[Plsgs] FW: Drift Dec 13

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The Drift
December 13, 2013
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology  - The University of Arizona
Submissions due each Thursday by 3pm
To: eeb-drift at email.arizona.edu<mailto:eeb-drift at email.arizona.edu>
Compiled by Michael Rivera.
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EEB Department News

EEB Department Seminars
No more seminars until next semester!


EEB Business Office Winter Closure
The business office will be closed December 24 - January 1.Please make sure you have all the supplies you need and pick up all deliveries by Friday December 20, at 5pm.

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New Course/Seminars of Interest
Deep Genomics
April 3-5, 2014
Marriott University Park Hotel, Tucson, Arizona

The University of Arizona IGERT Program in Genomics is sponsoring an international meeting on deep genomics.   The symposium's theme this year encompasses broad scale comparative inferences in the three areas of our training program, including comparative and evolutionary genomics of divergent species, genomics of development, traits, and related interaction networks originating early in evolutionary history, and computational challenges associated with genomics at a broad phylogenetic scale. The meeting will take place at the Marriott University Park Hotel adjacent to the University of Arizona campus in Tucson on Thursday-Saturday, April 3-5, 2014. The format of the meeting will allow considerable time for informal discussion and interaction among participants. Participation by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows is strongly encouraged, and discounted rates for registration will be available.  For registration and more information, please visit www.genomics.arizona.edu/meeting.html<http://www.genomics.arizona.edu/meeting.html>.

Keynote Speaker:
Kenneth Wolfe – University College Dublin, Ireland

Confirmed Speakers:
Robert Beiko – Dalhousie University, Canada
William Cresko – University of Oregon
Miklós Csűrös – Université de Montréal, Canada
Patrick Degnan – University of Illinois
Dannie Durand – Carnegie Mellon University
Veronica Hinman – Carnegie Mellon University
Erin Kelleher – University of Houston
Junhyong Kim – University of Pennsylvania
Li-Jun Ma – University of Massachusetts
Michael Nodine – Gregor Mendel Institute, Austria
Robert Reed – Cornell University
Shin-Han Shiu – Michigan State University
Joseph Thornton – University of Chicago
Travis Wheeler – HHMI Janelia Farm

Microbial Ecology and Ecoinformatics (RNA696A)
Spring 2014
Credits: 1-2
Friday TBD, preliminary meeting will determine schedule, BSE 218
Instructors: Rachel Gallery

Using National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) datasets, we will explore the layers and drivers of soil microbial diversity within and across ecosystem.m  Collaborating with undergraduate and graduate student colleagues at Western Michigan University (WMU), we will develop and test a series of hypotheses using metadata-rich microbial meta-genetics (16s gene, 18s gene, nifH gene), phospholipid fatty acid, and biogeochemical data sets. Guest lectures will offer training in specific informatics pipelines to highlight the strengths and limitations of each. This course will develop critical thinking, data analysis, and technical writing skills and offer mentoring and leadership opportunities. The second half of the semester will focus on data analysis and writing with the goal of submitting manuscript(s) for peer review. Graduate and advanced undergraduate students from diverse backgrounds are welcome. Please address questions to: rgallery at email.arizona.edu<mailto:rgallery at email.arizona.edu>

Microbial Biogeochemistry and Global Change (SWES 410/510) (Cross-listed EEB, PLS, GEOS)
Spring 2014
Credits: 3
Friday 12:30-3pm, Saguaro Hall, Rm 223
Instructors: Virginia Rich and Scott Saleska

Microbes are the drivers of planetary biogeochemistry. They produce half the oxygen on the planet, and fix half the carbon. They introduce bioavailable forms of nitrogen into the biosphere. If humans life ceased to exist, the central biogeochemical cycles would continue turning. However, the Anthropocene (era of human impact) has seen significant chages to the planetary stocks and fluxes of C, N, S, stc. Many of these changes involve or impact microbes, and have significant impacts on biogeochemical cycles. To understand microbial biogeochemisty in today's world, on emust include the conext of global change. And, conversely, one cannot understand the trajectory of global change without understanding microbial feedback via biogeochemical cycles. In this interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate class we will cover major microbial biogeochemical cycles, and how these cycels are impacted by, and feedback to, global change. To do this, we will also discuss current research methods ranging from molecular meta-omics to the use of isotopes as biogeochemical tracers. Lectures will be mixed with journal club-style reading and discussions, providing an engaging and interactive learning environment.
For questions contact vrich at arizona.edu<mailto:vrich at arizona.edu>

