Past Journal Club Meetings
2015
| July 7 | Achim Tresch On the Origin and Evolutionary Consequences of Gene Body DNA Methylation, Adam J Bewick et al., to appear at PNAS, PDF  |
| June 2 | Siegfried Roth The Dynamic Regulatory Genome of Capsaspora and the Origin of Animal Multicellularity, Sebe-Pedros, A. et al., (2016) Cell 165, 1224-1237. |
| Mail 12 | Kristen Panfilio Evolution of an ancient protein function involved in organized multicellularity in animals, Douglas P Anderson et al., http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.10147. |
| April 14 | Melih Yüksel (Maier Lab) Sex speeds adaptation by altering the dynamics of molecular evolution, Michael J. McDonald, Daniel P. Rice & Michael M. Desai, doi:10.1038/nature17143 |
| February 4 | Andrea Schrader (Hülskamp Lab) Annotation of loci from genome-wide association studies using tissue-specific quantitative interaction proteomics, Alicia Lundby et al., Nature Methods 11, 868–874 (2014) doi:10.1038/nmeth.2997 http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v11/n8/pdf/nmeth.2997.pdf |
| November 12 | Jan Grossbach Neighboring genes show correlated evolution in gene expression; Avazeh T. Ghanbarian and Laurence D. Hurst; Mol Biol Evol (2015) doi: 10.1093/molbev/msv053 |
October 22
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Joachim Krug Contingency and entrenchment in protein evolution under purifying selection, Premal Shah et al., doi: 10.1073/pnas.1412933112 http://www.pnas.org/content/112/25/E3226.full |
| June 25 | Thomas Wiehe Genomic signatures of evolutionary transitions from solitary to group living, Karen M. Kapheim et al., Science 5 June 2015, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa4788 PDF/Link http://www.sciencemag.org/content/348/6239/1139.full |
| April 23 | Wolfgang Werr Polyploidy can drive rapid adaptation in yeast, Anna M. Selmecki et al., Nature 519, 349–352 (19 March 2015) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v519/n7543/full/nature14187.html |
| March 26 | Anne-Lise Routier-Kierzkowska Mechanics without Muscle: Biomechanical Inspiration from the Plant World, Martone et al. 2010, Plant World Integr. Comp. Biol. 50 (5): 888-907 |
| February 26 | Achim Tresch BitPhylogeny: a probabilistic framework for reconstructing intra-tumor phylogenies, K. Yuan1, T. Sakoparnig, F. Markowetz, and N. Beerenwinkel, to appear in Genome Biology |
January 29 |
Siegfried Roth Life cycles, fitness decoupling and the evolution of multicellularity, Hammerschmidt K, et al, Nature. 2014 515:75-9 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v515/n7525/full/nature13884.html |
2014
November 26 |
Kristen Panfilio Transmissible dog cancer genome reveals the origin and history of an ancient cell lineage, Murchison et al, Science. Jan 24, 2014; 343(6169): 437–440. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24458646 |
| October 30 |
Martin Lercher Network level architecture and the evolutionary potential of underground metabolism, Notebaart et al., PNAS 111:11762 (2014), PDF |
| July 31 | Jingtao Li and Urs Benedikt Müller Evolution of the Schlafen genes, a gene family associated with embryonic lethality, meiotic drive, immune processes and orthopoxvirus virulence Bustos et al.,http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378111909003904 |
| June 20 | Wolfgang Werr The genomic signature of dog domestication reveals adaptation to a starch-rich diet, Axelsson et al. 2013, Nature 495: 360–364, doi:10.1038/nature1183 |
| April 11 | Jane Parker Arabidopsis synchronizes jasmonate-mediated defense with insect circadian behavior, Danielle Goodspeed, E. Wassim Chehab, Amelia Min-Vendetti, Janet Braam, and Michael F. Covington, February 13, 2012, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1116368109 PNAS |
| February 21 | Nico Riedel A test for selection employing quantitative trait locus and mutation accumulation data, Rice, D.P., and J.P. Townsend, 2012, Genetics 190(4): 1533-1545 |
| January 31 | Siegfried Roth Protein modularity, cooperative binding, and hybrid regulatory states underlie transcriptional network diversification, Baker, C.R., Booth, L.N., Sorrells, T.R., and Johnson, A.D, Cell 151, 80-95, (2012) |
2013
| June 20 | Wolfgang Werr The genomic signature of dog domestication reveals adaptation to a starch-rich diet, Axelsson et al. 2013, Nature 495: 360–364, doi:10.1038/nature1183 |
