Journal Club
To participate at our Journal Club, please send an email to evolutionarystudies@vanderbilt.edu and we will add you to our e-mailing list. Journal Club meets at 3:30pm in MRBIII 1220. Follow .
| Semester | DISCUSSION LEADER | TOPIC | DATE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Spring | The dire convictions of the dire wolf | 01/09/2026 | |
| 2026 Spring | Papers in Evolution | 01/16/2026 | |
| 2026 Spring | - RESCHEDULED | RESCHEDULED - It Must have Swarmed with Great Monsters: 7 Million Years of Extinction and Ecological Change in Africa | 01/23/2026 - RESCHEDULED |
| 2026 Spring | Chance Meers | RESCHEDULED - Papers in Evolution | 01/30/2026 |
| 2026 Spring | Rachel Petersen & Chance Meers | Postdoc Talk & Papers in Evolution | 02/06/2026 |
| 2026 Spring | Claire Cheng | Papers from Mike Lynch () | 02/13/2026 |
| 2026 Spring | NO MEETING | Please attend Darwin Day Talk | 02/20/2026 |
| 2026 Spring | Debby Zhong and Anna Murphy | Papers from Tyrone Hayes | 02/27/2026 |
| 2026 Spring | NO MEETING | Friday before SPRING BREAK | 03/06/2026 |
| 2026 Spring | NO MEETING | SPRING BREAK | 03/13/2026 |
| 2026 Spring | NO MEETING | Please attend Scopes Lecture | 03/20/2026 |
| 2026 Spring | Allyson Ray | Postdoc Talk | 03/27/2026 |
| 2026 Spring | 04/03/2026 | ||
| 2026 Spring | Josh Eis & Tyler Faith | Wilson Mantilla Papers & It Must have Swarmed with Great Monsters: 7 Million Years of Extinction and Ecological Change in Africa | 04/10/2026 |
| 2026 Spring | NO MEETING | Please attend Earth Day Talk | 04/17/2026 |
| 2025 Fall | Paul Durst | Introductions and Summer Updates | 08/29/2025 |
| 2025 Fall | Paul Durst | A Discussion on Darwin and Wallace | 09/05/2025 |
| 2025 Fall | Paul Durst | A Discussion on the Modern Synthesis | 09/12/2025 |
| 2025 Fall | Megan Grant (Hillyer Lab) | Developmental Plasticity and the Origin of Species Diffrences | 09/19/2025 |
| 2025 Fall | Antonis Rokas | Ancient Hybridization Underlies Tuberization and Radiation of the Potato Lineage | 09/26/2025 |
| 2025 Fall | Edith Simpson (Tate Lab) and Josh Eis (Castiglione Lab) | Non-Darwinian Evolution & A Molecular Approach to the Study of Genic Heterozygosity in Natural Populations | 10/17/2025 |
| 2025 Fall | Shion Newsom (Kelley Lab) | Punctuated Equilibria: An Alternative to Phyletic Gradualism | 10/24/2025 |
| 2025 Fall | Brynn Wooten (DeSantis Lab) | Halloween Hell Pigs | 10/31/2025 |
| 2025 Fall | Madeleine Bagshaw (Castiglione Lab) | 11/07/2025 | |
| 2025 Fall | Rishabh Kapoor (Harvard University) | Genetic Wanderers: Horizontal Gene Transfer and the Origins of Multiscale Mosaicism in Arthropods | 11/14/2025 |
| 2025 Fall | TBA | TBA | 11/21/2025 |
| 2025 Spring | Jerome de Groot | History and Genetics | 2025 01/17 |
| 2025 Spring | Amy and Layla | Sarah Tishkoff Papers | 2025 01/24 |
| 2025 Spring | Taylor Harman - RESCHEDULED | Anthropological Perspectives on Human Biology: Reevaluating Conventional Wisdom | 2025 01/31 |
| 2025 Spring | Paul Durst | Richard Dawkins | 2025 02/07 |
| 2025 Spring | No Meeting | Attend Darwin Day Lecture on 2/11/25 | 2025 02/14 |
| 2025 Spring | - Deputy director of the National Center for Science Education | Discussion of Education, Evolution, and Law - aspects of Kitzmiller v. Dover and Judge Jones III | 2025 02/21 |
