iEvoBio Last reminder: Deadline for iEvoBio Challenge Competitions is approaching

Via Hilmar Lapp

The deadline for submissions to the yearly iEvoBio Challenge is June 25, 2012, and is rapidly approaching! This is our last reminder. This year’s theme is "Synthesizing Phylogenies," and further information on criteria for challenge entries, how to submit them, and award amount can be found at http://ievobio.org/challenge.html.

Also, Biomatters Ltd is running the Geneious Challenge alongside iEvoBio’s competition. The goal of this challenge is to develop a new and exciting visualization or analysis plugin to Geneious Pro, using the public API. See http://ievobio.org/geneious_challenge.html for more information. The deadline for this competition is also June 25.

More details about the iEvoBio conference and program are available at http://ievobio.org. You can also find continuous updates on the conference’s Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/iEvoBio and Google+ page, or subscribe to the low-traffic iEvoBio announcements mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/ievobio-announce.

iEvoBio 2012 is sponsored by the US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) and by Biomatters Ltd., in partnership with the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE) and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB).

The iEvoBio 2012 Organizing Committee:
Hilmar Lapp, US National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (chair)
Robert Beiko, Dalhousie University
Nico Cellinese, University of Florida
Robert Guralnick, University of Colorado at Boulder
Rebecca Kao, Denver Botanic Gardens
Ellinor Michel, Natural History Museum, London
Nadia Talent, Royal Ontario Museum
Andrea Thomer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Michael Turelli Faculty Research Lecture today, June 6th 4:10pm 1322 Storer Hall

Michael Turelli

Distinguished Professor of Genetics

Department of Evolution and Ecology

and The Center for Population Biology

Recipient of the

2012 UC DAVIS

ACADEMIC SENATE

FACULTY RESEARCH LECTURE AWARD

“How good luck, great collaborators, pretty mathematics and a maternally inherited bacterium (Wolbachia) may stop the spread of dengue fever”

Public Lecture

June 6, 2012

4:10 p.m.

1322 Storer Hall

ASM Beneficial Microbes Meeting 10/22-26 San Antonio, TX

4th ASM Conference on Beneficial Microbes

The primary objective of this conference is to provide a forum for researchers in different scientific disciplines to discuss and exchange ideas regarding the role of beneficial bacteria in the promotion of health. The interdisciplinary nature of this field requires the expertise and cross-fertilization of several scientific disciplines

See
http://www.asm.org/index.php/meetings/4th-asm-conference-on-beneficial-microbes.html

Important Dates

Abstract Deadline
August 1, 2012

Discounted Pre-Registration Deadline
September 11, 2012

Housing Deadline
October 1, 2012

Meeting alert.pdf

John Novembre seminar “Ancestry inference and population genomics” #UCDavis

Genetics Seminar

“Ancestry inference and population genomics: Insights to
recombination, migration, and rare variant diversity”

Speaker: John Novembre

University of California, Los Angeles | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Monday, June 4, 2012

4:10 PM

1022 Life Sciences

5/31#UCDavis “Data Acquisition and Laboratory Tools; Management, Sharing and Ownership”

Please join us for the next session of the 2011-2012 Responsible Conduct of Research Program:

Data Acquisition and Laboratory Tools; Management, Sharing and Ownership

Thursday, May 31st

*1065 Kemper Hall, 12:10-1:10 PM

*Please note the time and room number for the May 31 session, as it differs slightly from the previous.

For more information, please visit the UC Davis RCR website: http://www.research.ucdavis.edu/rcr

Illumina Webinar: Analyzing Microbes and Complex Microbial Populations with Next-Generation Sequencing

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Analyzing Microbes and Complex Microbial Populations with Next-Generation Sequencing
This webinar will introduce the latest advances in next-generation sequencing for analyzing microbial genomes and transcriptomes, and will present key studies highlighting this technology. Register today.

Date: Thursday, June 7, 2012 Register Now
Time: 9:00 AM (PT)
Speaker: Abizar Lakdawalla, Ph.D.
Illumina, Inc
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Abstract

Sequencing microbial genomes provides a comprehensive understanding that no other method can provide. For example, it is now possible to achieve single base resolution of the bacterial chromosome, and detailed sequence of all extrachromosomal elements, including plasmids and phages. Improvements in next-generation sequencing methods now enable routine whole bacterial genome sequencing in a single day. Assembling the genome from sequencing reads can be easily performed on a desktop computer, allowing high resolution classification of bacterial subtypes. Many important features, including resistance, virulence, and pathogenicity, can be examined simultaneously with high accuracy. In addition to genomic experiments, next-generation sequencing can be used to analyze the complete transcriptome of microbes for interpretation of gene structure and regulation. Sequencing complex microbial populations or metagenomes provides a comprehensive census of species within samples, including those that cannot be cultured or phenotyped. Subtle changes in microbial populations resulting from, or predictive of, changes in the health status of a patient can be assessed easily and accurately with next-generation sequencing.

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BABS meeting at #UCDavis – “Phylogenomics and Systematics”

(Please respond to psward@ucdavis.edu if you plan to attend)

BAY AREA BIOSYSTEMATISTS (BABS) MEETING

Tuesday evening, 22 May 2012

at UC Davis, 1022 Life Sciences Building

“PHYLOGENOMICS AND SYSTEMATICS”

The genomics era holds great promise (and challenge) to systematics. There is the prospect of generating sequence data that will provide unprecedented resolution of phylogenetic relationships across the Tree of Life, and a much improved understanding of the tempo and mode of evolution. Join us for two talks on phylogenomics, along with plenty of discussion, leavened by pizza and beer.

