Seminar to Accompany Thesis Research in Evolutionary Genetics

(The Morgan* Club)

Tuesdays 15:00-16:30
All Morgan* meetings will be held by Zoom this semster (links below)
The EvoBio Seminars will be held in room B01.015.

Summer Semester 2025

 
22.04.2025 - Guest EvoBio Seminar

29.04.2025 - EvoBio Seminar

06.05.2025 - Project presentations: Yuxuan, Tanmay; Paper presentation: Djordjevic et al. (Zhihui) [ZOOM]

13.05.2025 - EvoBio Seminar

20.05.2025 - [no meeting - Biozentrum 20/50]

27.05.2025 - EvoBio Seminar

03.06.2025 - [no meeting]

10.06.2025 - EvoBio Seminar

17.06.2025 - Project presentation: Vivian; Paper presentation: Zelinger et al. (Vincent) [ZOOM]

24.06.2025 - EvoBio Seminar

01.07.2025 - Research update: Zhihui; Paper presentaion: Peng et al. (Amanda) [ZOOM]

08.07.2025 - EvoBio Seminar

15.07.2025 - Project presentation: Deniz; Research update: Amanda [ZOOM]

22.07.2025 - EvoBio Seminar

29.07.2025 - Student Presentations: Divya, ... [ZOOM]
 

Link to EvoBio seminar schedule

[Be sure to check the column for "EvoBioSeminar" - not "DobbySeminar]
 

Potential papers

If you would like to add a paper to the list, please email the PDF to John Parsch.

 

Peng et al. (2024) The origin and structural evolution of de novo genes in Drosophila [PDF]

Li et al. (2024) Genetic variation for sexual dimorphism in developmental traits in Drosophila melanogaster [PDF]

Cavigliasso et al. (2024) Cis-regulatory polymorphism at fiz ecdysone oxidase contributes to polygenic evolutionary response to malnutrition in Drosophila [PDF]

Catalan et al. (2024) Two novel genomes of fireflies with different degrees of sexual dimorphism reveal insights into sex-biased gene expression and dosage compensation [PDF]

Elkrewi et al. (2024) Single-nucleus atlas of the Artemia female reproductive system suggests germline repression of the Z chromosome [PDF]

Najera et al. (2024) Testis- and ovary-expressed polo-like kinase transcripts and gene duplications affect male fertility when expressed in the Drosophila melanogaster germline [PDF]

Capek et al. (2025) Evolution of temperature preference in flies of the genus Drosophila [PDF]

Zakerzade et al. (2025) Diversification and recurrent adaptation of the synaptonemal complex in Drosophila [PDF]

Sabaris et al. (2025) A mechanistic basis for genetic assimilation in natural fly populations [PDF]

Djordjevic et al. (2025) Dynamics of X chromosome hyper-expression and inactivation in male tissues during stick insect development [PDF]

Zelinger et al. (2024) Three-dimensional correlative microscopy of the Drosophila female reproductive tract reveals modes of communication in seminal receptacle sperm storage [PDF]
   

Notes

For paper presentations: the presenter is encouraged to prepare slides with the important figures, as well as other slides to illustrate the background and significance of the paper. It is important to put the paper in context: what are the major questions that are addressed? What is the new contribution of this paper to our knowledge of the topic. You should not just simply go through the paper line by line and tell us what the authors did. Instead you should add some perspective to the paper and highlight aspects that might be especially relevant to our group. Everyone should read the paper in advance and be ready to discuss it. We will not have strict time limits, but the target is to spend about 30-40 minutes per paper.

For research talks: you should treat this talk as if you were giving a seminar to a general audience. For example, imagine that you were invited to give a talk in our EES seminar series or that you are giving a talk as part of a job interview for a postdoc or a professorship. You should explain the background clearly, even though many in the audience will already be familiar with it. It is okay if the results are still preliminary, as you should give an update on the current state of your research. The target length should be 30-40 minutes, followed by a discussion. Everyone in the audience should take notes regarding mistakes/typos on the slides and parts of the presentation that were unclear. After the talk, everyone should give feedback to the presenter so that he/she may improve the next talk.

For bachelor/master thesis presentations: you should describe your project in about 20 minutes. Even if your thesis is not completely finished, you should still present on the assigned date and describe the current state of your project.

Students doing shorter research projects (IRTs, MEME short projects, Forschungspraktika) should give a short presentation of their project. If the project is not yet finished, you should present the current state, with background, methods, results, and goals of the project (about 15 minutes).