| 2025 Spring | No Meeting | Attend Scopes Lecture on 2/25/25 | 2025 02/28 |
| 2025 Spring | No Meeting | Attend Vanderbilt Prize Lecture on 3/6/25 | 2025 03/07 |
| 2025 Spring | No Meeting | Spring Break | 2025 03/14 |
| 2025 Spring | Taylor Harman | Anthropological Perspectives on Human Biology: Reevaluating Conventional Wisdom | 2025 03/21 |
| 2025 Spring | Rayshaun, Ashlynn, Chloe | Interesting New Papers from an Evolution Journal | 2025 03/28 |
| 2025 Spring | VU SBER IRB | Responsible Conduct of Research | 2025 04/04 |
| 2025 Spring | Brynn and Apuroopa | Discussion on Paul Koch's Work | 2025 04/11 |
| 2025 Spring | No Meeting | Attend Earth Day Lecture on 4/16/25 | 2025 04/18 |
| 2024 Fall | No Meeting | BSCI Welcome Back | 2024 08/23 |
| 2024 Fall | No Meeting | No Meeting | 2024 08/30 |
| 2024 Fall | Lenn Goodman | Religion and Evolution | 2024 09/06 |
| 2024 Fall | Toby McCabe and Chris Acree | Paul Turner and Marlene Zuk papers | 2024 09/13 |
| 2024 Fall | Amy Longtin and Layla Brassington | Anne Yoder Papers | 2024 09/20 |
| 2024 Fall | No Meeting (Please attend Anne Yoder's Biodiversity Day talk on 09/25) | No Meeting | 2024 09/27 |
| 2024 Fall | Kylie Jozwik and Anneliese Schroer | Joseph Graves and Patricia Hawley Papers | 2024 10/04 |
| 2024 Fall | No Meeting | Fall Break | 2024 10/11 |
| 2024 Fall | Brynn Wooten and Katharine Walls | Julien Louys Papers | 2024 10/18 |
| 2024 Fall | Julien Louys | Evolution of Fossil Mammals | 2024 10/25 |
| 2024 Fall | No Meeting (please attend Ken Catania's Halloween Lecture on 10/30) | No Meeting | 2024 11/01 |
| 2024 Fall | David Rinker | AlphaFold and AI Issues (Rigor and Reproducibility) | 2024 11/08 |
| 2024 Fall | Grace Harvey, Ashlynn Sherwood, and Rayshuan Pettit | Retreat Visitors Papers (Heil, Goldberg, Mu帽oz) | 2024 11/15 |
| 2024 Fall | Greg Funston | Mammal & Dinosaur Phylogenies | 2024 11/22 |
| 2024 Fall | No Meeting | No Meeting | 2024 11/29 |
| 2024 Spring | Andy, Antonis, and Paul | Introductions | 2024 01/12 |
| 2024 Spring | Kyle David | 2024 01/19 | |
| 2024 Spring | Sergei Boudko and Elena Pokidysheva | Research Talks | 2024 01/26 |
| 2024 Spring | Trainees | Papers by Neil Shubin (, ) | 2024 02/02 |
| 2024 Spring | No Meeting | No Meeting | 2024 02/09 |
| 2024 Spring | Sarah Worthan and Thomas Sauters | Postdoc Research Talks | 2024 02/16 |
| 2024 Spring | Trainees | Talks about papers by and | 2024 02/23 |
| 2024 Spring | Matthew Pennell | 2024 03/01 | |
| 2024 Spring | No Meeting | No Meeting | 2024 03/08 |
| 2024 Spring | No Meeting | Spring Break | 2024 03/15 |
| 2024 Spring | Ashley Rogers and Danial Asgari | Alexander Winchell & Postdoc Research Talk | 2024 03/22 |
| 2024 Spring | Trainees | Papers by Sharon Strauss | 2024 03/29 |
| 2024 Spring | Danial Asgari and Rayshaun Pettit | Research Talks | 2024 04/05 |
| 2024 Spring | Rachel Petersen and Arun Prakash | Research Talks | 2024 04/12 |
| 2024 Spring | Corinne Simonti | Non-academia Careers and Publishing in Science | 2024 04/19 |
| 2023 Fall | Eyal Privman Visit | Insects and Genomes | 2023 12/1 |
| 2023 Fall | No Meeting | No Meeting | 2023 11/24 |
