Spring 2022
A new year! How will it be?
1/20: Lab check-in (11:05AM)
Fall 2021
12/9: Rothfels, Tansley Insight, Polyploidy Phylogenetics
11/18: Coding, check-in
11/11: Coding, check-in
10/7: Lab Check-in
9/30: Jennifer lead Xu et al. 2021, SCS in maize inflorescence (sent via Slack)
9/23: Jennifer lead discussion about HybSeq probe design and two recent papers (sent via Slack)
9/16: Jennifer lead: Wu et al. 2019 New Phyt paper
9/9: Paige herbarium practice talk
9/2: Lab Check-in
8/26: Lab Check-in
Summer 2021
8/20: Prep for the semester/catch up!
8/13: Lab Clean up!🤪
8/6: Lab Check-in
7/9: Best of both worlds, APPS 2021 paper
7/2: DataCamp, R
6/25: DataCamp, R
6/18: DataCamp, R
6/11: Marshall 2019 paper, pages 1-8 + DataCamp
6/4: Lab Check-in, DataCamp, Genomics with Ram
5/28: Talk about DataCamp, Lab Check-in, Erika practice Evolution talk/go over slides
5/21: Lab Check-in
5/14: Lab Check-in
Spring 2021
5/7: No lab meeting in AM, lab meeting in evening 🙂
4/30: Tree Thinking Discussion http://for-the-love-of-trees.blogspot.com
4/23: Ram Practice Talk
4/16: Paige Practice Talk
4/9: Paige Practice Talk (optional meeting, Wellness Break)
4/1: No lab meeting
3/26: ASB
3/19: No lab meeting
3/12: Mike Practice Talk
3/5: Mike Practice Talk
2/26: Lab Check-in + Talk about Mars landing!
2/19: ASB Practice Talks by Ram/Mike/Erika
2/12: Building near-complete plant genomes
2/5: No Lab Meeting
1/29: Have first DataCamp module complete and by this date also download and install anaconda.
1/22: Reminder that abstracts due for ASB, tentative Ram presents on Machine Learning + González-Pech et al. 2019. Commonly misunderstood parameters of NCBI BLAST and important considerations for users (will send via email).
1/15: Sign up for DataCamp + Valente et al. 2020. A simple dynamic model explains the diversity of island birds worldwide.
1/8: New Year, new ________. Let’s read a recent paper by Carol! Folk et al. 2020, Angiosperms at the edge.
Fall 2020
12/18: Sweater contest and Zoom games + check in about lab work/writing/etc.
12/11: Lab Work, no meeting!
11/30: Monday Lab meeting 9:30AM , note date/day change; Everyone has 5-10 minutes to talk about their work
11/13: Bedford et al. 2020, Viral genome sequencing places White House COVID-19 outbreak into phylogenetic context
11/6: Lab catchup and check in
10/30: Bagley et al. 2020, Utility of targeted sequence capture for phylogenomics in rapid, recent angiosperm radiations: Neotropical Burmeistera bellflowers as a case study
10/23: Henkhaus et al. 2020, Plant science decadal vision 2020–2030: Reimagining the potential of plants for a healthy and sustainable future
10/15: Erika’s Prospectus Defense Practice Talk
10/2: Finish Gregory 2008 and Mike’s Prospectus Defense Practice Talk
9/25: Gregory 2008, Understanding Evolutionary Trees (read up to Misconception #4)
9/18: Mike leads: Soulé 1985, What is Conservation Biology?
9/11: Critical (her word!) review of a Puckett Lab draft MS
9/4: Ram leads: Portik and Wiens 2020, Do Alignment and Trimming Methods Matter for Phylogenomic (UCE) Analyses? Systematic Biology.
Other possible papers:
Day2: Casillas and Barbadilla 2017 (read up to Determinants of Patterns of Genome Variation)
Day3: Finish Casillas and Barbadilla 2017