Category Archives: Journal Club: Every other Tuesday @9AM in McDonnell (Danforth campus) 412. Visitors welcome!

For journal club this week, we will be reading a paper by Randolph M. Nesse titled Ten Questions for Evolutionary Studies of Disease Vulnerability.

This week we will be reading a Review article titled Integrating Historical and Mechanistic Biology Enhances the Study of Adaptation written by Kellar Autumn, Michael J. Ryan, and David B. Wake.

This week we will read an article by J. David Van Kyken and Michael J. Wade named Detecting the Molecular Signature of Social Conflict: Theory and a Test with Bacterial Quorum Sensing Genes.

This week we will read a paper by Carl Simpson titled The evolutionary history of division of labour.

We will not have journal club this week due to spring break.

This week we will be reading two journal articles. The first one is titled Moribund Ants Leave Their Nests to Die in Social Isolation written by Jurgen Heinze, and Bartosz Walter. The second one is titled Altruistic self-removal of health-compromised … Continue reading →

This week’s journal article will be a paper written by John H. Koschwanez titled Sucrose Utilization in Budding Yeast as a Model for the Origin of Undifferentiated Multicellularity. Please click on the title for paper.

We will read the article that was suggested last week for this week.

This week’s journal article will be Success of a suicidal defense strategy against infection in a structured habitat written by Masaki Fukuyo. There is a talk at the medical school that will be held at 4pm, therefore we will save … Continue reading →

We are skipping this week since Joan and Dave will be out of town.