| 2023 Fall | Amy Longtin and Layla Brassington | Discussion of Anne Stone's work | 2023 11/17 |
| 2023 Fall | Nikos Vakirlis | De novo yeast genes | 2023 11/10 |
| 2023 Fall | David Rinker (Rokas Lab) and Marina Watowich (Lea Lab) | Research Talks | 2023 11/3 |
| 2023 Fall | Neil Kelley | It Came from Beneath The Sea: Fossil Sea Monster Facts and Fictions | 2023 10/27 |
| 2023 Fall | No Meeting - ESI Retreat | No Meeting - ESI Retreat | 2023 10/20 |
| 2023 Fall | Trainees TBD | Discussion on , , and | 2023 10/13 |
| 2023 Fall | Antonis Rokas | RCR Discussion / Pruitt Case | 2023 10/06 |
| 2023 Fall | Trainees TBD | Discussion on the Grants | 2023 09/29 |
| 2023 Fall | No Meeting | No Meeting | 2023 09/22 |
| 2023 Fall | Juan Carvajal-Garcia (Merrikh Lab) and Kate Snyder (Creanza Lab) | Postdoc Talks | 2023 09/15 |
| 2023 Fall | Liz Barnes (MTSU) | Building Religious Cultural Competence for Effective and Inclusive Evolution Education | 2023 09/08 |
| 2023 Fall | Paul and Antonis | Introductions | 2023 09/01 |
| 2023 Fall | No class | NO CLASS - BSCI WELCOME BACK | 2023 08/25 |
| 2023 Spring | Sam Schaffner | 2023 03/10 | |
| 2023 Spring | Chris Acree | 2023 03/03 | |
| 2023 Spring | Joan Strassmann Seminar | Microbial experimental evolution: social behavior, mutualism, and predator-prey interactions | 2023 02/24 |
| 2023 Spring | William McLaughlin | 2023 02/17 | |
| 2023 Spring | Owen Hale | 2023 02/03 | |
| 2023 Spring | Audrey Arner | 2023 01/27 | |
| 2023 Spring | Charles Smith Seminar | 2023 01/20 | |
| 2023 Spring | Antonis Rokas | State of the Initiative | 2023 01/13 |
| 2022 Fall | Zeer Cen | 2022 | |
| 2022 Fall | Owen Hale | 2022 | |
| 2022 Fall | Sohini Ramachandran Seminar | Challenges at the intersection of population and statistical genetics | 2022 |
| 2022 Fall | Rosseirys de la Rosa | 2022 | |
| 2022 Fall | Thodoris Danis | 2022 | |
| 2022 Fall | Sarah Worthan | 2022 | |
| 2022 Fall | Audrey Arner | 2022 | |
| 2022 Fall | Andrei Olaru | 2022 | |
| 2022 Fall | Rachel Racicot | EES Seminar | 2022 |
| 2022 Fall | Reese Martin | 2022 | |
| 2022 Fall | Alissa Williams | 2022 | |
| 2022 Fall | Paul Durst | Introductions | 2022 |
| 2022 Spring | Antonis Rokas | Introductions & E.O. Wilson ( & ) | 2022 |
| 2022 Spring | Jay Clayton | 2022 | |
| 2022 Spring | Antonis Rokas, Larisa DeSantis, Neil Kelley, Tiffiny Tung | Darwin Day Discussion | 2022 |
| 2022 Spring | Juan Carvajal Garc铆a | The role of mutations in evolution - | 2022 |
| 2022 Spring | Emily Hudson | Does evolutionary theory need a rethink? () | 2022 |
| 2022 Spring | Simon Darroch | 2022 | |
| 2022 Spring | Reese Martin | 2022 | |
| 2022 Spring | Christina Chavez | 2022 | |
| 2022 Spring | Audrey Arner | 2022 | |
| 2022 Spring | Owen Hale | 2022 | |
| 2022 Spring | Thodoris Danis | 2022 | |
| 2022 Spring | Carl Stone | 2022 | |
| 2021 Fall | Antonis Rokas | 2021 | |
| 2021 Fall | Antonis Rokas | 2021 | |
| 2021 Fall | Simon Darroch | 2021 | |
| 2021 Fall | Nicole Creanza | 2021 | |
| 2021 Fall | Paul Durst | 2021 | |
| 2021 Fall | Larisa DeSantis | 2021 | |
| 2021 Fall | Ann Tate | 2021 | |
| 2021 Fall | Megan Behringer | 2021 | |
| 2021 Fall | Amanda Lea | 2021 | |
| 2021 Fall | Rachel Racicot | 2021 |