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== Schedule for Spring Semester 2008 ==
 
== Schedule for Spring Semester 2008 ==
 
'''Note: the papers linked here require a user name and password to access.''' If you have forgotten the user name and/or password, contact [mailto:paul.lewis@uconn.edu Paul Lewis].
 
'''Note: the papers linked here require a user name and password to access.''' If you have forgotten the user name and/or password, contact [mailto:paul.lewis@uconn.edu Paul Lewis].
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=== Tuesday, January 22, 2008: Basal clades ===
 
=== Tuesday, January 22, 2008: Basal clades ===
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Discussion leader: Paul Lewis
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Two of our Tuesday time slots this semester will be taken over by departmental seminars, so rather than waste the first time slot with an organizational meeting, let's get right into things with a consideration of the meaning of the word ''basal''.
 
Two of our Tuesday time slots this semester will be taken over by departmental seminars, so rather than waste the first time slot with an organizational meeting, let's get right into things with a consideration of the meaning of the word ''basal''.
 
:Crisp, M. D., and L. G. Cook. 2005. Do early branching lineages signify ancestral traits? TREE 20(3):105-149. {{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/systematicsseminar/restricted/Crisp_Cook_2005_TREE_20_122-128.pdf}}
 
:Crisp, M. D., and L. G. Cook. 2005. Do early branching lineages signify ancestral traits? TREE 20(3):105-149. {{pdf|http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/courses/systematicsseminar/restricted/Crisp_Cook_2005_TREE_20_122-128.pdf}}
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=== Tuesday, February 12, 2008 ===
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== Past Systematics Seminars ==
 
== Past Systematics Seminars ==

Revision as of 19:29, 22 January 2008

This is the home page of the UConn EEB department's Systematics Seminar. 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.

Click here for information about joining and using the Systematics email list

Meeting time and place

Except for the first meeting, we will meet in the Bamford Room (TLS 171) Tuesdays at 4pm. The first meeting will be held in the BioPharm 3rd. floor fishbowl (Bamford room reserved at this time by ecology search committee).

Theme for Spring Semester 2008

Unless there is loud objection, the theme this semester will be Tree Thinking. David Baum (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison) is writing a book on Tree Thinking and has agreed to let us read the chapters he has written in return for some constructive criticism. Baum's book will be supplemented with some thought-provoking and heated-debate-generating papers on subjects such as these:

  • can you ever say that a clade is basal?
  • do non-uniform clade priors make sense?
  • what can and can't fossils say about node age
  • when gene trees and species trees are both right, but different
  • the signature of an adaptive radiation

Schedule for Spring Semester 2008

Note: the papers linked here require a user name and password to access. If you have forgotten the user name and/or password, contact Paul Lewis.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008: Basal clades

Discussion leader: Paul Lewis

Two of our Tuesday time slots this semester will be taken over by departmental seminars, so rather than waste the first time slot with an organizational meeting, let's get right into things with a consideration of the meaning of the word basal.

Crisp, M. D., and L. G. Cook. 2005. Do early branching lineages signify ancestral traits? TREE 20(3):105-149. Pdficon small.gif
Krell, F.-T., and P. S. Cranston. 2004. Which side of the tree is more basal? Systematic Entomology 29:279-281. Pdficon small.gif

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Discussion leader: Change meeting time (EEB Dept. Seminar conflicts)?

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Discussion leader: Change meeting time (EEB Dept. Seminar conflicts)?

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

No meeting (Spring Break)

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

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Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Watch out! (April Fool's Day)

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Tuesday, April 8, 2008

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

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Past Systematics Seminars