Journal Club
To participate at our Journal Club, please send an email to evolutionarystudies@vanderbilt.edu and we will add you to our e-mailing list. Journal Club meets at 3:30pm in MRBIII 1220. Follow @EvolutionVU.
| Semester | DISCUSSION LEADER | TOPIC | DATE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Spring | No Meeting | Attend Antonis Rokas Lecture on 01/13/25 in MRBIII 1220 at 4pm | 2025 01/10 |
| 2025 Spring | Jerome de Groot | History and Genetics | 2025 01/17 |
| 2025 Spring | Amy and Layla | Sarah Tishkoff Papers | 2025 01/24 |
| 2025 Spring | Taylor Harman - RESCHEDULED | Anthropological Perspectives on Human Biology: Reevaluating Conventional Wisdom | 2025 01/31 |
| 2025 Spring | Paul Durst | Richard Dawkins | 2025 02/07 |
| 2025 Spring | No Meeting | Attend Darwin Day Lecture on 2/11/25 | 2025 02/14 |
| 2025 Spring | Glenn Branch - Deputy director of the National Center for Science Education | Discussion of Education, Evolution, and Law - aspects of Kitzmiller v. Dover and Judge Jones III | 2025 02/21 |
| 2025 Spring | No Meeting | Attend Scopes Lecture on 2/25/25 | 2025 02/28 |
| 2025 Spring | No Meeting | Attend Vanderbilt Prize Lecture on 3/6/25 | 2025 03/07 |
| 2025 Spring | No Meeting | Spring Break | 2025 03/14 |
| 2025 Spring | Taylor Harman | Anthropological Perspectives on Human Biology: Reevaluating Conventional Wisdom | 2025 03/21 |
| 2025 Spring | Rayshaun, Ashlynn, Chloe | Interesting New Papers from an Evolution Journal | 2025 03/28 |
| 2025 Spring | VU SBER IRB | Responsible Conduct of Research | 2025 04/04 |
| 2025 Spring | Brynn and Apuroopa | Discussion on Paul Koch's Work | 2025 04/11 |
| 2025 Spring | No Meeting | Attend Earth Day Lecture on 4/16/25 | 2025 04/18 |
| 2024 Fall | No Meeting | BSCI Welcome Back | 2024 08/23 |
| 2024 Fall | No Meeting | No Meeting | 2024 08/30 |
| 2024 Fall | Lenn Goodman | Religion and Evolution | 2024 09/06 |
| 2024 Fall | Toby McCabe and Chris Acree | Paul Turner and Marlene Zuk papers | 2024 09/13 |
| 2024 Fall | Amy Longtin and Layla Brassington | Anne Yoder Papers | 2024 09/20 |
| 2024 Fall | No Meeting (Please attend Anne Yoder's Biodiversity Day talk on 09/25) | No Meeting | 2024 09/27 |
| 2024 Fall | Kylie Jozwik and Anneliese Schroer | Joseph Graves and Patricia Hawley Papers | 2024 10/04 |
| 2024 Fall | No Meeting | Fall Break | 2024 10/11 |
| 2024 Fall | Brynn Wooten and Katharine Walls | Julien Louys Papers | 2024 10/18 |
| 2024 Fall | Julien Louys | Evolution of Fossil Mammals | 2024 10/25 |
| 2024 Fall | No Meeting (please attend Ken Catania's Halloween Lecture on 10/30) | No Meeting | 2024 11/01 |
| 2024 Fall | David Rinker | AlphaFold and AI Issues (Rigor and Reproducibility) | 2024 11/08 |
| 2024 Fall | Grace Harvey, Ashlynn Sherwood, and Rayshuan Pettit | Retreat Visitors Papers (Heil, Goldberg, Muñoz) | 2024 11/15 |
| 2024 Fall | Greg Funston | Mammal & Dinosaur Phylogenies | 2024 11/22 |
| 2024 Fall | No Meeting | No Meeting | 2024 11/29 |
| 2024 Spring | Andy, Antonis, and Paul | Introductions | 2024 01/12 |
| 2024 Spring | Kyle David | Data Analysis and Cancer Microbiomes | 2024 01/19 |
| 2024 Spring | Sergei Boudko and Elena Pokidysheva | Research Talks | 2024 01/26 |
