| Date |
Speaker / Affiliation / Topic |
  |
Host |
|   |
| January 15 |
Trisha Wittkopp
Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Molecular mechanisms underlying
evolutionary changes in gene expression
|
  |
Christian Landry |
|   |
| February 19 |
Molly Przeworski
Brown University, Providence RI
Insights into recombination from patterns of genetic
variation in humans and chimpanzees
|
  |
Justin Blumenstiel |
|   |
| March 18 |
Bernardo Carvalho
Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Origin and evolution of the Drosophila Y chromosome
|
  |
Bernardo Lemos |
|   |
| April 15 |
Gunter Wagner
Yale University, New Haven CT
Why do vertebrates have multiple Hox gene clusters?
|
  |
Colin Meiklejohn |
|   |
| May 20 |
Alberto Civetta
University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada
Shall we dance? Rapid evolution of sexual traits
and the role of male X female interactions
|
  |
Rob Kulathinal |