EVOLVE Meets Every Thursday This Fall
Evolution talks and journal clubs, every Thursday afternoon
EVOLVE meets every Thursday this fall, from 2:00 to 3:30 PM, in the CIPHER Center seminar room (BINF 408) on the 4th floor of the Bioinformatics Building at UNC Charlotte. Talks and discussions start between 2:15 and 2:30 PM. You are welcome to arrive late or leave early as needed. No RSVP is needed, and we provide snacks and soft drinks at every meeting.
- When: Thursdays, 2:00 to 3:30 PM
- Where: CIPHER Center seminar room, BINF 408, Bioinformatics Building, UNC Charlotte
- Who: anyone interested in evolution and related topics
EVOLVE brings together evolutionary biology researchers from Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, CIPHER, and Kannapolis. Students meet postdocs and faculty who work on related questions. Faculty hear what students are building long before it reaches a manuscript.
What happens at a meeting
Most meetings follow one of two formats. In a research talk, a student, postdoc, or faculty member presents work in progress. Preliminary results and project ideas are welcome, because early feedback is the most useful kind. In a journal club, someone leads a discussion of a paper. The paper can be new or old, and it can come from UNC Charlotte researchers or anyone else.
Regular faculty include Morgan Carter, Elizabeth Cooper, Way Sung, Laurel Yohe, and me. Rebekah Rogers founded EVOLVE, and Way Sung and Laurel Yohe coordinate it this semester.
The Susumu Ohno Award
Students who present at EVOLVE qualify for the Susumu Ohno Student Research Prize, a trophy and a certificate. The prize honors Susumu Ohno, whose 1970 book Evolution by Gene Duplication argued that duplicated genes supply the raw material for new functions. Ask Way or Laurel for this year’s application rules.
Coming up this fall
The calendar below updates as speakers sign up. Subscribe to it, and every change reaches your own calendar on its own. October 1 and October 8 bring two Phyloinformatics Lab mini-workshops on Péva, our phylogenetics result analysis platform.
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October 15 and October 29 are still open. To claim one of those dates for a talk or a paper, email Way Sung (wsung@charlotte.edu) or Laurel Yohe (lyohe1@charlotte.edu).
Join us
Sign up for the mailing list to receive the weekly announcements. Then come by on a Thursday, grab a snack, and bring a question.
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