MOLECULAR EVOLUTION SEMINAR
(BIOL 7946/ENTM 7946)
http://www.museum.lsu.edu/molev/molev.html
Fall 2004, Thursdays 12:10 - 1:00 p.m. (Room 28 LSB)
Contact: Christopher Austin (ccaustin@lsu.edu)
The format for Spring, 2005 will be somewhat similar to the way this seminar has been organized in the past. Registered students should submit (via e-mail) to me 3 papers (in pdf format) relating to molecular evolution that they are interested in reading (and that they think others would be interested in reading). Each week one of these papers will be selected at random from the list of papers (made by students as well as faculty participants) for next weeks reading. I will e-mail everyone the pdf of next weeks reading. No presenter will be assigned, but that next week, a registered student will be randomly selected to present the paper. Summary of the content of the paper should not exceed 10 minutes, and the floor will be opened for critical discussion. Sampling of presenters will be done with replacement (i.e. bootstrapped), so some students will present more than others. Students will be assigned a grade based on their participation in all class discussions, so attendance is mandatory without an excuse. Those who almost never speak up except when they are presenting will not receive an A.
SCHEDULE
27 January - Organizational meeting
3 February - Carstens Molecular Ecology 2005. Accounting for coalescent stochasticity in testing phylogeographical hypotheses: modelling Pleistocene population structure in the Idaho giant salamander Dicamptodon aterrimus. Molecular Ecology, 14: 255-265.
10 February- Irwin et al Science 2005. Irwin, D.E., Bensch, S., Irwin, J.H., and T.D. Price (2005). Speciation by distance in a ring species. Science, 307:414-416
17 February- de Bruyn, et al (2004). Reconciling geography and genealogy: phylogeography of giant freshwater prawns fromthe Lake Carpentaria region. Molecular Ecology, 13:3515-3526.
24 February- Garant et al (2005). Evolution driven by differential dispersal within a wild bird population. Nature, 433:60-65.
3 March- Bromhan, L. and Woolfit, M. (2004). Explosive Radiations and the reliability of molecular clocks: island endemic radiations as a test case. Systematic Biology, 53:758-766.
10 March- Fondon, J.W. and Garner, H.R. (2004). Molecular origins of rapid and continuous morphological evolution. PNAS, 101:18058-18063.
17 March- Gillooly et al (2005). The rate of DNA evolution: effects of body size and temperature on the molecular clock. PNAS, 102:140-145.
24 March- SPRING BREAK
31 March- Colosimo et al (2005). Widespread parallel evolution in sticklebacks by repeated fixation of ectodysplasin alleles. Science 307:1928-1933.
7 April- Cosson et al (2005). Phylogeographical footprints of the Straight of Gibraltar and Quaternary climatic fluctuations in the weste3r Mediterranean: a case studywith the greater white-toothed shrew, Crocidura russula (Mammalia: Soricidae). Molecular Ecology. 14:1151-1162.
14 April- Rooney, A.P. and Ward, T.J. (2005). Evolution of a large ribosomal RNA multigene family in filamentous fungi: birth and death of a concerted evolution paradigm. PNAS: 102,14:5084-5089.
21 April- Geffeney et al (2005). Evolutionary diversification of TTX-resistant sodium channels in a predator-prey interaction. Nature vol 434, 759-763.
28 April- Joe Connell's talk at noon, no Mol Ev seminar-
5 May- Sugawara et al (2005). Parallelism of amino acid changes at the RH1 affecting spectal sensitivity among deep-water cichlids from lakes Tanganyika and Malawi. PNAS v.102:5448-5453.