Past Lab Meeting Schedule

Past Lab Meetings

2011 Edwards Lab Meetings
Mondays, 9:40 am, MCZ Ornithology Department Library

Date

NAME

TOPIC

January 31

Scott

State of the Lab Address 2011

Feb. 7

Nigel

Ultrafast evolution in Mycoplasma

February 14

Ricardo Mallarino

Evo-devo in Darwin's finches and their relatives

February 21

Ricardo Godinez

Evolution of the amniote MHC

February 28

Christian

Facts of life: the birds and the trees

Mar. 7

Shane

Practice talk for quals

March 14

Qu

Evolution of intron size in birds, reptiles and mammals

March 21

Clemens

Tba

March 28

Mark

MHC and mate choice in birds

Apr. 4

Dan

How many Z's? Comparing sex chromosome content across turtles

April 11

Maude

Hummingbird taste

April 18

Matt

Describing new genomes

April 25

Frank

Introgression in Zimmerius flycatchers

May 2

Niclas

House finch genomics

May 9

Chris Organ

Paleogenomics

 
 

 

2010 Edwards Lab meetings

Fridays, 9:30, MCZ Bird Department Library

 

Date

Name

Title

Feb. 5

Scott

"State of the Lab Address" 2010

Feb. 12

Niclas Backstrom

Gene mapping in passerine birds

Feb. 19

Miguel Alcaide

Toll-like receptors as immune markers in birds

Feb. 26
Susan Cameron
Models of Last Glacial Maximum distribution in the North American avifauna

March 5

Dan Janes

DMRT1 serves dual roles in sex determination

March 12

Matt Fujita

Tinkering with the Anolis genome and next-gen sequencing

March 19

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Spring break

March 26

June Lee
Reproductive genes in Australian Fairy Wrens

April 2

Shane Campbell-Staton

Phylogenomics of Anolis carolinensis

April 9

Shaoyuan Wu

Multilocus phylogeny and evolution of dipodoid rodents

April 16

Frank Rheindt

Multilocus systematics of Elaenia flycatchers

April 23

Ingrid Soltero/Bei An

Generating molecular markers for multilocus phylogeography and phylogeny

April 30
Maude Baldwin
Molecular evolution of taste receptors in birds
Monday*, May 3
Ricardo Godinez
Evolution of the MHC in amniotes

May 7

Chris Organ/Andy Shedlock

The future of phylogenomics

*Additional meeting time

 

 

 

  2009 Edwards Lab meetings

Mondays (usually), 3:30, MCZ Bird Department Library

 

Date

Name

Title

Feb. 6

Scott

"State of the Lab Address" and Mycoplasma update

Feb. 13

Dan janes

Stuck between an emu and a turtle, but aren’t we all?

Feb. 24

Shaoyuan Wu

The Evolution of Bipedalism in Dipodoidea (Rodentia: Mammalian)

March 2

Rob/Kira and Amir

(Collection database and Odyssey)

March 9

Susan Cameron

Spatial models of genetic and morphological diversity

March16

Ricardo Godinez

The origins of the minimal-essential MHC

March 23

(no meeting: spring break)

March 30

Andy Shedlock

Amniote Genomics Update

April 6

Gabor Bethlendy, Nimblegen

Nimblegen arrays: BAC arrays, comparative genome hybridization, and gene expression

April 13

Chris Organ

Recent studies in reptile genomics

April 21 (Tuesday)

Maude Baldwin

Taste receptors in birds

April 27
June Yong Lee
A species tree for Australian fairy wrens (Maluridae)

May 4

Mato Lagator

TBA

May 11

Denis O'Meally (Australian National University)

Evolution of sex chromosomes in snakes

May 25
Camille Bonneaud
Gene expression patterns indicate adaptation to a pathogen
June 1
Miguel Alcaide
Population genetics of MHC genes and parasites

 

 

 

 

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)
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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