DEPARTMENT OF EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY
RECRUITMENT SEMINAR
ECOLOGIST
Dr. Elizabeth Wolkovich
Biodiversity Research Centre Fellow
Department of Zoology
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
"Community assembly and disassembly under global change"
Thursday, January 10th, 2013
1:10pm
1022 Life Sciences Building
:Noah Fierer from the University of Colorado Boulder
"Exploring terra incognita: the biogeography of soil microorganisms", will be on Thursday, January 10 at 4:10pm in 1003 Giedt Hall.
A few of his publications include:
More about his research is here.
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Daphne Koller to Visit Davis
We are pleased to announce that Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera, a major provider of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), will be visiting the UC Davis campus on Thursday, December 6 to deliver a lecture on this exciting new development in online learning. Please join us to learn more about the MOOC movement.
The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone
Thursday, December 6
3:30 – 4:30 pm
Kemper Hall 1003
Abstract: We are at the cusp of a major transformation in higher education. In the past year, we have seen the advent of MOOCs – massively open online classes (MOOCs) – top-quality courses from the best universities offered for free. These courses exploit technology to provide a real course experience to students, including video content, interactive exercises with meaningful feedback, using both auto-grading and peer-grading, and rich peer-to-peer interaction around the course materials. At Coursera, as of November 2012, we offer 207 courses from our 33 university partners, and over 1.9 million students from 196 countries. The courses start from bridge/gateway courses all the way through graduate courses, and span a range of topics including computer science, business, medicine, science, humanities, social sciences, and more. In this talk, I’ll report on this far-reaching experiment in education, and why we believe this model can provide both an improved classroom experience for our on-campus students, via a flipped classroom model, as well as a meaningful learning experience for the millions of students around the world who would otherwise never have access to education of this quality.
Daphne Koller
Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University; Co-Founder and co-CEO, Coursera
Daphne Koller is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and the co-founder of Coursera, a social entrepreneurship company that works with top universities to make the best education freely accessible to everyone. In her research life, Koller works in the area of machine learning. She has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the ACM/ Infosys award, and membership in the National Academy of Engineering. She is an award-winning teacher who pioneered many of the ideas that underlie the Coursera user experience. She received her BSc and MSc from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and her PhD from Stanford in 1994.
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Mark Costello will be giving a seminar on Friday, December 7th, at 3:10pm in Storer Hall room 2342. His talk will focus on several of his recent papers on “Can we discover Earth’s species before they go extinct?” If you have any questions, please contact Eliot Crafton (recrafton).
Mark is an Associate Professor as the University of Auckland Leigh Marine Laboratory. His work focuses on biodiversity, ecology, biogeography, and ectoparasites with an interest in conservation. He has done extensive work looking at biogeography of marine species, including invasive species, and examining the biodiversity of the world’s oceans. This work has relied on both taxonomic records and statistical modeling of these systems. In addition, Mark has been an active participant in developing and proliferating access to biodiversity data, including positions as the founding chair of the World Register of Marine Species (www.marinespecies.org), President of the International Association for Biological Oceanography (www.iabo.org), and Vice-Chair of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Science Committee (www.gbif.org), among several other positions. More information regarding Mark’s activities can be found on his university webpage, http://www.marine.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/our-people/dr-mark-costello/
Seminar Topic: ‘Can we discover Earth’s species before they go extinct?’
Mark will be presenting findings from several of his 2012 papers. Poor estimates of how many species exist on Earth and extinction rates, coupled with a perception of declining taxonomic expertise, have led to concerns that many or most species may be extinct before they are discovered. In contrast to widespread beliefs, we find that hyper-estimates of species richness cannot be supported, that there have never been so many taxonomists, and that extinction rates are not yet out of control. Thus most species are likely to be described within this century, especially if taxonomic productivity increases.
Predicting Total Global Species Richness Using Rates of Species Description and Estimates of Taxonomic Effort
Mark J Costello, Simon Wilson, and Brett Houlding
http://sysbio.oxfordjournals.org/content/61/5/871.short
The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity
Appeltans et al.
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/retrieve/pii/S0960982212011384
MIC 291: Selected Topics in Microbiology
Work-in-Progress Seminars
Dr. Meriem El Karoui
(Lactic Acid Bacteria and Opportunistic Pathogens Unit, INRA)"DNA repair in bacteria: from genomes to single cells"
Wednesday November 28, 2012
4:10 pm
1022 Life Sciences
CPB Seminar Series: Fall 2012
When: Tuesdays, 4:10 – 5:30PM
Where: 1022 Life Sciences Building
November 27: James Mallet, Distinguished Lecturer
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Title: “Hybridization and speciation in Amazonian butterflies: rainforest genomics”
Host: Rick Grosberg
Abstract:
It is a seductive idea that species are independent evolutionary units. Natural hybridization is rare in nature on a per-individual basis, but it may affect many species. Brightly-coloured Heliconius butterflies engage in Müllerian mimicry of other species. Although most of this mimicry is due to adaptive reconstruction of similar patterns, we’ve long suspected that colour patterns are exchanged among some closely related species that hybridize occasionally in nature. We have recently shown that genomic regions that determine mimicry have been exchanged repeatedly among species to form new, adaptive combinations. Through their joint effects on mating behaviour and signalling to predators, these novel colour patterns are also involved in triggering evolution of new species.
Talk Title:
One-step Bacterial Genome Closure with Single-molecule Hybrid Assembly
Abstract:
Emerging single-molecule sequencing instruments can generate multi-kilobase sequences with the potential to dramatically improve genome and transcriptome assembly. However, the high error rate of single-molecule reads is challenging, and has limited their use to resequencing bacteria. To address this limitation, we introduce a correction algorithm and assembly strategy that utilizes shorter, high identity sequences to correct the error in single-molecule sequences. We present an assembly recipe combining long high-error sequences and short high-idenitity sequences that can generate near-finished bacterial genomes. We demonstrate the utility of this approach on several bacterial genomes: in the best examples, producing automatically closed bacterial chromosomes without the use of paired ends.
Speaker:
Sergey Koren, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics Scientist, Genomics
National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center
Affiliations:
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
University of Maryland
Email: sergek
Reference Publication:
Hybrid error correction and de novo assembly of single-molecule sequencing reads.
Koren S, Schatz MC, Walenz BP, Martin J, Howard JT, Ganapathy G, Wang Z, Rasko DA, McCombie WR, Jarvis ED, and Phillippy AM.
Nature Biotechnology 30(7):693-700 2012
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nbt.2280.html
Location and Time: 4202 GBSF 11am-12pm Thursday, November 15th
[seminars]
Plant Pathology 290 Graduate Seminar Series
Plant Pathology
UC Davis
“Evolution of the Virus World”
Dr. Valerian Dolja
Professor, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology,
Oregon State University
Monday, November 5, 2012
9:00-9:50 a.m.
115 Hutchison
The UC Davis Genome Center Symposium will be held Wednesday Oct 31, from 8:30AM to 4PM in the GBSF Auditorium. The focus this year is on genomics of human diseases and on metagenomics. The key note speaker, Dr. Janet Jansson from UC Berkeley, will give a talk at 1PM entitled: “Omics exploration of the human gut microbiome”. In addition, the symposium features interactive forums, individuals talks, food (breakfast, lunch, coffee breaks), and an exhibition of carved pumpkins. Everybody is welcome, costumed or not.
fall symposium 2012 announcement.pdf
Jonathan Eisen's Lab 