Past Lab Meeting Schedule
Past Lab Meetings
2011 Edwards Lab Meetings
Mondays, 9:40 am, MCZ Ornithology Department Library
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2010 Edwards Lab meetings
Fridays, 9:30, MCZ Bird Department Library
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2009 Edwards Lab meetings
Mondays (usually), 3:30, MCZ Bird Department Library
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2008 Lab meetings
MCZ Bird Department Library
Fridays at 2:00 am
Date | NAME | TOPIC |
February 8 | The year ahead & multilocus analysis of treecreepers (Climacteris) | |
February 15 | Expression of sex-differentiation genes across species with different sex-determining mechanisms | |
February 22 | Phylogeography and multilocus population genetics of the Zebra Finch | |
February 29 | Multilocus systematics of Solomon Islands White-eyes (Zosterops) | |
March 7 | Maximum tree - a consistent estimator of the species tree | |
March 14 | Maude Baldwin | Remembrances of research past: stonechats of the world, unite! |
March 21 | New Mhc loci in the house finch and their use in behavioral ecology | |
March 28 (no meeting-Spring break) | --- | --- |
April 4 | Multilocus phylogeography of the Red-backed Fairy Wren (and future plans) | |
April 11 | "A mixed sampler"; a.k.a., I'm makin' this up as I go along | |
April 18 | Squamate repeat dynamics | |
April 25 | Designing a microarray to examine changes in gene expression in house finches infected with Mycoplasma gallisepticum | |
May 2 (@ 3 pm) | Evolutionary history of the amniote Mhc region | |
May 12 (Monday, 2 pm) | Terry O'Dwyer | Molecular mechanisms of individual recognition in Procellariformes |
May 16 | Elaine Vo/Mato Lagator | Genetics and toxicology of black-footed albatross; population genetics of House Finches |
2007 Lab meetings | ||
DATE | NAME | TOPIC |
February 2 | Comparison of parameter estimates for BEST and MCMCcoal | |
February 9 | Repeat diversity in reptiles and the ancestral amniote genome | |
February 16 | Phylogeography of the Tawny Owl, and other stories... | |
February 23 | Anonymous Loci vs. Introns in the Fairywren group | |
March 2 | Age- and sex-related effects on immune function in the blue tit | |
March 9 | Nucleotide diversity in the pseudoautosomal region in emu | |
March 16 | Polymorphism, recombination and linkage disequilibrium in wild zebra finch populations. | |
March 23 | TBA | TBA |
April 6 (no meeting March 30) | Mapping of BAC-end sequences on the Chicken genome: American Alligator, Painted Turtle and Emu. | |
April 13 | Estimating the Population Size Estimating population size from multilocus gene trees | |
April 20 | The first genomic characterization of a Reptilian MHC gene family Reconstructing the gene order of the MHC family in the amniote ancestor | |
April 27 | TBA | |
May 4 | Undergrad Symposium | TBA |
May 11 | Designing a microarray to examine changes in gene expression in house finches infected with Mycoplasma gallisepticum | |
May 18 | The BMP gene neighborhood in Alligator | |
2006 Lab meetings
Bird Department Library
Monday at 3:00pm
DATE | NAME | TOPIC |
February 10 | Coalescent Theory | |
February 20 | Nancy Rotzel | Treecreepers / Ivory-Billed Woodpecker |
February 27 | Chris Organ | DINOGENOMICS |
March 3 | Chris Balakrishnan | Zebra Finch Population Genomics |
March 13 | Ricardo Mallarino | TBA |
March 20 | Kara O'Keefe | Phylogeny of Phages |
March 27 | Andy Shedlock | CR1 LINE evolution in Reptilia |
April 3 | Scott Edwards | Gene Trees / Species Trees |
April 10 | CGR Cluster | |
April 17 | Charles Chapus | TBA |
April 24 | June Yong Lee | TBA |
May 1 | Evolutionary Bioinformatics | |
May 8 | Ricardo Godinez | TBA |
May 15 | Dr. Dan Janes | FISHing in Oz |
2005 Lab Meetings
DATE | NAME | TOPIC |
February 4 | Scott Edwards | Two reviews on bird phylogeny and speciation,and other evolutionary activities |
February 11 | Bryan Jennings | An empirical evaluation of the genealogical species concept |
February 18 | Sarah Kingan | Dissertation ideas: sex chromosomes, sexual selection, speciation! |
February 25 | Chris Organ | Graduate work and upcoming project |
March 4 | Dan Janes | Evolution of sex chromosomes (Z + W) |
March 11 | Chris Balakrishnan | Parasitic Finches and non-parasitic finches |
March 18 | Kara O'Keefe | Molecular strategies in viruses |
March 25 | Nancy Rotzel | Treecreeper phylogeography |
April 8 | No meeting | |
April 15 | Andy Shedlock | Comparative Studies of reptile (including bird) genome evolution |
April 22 | No meeting | |
April 29 | Tobias Lenz | Mhc class I genes in house finches |
May 6 | Miguel Alcaide | Mhc in lesser kestrels |