Schedule:

• Aug 23. Organizational Meeting

• Aug 30. Steve Krone (Intro to mathematical models in microbial ecology--no paper)

• Sept 6. Celeste Brown (UniFrac)

• Sept 13. Eva Top (Paulsson multilevel selection)

• Sept 20. Darin Rokyta (Desai Genetics 2007)

• Sept 27. Larry Forney (ResourceUseAdapt)

• Oct 4. Erkan Buzbas (Wilke2004 AdaptationSpeedLargePop)

• Oct 11. Zaid Abdo (Dunbar 2002)

• Oct 18. cancelled

• Oct 25. Virginie Poullain (Yoshida_cryptic_pop_dyn)

• Nov 1. no seminar today

• Nov 8. Xiaojun Hu (Sliding MinPD 2007)

• Nov 15. Diya Sen (translation apparatus)

• Nov 22. Thanksgiving Break

• Nov 29. Sanqing Yuan (Hughes Diversity Estimates)

• Dec 6. Junmin Li (Colicin pair approx)

• Dec 11. Finals week--no seminar

Topic: Mathematical models and biological concepts relevant to questions in microbial ecology and evolution.

Format: The first 45-50 minutes will be for a presentation by a faculty member or graduate student, followed by a group discussion. The presentation will usually summarize the ideas in a pre-determined journal article that everyone will have access to (i.e., journal club format), and will be followed by comments and interpretation by the student/faculty who is presenting. The presenter will lead the group discussion, but all students are expected to participate in the discussions. The last half-hour is for those who would like to stick around and discuss general issues, ask questions, etc. (This is not necessarily related to the first hour.) This seminar may be taken as a 1-credit (pass-fail) graduate course as BCB 501.