We are an informal group of faculty and students interested in Evolutionary Genetics. We get together Tuesdays at 12:30pm (1103 Biosciences Research Building) to share our latest research results. We also converge as a 'flashmob' at relevant departmental seminars throughout the week.

SCHEDULE - SPRING 2011

January

25 - Reade Roberts (BIOL) - "The genetic basis of adaptation in Lake Malawi cichlid fish"

31 - FLASHMOB - BEES seminar 12:00noon, 1103 BRB. Richard Frankham, Macquarie University, Sydney Australia "Predicting outbreeding depression: Critical information for managing fragmented populations"

February

1 - No meeting (too many job seminars...)

8 - No meeting (too many job seminars...)

15 -

22 -

March

1 - Masato Yoshizawa (BIOL) - "Paternal genetic effect, which may have encouraged cavefish to adapt 'surface' mitochondria"

8 -

15 - Claire O'Quin (BIOL) - "How many genes control cichlid color patterns?"

22 - Spring Break

29 - Cristel Thomas (BIOL, MOCB) - "The wonders of next-generation sequencing: evolution of sex-biased expression in the genus Caenorhabditis."

April

5 - Kelly O'Quin (BIOL, BEES) - PhD Thesis defense - "Evolution, development, and genetics of opsin gene expression in African cichlid fishes"

12 -

19 -

26 - Joe Ross (BIOL) - "Genomic divergence and the evolution of recombination and incompatibility in Caenorhabditis briggsae"

May

3 -

10 - Kevin Nyberg (BIOL) - "Evolution and Function of mRNA-like non-coding RNAs in Drosophila."

SCHEDULE - FALL 2010

September

7 - No meeting today.

14 - Reade Roberts (BIOL) - "Craniofacial evolution via the hedgehog pathway"

21 - Joe Ross (BIOL) - "Inter-strain genomic incompatibilities in Caenorhabditis briggsae revealed by genotyping recombinant inbred lines"

28 - Andrew Redd (NIAID/NIH) - "Transmitted HIV-1 strains persist in
the population and constrain viral diversity"

October

5 - Masato Yoshizawa (BIOL) - "Evolution of a behavioral shift mediated by the lateral line adapts cavefish to life in darkness"

11 -FLASHMOB - BEES Seminar - Karen Carleton (BIOL) - "Using opsin genes to see through the eyes of a fish" - Monday 12pm, 1103 BRB

12 - No meeting today

19 - Charlie Fenster (BIOL) - "Mutational phenomics"

26 - TBA (University of) - TBA (Room 1208 BPS today!)

November

2 - Adam Smith (BIOL) - "Opsin gene sequence and expression variation between (very) closely related cichlid fishes"

9 - BioScience Day - no EvoGen meeting

16 - Jeff Leips (University of Maryland - Baltimore County) - "From Systems to Functional Genetics of Immunosenescence: the Drosophila model"

23 - No meeting

30 - No meeting

December

7 - No meeting

14 - No meeting

SCHEDULE - SPRING 2010

January

26 - Program meeting - curriculum discussion

February

2 - Tom Kocher (BIOL) - "Sequencing the tilapia genome"

8 - FLASHMOB - BEES seminar - David Carr (U Virginia) - Inbreeding effects on plant-insect interactions"

9 - SNOWED OUT!

12 - FLASHMOB - ENTM Seminar - Steve Mount (CBMG) - "The evolution of introns and spliceosome components among Diptera"

16 - Chris Hofmann (BIOL) - "Structural vs regulatory changes in the cichlid visual system"

23 - Ruth TImme (CBMG) - "Phylogenomic reconstruction of the Charophytes: a multigene approach to resolving the phylogeny of plants’ closest relatives"

March

2 - Sara Via (BIOL) - "Brainstorming: using resequencing and linkage mapping to study host adaptation and speciation in pea aphids"

9 - Reade Roberts (BIOL) - "Proof of Principle: Association mapping a PTCH1 allele with minor effect on jaw shape using the Lake Malawi flock."

12- FLASHMOB - ENTM Seminar - Sara Via (BIOL) - "Genetic mechanisms of ecological speciation"

16 - Spring Break

23 - Guoqin Yu (CARB) - "Evolution of starch synthesis pathway genes in the context of rice domestication"

26 - FLASHMOB - ENTM Seminar - Cristian Castillo-Davis (BIOL) - "TBA"

29 - FLASHMOB - BEES Seminar - lya Ruvinsky (U Chicago) "A (mostly) nematode perspective on the evolution of gene regulation"

30 - Cancelled

April

6 -Henrique Teotonio ((Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia) - "The genetic basis of adaptation in experimental C. elegans populations" (Host: Carlos Machado)

12 - FLASHMOB - BEES seminar - Joe Ross (BIOL) - "The Rise and Demise of Sex-Chromosome Systems in Stickleback Fishes"

13 - Cristel Thomas - "How do males and females do it ? A phylo-genomic screen for reproductive genes lost in hermaphrodite lineages."

19 - FLASHMOB - BEES seminar - Steve Tonsor (U Pittsburgh) - "Developmental and physiological adaptation across the climatic range of Arabidopsis in northern Spain"

20 - Zifeng Jiang (BIOL) - "Species divergence and Haldane’s rule: insights from the Drosophila transcriptome"

27 - Arlin Stoltzfus (CARB) - "Climbing Mount Probable: understanding how biases in variation affect evolution"

May

4 - Jerry Wilkinson (BIOL) - "Genomic analyses of an Xaggerated dimorphic trait in stalk-eyed flies"

11 -

18 - Program meeting

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"

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"