| 2024 Spring | Trainees | Papers by Neil Shubin (Paper 1, Paper 2) | 2024 02/02 |
| 2024 Spring | No Meeting | No Meeting | 2024 02/09 |
| 2024 Spring | Sarah Worthan and Thomas Sauters | Postdoc Research Talks | 2024 02/16 |
| 2024 Spring | Trainees | Talks about papers by Matthew Pennell and Carl Bergstrom | 2024 02/23 |
| 2024 Spring | Matthew Pennell | 2024 03/01 | |
| 2024 Spring | No Meeting | No Meeting | 2024 03/08 |
| 2024 Spring | No Meeting | Spring Break | 2024 03/15 |
| 2024 Spring | Ashley Rogers and Danial Asgari | Alexander Winchell & Postdoc Research Talk | 2024 03/22 |
| 2024 Spring | Trainees | Papers by Sharon Strauss | 2024 03/29 |
| 2024 Spring | Danial Asgari and Rayshaun Pettit | Research Talks | 2024 04/05 |
| 2024 Spring | Rachel Petersen and Arun Prakash | Research Talks | 2024 04/12 |
| 2024 Spring | Corinne Simonti | Non-academia Careers and Publishing in Science | 2024 04/19 |
| 2023 Fall | Eyal Privman Visit | Insects and Genomes | 2023 12/1 |
| 2023 Fall | No Meeting | No Meeting | 2023 11/24 |
| 2023 Fall | Amy Longtin and Layla Brassington | Discussion of Anne Stone's work | 2023 11/17 |
| 2023 Fall | Nikos Vakirlis | De novo yeast genes | 2023 11/10 |
| 2023 Fall | David Rinker (Rokas Lab) and Marina Watowich (Lea Lab) | Research Talks | 2023 11/3 |
| 2023 Fall | Neil Kelley | It Came from Beneath The Sea: Fossil Sea Monster Facts and Fictions | 2023 10/27 |
| 2023 Fall | No Meeting - ESI Retreat | No Meeting - ESI Retreat | 2023 10/20 |
| 2023 Fall | Trainees TBD | Discussion on Chakrabarty, Egan, and Mandel | 2023 10/13 |
| 2023 Fall | Antonis Rokas | RCR Discussion / Pruitt Case | 2023 10/06 |
| 2023 Fall | Trainees TBD | Discussion on the Grants | 2023 09/29 |
| 2023 Fall | No Meeting | No Meeting | 2023 09/22 |
| 2023 Fall | Juan Carvajal-Garcia (Merrikh Lab) and Kate Snyder (Creanza Lab) | Postdoc Talks | 2023 09/15 |
| 2023 Fall | Liz Barnes (MTSU) | Building Religious Cultural Competence for Effective and Inclusive Evolution Education | 2023 09/08 |
| 2023 Fall | Paul and Antonis | Introductions | 2023 09/01 |
| 2023 Fall | No class | NO CLASS - BSCI WELCOME BACK | 2023 08/25 |
| 2023 Spring | Sam Schaffner | Extreme mitochondrial DNA divergence underlies genetic conflict over sex determination | 2023 03/10 |
| 2023 Spring | Chris Acree | Mitochondrial DNA clones and matriarchal phylogeny within and among geographic populations of the pocket gopher, Geomys pinetis | 2023 03/03 |
| 2023 Spring | Joan Strassmann Seminar | Microbial experimental evolution: social behavior, mutualism, and predator-prey interactions | 2023 02/24 |
| 2023 Spring | William McLaughlin | Altruism and social cheating in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum | 2023 02/17 |
| 2023 Spring | Owen Hale | Dynamics of adaptation and diversification: A 10,000-generation experiment with bacterial populations. | 2023 02/03 |
| 2023 Spring | Audrey Arner | Boag and Grant 1981 - Finches | 2023 01/27 |
| 2023 Spring | Charles Smith Seminar | The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace | 2023 01/20 |
| 2023 Spring | Antonis Rokas | State of the Initiative | 2023 01/13 |
| 2022 Fall | Zeer Cen | Does diversity beget diversity in microbiomes? | 2022 |
