Systematics Seminar Fall 2018

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Note: this web site is now obsolete. See Systematics Seminar for the current Systematics Seminar web site.

This is the home page of the UConn EEB department's Systematics Seminar (EEB 6486). This is a graduate seminar devoted to issues of interest to graduate students and faculty who make up the systematics program at the University of Connecticut.

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Meeting time and place

We meet at 11:05 in the Bamford Room (TLS 171B)

Theme and Schedule for Fall 2018

We will largely be discussing papers on character mapping, reticulation, and biogeography+dating. Any students that would like to sign up to present a practice talk or talk through ideas related to their research are encouraged to do so!

Aug. 31

Planning meeting (no readings)

Sep. 7

Conflicts between the results of morphological and molecular datasets in squamate reptiles.

Paper and supplemental files: https://dropbox.uconn.edu/dropbox?n=PhylogIguniaRootProblem18.zip&p=Wzhn6V64Bz4T9W7qH

Discussion led by Jack Phillips

jackson.phillips@uconn.edu

Sep. 14

Diler and Eric discuss The Biogeography of Deep Time Reticulation

Sep. 21

Diler discusses Inferring Phylogenetic Networks with Maximum Pseudolikelihood under Incomplete Lineage Sorting

Watch Cecile Ané's PhyloSeminar and check out her slides from the 2018 Molecular Evolution Workshop at Woods Hole for more information on phylogenetic networks.

Sep. 28

Katie discusses HyDe: A Python Package for Genome-Scale Hybridization Detection

Oct. 5

Kevin discusses Early Arrival and Climatically-Linked Geographic Expansion of New World Monkeys from Tiny African Ancestors

Oct. 12

Diler discusses Conceptual and statistical problems with the DEC+J model of founder-event speciation and its comparison with DEC via model selection

Oct. 19

Eric discusses Analyzing Contentious Relationships and Outlier Genes in Phylogenomics

Oct. 26

Katie and Diler give practice ESA talks

Nov. 2

Tanner discusses Species Distributions, Quantum Theory, and the Enhancement of Biodiversity Measures

Nov. 9

Katie discusses Information Dropout Patterns in Restriction Site Associated DNA Phylogenomics and a Comparison with Multilocus Sanger Data in a Species-Rich Moth Genus

Nov. 16

Grab bag of Next-Gen methods for phylogenetics:

Chris [1] GBS Genotyping-by-sequencing.

Kevin Anchored hybrid enrichment for massively high-throughput phylogenomics

Tanner Cost-efficient high throughput capture of museum arthropod specimen DNA using PCR-generated baits

Dave Ultraconserved elements anchor thousandsof genetic markers spanning multiple evolutionary timescales

Further Reading

Molecular Ecologist has multiple posts on Next-Gen methods

Phylogenomic Data Acquisition (Jennings 2016)

Nov. 23

THANKSGIVING BREAK! WOO!

Nov. 30

Grab bag of Next-Gen methods for phylogenetics (continued):

Elizabeth RADcap: sequence capture of dual‐digest RADseq libraries

Eric HiMAP: Robust phylogenomics from highly multiplexed amplicon sequencing

Diler Expressed exome capture sequencing: A method for cost‐effective exome sequencing for all organisms

Katie HyRAD-X, a versatile method combining exome capture and RAD sequencing to extract genomic information from ancient DNA

Dec. 7

Information for discussion leaders

Seminar Format: Registered students be prepared to lead discussions, perhaps more than once depending on the number of participants.

The leader(s) will be responsible both for (1) selection of readings, (2) announcing the selection, (3) an introductory presentation, (4) driving discussion and (5) setting up and putting away the projector.

Readings: In consultation with the instructors, each leader should assign one primary paper for discussion and up to two other ancillary papers or resources. The readings should be posted to EEBedia at least 5 days in advance.

Announcing the reading: The leader should add an entry to the schedule (see below) by editing this page. There are two ways to create a link to the paper:

1. If the paper is available online through our library, it is sufficient to create a link to the DOI:

:[http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syv041 Doyle et al. 2015. Syst. Biol. 64:824-837.]

In this case, you need not give all the citation details because the DOI should always be sufficient to find the paper. The colon (:) at the beginning of the link causes the link to be indented an placed on a separate line. Note that the DOI is in the form of a URL, starting with http://dx.doi.org/. Here is how the above link looks embedded in this EEBedia page:

Doyle et al. 2015. Syst. Biol. 64:824-837.

2. If the paper is not available through the library, upload a PDF of the paper to the UConn dropbox, being sure to use the secure version so that it can be password protected. Copy the URL provided by dropbox, and create a link to it as follows (see the Dropbox Test page for other examples):

:[https://dropbox.uconn.edu/dropbox?n=SystBiol-2015-Doyle-824-37.pdf&p=ELPFIc5NtO3c4V44Ls Doyle et al. 2015.]

In this case, you should provide a full citation to the paper for the benefit of those that visit the site long after the dropbox link has expired; however, the full details need not be part of the link text. Here is what this kind of link looks like embedded in this EEBedia page:

Doyle et al. 2015. Full citation: Vinson P. Doyle, Randee E. Young, Gavin J. P. Naylor, and Jeremy M. Brown. 2015. Can We Identify Genes with Increased Phylogenetic Reliability? Systematic Biology 64 (5): 824-837. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syv041

If you have ancillary papers, upload those to the dropbox individually and create separate links.

Finally, send a note to the Systematics Listserv letting everyone know that a paper is available.

Introductory PowerPoint/KeyNote Presentation: Introduce your topic with a 10- to 15-minute PowerPoint or KeyNote presentation. Dedicate at least 2/3 of that time to placing the subject into the broader context of the subject areas/themes and at most 1/3 of it introducing paper, special definitions, taxa, methods, etc. Never exceed 15 minutes. (For example, for a reading on figs and fig-wasps, broaden the scope to plant-herbivore co-evolution.). Add images, include short movie clips, visit web resources, etc. to keep the presentation engaging. Although your presentation should not be a review of the primary reading, showing key figures from the readings may be helpful (and appreciated). You may also want to provide more detail and background about ancillary readings which likely have not been read by all.

Discussion: You are responsible for driving the discussion. Assume everyone in attendance has read the main paper. There are excellent suggestions for generating class discussions on Chris Elphick’s Current Topics in Conservation Biology course site. See section under expectations.

Prepare 3-5 questions that you expect will spur discussion. Ideally, you would distribute questions a day or two before our class meeting.

Projector: The Bamford room has joined the modern world--you should just need to plug in your computer or USB key to project.

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