Past Lab Meetings
From Edwards Lab Meeting 12.04.17 "Signatures of Recent Selection in the House Finch" presented by Allison Shultz
2018 Edwards Lab Meetings
Date | NAME | TOPIC |
1/10 | Alison Cloutier | Palaeognath phylogenomics: the final word? |
1/11 | Sangeet Lamichhaney | Building Lizard Genomes: Challenges and Opportunities |
1/12 | Gustavo Bravo | Genomic basis of plumage coloration in dry habitat antbirds |
1/25 | Hanon McShea | Reconstruction of ancestral nitrogenases to study precambrian selective pressures |
1/26 | Phil Grayson | Atac- and RNA-seq uncover determinants of emu wing heterochrony |
2/16 | Joao Tonini | Patterns of paleo- and neo-endemism of Neotropical amphibians, birds, and mammals in the Dry-Diagonal (Cerrado, Caatinga, and Chaco) |
2/23 | Katie Stryjewski | Updates |
3/1 | Scott Edwards | State of the Lab Address |
3/8 | David Toews (Cornell) | Hybridization reveals the genes for migration and color in an avian radiation |
2017 Edwards Lab Meetings
Date | NAME | TOPIC |
9/18 | Scott | State of the Lab Address |
10/16 | Zhirui | Bayesian Model for Detecting Convergent Rate Changes of Conserved Elements |
10/23 | Kathrin | Evolution of a Naturally Varying CRISPR-Cas System: Interactions between Phage, Bacteria, and Avian Host |
10/24 | Daren | Genomic Basis of Convergent Phenotypic Evolution in Island Populations of Boa Constrictor |
10/30 | Jonathan | Birds of Peru |
11/6 | Simon | Updates on Albatross, Fairywren, and Goldfinch Projects |
11/13 | Pengcheng | Purifying Selection Has Small Power in Small Avian Populations |
11/13 | Eamon | Phylogeography of the Rofous-Fronted Thornbird using ddRADseq |
11/27 | Xuming | Draft Genome Assemblies of Beaver and Naked Mole Rat |
11/28 | Catherine | Evolution in Threatened Species through the Lens of Molecular Genetics |
12/1 | Rafa | Evolution of Plumage Color in the Furnarii, a Large Clade of Neotropical Passerines |
12/4 | Allison | Signatures of Recent Selection in the House Finch |
2016 Edwards Lab Meetings
| Date | NAME | TOPIC |
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23-Sept | Gustavo | Suboscine Phylogeny |
30-Sept | Scott Edwards | CNEEs as Phylogenetic Markers |
7-Oct | Brian Arbogast | Cryptic Speciation in North American Flying Squirrels and the Australian Greater Glider |
17-Oct | Michael Reed | Extinction |
21-Oct | Tim | Updates on Current Projects |
24-Oct | John | The Contribution of Niche Conservatism (and Evolution) in Speciation of Alpine Pheasants |
24-Oct | Pengcheng | Impact of Tissue Architecture on the Nature and Predictability of Tumor Evolution: Insights from a Computational Model |
31-Oct | Betul | Phylogenetic Reconstruction of C-Fixation Enzymes |
7-Nov | Lauren O'Connell | Chemical and Cognitive Ecology of Poison Frogs |
28-Nov | Katie | Evolution of Retinal Specializations Across the Avian Tree |
28-Nov | Simon | Behavioral Ecology of Storm Petrels |
2-Dec | Jonathan | Phylogeography of Hemispingus Tanagers in the Andes |
14-Dec | Allison | Evolution of the Avian Immune System Across Different Scales |
15-Dec | Kathrin | More than just Host-Parasite Interaction |
16-Dec | Phil | Exploring the Developmental Genomics of Flight Loss Through CNEEs and ATAC-seq |
16-Dec | Alison | Life on the Edge (of the anomaly zone): How Incomplete Lineage Sorting Influences Palaeognath Phylogenomics |
2015 Edwards Lab Meetings
| Date | NAME | TOPIC |
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30-Jan | Scott Edwards | State of the Lab Address 2015 |
6-Feb | Tim | The Pervasive Impact of Natural Selection on Genome Evolution |
13-Feb | Christie | Evolutionary History of Egg Mimicry in the Striped Cuckoo, a Neotropical Bird Parasite |
23-Feb | Terry Cappelli | CNVs in Dogs & Joint and Pelvis Evolution |
2-Mar | Phil | To Quals and Beyond: Assessing the Ratite Flightless Phenotype Through Evo-Devo Genomics |
13-Mar | Maude | T1R Evolution and Multiple Origins of Sweet Taste in Vertebrates |
23-Mar | Betul | Genome Engineering, Historical Contingency, and Pathways of Evolution |
