We are an informal group of faculty and students interested in Evolutionary Genetics. We get together Tuesdays at 12:30pm (1208 Biology-Psychology Bldg) to share our latest research results. We also converge as a 'flashmob' at relevant departmental seminars throughout the week.

SCHEDULE - FALL 2009

September

1 - Ice Cream Social

8 - Steve Mount (CBMG & CBCB) "Is Arabidopsis thaliana a quasispecies? Is Homo sapiens?"

15 - Charles Fenster (BIOL) "Quantifying patterns of selection on a complex trait: hummingbird pollination syndrome evolution in Silene virginica"

22 - Karen Carleton (BIOL) "The cichlid eye view: genetic control of opsin expression"

29 - Michael Cummings (BIOL & CBCB) "Quantifying Species Limits Across the Genome: Using the Genealogical Sorting Index for Closely Related Species"

October

6 - Nature/Science postdoc doubleheader! - Reade Roberts (BIOL) - "Sexual conflict resolved by invasion of a novel sex determiner in Lake Malawi cichlid fishes"

13 - Doubleheader - extra innings! - Joe Ross (BIOL) - "A role for a neo-sex chromosome in stickleback speciation"

19 - FLASHMOB - BEES seminar - Dr. Jay Evans (USDA) "Honey bee genomics and disease"

20 - Cancelled...

27 - Carlos Machado (BIOL) "Patterns of allelic expression in Drosophila interspecific hybrids"

November

2 - FLASHMOB - BEES seminar - Christina Burch (UNC) - "Experimental evolution of viruses"

3 - Christina Burch (UNC) - Brownbag Encore: "Estimating the degree of pleiotropy in a bacteriophage"

9 - FLASHMOB - BEES seminar - Charles Fenster (BIOL)- "Quantifying evolutionary process from mutation to natural selection in populations to phylum"

10 - Cristian Castillo-Davis (BIOL & CBCB) "To splice or duplicate? Surprising molecular diversity of the cannonical signal transduction protein G-alpha in the genus Drosophila"

17 - Kelly O'Quin (BEES) - "Cis-regulatory evolution and opsin gene expression in Lake Malawi cichlids"

24 - Charles Delwiche (CBMG) - "Molecular studies of dinoflagellate diversity"

December

1 - Michelle Dudash (BIOL) - "An examination of the joint effects of serial inbreeding and expression of phenotypic plasticity on fitness traits in Mimulus guttatus"

8 - Greg Concepcion (Delwiche Lab) - "Molecular insight into coral colonizations of the Hawaiian archipelago"

15 - Faculty meeting - curriculum discussion??

January

26 -

February

2 -

9 -

16 -

23 -

March

2 -

9 -

16 - Spring Break

23 -

30 -

April

6 -

12 - FLASHMOB - BEES seminar - Joe Ross (BIOL)

13 -

20 -

27 -

May

4 -

11 -

18 - Program meeting??