Schedule
We are meeting this semester (Fall 2025) on Fridays from 11:15-12:05 in TLS 171b (i.e. the Bamford Conference Room).
If you are a UConn graduate student interested in Systematics and would like to join us, please write to Paul Lewis for a permission number.
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August 29, 2025
Organizational meeting
September 5, 2025
Nick chose this paper to discuss:
BP Waldron, EF Watts, DJ Morgan, MM Hantak, AR Lemmon, EC Moriarty Lemmon, and SR Kuchta. 2025. The limits of the metapopulation: lineage fragmentation in a widespread terrestrial salamander (Plethodon cinereus). Systematic Biology 74(1):1–15 DOI:10.1093/sysbio/syae053
September 12, 2025
Analisa chose this paper to discuss:
MS Gill, G Baele, MA Suchard, P Lemey. 2025. Infinite mixture models for improved modeling of across-site evolutionary variation. Molecular Biology and Evolution 42:1-21. DOI:10.1093/molbev/msaf199
We know this paper will be a heavy lift for some (most?) of you, so Analisa will explain the basic ideas behind the methods compared at the start of the seminar.