| April 11 | Jane Parker Arabidopsis synchronizes jasmonate-mediated defense with insect circadian behavior, Danielle Goodspeed, E. Wassim Chehab, Amelia Min-Vendetti, Janet Braam, and Michael F. Covington, February 13, 2012, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1116368109 PNAS |
| February 21 | Nico Riedel A test for selection employing quantitative trait locus and mutation accumulation data, Rice, D.P., and J.P. Townsend, 2012, Genetics 190(4): 1533-1545 |
| January 31 | Siegfried Roth Protein modularity, cooperative binding, and hybrid regulatory states underlie transcriptional network diversification, Baker, C.R., Booth, L.N., Sorrells, T.R., and Johnson, A.D, Cell 151, 80-95, (2012) |
2012
| December 20 | Thomas Wiehe Epistasis as the primary factor inmolecular evolution, Michael S. Breen et al., doi:10.1038/nature11510 |
| November 22 | Michael Lässig The spatial architecture of protein function and adaptation, Richard N. McLaughlin Jr et al., Nature (2012) doi:10.1038/nature11500 |
| October 25 | Martin Lercher A whole-cell computational model predicts phenotype from genotype, J. Karr et al., Cell 150:389 (2012) |
| September 20 | Jonathan Howard Major role of positive selection in the evolution of conservative segments of Drosophila proteins, Georgii A. Bazykin and Alexey S. Kondrashov, Proc. R. Soc. B 2012 279, 3409-3417 |
| July 7 | Eric von Elert Parallel evolution and ecological selection: replicated character displacement in spadefoot toads, Rice et al, Procedings of the Royal Society |
| June 21 | Krug Joachim Exploring the Complexity of the HIV-1 Fitness Landscape, Roger D. Kouyos et.al. |
| May 10 | Jane Parker Prions are a common mechanism for phenotypic inheritance in wild yeasts, Randal Halfmann, Daniel F. Jarosz, Sandra K. Jones, Amelia Chang, Alex K. Lancaster & Susan Lindquist, doi:10.1038/nature10875 |
| April 19 | Wolfgang Werr Evolution of increased complexity in a molecular machine, Finnigan GC , Hanson-Smith V , Stevens TH , Thornton JW (2012) ,Nature 481(7381):360-4 |
| January 26 | Johannes Berg Cryptic genetic variation promotes rapid evolutionary adaptation in an RNA enzyme, Eric J. Hayden Evandro Ferrada & Andreas Wagner |
| January 12 | Siegfried Roth Non-adaptive origins of interactome complexity, Fernández A, Lynch M. |
2011
| November 24 | Thomas Wiehe Testing or Ancient Admixture between Closely Related Populations, Durand et al. |
| October 20 | Jonathan Howard Local Biotic Environment Shapes the Spatial Scale of Bacteriophage Adaption to Bacteria, Britt Koskella et al. |
| September 12 | Martin Hülskamp Natural allelic variation underlying a major fitness trade-off in Arabidopsis thaliana, Todesco et al. |
| June 30 | Martin Lercher Rapid evolutionary innovation during an Archaean genetic expansion, David & Alm |
| May 26 | Stephan Schiffels Second-order selection for evolvability in a large Escherichia coli population, Woods et al. |
| April 28 | Eric von Elert Adaptation to local ultraviolet radiation conditions among neighbouring Daphnia populations, Miner & Kerr |
| March 31 | Joachim Krug Mutational Effects and Population Dynamics During Viral Adaptation Challenge, Miller et al. |
2010
| November 18 | Martin Lercher Toolbox model of evolution of prokaryotic metabolic networks and their regulation, Maslov et al. |
| May 19 | Jingtao LI Mouse Segmental Duplication and Copy-Number Variation, She et al. |
| March 16 | Michael Lässig Protein Sectors: Evolutionary Units of Three-Dimensional Structure, Halabi et al. |
| February 03 | Lilia Perfeito The cost of gene expression underlies a fitness trade-off in yeast, Lang et al. |
2009
| June 16 | Madlen Vetter Protein kinase R reveals an evolutionary model for defeating viral mimicry, Elde et al. |
| April 22 | Donate Weghorn Evolutionary footprints of nucleosome positions in yeast, Washietl et al. |
| March 03 | Simon Gravel The importance of weak binding sites in gene cis-regulation Analysis of combinatorial cis-regulation in synthetic and genomic promoters by Gerts, Siggia, and Cohen, Nature 457 (2009) p.215 Predicting expression patterns from regulatory sequence in Drosophila segmentation by Eran Segal et al. Nature 451 (2008) p. 535 |
| January 28 | Joachim Krug and Damien Simon Coalescent Processes When the Distribution of Offspring Number Among Individuals Is Highly Skewed, Eldon & Wakeley |
2008
| December 02 | Juliette de Meaux Forty Years of Erratic Insecticide Resistance Evolution in the Mosquito Culex pipiens, Labbé et al. |