30-Mar | Shane | Climate-Mediated Evolution of Niche Breadth, Thermal Tolerance, and Isolation in the Green Anole |
10-Apr | Allison | Detecting Selection from Whole Genome Sequencing |
27-Apr | Cassie | Avian Eggs: Comparative Genomics and Nanomechanics |
11-May | Simon | Parentage and Relatedness Inference in Leach's Storm Petral |
22-May | Tim | Detecting Signatures of Convergent Evolution in Genomic Data: Applications to Ratites |
29-May | Cynthia | The Influence of Obligate Brood Parasitism on Host Parent Behavior in the Baywing (Agelaioides Badius) |
9-Jun | Felipe Zapata | New Approaches to Species Delimitation Using Information from Natural History Collections |
9-Jun | Felipe Zapata | Improving the Phylogenomics Pipeline Using Novel Alignment and Annotation Tools |
10-Jun | Xuming Zhou | Evolutionary Genomics of Snub-Nosed Monkeys |
22-Jun | Andres | Epigenetics and Evolution |
2014 Edwards Lab Meetings
| Date | NAME | TOPIC |
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7-Feb | Scott Edwards | State of the Lab Address 2014 & Genomics, Feathers, and Flightlessness |
14-Feb | Terry Capellini | Human Evolutionary Biology Guest Lecture |
17-Mar | Phil Grayson | From Redwings to More Molecular Things: An Overview of My Past Research |
4-Apr | Christie Riehl | Cognition, Cooperation, Cheating, Cuckoos, and Cookies |
7-Apr | Lauren O'Connell, Bauer Fellow | The Soft Side of a Killer: Parental Care in Poison Frogs |
9-May | Cassie Stoddard | Egg Genomics |
19-May | Maude Baldwin | Avian T1R Taste Receptors |
23-May | Simon Sin | MHC and Mate Choice in the European Badger & Genomic Sequencing of a New Decapod Model |
26-May | Shane Campbell-Stanton | Phylogenetic History and Climate Mediated Selection in the Green Anole |
2013 Edwards Lab Meetings
| Date | NAME | TOPIC |
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25-Feb | Scott Edwards | State of the Lab Address 2013 |
6-Mar | Christie | Cheaters and Collaborators: The Evolution of Conspecific Brood Parasitism in a Cooperatively Breeding Bird |
8-Mar | Peter Wilton | Population-Genetic Inference and the Effects of Shared Population Pedigrees (with updates on introgression in Zimmerius flycatchers) |
25-Mar | Maude | The Evolution of Sweet Taste in Birds |
27-Mar | Mark | MHC Genotypes in Relation to Mate Choice Decision in House Finch |
29-Mar | Toby Lenz | Indirect Costs of Balancing Selection: Lessons from the Human MHC |
2-Apr | Amanda & Zach | Recent Evolution of Mycoplasma Gallisepticum in House Finches & Fairy Wren Molt and Personality |
8-Apr | Allison . | Phylogeography of the House Finch using Rad-Tag Sequencing |
10-Apr | Shane | Temperature-Dependent Phylogeography of A. Carolinensis |
6-May | Cassie | Avian Recognition: Insights from Computer Vision |
8-May | Mary | Evolutionary Medicine: Large-Scale Comparative Genomics of the Innate Immune System of Vertebrates |
2012 Edwards Lab Meetings
Mondays, 9:30 am, MCZ Ornithology Department Library
Date | NAME | TOPIC |
30-Jan | Clemens/Moos | Phylogeography of shorebirds and House Finch cis-regulatory evolution |
6-Feb | Scott | State of the Lab Address 2012 |
13-Feb | Frank Rheindt | Introgression again! |
24-Feb | Christian Rabeling (Pierce lab) | Can sex re-evolve? Dogging for sex in a fungus-growing ant |
27-Feb | Toby Lenz | MHC evolution and local adaptation - from alleles to species |
2-Mar | Meaghan Parker | Demonstration of Geneious software |
5-Mar | Helen James (Smithsonian) | Thoughts about honeycreepers and other Hawaiian birds |
***Spring break*** | ||
19-Mar | Shane | A. carolinensis phylogeography and transcriptomics |
26-Mar | Maude | Sweet taste receptors in birds |
2-Apr | Matt | More reptile GC! |
9-Apr | Mark | MHC and Mycoplasma resistance in House Finches |
16-Apr | Flavia/Bonnie | Multilocus phylogeography of North American birds |
23-Apr | Bianca/Liz | MHC diversity in storm petrels/cis-regulatory evolution in House Finches |
