CCG Seminar Spring 2003: EEB 8060 Evolutionary Genetics (Monday, 1:00-2:30, 505 Ecology)

The graduate seminar in evolutionary genetics will be focused around the topic of the evolution of symbiotic and community interactions. Below are a list of topics that we now plan to discuss.

Each student will lead two sessions for each topic. The first session will introduce participants to the topic and participants will discuss literature primarily chosen to give broad background information. The second session will focus on the discussion of current research papers and apply what we learned in the first session.

Date	Discussion Leader	Topic	Paper
Jan. 27	organizational meeting
Feb. 3	Peter Graham	N-fixation symbiosis	1
Feb 10		proposal	2
Feb 17	Andy Munkacsi	Plant pathogen population genetics	3
Feb 24		Genealogical analysis of pathogen evolution	4
March 3	Anja Forche	Experimental populations	5
March 10		Adaptive evolution	6
March 17	SPRING BREAK
March 24	Andy Baumgarten	Disease resistance and pathogen populations	7
March 31		Genome structure of resistance	8
April 7	Peter Voth	Geographic structure in coevolution	9
April 14		Geographic mosaic of selection	10
April 21	Maria Ordanez	Plant Pathogens	11
April 28	& Jim Groth		12
May 5	Summer Silvaleus	Coevolution and speciation	13
May 12		Fig pollinators and wasps	14

Papers

P. Graham - Nitrogen fixation in soils

1. Graham, P. and Vance, C. Nitrogen fixation in soils (symbiotic). Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology, G. Button (ed.) John Wiley and Sons

2. Graham, P. Application for COAFES faculty development grant.

Andy Munkacsi - Population genetic structure and use of gene genealogies

3. Goodwin, S. B. (1997) Population genetics of Phytophthora. 87: 462 - 473.

4. O'Donnell, K., H. C. Kistler, B. K. Tacke, H. H. Casper (2000) Gene genealogies reveal global phylogeographic structure and reproductive isolation among lineages of Fusarium graminearum, the fungus causing wheat scab PNAS 97: 7905 - 7910.

Ward, T. J. et al. Ancestral polymorphism and adaptive evolution in the trichothecene mycotoxin gene cluster of phytopahtogenic Fusarium. PNAS 99: 9278- 9282 (2002)

Anja Forche - Experimental populations and medical mycology

5. Cowen, L. E. (2001) MiniReview: Predicting the emergence of resistance to antifungal drugs.

6. Cowen, L. E. et al.(2001) Divergence in fitness and evolution of drug resistance in experimental populations of Candida albicans J. Bacteriol. 183: 2971-2978.

Andy Baumgarten - Plant pathogens and resistance architecture

7. Vera Cruz, C. M. et al. (20000) Predicting durability of a disease resistance gene based on an assessment of the fitness loss and epidemiological consequences of avirulaence gene mutation. PNAS 97: 13500 - 13505.

8. Gebhardt, C. and J. P. T. Valkonen (2001) Organization of the genes controlling disease resistance in the potato genome. Ann. Rev. Pl. Path. 39: 79 -102.

Peter Voth - Geographic structure and selection mosaics

9. Thompson, J. N. (1999) Specific hypotheses on the geographic mosaic of coevolution. Am. Nat. 153: S1 - S14.

10. Thompson, J. N. and B. M. Cunningham (2002) Geographic structure and dynamics of coevolutionary selection Nature 417: 735 - 738.

Maria Ordanez - Rust fungi population genetics

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Summer Sivaleus - Coevolutionary studies using systematics approaches

13. Page, R. D. M. 2003. Introduction. Pages 1-21 in Tangled Trees: Phylogeny, Cospeciation, and Coevolution (R. D. M. Page, ed.) University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Ronquist, F. R. 2003. Parsimony analysis of coevolving species associations. Pages 22-64 in Tangled Trees: Phylogeny, Cospeciation, and Coevolution (R. D. M. Page, ed.) University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

14. Weiblen, G. D., and G. L. Bush. 2002. Speciation in fig pollinators and parasites. Molecular Ecology 11:1573-1578.

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