[Plsfaculty] Next week's Tuesday seminar (April 14) will be given by Dr. Brandon Gaut, Professor and Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Irvine:

Tue Apr 7 11:27:08 MST 2009

On Behalf of Dr. Betsy Arnold:

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Dear colleagues,

Next week's Tuesday seminar (April 14) will be given by Dr. Brandon Gaut,
Professor and Chair, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC
Irvine:

"The Evolution and Population Genetics of Transposable Elements in
Arabidopsis: The Cost of Silencing"

He will be available for appointments on campus on Tuesday, April 14. If you
are interested in meeting with him, please email me  (arnold at ag.arizona.edu)
with your preferred time(s).

8:30 - 9:15 AM
9:15 - 10:30 AM
10:30 - 11:15 AM

11:15 - 12:00 noon

[Graduate student lunch]

1:30 - 2:15 PM

2:15 - 3:00 PM

3:00 - 3:45 PM

Short meetings also are available (in Forbes or Marley, if possible) from
1:15-1:30pm and 5-5:30pm.

Selected publications are listed below. You can read more about Dr. Gaut's
research program here: http://gautlab.bio.uci.edu/index.html .

Thank you for considering an opportunity to meet with our seminar speaker.

Cheers,

Betsy Arnold

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Selected recent publications * Brandon Gaut

Lockton, S. J. Ross-Ibarra and B.S. Gaut. 2008. Demography and weak
selection drive patterns of transposable element diversity in natural
populations of Arabidopsis lyrata. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
105(37):13965-70.

Ross-Ibarra, J., S.I. Wright, J.P. Foxe, A. Kawabe, L. DeRose-Wilson, G.
Gos, D. Charlesworth and B.S. Gaut. 2008. Patterns of polymorphism and
demographic history in natural populations of Arabidopsis lyrata. PLoS ONE.
11;3(6):e2411

Gaut, B.S. and J. Ross-Ibarra. 2008. Selection and Genomic Change in
Angiosperms. Science 320:484-486.

Hollister, J. and B.S. Gaut. 2007. Population and evolutionary dynamics of
Helitron transposable elements in Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol. Biol. Evol.
24(11): 2515-2524.

Hufford, K.M., P. Canaran, D.H. Ware, M.D. McMullen and B.S. Gaut. 2007.
Patterns of selection and tissue-specific expression among maize
domestication and crop improvement loci. Plant Physiology 144:1642-1653.

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A. Elizabeth Arnold     

Division of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Curator, Robert L. Gilbertson Mycological Herbarium

Department of Plant Sciences

1140 E. South Campus Drive, Forbes 303  
University of Arizona   
Tucson, AZ 85721                

Email:          arnold at ag.arizona.edu   

Telephone:      520.621.7212 (office)

Internet:       www.endophytes.org (research group)

                ag.arizona.edu/mycoherb (Mycological Herbarium)

"This then is life...How curious! how real! 

Underfoot the divine soil, overhead the sun." -W. Whitman

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