Featuring presentations by…

HOLLY BIK, Postdoctoral Researcher, Eisen Lab, UC Davis Genome Center

“Phylogeny-based taxonomy assignments from environmental metagenome data” (Note updated title)

and…

BASTIEN BOUSSAU, Postdoctoral Fellow, Huelsenbeck Lab, UC Berkeley

“Methods of phylogenetic inference for genome-scale data sets”

Schedule and venue:
5:30 pm: social gathering with beverages (beer and soft drinks) and informal
pizza dinner: cost ca. $10, to be collected at door, 1022 Life Sciences, UC Davis campus.
7:00 – 9:00 pm: talks, followed by discussion, in same room.

Reservations required for beverages and dinner (but not the talk). Please email reservations to your host, Phil Ward: psward@ucdavis.edu by Sunday, May 20

For a map of UC Davis campus and Life Sciences Building:
http://campusmap.ucdavis.edu/?b=97

Parking is available in the West Entry Parking Structure, immediately west of Life Sciences. If coming from the Bay Area take the Hwy. 113 exit off I-80, and then the first exit off Hwy 113, which is Hutchison Drive. This will bring you directly to the parking garage. Or, as Google Maps would say:
http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=San+Francisco,+CA&daddr=West+Entry+Parking+Structure,+Davis,+CA&hl=en&sll=38.581572,-121.4944&sspn=0.289854,0.441513&geocode=FVJmQAIdKAe0-CkhAGkAbZqFgDH_rXbwZxNQSg%3BFXgRTAId-x2–CEDK9SCt6OfHw&oq=West+Entry+&t=h&mra=ls&z=9

All are welcome, members or not. If you want to join the Biosystematists, sign up for our mailing list at:
https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/listinfo/babs-l@lists.berkeley.edu

See you in Davis!

Phil

Electronic Lab Notebook tech demo at #UCDavis 5/18

Just got this email and am sharing

Electronic Laboratory Notebooks–an information breakthrough for your lab?

Friday, May 18

3 pm

5206 GBSF

** AND **

12-2 pm

Day On the Dock

Behind Haring Hall

Dear UC Davis Researchers,

Is your research group tablet- or iPad- compatible? Would you like to find out?

Please come to a demonstration of electronic laboratory notebooks (ELN) in GBSF 5206 on Friday, May 18 at 3 pm. Rory MacNeil, from Axiope, (http://www.axiope.com) will be visiting from Scotland to discuss ELN in general, and the software he helped design, eCAT. This application is very suitable for academic research labs and
collaboration among a group.

If you cannot attend this demonstration, Rory will be at Day On the Dock, station #1, behind Haring Hall between 12-2 pm. Please stop by.

1. You may watch an extended (80 min) overview of ELN from LabManager webcast,
http://www.labmanager.com/?articles.view/articleNo/4575/article/Webinar–Next-Generation-Electronic-Laboratory-Notebooks–ELNs- (This presentation is primarily targeted to commercial labs; the latest generation of ELN’s are compatible with basic research groups. Three additional vendors discuss their products (Agilent, Accelrys, Waters).

2. You may watch the following brief video introducing inventory management in eCAT
http://www.axiope.com/electronic-lab-notebook/blog/product/?p=201

3. You may also sign up for a free personal account or a free trial of the group versions at
http://www.axiope.com/electronic-lab-notebook/free_trial.php

2012 #UCDavis Faculty Research Lecture Award-Michael Turelli 6/6 4PM “How good luck, great collaborators, pretty mathematics and a maternally inherited bacterium (Wolbachia) may stop the spread of dengue fever”

Michael Turelli

Distinguished Professor of Genetics

Department of Evolution and Ecology

and The Center for Population Biology

Recipient of the

2012 UC DAVIS

ACADEMIC SENATE

FACULTY RESEARCH LECTURE AWARD

“How good luck, great collaborators, pretty mathematics and a maternally inherited bacterium (Wolbachia) may stop the spread of dengue fever”

Public Lecture

June 6, 2012

4:10 p.m.

1322 Storer Hall

Turelli Lecture Flyer – listserve.docx

Phyloseminar: David Pollock 5/30 10am PST “Adaptation, coevolution, & convergence in the context of protein thermodynamics”

Next talk at http://phyloseminar.org/

"Adaptation, coevolution, and convergence in the context of protein thermodynamics"

David Pollock (University of Colorado School of Medicine)

Interactions within and between proteins are a fundamentally important part of how they evolve and adapt. We have been considering how and why proteins adapt, coevolve, and converge, and working to understand these concepts in the context of protein thermostability and function.

We will expand from the previous talk of our collaborator, Dr.
Goldstein, and discuss how and why coevolution is and should be detected, and how thermostability affects reconstruction of ancestral functions. Further, we will discuss our work on adaptive redesign in mitochondrial proteins, perhaps the largest known case of an adaptive burst in multiple metabolic proteins. The convergence between ancestral snakes and ancestral acrodont lizards is also perhaps the largest known case of adaptive convergence. We will consider what these examples tell us about the theory of how proteins appear to evolve in the context of nearly neutral versus cases of adaptive change. Further, we will discuss the impact on understanding phylogenetic relationships, and we will also discuss a unified theory of nearly neutral and adaptive evolution in the context of structure and function.

West Coast USA: 10:00 (10:00 AM) on Wednesday, May 30
East Coast USA: 13:00 (01:00 PM) on Wednesday, May 30
UK: 18:00 (06:00 PM) on Wednesday, May 30
France: 19:00 (07:00 PM) on Wednesday, May 30
Japan: 02:00 (02:00 AM) on Thursday, May 31
New Zealand: 05:00 (05:00 AM) on Thursday, May 31