Seminar in Environmental Microbiology and Microbial Ecology (SWES 696E) (Cross-listed EEB, PLS, GEOS)
Spring 2014
Credits: 1
Wednesday 1-3pm,
Organizational Meeting Wed, Jan 15, courtyard of Saguaro Hall
Instructors Virginia Rich

An invitation to become Magellan for a semester: Learn at the cutting edge of exploration in the microscopic world. Current understanding of environmental microbiology and microbical ecology is rapidly increasing, and staying on top of the latest paradime-shifiting scientific discoveries is cruitial to early career success. Also essential to success is the ability to lucidly present and discuss scientific ideas. In this seminar we will select and dicuss recent journal articles that present critical new discoveries or theories in these fields, or which describve important model ecosystems or organisms for understanding broader environmental microbial ecosystems. We will choose the semest's topic(s) based on the interest of the group. As an interactive journal club-style seminar, this is a great chance to dicuss science deeply with your peers while expanding your scientific knowlege. Graduate students from diverse backrounds are welcome, and postdoctoral researchers and advanced undergraduates are welcome with instructor permission.
For questions contact vrich at arizona.edu<mailto:vrich at arizona.edu>


Other Department Seminar Schedules

  *   Tree-Ring Talks: http://ltrr.arizona.edu/events/talks
  *   School of Plant Sciences Seminars: http://cals.arizona.edu/spls/seminars/current
  *   Geocsience Colloquia: http://www.geo.arizona.edu/colloquium
  *   School of Natural Resources Seminars: http://www.snr.arizona.edu/seminars
  *   Herbarium Lunch Series: http://ag.arizona.edu/herbarium/events/herbarium-lunch
  *   Neuroscience Colloquia: http://neuroscience.arizona.edu/events
  *   Chem/BioChem Seminars: http://www.cbc.arizona.edu/seminars/seminar-week.cfm
  *   Entomology Seminars: http://insects.arizona.edu/seminars

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Classifieds
Academic visitors looking for housing:
Bente and Ida Graae: I am Professor in Plant Ecology and my 13 years old daughter and I look for a furnished house or flat with at least two bedrooms.  We are non-smoking and have no pets with us and it would be most practical to house-sit or rent a furnished home. We need not stay very close to campus – close to nature is also fine but preferably within 10 km from the university. E-mail: Bente.Graae at bio.ntnu.no<mailto:Bente.Graae at bio.ntnu.no>

Mia Vedel Sørensen: I am looking for a 1-2 room fully furnished apartment, with kitchen and a bath, suitable for 1 person (Scandinavian PhD student, 28 years old). Preferably but not necessarily with internet and in walking distance to University of Arizona. To be rented from 1st or 15st of January to 1st of May 2014. E-mail: mia.vedel.sorensen at ntnu.no<mailto:mia.vedel.sorensen at ntnu.no>

Kristin Odden Nystuen: I’m a PhD student from Norway who’ll be attending the spring semester at UA and I am therefore looking for a place to stay from January till mid-May. Size and price are not that important, but it should preferable be a furnished place somewhere near campus. Would be happy to house-sit or rent! E-mail: kristin.o.nystuen at hint.no<mailto:kristin.o.nystuen at hint.no>

Visiting faculty looking for short term rental:
A couple on sabbatical from Israel are looking for a place to stay December and January. It does not need to be big or near campus and they are happy to house-sit or rent. Please contact Prof. Dani Nadel, Dept. of Archaeology from the University of Haifa, Isarel at 520-612-9696 or email dnadel at email.arizona.edu<mailto:dnadel at email.arizona.edu>.





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