Our next PhyloPizza event will take place on Tuesday, November 10, at 5:30pm in the NMNH Vertebrate Zoology Seminar Room (WG 33). Adam Phillippy of the National Human Genome Research Institute will give a talk entitled “Single molecule sequencing: affordable finished genomes and mobile DNA sensors”. Join us! Flier for this event here.
Our next PhyloPizza event will take place on Tuesday, October 13, at 5:30pm in the Executive Conference Room of NMNH (ECR). James Mallet of Harvard University will give a talk entitled “Gene flow between Heliconius species: how butterflies mess with our concepts of species and phylogeny”. Join us! Flier for this event here.
Check out our ‘Photos’ section for some pics from the recent Frontiers in Phylogenetics Symposium!
Rebecca Dikow kicks off the symposium
We in the Braun Lab are very excited about this year’s Frontiers in Phylogenetics Symposium! Please join us for an excellent line-up of talks at the National Museum of Natural History on Tuesday, September 15, 2015. Schedule is outlined below, and downloadable as PDF here.
9:00-9:15 Welcome
9:15-9:50 Anna Savage (University of Central Florida): Functional
immunogenomics of tolerance in an amphibian-fungus host pathogen system
9:50-10:25 Marin Talbot Brewer (University of Georgia): Phylogenetic
and population genomic approaches for investigating plant-parasite
evolution
10:25-10:40 Break
10:40-11:15 Holly Bik (University of Birmingham): Phylogeny-driven
environmental sequencing approaches for microbial eukaryotes
11:15-11:50 Maria Hoffmann (FDA): Tracing Origins of Salmonella Strains
Causing a Food-borne Outbreak
11:50-12:25 Spencer Nyholm (University of Connecticut): Using “omics”
to understand interactions with beneficial bacteria in the model squid
host Euprymna scolopes
12:25-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-2:35 Dan Janies (University of North Carolina Charlotte): Genes,
evolution, and geography of pathogens
2:35-3:10 Corrie Moreau (The Field Museum): From genomes to
microbiomes: The role of symbiosis in ants
3:10-3:45 C. Miguel Pinto (National Museum of Natural History):
Tracking the origins of infectious diseases using museum collections
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-4:35 Pamela Weisenhorn (Argonne National Lab): Evolutionary
patterns in microbial energy metabolism
4:35-5:10 Mike Sorenson (Boston University): Contrasting Patterns of
Genetic Divergence in Obligate Brood Parasites: Implications for the
Genetics of Host-Specific Adaptation
Our first PhyloPizza event of the 2015-16 season will take place on Tuesday, September 8, at 5:30pm in the Executive Conference Room of NMNH (ECR). Paul Frandsen will give a talk entitled “Automatic selection of partitioned phylogenetic models on large datasets: a case study with caddisflies (Insecta: Trichoptera)”. Join us! Flier for this event here.
We are pleased to announce the Fall 2015-Spring 2016 PhyloPizza schedule! Please find the text below, and PDF of the flier here. Events will be held the second Tuesday of each month (with one noted exception), beginning at 5:30PM at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. Please post & distribute the schedule! We look forward to your attendance.
September 8: Paul Frandsen (SI/OCIO)
October 13: James Mallet (Harvard)
November 10: TBD
December 8: Melanie Hopkins (AMNH)
January 12: Rachel Warnock (NMNH/Paleobiology)
February 9: Vanessa Gonzalez (NMNH/IZ)
March 8: TBD
April 12: Emma Goldberg (U. Minnesota)
May 3*: Hopi Hoekstra (Harvard)
*Note date change
June 14: TBD
PhD Candidate Noor White won the Ernst Mayr Award for her presentation “Resolving the Avian Tree of Life using Ultraconserved Elements” at the 2015 Evolution meeting in Guarujá, Brazil. The Ernst Mayr Award is given to the presenter of the outstanding student talk in the field of systematics at the annual meetings of the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). This is SSB’s premier award, and is judged by the quality and creativity of the research completed over the course of the student’s Ph.D. program. Congratulations Noor!
Dr. Paul Lewis presents Noor with the Ernst Mayr Award
Post-doc Brian Coyle gave an excellent presentation on the Red Siskin Initiative at the 2015 Smithsonian Ornithology Exchange at the National Zoo in Washington, DC. Learn more about the project by clicking on the “Red Siskin Conservation” tab!
Dr. Brian Coyle presenting the Red Siskin Initiative
Our next PhyloPizza event (and last for the summer!) will take place on Tuesday, June 9, at 5:30pm in the Executive Conference Room of NMNH (ECR). Jeremy Goeks will give a talk entitled “Galaxy: An Open, Web-based Platform for Data-Intensive Biological Analyses”. Join us! Keep up to date with future events here. Flier for this event here.
Our next PhyloPizza event will take place on Tuesday, May 12, at 5:30pm in the Executive Conference Room of NMNH (ECR). Andrea Otteson will give a talk entitled “Food and Agricultural Microbiomes: Use of Metagenomics to Better Understand Food Safety”. Join us! Keep up to date with future events here. Flier for this event here.