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Evolution Seminar Series
Date and Time: Thursdays 12:00:00
Location: 1360 Genetics/Biotech
Web Link: Click Here!
Additional Information: Weekly seminar series on on topics of interest to evolutionary biologists. Presenters include faculty, postdocs, and students from on campus and off.
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Jan. 31 Jason Weir University of Chicago
Evolution of the latitudinal species diversity gradient of New World birds.
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Feb. 7 Joungyoun Kim Statistics
Estimating divergence times of African gorilla populations
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Feb 14 Jenny Boughman Zoology
Ecology drives the evolution of sexual isolation
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Feb 21 Karl Broman Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Genetic maps: past, present, and future
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Feb 28 Gene Hunt Smithsonian
Trends, punctuations, and stasis: testing models of phenotypic evolution in fossil lineages
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March 6 Cécile Ané Botany and Statistics
More taxa may not help for ancestral trait or shift reconstruction
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March 13 Clark Johnson Geology
Evolution of microbial metabolisms in the Precambrian using isotopic
biosignatures
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March 20 Spring Break
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March 27 Margaret Koopman Botany
Species maintenance among three sympatric species of Hibiscus in Southern Madagascar
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April 3 Nicole Perna Genetics
To be announced
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April 10 Michael Wollenberg Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Local light? Intraspecific diversity of the bioluminescent marine bacteriaVibrio fischeri in two Hawaiian Euprymna scolopes populations
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April 17 John Willis Duke University
Genetic basis of adaptation in Mimulus
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April 24 Adrian Pinto Bacteriology
Leaf-cutting ant agriculture benefits from the presence of nitrogen-fixing bacteria
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May 1 Karen Strier Anthropology
Primate populations: behavioral variation and its implication for comparative analyses
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May 8 Matthew L. Rise Memorial University
Comparative toxicogenomics and immunogenomics using fish models
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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)
Web Link: Click Here!
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!)
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Feb 15: Ch 2 "The Tree of Life" (pp 116-31)
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Feb 22: Ch 3 "Life's Signature in Ancient Rocks" (pp 32-49)
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Feb 29: Ch 4 "The Earliest Glimmers of Life" (pp 50-71)
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Mar 7: Ch 5 "The Emergence of Life" (pp 72-88)
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Mar 14: Ch 6 "The Oxygen Revolution" (pp 89-107)
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Mar 21 - no meeting - Spring Recess
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Mar 28: Chs 7 & 8 "The Cyanobacteria, Life's Microbial Heroes" and "The Origins of Eukaryotic Cells" (pp 108-138)
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Apr 4: Ch 9 "Fossils of Early Eukaryotes" (pp 139-160)
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Apr 11: Ch 10 "Animals Take the Stage" (pp 161-178)
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Apr 18: Ch 11 "Cambrian Redux" (pp 179-205)
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Apr 25: Ch 12 "Dynamic Earth, Permissive Ecology" (pp 206-224)
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May 2: Ch 13 and Epilogue "Palentology ad Astra" (pp 225-246)
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