Our next PhyloPizza event will take place on Tuesday, May 12, at 5:30pm in the Executive Conference Room of NMNH (ECR). Andrea Otteson will give a talk entitled “Food and Agricultural Microbiomes: Use of Metagenomics to Better Understand Food Safety”. Join us! Keep up to date with future events here. Flier for this event here.
Congratulations to PhD candidate Noor White on a recent publication in the journal Molecular Ecology Resources. The paper is entitled “Target enrichment of ultraconserved elements from arthropods provides a genomic perspective on relationships among Hymenoptera,” and a PDF of it can be found here.
Here are our upcoming PhyloPizza events scheduled for Spring 2015!
March 10 — Graham Slater, Postdoctoral Fellow, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology
April 14 — To be announced!
May 12 — Andrea Ottesen, Research Area Coordinator for Metagenomics, Food and Drug Administration
June 9 — Andrea Weeks, Associate Professor and Herbarium Director, George Mason University, Department of Biology
The University of Maryland is holding its annual recruitment event for students applying to the BEES graduate program (a concentration area of the wider Biological Sciences graduate program). Mike gave a talk there about all the research we do in the Braun lab. Find out more about the BEES program here, and how you could join the Braun lab!
Our next PhyloPizza event will take place on Tuesday, February 10, at 5:30pm in the Vertebrate Zoology Seminar room of NMNH (WG-33). Joseph Miller will give a talk entitled “Integrating Phylogenies and Collection Data for Research and Visualization: An Australian Perspective”. Join us! Keep up to date with future events here. Flier for this event here.
Happy 2015 from the Braun Lab!!! Our next PhyloPizza event will take place on Tuesday, January 13, at 5:30pm in the Executive Conference room of NMNH. Luke Harmon will give a talk entitled “Model Complexity and Adequacy for Phylogenetic Comparative Methods”. Join us! Keep up to date with future events here. Flier for this event here.
The Braun Lab is concerned not only with species conservation, but with recycling and material sustainability. Postdoc Brian Coyle was part of a team that recently found a way to recycle #5 plastic consumables (tip boxes, etc.) from the molecular lab. Recently, they delivered 450 lbs of plastic to Whole Foods for recycling through Preserve‘s GIMME 5 program! The team made it into a recent issue of the SI Sustainability newsletter.
Our next PhyloPizza event will take place on Tuesday, December 9, at 5:30pm in the Vertebrate Zoology seminar room of NMNH (WG-33). Ashley Egan will give a talk entitled “Dating the Origins of Polyploidy Events: Evidence from Soybean and Allies”. Join us! Keep up to date with future events here. Flier for this event here.