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Journal Club


Winter 2021

Date Location Time Presenter Paper or subject Doc
Jan 20 Zoom! 2 pm Andrew Blakney Project presentation
Jan 27 Zoom! 2 pm Charlotte Hagelstam Renshaw Lehtonen, S. et al. 2017. Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns. Scientific Reports 7:4831.
Fev 3 Zoom! 2 pm Simon Joly Bolnick, D. I. et al. 2018. (Non)Parallel Evolution. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 49:303–330.
Fev 10 Zoom! 2 pm Marion Leménager
Fev 17 Zoom! 2 pm Julie Faure Irfan M. et al. 2021. On the indirect environmental outcomes of COVID-19: short-term revival with futuristic long-term implications. International Journal of Environmental Health Research
Fev 24 Zoom! 2 pm Florence Blanchard de Tombeur, F. et al. 2020. Plants sustain the terrestrial silicon cycle during ecosystem retrogression. Science 369:1245–1248.
Mar 3 Zoom! 2 pm Spring break
Mar 10 Zoom! 2 pm Rosalie Beauchamp-Rioux Fraser, H. et al. 2018. Questionable research practices in ecology and evolution. PLOS ONE 13:e0200303.
Mar 17 Zoom! 2 pm Étienne Lacroix-Carignan Project presentation
Mar 24 Zoom! 2 pm Anne Bruneau Esfeld et al. 2018. Pseudogenization and Resurrection of a Speciation Gene. Current Biology. 28:3776-3786
Mar 31 Zoom! 2 pm
Apr 07 Zoom! 2 pm Johanna Jantzen
Apr 14 Zoom! 2 pm Étienne Léveillé-Bourret
Apr 21 Zoom! 2 pm Carolina Vergolino
Apr 28 Zoom! 2 pm Jérôme Burkiewicz

Fall 2020

Date Location Time Presenter Article ou sujet Doc
Sept 30 Centre, B.114 12h00 Andrew Blakney
Oct 7 Centre, B.114 12h00 Julie Faure
Oct 14 Centre, B.114 12h00 --
Oct 21 Centre, B.114 12h00 fall break
Oct 28 Centre, B.114 12h00 Florence Blanchard
Nov 4 Centre, B.114 12h00 Simon Joly
Nov 11 Centre, B.114 12h00 Jérôme Burkiewicz
Nov 18 Centre, B.114 12h00 to be determined
Nov 25 Centre, B.114 12h00 Marion Leménager
Dec 2 Centre, B.114 12h00 Simon Morvan
Dec 9 Centre, B.114 12h00 to be determined

Winter 2020

Date Location Time Presenter Article or subject Doc
Jan 29th Centre, B.114 12h00 Étienne Laliberté Deep learning in ecology
Feb 5 Centre, B.114 12h00 Simon Morvan
Feb 12 Centre, B.114 12h00 Warren Cardinale-McTeague
Feb 19 Centre, B.114 12h00 Julie Faure
Feb 26 Centre, B.114 12h00 Valérie Poulin
Mar 11 Centre, B.114 12h00 Pratiques symposium
Mar 18 Centre, B.114 12h00 Anne Bruneau
Mar 25 Centre, B.114 12h00 Andrew Blakney
April 1 Centre, B.114 12h00 Simon Joly

Fall 2019 - Classic Papers

Date Location Time Presenter Article Doc
September 11th Centre, B.114 12h00 Julie Faure Lecture d'un manuscrit en préparation
September 18th Centre, B.114 12h00 Anne Bruneau Joly-Lopez Z et al. 2016. Developing maps of fitness consequences for plant genomes. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 2016, 30:101–107.
September 25th Centre, B.114 12h00 Gonzalo Bilbao Lecture d'un manuscrit en préparation
October 2nd Centre, B.114 12h00 Simon Joly Hutchinson. 1959. Homage to Santa Rosalia or why are there so many kinds of animals? The American Naturalist 93:145-159.
October 9th Centre, B.114 12h00 Marion Leménager Gould and Lewontin. 1979. The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme. Proc R Soc B
October 16th Centre, B.114 12h00 Andrew Blakney Watson & Crick. 1953. A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid. Nature.
Sanger et al. 1977 DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors. PNAS.
October 23rd Centre, B.114 12h00 Simon Morvan Hardin, G. 1968. The tragedy of the commons. Science, 162(3859), 1243-1248
October 30th Centre, B.114 12h00 Warren Cardinal-McTeague Darwin & Wallace 1858. On the tendency for species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection. *This MS. work was never intended for publication, and therefore was not written with care.—C. D. 1858
November 6th Centre, B.114 12h00 Florence Blanchard Oral presentation practice
November 13th Centre, B.114 12h00 Julie Faure Ehrlich, P. and P. H. Raven. (1964) Butterflies and plants: a study in coevolution. Evolution 18: 586-608
November 20th Centre, B.114 12h00 Shan Kothari Throwing shade: Physiological responses to light explain competition and facilitation in a tree diversity experiment (Invited presentation)
November 27th Centre, B.114 12h00 TBA
December 4th Centre, B.114 12h00 Anne Bruneau
December 11th Centre, B.114 12h00 Pratiques colloque CSBQ
December 18th Centre, B.114 12h00 TBA

