Systematics Seminar

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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.

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Meeting time and place

We are meeting this semester in the Bamford Room (TLS 171B) Tuesdays 4-5pm.

Theme for Fall Semester 2010

The theme for this semester will be decided at the organizational meeting.

Schedule for Fall Semester 2010

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. If you want to upload a PDF file for an upcoming discussion, use the Systematics Seminar PDF upload form. Uploading PDFs requires the same user name and password as viewing PDFs.

Tuesday, August 31, 2010:

Organizational meeting.

Tuesday, September 07, 2010:

Discussion leader: Chris Owen
This week we will take a look at a new method to infer phylogeographic history on a continuous landscape.

Pdficon small.gifLemey et al. 2010 MBE.pdf

Tuesday, September 14, 2010:

Discussion leader: Geert

This paper uses the previous version of the model discussed by Chris last week.

Pdficon small.gifChapter4 Marske Thesis.pdf
Pdficon small.gifMarske Thesis References.pdf

Tuesday, September 21, 2010:

Discussion leader: Marc Suchard

Pdficon small.gifLemey et al. 2009 bayesian phylogeo sm.pdf


Tuesday, September 30, 2010:

Discussion leader:JCarlos Villarreal

Here is the paper with the link to it:

Smith, S. A. 2009. Taking into account phylogenetic and divergence-time uncertainty in a parametric biogeographic analysis of the Northern Hemisphere plant clade Caprifolieae. Journal of Biogeography

http://blackrim.org/projects/biogeography

Past Systematics Seminars