Thursday 12 and Friday 13 November 2009
Organised by Michael Bonsall (University of Oxford) and Brian Charlesworth (University of Edinburgh)
Please find below MP3 audio files recorded at this discussion meeting for the following talks and discussions.
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Session 1
Stephen Cox, Royal Society, and Brian Charlesworth, University of Edinburgh
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Josephine Pemberton, University of Edinburgh, UK
Selection on quantitative traits in the wild
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Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard University, USA
What Darwin did and didn’t know: the causes of evolutionary change
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Discussion session 1
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Naoyuki Takahata, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan
Divergence, Demography and Gene Loss along the Human Lineage
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Anna Di Rienzo, University of Chicago, USA
Molecular adaptations to novel environments in humans
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Discussion session 2
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Session 2
Jerry Coyne, University of Chicago, USA
The Biogeography of Speciation
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John Willis, Duke University, USA
Genetic basis of adaptation and speciation in Mimulus
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Dolph Schluter, University of British Columbia, Canada
Natural selection and the genetics of adaptation in stickleback
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Discussion session 3
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Holly Wichman, University of Idaho, USA
Experimental evolution of viruses
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Ben Kerr et al, University of Washington, USA
Social evolution, pathogen virulence, and the "tragedy of the commons"
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Discussion session 4
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Session 3
Paul Sharp, University of Edinburgh, UK
Origin and evolution of HIV
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Steven Frank, University of California Irvine, USA
Parasites: pathogenesis, virulence and infective dose
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Discussion session 5
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Dan Bradley, Trinity College, Ireland
Population genetics of cattle domestication
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Anthony Brown, CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia
Variation under domestication in plants - 1859 and today
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Discussion session 6
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Session 4
Spencer Barrett et al, University of Toronto, Canada
Evolutionary Genetics and Ecology of Polymorphic Sexual Systems in Flowering Plants
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Tracey Chapman, University of East Anglia, UK
Mechanisms of adaptation in response to sexual selection and sexual conflict
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Discussion session 7
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Laurent Duret et al, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, France
Detecting positive selection within genomes: troubles with biased gene conversion
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Nick Barton, Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria
Genetic linkage and natural selection
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Discussion session 8
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Mendel Lecture - Evolution of gene expression
Wen-Hsiung Li, University of Chicago, USA
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