Another excellent evol-mut-circle seminar today by Rose Novick with her insightful and broad account of structuralism and functionalism in evo bio Zoom recording is linked below (Passcode: W0u!^sig) DM me with your email to join the email list for regular seminars umd.zoom.us/rec/share/iQ...
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The recording of the latest evol-mut-circle talk from @peteralind.bsky.socialmolevol.org/evol-mut-cir...
The evol-mut-circle talk by @DeepaAgashe is available (pw = #?HS2x&$#popgen#evolution#mutationumd.zoom.us/rec/share/_n...
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I'm hiring a postdoc, for bioinformatics work on amino acid substitution models. I think they are key for understanding biophysics of selection on proteins, mutation patterns, and ancient life, as well as improving phylogenetic methods. evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
The evol-mut-circle seminar series opened Tuesday with a talk by Grey Monroe. The recorded version of the talk and discussion is now available (passcode y=Rtc**0) Highlight from the auto-generated transcript: "Calamity de Monis, the algal model system" umd.zoom.us/rec/share/FO...
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From James Horton (not here). James and myself have recently penned ✍️ a review article for Microbiology titled Mutation Bias and Adaptation in Bacteria: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... A short 🧵 on why we should care about mutation bias below (1/7)
Genetic mutation, which provides the raw material for evolutionary adaptation, is largely a stochastic force. However, there is ample evidence showing that mutations can also exhibit strong biases, wi...
I’m starting a special interest group with monthly seminars + discussion focused on the role of mutation in evolution covering #evobio#popgen#histsci#philsci Upcoming speakers: @PeterALind, @DeepaAgashe, Grey Monroe, Rose Novick, Alex Klug To join, email <myfirstname>@umd.edu Please repost
Mutation bias alters the distribution of fitness effects of mutations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.24.586369v1
Mutation bias is an important factor determining the diversity of genetic variants available for sel
This is the latest in a string of important pieces establishing the algorithmic and pop-gen basis of evolutionary *self-organization* qua findability of intrinsically likely forms (gallons of ink have been spilled on this in the philosophy-of-evolution literature) journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
My latest for American Scientist the Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society magazine: Did you see news coverage of a newborn great white shark a few weeks ago? Lots of the stories you read were wrong about several key issues related to shark science and conservation! 🦑🧪🦈🌎🐡
A photograph of a small great white shark made headlines, but for the wrong reasons. The coolest aspect of the study was missed.