We are pleased to announce our next PhyloPizza event will take place June 11, 2013 at 5:30 in the National Museum of Natural History’s Rose Room. Eugene Koonin will give a talk entitled “What should replace the Tree of Life and Molecular Clock?” Join us! This is our last event for the summer. Keep up to date with future events here. Flier for this event here. See you then!

The Braun Lab is headed to Snowbird, UT for the 2013 Evolution meeting. Keep your eyes out for a talks by post-doc Sarah Kingston (“Hybridization, introgression and differentiation on a continental scale: genome-wide sequence analysis”) and pre-doc Noor White (“Unraveling the Evolutionary History of Nocturnality in the Nightbirds”). See you in Snowbird!

The 2013 Spring Symposium organized by the Frontiers in Phylogenetics Consortium (of which Mike is a co-PI), will be held at the Natural History Museum in Washington, DC, May 20-21, 2013. This year’s topic is “Genome-Scale Phylogenetics”. Schedules are available for day one and day two. Registration is free–simply fill out this form. See you in May!

The Braun Lab is happy to welcome our new undergraduate summer intern Subir Bahadur Shakya from Southern Arkansas University. He is coming to us through the Natural History Research Experiences program. SAU story here.

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