Winter 2019

Date Location Time Presenter Article Doc
January 16th Centre, B.114 12h00 Andrew Blackney South et al. 2019. Synthetic glycolate metabolism pathways stimulate crop growth and productivity in the field. Science. 363(6422): xx-xx.
January 23rd Centre, B.114 12h00 Warren Cardinal-McTeague Morales‐Briones et al. 2018. Phylogenomic analyses reveal a deep history of hybridization and polyploidy in the Neotropical genus Lachemilla (Rosaceae). New Phytologist 218:1668–1684.
January 30th Centre, B.114 12h00 Tammy Elliott Linder et al. 2018. Global grass (Poaceae) success underpinned by traits facilitating colonization, persistence and habitat transformation.
February 6th Centre, B.114 12h00 Simon Joly Smith, S. A., and J. W. Brown. 2018. Constructing a broadly inclusive seed plant phylogeny. American Journal of Botany 105:302–314.
February 13th Centre, B.114 12h00
February 20th Centre, B.114 12h00 Sébastien Renaut Jousselin, E. et al. 2016. Assessment of a 16S rRNA amplicon Illumina sequencing procedure for studying the microbiome of a symbiont-rich aphid genus. Molecular Ecology Resources 16:628–640.
February 27th Centre, B.114 12h00
March 6th Centre, B.114 12h00 Relâche -- --
March 13th Centre, B.114 12h00 Sébastien Renaut Barrett et al. 2019. Linking a mutation to survival in wild mice. Science 363:499–504.
MArch 20th Centre, B.114 12h00 Rosalie Beauchamp-Rioux McNickle & Dybzinski. 2013. Game theory and plant ecology. Ecology Letters, 16(4), 545-555.
March 27th Centre, B.114 12h00 Anne Bruneau Flowers et al. 2019. Cross-species hybridization and the origin of North African date palms. PNAS 116:1651–1658.
April 3rd Centre, B.114 12h00 Simon Morvan
April 10th Centre, B.114 12h00 Valérie Poulin
April 17th Centre, B.114 12h00 Rosalie Beauchamp-Rioux
April 24th Centre, B.114 12h00 Julie Faure
May 1st Centre, B.114 12h00 Andrew Blackney

Fall 2018

Date Location Time Presenter Article Doc
Septembre 5th Centre, B.114 noon Fabien Cichonski L’influence des champignons ectomycorhiziens et arbusculaires sur la décomposition de la matière organique du sol en forêt tempérée
Septembre 12th Centre, B.114 noon Simon Joly Murray et al. 2017. Natural selection shaped the rise and fall of passenger pigeon genomic diversity. Science 358:951–954.
Septembre 19th Centre, B.114 noon Andrew Blackney Wang et al. 2018. A single transcription factor promotes both yield and immunity in rice. 361: 1026-1028.
Septembre 26th Centre, B.114 noon Sébastien Renaut Mehta et al. 2018. Stability of the human faecal microbiome in a cohort of adult men. Nature Microbiology 3:347–355.
October 3rd Centre, B.114 noon Gonzalo Bilbao Egan et al. 2018. Crop domestication alters floral reward chemistry with potential consequences for pollinator health. Front. Plant Sci. 9.
October 10th Centre, B.114 noon Julie Faure Valenta et al. 2018. The evolution of fruit colour: phylogeny, abiotic factors and the role of mutualists. Scientific Reports 8:14302.
October 17th Centre, B.114 noon Anne Bruneau Antonelli et al. 2018. Amazonia is the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity. PNAS 201713819.
October 24th Centre, B.114 noon Etienne Laliberté Schweiger et al. 2018. Plant spectral diversity integrates functional and phylogenetic components of biodiversity and predicts ecosystem function. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2:976–982.
October 31st Centre, B.114 noon --- ---
Novembre 7th Centre, B.114 noon Alizée Girard Project presentation
Novembre 14th Centre, B.114 noon Zachary Bélisle Mori et al. 2018. Beta-Diversity, Community Assembly, and Ecosystem Functioning. TREE. 33:549-564.
Novembre 21st Centre, B.114 noon Daniel Schoen Lahti et al. 2009. Relaxed selection in the wild. TREE. 24:487-496.
Novembre 28th Centre, B.114 noon Simon Morvan TBA
Decembre 5th Centre, B.114 noon Alexis Carteron TBA
Decembre 12th Centre, B.114 noon (no journal club)
Decembre 19th Centre, B.114 noon Xavier Guilbeault-Mayers TBA