| 2022 Fall | Owen Hale | Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain: The primary kingdoms | 2022 |
| 2022 Fall | Sohini Ramachandran Seminar | Challenges at the intersection of population and statistical genetics | 2022 |
| 2022 Fall | Rosseirys de la Rosa | Counter the weaponization of genetics research by extremists | 2022 |
| 2022 Fall | Thodoris Danis | Phylogenies and the Comparative Model | 2022 |
| 2022 Fall | Sarah Worthan | Spatiotemporal microbial evolutionon antibiotic landscapes | 2022 |
| 2022 Fall | Audrey Arner | Selection Experiments on Industrial Melanismin the Lepidoptera | 2022 |
| 2022 Fall | Andrei Olaru | Genome duplication, extinction and vertebrate evolution | 2022 |
| 2022 Fall | Rachel Racicot | EES Seminar | 2022 |
| 2022 Fall | Reese Martin | Frequent adaptation and the McDonald Kreitman test | 2022 |
| 2022 Fall | Alissa Williams | Adaptive protein evolution at the Adh locus in Drosophila | 2022 |
| 2022 Fall | Paul Durst | Introductions | 2022 |
| 2022 Spring | Antonis Rokas | Introductions & E.O. Wilson (The Molecular Wars & NYTimes Obituary) | 2022 |
| 2022 Spring | Jay Clayton | Thomas Huxley - Evolution and Ethics | 2022 |
| 2022 Spring | Antonis Rokas, Larisa DeSantis, Neil Kelley, Tiffiny Tung | Darwin Day Discussion | 2022 |
| 2022 Spring | Juan Carvajal García | The role of mutations in evolution - Link Here | 2022 |
| 2022 Spring | Emily Hudson | Does evolutionary theory need a rethink? (LINK) | 2022 |
| 2022 Spring | Simon Darroch | Out of the Tropics: Evolutionary Dynamics of the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient | 2022 |
| 2022 Spring | Reese Martin | Of parasites and men | 2022 |
| 2022 Spring | Christina Chavez | Molecular evolution meets the genomics revolution | 2022 |
| 2022 Spring | Audrey Arner | The apportionment of human diversity | 2022 |
| 2022 Spring | Owen Hale | Challenging the trade-off model for the evolution of virulence | 2022 |
| 2022 Spring | Thodoris Danis | Homage to Santa Rosalia or Why are there so many kinds of animals? | 2022 |
| 2022 Spring | Carl Stone | Mutation bias reflects natural selection in Arabidopsis thaliana | 2022 |
| 2021 Fall | Antonis Rokas | Gould & Lewontin’s 1979 “The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme“ | 2021 |
| 2021 Fall | Antonis Rokas | Shubin, Tabin, & Carroll's 1997 "Fossils, genes and the evolution of animal limbs" | 2021 |
| 2021 Fall | Simon Darroch | Newell’s (1967) Revolutions in the History of Life | 2021 |
| 2021 Fall | Nicole Creanza | Grant et al. (1976) “Darwin’s finches: population variation and natural selection” | 2021 |
| 2021 Fall | Paul Durst | King & Jukes 1969 "Non-Darwinian Evolution" | 2021 |
| 2021 Fall | Larisa DeSantis | Dawkins & Krebs' 1979 "Arms races between and within species" | 2021 |
| 2021 Fall | Ann Tate | Stearn's 1989 Trade-offs in life-history evolution | 2021 |
| 2021 Fall | Megan Behringer | Ohta's 1973 Slightly deleterious mutant substitutions in evolution | 2021 |
| 2021 Fall | Amanda Lea | King & Wilson's 1975 Evolution at two levels in humans and chimpanzees | 2021 |
| 2021 Fall | Rachel Racicot | de Queiroz's 1998 The General Lineage Concept of Species, Species Criteria, and the Process of Speciation | 2021 |