30-Apr | Allison | Phylogeography of the House Finch |
2011 Edwards Lab Meetings
Mondays, 9:40 am, MCZ Ornithology Department Library
Date | NAME | TOPIC |
31-Jan | Scott | State of the Lab Address 2011 |
7-Feb | Nigel | Ultrafast evolution in Mycoplasma |
14-Feb | Ricardo Mallarino | Evo-devo in Darwin's finches and their relatives |
21-Feb | Ricardo Godinez | Evolution of the amniote MHC |
28-Feb | Christian | Facts of life: the birds and the trees |
7-Mar | Shane | Practice talk for quals |
14-Mar | Qu | Evolution of intron size in birds, reptiles and mammals |
21-Mar | Clemens | Tba |
28-Mar | Mark | MHC and mate choice in birds |
4-Apr | Dan | How many Z's? Comparing sex chromosome content across turtles |
11-Apr | Maude | Hummingbird taste |
18-Apr | Matt | Describing new genomes |
25-Apr | Frank | Introgression in Zimmerius flycatchers |
2-May | Niclas | House finch genomics |
9-May | Chris Organ | Paleogenomics |
2010 Edwards Lab Meetings
Fridays, 9:30 am, MCZ Ornithology Department Library
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Date | Name | Title |
5-Feb | Scott | "State of the Lab Address" 2010 |
12-Feb | Niclas Backstrom | Gene mapping in passerine birds |
19-Feb | Miguel Alcaide | Toll-like receptors as immune markers in birds |
26-Feb | Susan Cameron | Models of Last Glacial Maximum distribution in the North American avifauna |
5-Mar | Dan Janes | DMRT1 serves dual roles in sex determination |
12-Mar | Matt Fujita | Tinkering with the Anolis genome and next-gen sequencing |
19-Mar | -- | Spring break |
26-Mar | June Lee | Reproductive genes in Australian Fairy Wrens |
2-Apr | Shane Campbell-Staton | Phylogenomics of Anolis carolinensis |
9-Apr | Shaoyuan Wu | Multilocus phylogeny and evolution of dipodoid rodents |
16-Apr | Frank Rheindt | Multilocus systematics of Elaenia flycatchers |
23-Apr | Ingrid Soltero/Bei An | Generating molecular markers for multilocus phylogeography and phylogeny |
30-Apr | Maude Baldwin | Molecular evolution of taste receptors in birds |
Monday*, 3-May | Ricardo Godinez | Evolution of the MHC in amniotes |
7-May | Chris Organ/Andy Shedlock | The future of phylogenomics |
*Additional meeting time | ||
2009 Edwards Lab Meetings
Mondays, 3:30 am, MCZ Ornithology Department Library
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Date | Name | Title |
6-Feb | Scott | "State of the Lab Address" and Mycoplasma update |
13-Feb | Dan janes | Stuck between an emu and a turtle, but aren’t we all? |
24-Feb | Shaoyuan Wu | The Evolution of Bipedalism in Dipodoidea (Rodentia: Mammalian) |
2-Mar | Rob/Kira and Amir | (Collection database and Odyssey) |
9-Mar | Susan Cameron | Spatial models of genetic and morphological diversity |
16-Mar | Ricardo Godinez | The origins of the minimal-essential MHC |
23-Mar | (no meeting: spring break) | |
30-Mar | Andy Shedlock | Amniote Genomics Update |
6-Apr | Gabor Bethlendy, Nimblegen | Nimblegen arrays: BAC arrays, comparative genome hybridization, and gene expression |
13-Apr | Chris Organ | Recent studies in reptile genomics |
Tuesday, 21-Apr | Maude Baldwin | Taste receptors in birds |
27-Apr | June Yong Lee | A species tree for Australian fairy wrens (Maluridae) |
4-May | Mato Lagator | TBA |
11-May | Denis O'Meally (Australian National University) | Evolution of sex chromosomes in snakes |
25-May | Camille Bonneaud | Gene expression patterns indicate adaptation to a pathogen |
1-Jun | Miguel Alcaide | Population genetics of MHC genes and parasites |
2008 Edwards Lab Meetings
Fridays, 2:00 am, MCZ Ornithology Department Library
Date | NAME | TOPIC |
8-Feb | Scott Edwards | The year ahead & multilocus analysis of treecreepers (Climacteris) |
15-Feb | Dan Janes | Expression of sex-differentiation genes across species with different sex-determining mechanisms |
22-Feb | Chris Balakrishnan (visiting scholar) | Phylogeography and multilocus population genetics of the Zebra Finch |
Feb-29 | Patricia Brito | Multilocus systematics of Solomon Islands White-eyes (Zosterops) |
