2019 Spring Journal Club

Special Topics in Plant Pathology PLPT892 Section 010 - SPRING 2019

This is the public repository for our Spring 2019 journal club.

TOPIC: Just What Is A SPECIES? The concept of species in the age of metagenomics

The Canvas location for the course is here. You will need to be registered for the course via UNL to view this webpage.

Our current reading list is located here: text & bibtex.

Meeting Schedule

DATE	ACTIVITY	LOCATION	TIME
January 16	Organization Meeting	Online Discussion	2 to 3 pm
January 23	Week 1	Beadle First Floor East Side Conference Table	2 to 3 pm
January 30	Week 2	Beadle First Floor East Side Conference Table	3 to 4 pm
February 6	Week 3	Beadle First Floor East Side Conference Table	1 to 2 pm
February 13	Week 4	Beadle First Floor East Side Conference Table	2 to 3 pm
February 20	Week 5	Beadle First Floor East Side Conference Table	SNOW DAY
February 27	Week 6	Beadle First Floor East Side Conference Table	2 to 3 pm
March 6	Week 7	Beadle First Floor East Side Conference Table	2 to 3 pm
March 13	Week 8	Asilomar	NONE
March 20	SPRING BREAK	NA	NA
March 27	Week 9	Beadle First Floor East Side Conference Table	2 to 3 pm
April 3	Week 10	Beadle First Floor East Side Conference Table	2 to 3 pm
April 10	~~Week 11	Beadle First Floor East Side Conference Table	2 to 3 pm
April 17	Week 12 - Course Wrap Up	Writing Retreat	2 to 3 pm
April 24	Week 13 - Course Wrap Up	Writing Retreat	2 to 3 pm

Schedule and Readings

WEEK 1

AGENDA:

1. Meet & Greet
2. What we plan to get out of the readings
3. How I would like to proceed
4. A little background on today's reading
5. Discussion

READINGS:

1. Mayr 1996 what is a species and what is not

WEEK 2

AGENDA:

1. Finalize paper schedule
2. Discussion

Readings:

1. Hey 2001 the mind of the species problem
2. Hey 2006 on the failure of modern species concepts

Supplemental Readings:

1. Hey et al 2003 Understanding and confronting species uncertainty in biology and conservation

WEEK 3

AGENDA:

1. Discuss Paper

Readings:

1. de Quiroz 2005 Mayr and the modern concept of species

WEEK 4 - Meeting with Seminar Speaker Instead

WEEK 5 - University Closed due to snow

WEEK 6

AGENDA:

1. Discuss Paper

Readings:

1. Samson & Varga 2009 what is a species in Aspergillus

WEEK 7

AGENDA:

1. Discuss Paper

Readings:

1. Doolittle & Zhaxybayeva 2009 on the origin of prokaryotic species

WEEK 8 - At Fungal Genetics Meeting

WEEK 9

AGENDA:

1. Discuss Papers

Readings:

1. Doolittle & Zhaxybayeva 2010 metagenomics and the units of biological organization
2. Doolittle 2012 population genomics how bacterial species form and why they don't exist

WEEK 10

AGENDA:

1. Work on Review article

WEEK 11

AGENDA:

1. Work on Review article

WEEK 12

AGENDA:

1. Work on Review article

Supplemental Readings

Papers of interest to the group and/or papers we started to discuss but decided to not put on the schedule of readings for sake of time:

1. Adams 2001 the species delimitation uncertainty principle