For this month's research highlight in Evolutionary Applications, I chose to focus on recent approaches to studying evolutionary responses to climate change: "Given the increasingly unpredictable weather patterns associated with global climate change, a key aim of current research is to predict whether and how populations will be able to respond. Major advances are being … Continue reading Predicting the evolutionary response of populations to climate change
News and Musings
Predicting evolution
For this month's research highlights in Evolutionary Applications I thought I'd take a look at some of the recent work addressing the predictability of Evolution."Whether evolution is predictable becomes a key question when deciding how to translate and apply evolutionary theory to solve real-world problems. Mutations arise by chance, and therefore, it seems fair to question … Continue reading Predicting evolution
New paper in collaboration with Prof Mike Brockhurst now online and open access
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1574-6976.12072/abstract "Bacteria-phage coevolution, the reciprocal evolution between bacterial hosts and the phages that infect them, is an important driver of ecological and evolutionary processes in microbial communities. There is growing evidence from both laboratory and natural populations that coevolution can maintain phenotypic and genetic diversity, increase the rate of bacterial and phage evolution and divergence, … Continue reading New paper in collaboration with Prof Mike Brockhurst now online and open access
What’s been keeping me busy?
What a whirlwind of a few months it's been! Stay tuned, as we have some great new data rolling out and a couple of new review/synthesis papers. My lack of blogging recently (which I hope to remedy) is also the result of too many papers to review, lots of travel to and from (with the … Continue reading What’s been keeping me busy?
Britt is now the research highlights associate editor for Evolutionary Applications
First research highlight available now: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eva.12146/full "Evolutionary Applications is the only journal specializing specifically in publishing papers that make contributions to fundamental questions in evolutionary biology using study systems that are of practical or applied importance in topics including, but not limited to: agriculture, aquaculture, biomedicine, biotechnology, climate change, conservation biology, disease biology, forestry, invasion biology, … Continue reading Britt is now the research highlights associate editor for Evolutionary Applications
One-year blogiversary
One year ago I decided that I wanted to have a more flexible research page (in addition to the more static page through my university) and so I joined WordPress. I chose WordPress in part because it was free, had good tutorials, and was well known, and in part because Mick Vos (who had been … Continue reading One-year blogiversary
Coevolutionary interactions course
And so the term begins, as does version 1.0 of my Coevolutionary Interactions course (bio3401). The idea behind the course is to use species interactions and the coevolutionary process to reinforce key theory/ideas in evolution and ecology. To do that, I am taking a case studies approach where I give an interactive lecture on a … Continue reading Coevolutionary interactions course
Sean Meaden has joined the lab!
Sean finished his masters project on characterizing the specificity of natural phages from the horse chestnut phyllosphere and has now begun his doctoral work. For his first project, Sean will be examining the costs associated with bacterial resistance to phages in their natural habitats. There is good evidence that resisting parasites is costly, but most … Continue reading Sean Meaden has joined the lab!
F1000Research’s ecology campaign
There are many new journals coming online each day, and it's hard to know which ones will make it and which won't (although if you are wondering whether a new journal is considered 'predatory' in the sense that they will take your money without investing much effort in your paper, there's a good list here). … Continue reading F1000Research’s ecology campaign
Choose your conferences wisely
This year was a mast year of conference-going for me. I hadn’t planned to attend nine conferences (summary of each at the end of the post), but sometimes it is so hard to say no! However, I will not be repeating this schedule in the future, as it has been very hard to keep on … Continue reading Choose your conferences wisely
Koskella Lab at UC Berkeley 