some of us urgently need some remedial Geology!  Bob Dott will kindly get us some material to help understand radiometric dating, and Michael Wollenberg will kindly bring in a chart of the geological eras for us to consult. Thanks!) ************************************************************************* Feb 15: Ch 2 "The Tree of Life" (pp 116-31) ************************************************************************* Feb 22: Ch 3 "Life's Signature in Ancient Rocks" (pp 32-49) ************************************************************************* Feb 29: Ch 4 "The Earliest Glimmers of Life" (pp 50-71) ************************************************************************* Mar 7: Ch 5 "The Emergence of Life" (pp 72-88) ************************************************************************* Mar 14: Ch 6 "The Oxygen Revolution" (pp 89-107) ************************************************************************* Mar 21 - no meeting - Spring Recess ************************************************************************* Mar 28: Chs 7 & 8 "The Cyanobacteria, Life's Microbial Heroes"  and  "The Origins of Eukaryotic Cells" (pp 108-138) ************************************************************************* Apr 4:  Ch 9 "Fossils of Early Eukaryotes" (pp 139-160) ************************************************************************* Apr 11: Ch 10 "Animals Take the Stage" (pp 161-178) ************************************************************************* Apr 18: Ch 11 "Cambrian Redux" (pp 179-205) ************************************************************************* Apr 25: Ch 12  "Dynamic Earth, Permissive Ecology" (pp 206-224) ************************************************************************* May 2: Ch 13 and Epilogue "Palentology ad Astra" (pp 225-246) *************************************************************************