Biology Journal Club @ U of S

This page is no longer being updated, and exists for archival purposes only (April 2021).

University of Saskatchewan Biology Journal Club has been moved online in light of COVID-19. Please contact the Biology Graduate Student Association or myself to gain access to the USask Biograd & Postdoc Slack group, where journal club has its own channel. The journal club is being organized by Deborah Hawkshaw for the 2020-21 academic year. — Updated June 2020

Past Terms

Fall 2019 – Organizer: Carmen Marquez Mellidez (BGSA Academic Rep)

Date	Topic/ Paper(s)	Discussion Leader
November 27	Research grants for graduate students	Andrea Wishart
December 4	Gender balance in ecology (“Newly hired N. American tenure track asst. professors of ecology are 59% women. That’s good news–but most ecologists still don’t know it or can’t quite believe it.”) Jeremy Fox in Dynamic Ecology (blog)	Julie Colpitts

Winter 2019 – Organizer: Andrea Wishart (BGSA Academic Rep)

Date	Topic/ Paper(s)	Discussion Leader
January 17	Unpacking multi-trophic herbivore-grass-endophyte interactions: feedbacks across different scales in vegetation responses to Soay sheep herbivory Vicari et al. 2018 in The Science of Nature – Naturwissenschaften	Ruth Greuel
January 21	Parent–offspring and sibling conflict in Galápagos fur seals and sea lions Trillmich and Wolf 2008 in Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology	Deborah Hawkshaw
January 28	Social regulation of insulin signaling and the evolution of eusociality in ants Chandra et al 2018 in Science	Zach Balzer
February 4	Faking death to avoid male coercion: extreme sexual conflict resolution in a dragonfly Khelifa 2017 in Ecology	Kirsten Johnsen
February 11	Dogs can be trained to find a bar magnet Martini et al 2018 in PeerJ	Rebecca Smith
February 18	Reading week – no meeting
February 25	Heat reward for insect pollinators Seymour et al 2003 in Nature	Adriana Guerrero Chacón
*FRIDAY* March 8 (special time)	Adrenoleukodystrophy – neuroendocrine pathogenesis and redefinition of natural history Kemp et al 2016 in Nat Review Endocrinol	Hanie Khorshidi
March 11	Biological relevance of CNV calling methods using familial relatedness including monozygotic twins Castellani et al 2014 in BMC Bioinformatics	Andrea Wishart
March 18	The arthropod, but not the vertebrate host or its environment, dictates bacterial community composition of fleas and ticks Hawlena et al 2013 in ISME J	Jessica Thoroughgood

Fall 2018 – Organizer: Andrea Wishart (BGSA Academic Rep)

Date	Topic/ Paper(s)	Discussion Leader
October 17	Planning meeting	Andrea Wishart & Group
October 24	No meeting	—
October 31	Enhanced access to anthropogenic food waste is related to hyperglycemia in raccoons (Procyon lotor) Schulte-Hostedde et al. 2018 in Conservation Physiology	Andrea Wishart
November 7	Floral mimicry enhances pollen export: the evolution of pollination by sexual deceit outside of the Orchidaceae Ellis & Johnson 2010 in The American Naturalist	Kelton Braun
November 14	The Infirm Ethical Foundations of Conservation Vucetih & Nelson 2013 from Ignoring Nature No More: The Case for Compassionate Conservation, University of Chicago Press	Julie Colpitts
November 21	Using Twitter for Science!	Andrea Wishart
November 28	No meeting	No meeting
December 5	Temporal and Regional Variability in the Skin Microbiome of Humpback Whales along the Western Antarctic Peninsula Bierlich et al 2018 in Applied and Environmental Microbiology	Jessica Thoroughgood
December 12	The purging of deleterious mutations in simple and complex mating environments Colpitts et al 2017 in Biology Letters	Julie Colpitts