There will be an informal meeting of the consortium on 16th-17th April 2012 in Cambridge UK. The meeting will be held in the Part II Lecture theatre in the Zoology Dept. Some accommodation is available in St John’s College – please check you are on the list. Check back here for more details.
Please volunteer if you would like to present a short talk. So far I suggest short talks by:
Simon B – BD candidate genes 1
Carolina – BD candidate genes 2
Kanchon – hybrid speciation in elevatus?
Annabel – numata wing patterns
Rob Jones – RNA-seq
Rainer – Melitaea genome
Ullasa – brief intro to Bicyclus
Simon M – Speciation Genomics
Gabriel J – tests for selection
Topics for discussion, with possible discussion leaders
Rainer/Ullasa – Comparative butterfly genomes
John Davey – Third gen sequencing
Dan Lawson – where to go with ENSEMBL, databasing etc from here
Accommodation:
Sun, Mon and Tuesday nights:
Rainer
Adriana Briscoe
Sunday and Monday nights:
Mark Blaxter and John Davey
Ben Elsworth
Mon and Tuesday nights:
Mathieu
Rob
Barbara
Also attending but not requiring accommodation:
Ullasa (Bicyclus Cambridge)
John Welch
Richard ff-C
Andrea Dowling
Annabel Whibley
Kanchon Dasmahapatra
Dan Lawson
William Palmer
Frank Jiggins
Steve Montgomery
Jiggins lab people:
Chris
Carolina
Simon M
Simon B
Krzystof K
Sohini
Rich W
Patricio
Martin
Gabriel Jamie
(Rich M and Nicola are in Ecuador)