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News - What's happening of interest to evolutionary developmental biology
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24 April 2008
The publication of the genome of Tribolium castaneum, the first beetle to be fully sequenced, is announced in Nature.
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14 April 2008
In anticipation of the up-coming publication of the first beetle genome, DGE had dedicated an issue to Tribolium castaneum, with articles on segmentation, signaling, and eye development.
[DGE]
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8 April 2008
RadioLab, an excellent and humorous program of WNYC, exploring science and society, tackles bio-engineering. [Download MP3]
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5 April 2008
The IGERT Symposium on Evolution, Development, and Genomics
brings Greg Wray and Jerry Coyne together for a debate on the relative importance of cis-regulatory and protein sequence changes in evolution. Paul Myers covers the excitement on his blog, Pharyngula.
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4 December 2007
Inhibition of the gene FoxP2 using RNA interference in the zebra finch demonstrates this gene's role in the learning of bird song.
[PLoS Biology]
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21 November 2007
A new species of gigantic eurypterid sea scorpion, Jaekelopterus rhenaniae, is described from a giant claw.
[BBC News]
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12 December 2007
Nature Reviews Genetics has a special focus section on evo-devo.
[NRG Focus]
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8 November 2007
The genome sequences of 12 Drosophila species is unveiled in Nature, providing unprecedented resources for comparative genomics.
[News, Focus]
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18 October 2007
The HapMap project reveals more human genetic variation and positive selection in distinct human populations.
[Nature Reviews Genetics]
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30 April 2007
Lonesome George, thought to be the last surviving individual giant tortoises of the species Geochelone abingdoni, native to the Galapagos island of Pinta, may have a relative on a neighboring island. [Current Biology; BBC News]
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23 April 2007
The EvoDevo Discussion Group is now accessible via the
EEBedia, Wiki page.
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31 January 2007
The online mp3 archive of the complete text-to-audio translation of Darwin's Origin of Species is completed and available for free download.
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1 January 2007
Plant geneticist Vivian Irish joins the editorial board of
Evolution & Development.
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Conferences - Up-coming meetings of potential interest to those in evo-devo and related feilds
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IEDG 2008: Integrating Evolution, Development and Genomics 2008
May 28-30, 2008 - Berkeley, CA
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Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE)
June 5-8, 2008 - Barcelona, Spain
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C. elegans Topic Meeting on Evolution
June 11-15, 2008 - Madison, Wisconsin
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Evolution 2008
June 19-24, 2008 - Minneapolis, Minnesota
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23rd International Congress of Entomology, including a tentatively planned session on the endocrinology and genetics of post-embryonic arthropod development
July 6-12, 2008 - Durban, South Africa
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Twentieth International Congress of Genetics
July 12-17, 2008 - Berlin
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Society for Developmental Biology, 67th Annual Meeting
including a session on Evolution and Diversity of Pattern
June 25-30, 2008 - Philadelphia
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European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology, 2nd Meeting
July 29 - August 1, 2008 - Ghent, Belgium
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Workshop on Molecular Evolution
August 8-15, 2008 - Woods Hole
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1st International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology
August 17-21, 2008 - Copenhagen
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20th International Congress of Zoology
August 26-29, 2008 - Paris
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International Symposium on Nonbilaterian Animal Model Organisms
October 17-20, 2008 - Jena, Germany
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ICREA Conference on the Origin & Early Evolution of Metazoans
October 24-25, 2008 - Barcelona, Spain
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Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Annual Meeting
January 3-7, 2009 - Boston
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An International Conference on the Cambrian Explosion,
commemorating the 100th anniversary of the discovery of
the Burgess Shale
August 3-7, 2009 - Banff, Alberta
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