The Washington Area Phylogenetics Consortium is pleased to announce the fourth annual Frontiers in Phylogenetics Symposium!

“GENOME-SCALE PHYLOGENETICS: ANALYSING THE DATA”

Location: Warner Brothers Theatre, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC
Time and Date:  8 AM to 5 PM, Monday September 15, 2014

REGISTRATION IS FREE BUT REQUIRED. Register here. Flyer here.

INTRODUCTIONS
Michael Braun, National Museum of Natural History

John Kress, Interim Undersecretary for Science, Smithsonian Institution

Guillermo Orti, George Washington University

SPEAKERS
Bastien Boussau, Laboratory of Biometry and Evolutionary Biology, University Claude Bernard, Lyon, France

Ingo Ebersberger, Department for Applied Bioinformatics, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Lacey Knowles, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Kevin Kocot, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Luay Nakhleh, Department of Computer Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA

David Swofford, Department of Biology, Duke University, and National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, NC, USA

Derrick Zwickl, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

The latest publication out of the Braun Lab was recently accepted in Behavioral Ecology. “Tests of the kin selection model of mate choice and inbreeding avoidance in satin bowerbirds,” by Sheila M. Reynolds, J. Albert C. Uy, Gail L. Patricelli, Seth W. Coleman, Michael J. Braun, and Gerald Borgia. See publication page for full citation.

Our next PhyloPizza event will take place Tuesday, June 10, at 5:30 in the National Museum of Natural History’s Executive Conference Room. Cara Santelli will give a talk entitled “Microbes to the rescue: using metagenomics and culture-based approaches to understand the role of microbes in remediating polluted environments.” Join us! Keep up to date with future events here.

Our next PhyloPizza event will take place Tuesday, May 13, at 5:30 in the National Museum of Natural History’s Vertebrate Zoology seminar room (WG-33). Brain O’Meara will give a talk entitled “Dealing with the heterogeneity of life for comparative methods.” Join us! Keep up to date with future events here. Flier for this event here.

We in The Braun Lab are big fans of owls, facts, and funny videos. So here’s something we recently found, and instantly loved. Enjoy.

Work conducted in part by colleagues here at the National Museum of Natural History has recently culminated in the presentation of Anzu wyliei, a feathered dinosaur with crested bone structure on the top of its head. The Washington Post was quick to dub it the chicken from hell (and we love that name)!

The Braun Lab welcomes postdoc Haw Chuan (HC) Lim to the website! HC joined the Braun lab in September of 2013, and comes to us from the Sheldon lab at Louisiana State University. Check out the People page to learn more about HC’s research interests.