7-Mar | Liang Liu | Maximum tree - a consistent estimator of the species tree |
14-Mar | Maude Baldwin | Remembrances of research past: stonechats of the world, unite! |
21-Mar | Anna Dubiec | New Mhc loci in the house finch and their use in behavioral ecology |
March 28 (no meeting-Spring break) | --- | --- |
4-Apr | June Yong Lee | Multilocus phylogeography of the Red-backed Fairy Wren (and future plans) |
11-Apr | Chris Organ | "A mixed sampler"; a.k.a., I'm makin' this up as I go along |
18-Apr | Andy Shedlock | Squamate repeat dynamics |
25-Apr | Camille Bonneaud | Designing a microarray to examine changes in gene expression in house finches infected with Mycoplasma gallisepticum |
May 2 (@ 3 pm) | Ricardo Godinez | Evolutionary history of the amniote Mhc region |
May 12 (Monday, 2 pm) | Terry O'Dwyer | Molecular mechanisms of individual recognition in Procellariformes |
16-May | Elaine Vo/Mato Lagator | Genetics and toxicology of black-footed albatross; population genetics of House Finches
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2007 Edwards Lab Meetings
DATE | NAME | TOPIC |
2-Feb | Scott Edwards | Comparison of parameter estimates for BEST and MCMCcoal |
9-Feb | Andy Shedlock | Repeat diversity in reptiles and the ancestral amniote genome |
16-Feb | Patricia Brito | Phylogeography of the Tawny Owl, and other stories... |
23-Feb | June Yong Lee | Anonymous Loci vs. Introns in the Fairywren group |
2-Mar | Anna Dubiec | Age- and sex-related effects on immune function in the blue tit |
9-Mar | Dan Janes | Nucleotide diversity in the pseudoautosomal region in emu |
16-Mar | Chris Balakrishnan | Polymorphism, recombination and linkage disequilibrium in wild zebra finch populations. |
23-Mar | TBA | TBA |
April 6 (no meeting March 30) | Charles Chapus | Mapping of BAC-end sequences on the Chicken genome: American Alligator, Painted Turtle and Emu. |
13-Apr | Liang Liu | Estimating the Population Size Estimating population size from multilocus gene trees |
20-Apr | Ricardo Godinez | The first genomic characterization of a Reptilian MHC gene family |
Reconstructing the gene order of the MHC family in the amniote ancestor | ||
27-Apr | James Degnan | TBA |
4-May | Undergrad Symposium | TBA |
11-May | Camille Bonneaud | Designing a microarray to examine changes in gene expression in house finches infected with Mycoplasma gallisepticum |
18-May | Chris Organ | The BMP gene neighborhood in Alligator |
2006 Edwards Lab Meetings
DATE | NAME | TOPIC |
10-Feb | James Degnan | Coalescent Theory |
20-Feb | Nancy Rotzel | Treecreepers / Ivory-Billed Woodpecker |
27-Feb | Chris Organ | DINOGENOMICS |
3-Mar | Chris Balakrishnan | Zebra Finch Population Genomics |
13-Mar | Ricardo Mallarino | TBA |
20-Mar | Kara O'Keefe | Phylogeny of Phages |
27-Mar | Andy Shedlock | CR1 LINE evolution in Reptilia |
3-Apr | Scott Edwards | Gene Trees / Species Trees |
10-Apr | Corrie Saux Moreau | CGR Cluster |
17-Apr | Charles Chapus | TBA |
24-Apr | June Yong Lee | TBA |
1-May | Antonis Rokas | Evolutionary Bioinformatics |
8-May | Ricardo Godinez | TBA |
15-May | Dr. Dan Janes | FISHing in Oz |
2005 Edwards Lab Meetings
DATE | NAME | TOPIC |
4-Feb | Scott Edwards | Two reviews on bird phylogeny and speciation,and other evolutionary activities |
11-Feb | Bryan Jennings | An empirical evaluation of the genealogical species concept |
18-Feb | Sarah Kingan | Dissertation ideas: sex chromosomes, sexual selection, speciation! |
25-Feb | Chris Organ | Graduate work and upcoming project |
4-Mar | Dan Janes | Evolution of sex chromosomes (Z + W) |
11-Mar | Chris Balakrishnan | Parasitic Finches and non-parasitic finches |
18-Mar | Kara O'Keefe | Molecular strategies in viruses |
25-Mar | Nancy Rotzel | Treecreeper phylogeography |
8-Apr | No meeting | |
15-Apr | Andy Shedlock | Comparative Studies of reptile (including bird) genome evolution |
22-Apr | No meeting | |
29-Apr | Tobias Lenz | Mhc class I genes in house finches |
6-May | Miguel Alcaide | Mhc in lesser kestrels |