We are meeting this semester (Spring 2025) on Fridays from 11:15-12:05 in TLS 171b (i.e. the Bamford Conference Room).

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January 24, 2025

This first meeting, those who are registered will sign up for a date to lead.

You should also read the following paper for the first meeting:

R Hunt, JL Reyes-Hernández, JJ Shaw, A Solodovnikov, and KS Pedersen. 2025. Integrating Deep Learning Derived Morphological Traits and Molecular Data for Total-Evidence Phylogenetics: Lessons from Digitized Collections. Systematic Biology (accepted manuscript). DOI:10.1093/sysbio/syae072

January 31, 2025

Nick Van Gilder will lead discussion on phylogenomic discordance in rattlesnakes:

EA Myers, RM Rautsaw, M Borja, J Jones, CI Grünwald, ML Holding, FG Grazziotin, CL Parkinson. 2024. Phylogenomic discordance is driven by wide-spread introgression and incomplete lineage sorting during rapid species diversification within rattlesnakes (viperidae: Crotalus and Sistrurus). Systematic Biology 73(4):722-741. DOI:10.1093/sysbio/syae018

February 7, 2025

Analisa Milkey will lead discussion on the following paper:

C Zhang, R Nielsen, and S Mirarab. 2025. CASTER: Direct species tree inference from whole-genome alignments. Science (early access) DOI:10.1126/science.adk9688

February 14, 2025

We will revisit the Zhang et al. CASTER paper again this week, focussing on the analyses of empirical data sets.

February 21 2025

No meeting this week due to overlap with the Graduate Mental Health Workshop.

February 28, 2025

Meghan Myles

March 7, 2025

Jeremy Quirõs-Navarro

March 14, 2025

Noah Manuel

March 21, 2025

SPRING BREAK WEEK

March 28, 2025

Zach Muscavitch

April 4, 2025

Nick Van Gilder (data talk)

April 11, 2025

Chelsea Kintz

April 18, 2025

Jeremy Quirõs-Navarro

April 25, 2025

Noah Manuel

May 2, 2025

Meghan Myles