Fall 2017

Date Location Time Presenter Article Doc
Septembre 20th, 2017 Centre, B.114 noon Élyse-Ann Faubert Cardillo M. et al. 2017. The phylogeny and biogeography of Hakea (Proteaceae) reveals the role of biome shifts in a continental plant radiation. Evolution. 71:1928–1943.
Septembre 27th, 2017 Centre, B.114 noon Gonzalo Bilbao Chartier M. et al. 2017. How (much) do flowers vary? Unbalanced disparity among flower functional modules and a mosaic pattern of morphospace occupation in the order Ericales. Proc. R. Soc. B. 284:20170066.
Octobre 4th, 2017 Centre, B.114 noon Julie Faure Chez les Gesneriaceae antillaises, la forme des fleurs est-elle adaptée à la forme des becs des espèces de colibris les pollinisant ?
Octobre 11th, 2017 Centre, B.114 noon Simon Joly Presentation of a manuscript: Accounting for intraspecific genetic correlations in ecological studies
Octobre 18th, 2017 Centre, B.114 noon Sébastien Renaut Wu, M. et al. 2017. Dissecting the basis of novel trait evolution in a radiation with widespread phylogenetic discordance. bioRxiv 201376.
Octobre 25th, 2017 Centre, B.114 noon To be determined
Novembre 1st, 2017 Centre, B.114 noon To be determined
Novembre 8th, 2017 Centre, B.114 noon Anne Bruneau Smith et al. In press. Disparity, diversity, and duplications in the Caryophyllales. New Phytologist.
Novembre 15th, 2017 Centre, B.114 noon Boris Domenech
Novembre 22nd, 2017 Centre, B.114 noon Valérie Poulin
Novembre 29th, 2017 Centre, B.114 noon Luc Brouillet
Decembre 6th, 2017 Centre, B.114 noon QCBS pratices
Decembre 13th, 2017 Centre, B.114 noon QCBS symposium -- --
Decembre 20th, 2017 Centre, B.114 noon Tammy Elliott

Summer 2017

Date Location Time Presenter Article Doc
May 8th, 2017 Centre, B.114 3 pm Simon Joly Zhang Y.-Y., Parepa M., Fischer M., Bossdorf O. 2016. Epigenetics of Colonizing Species? A Study of Japanese Knotweed in Central Europe. In: Barrett et al., Editors. Invasion Genetics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. p. 328–340.
May 15th, 2017 Centre, B.114 3 pm Gonzalo Bilbao Steinbauer M.J. et al. 2016. Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation. Global Ecol. Biogeogr. 25:1097–1107.
May 29th, 2017 -- -- -- break
June 5th, 2017 Centre, B.114 3 pm Edeline Gagnon Simonsen A.K. et al. 2017. Symbiosis limits establishment of legumes outside their native range at a global scale. Nature Communications. 8:14790.
June 12th, 2017 Centre, B.114 3pm Simon Ingram T., Mahler D.L. 2013. SURFACE: detecting convergent evolution from comparative data by fitting Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models with stepwise Akaike Information Criterion. Methods Ecol Evol. 4:416–425.
June 19th, 2017 Centre, B.114 3pm Gonzalo Presentation rehearsal for Botany --

Winter 2017

Date Location Time Presenter Article Doc
Jan 16th, 2017 IRBV, D.362 3 pm Simon Joly Nachev V. et al. 2017. Cognition-mediated evolution of low-quality floral nectars. Science. 355:75–78.
Jan 23rd, 2017 IRBV, D.362 3 pm Tammy Elliott Linder H.P. 2005. Evolution of diversity: the Cape flora. Trends in Plant Science. 10:536–541.
Jan 30th, 2017 Centre, B.114 3 pm Anne Bruneau Marshall et al. 2016. Bioquality hotspots in the tropical African flora. Current Biology. 26:3214–3219.
Feb 13th, 2017 Centre, B.114 3 pm Étienne laliberté Teste F.P. et al. 2017. Plant-soil feedback and the maintenance of diversity in Mediterranean-climate shrublands. Science. 355:173–176.
Feb 20th, 2017 Centre, B.114 3 pm Sébastien Renaut Beissinger et al. 2016. Recent demography drives changes in linked selection across the maize genome. Nature Plants. 2:16084.
Feb 27th, 2017 Centre, B.114 3 pm TBA
March 6th, 2017 Centre, B.114 3 pm Gonzalo Bilbao Abrahamczyk S. et al. 2017. Pollinator adaptation and the evolution of floral nectar sugar composition. J. Evol. Biol. 30:112–127.
March 13th, 2017 Centre, B.114 3 pm TBA
March 20th, 2017 Centre, B.114 3 pm Jacynthe Masse Yeaman et al. 2016. Convergent local adaptation to climate in distantly related conifers. Science. 353:1431–1433.
March 27th, 2017 Centre, B.114 3 pm Sébastien Renaut Wright S.I. 2017. Evolution of genome size. eLS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
April 10th, 2017 Centre, B.114 3 pm Simon Joly McDonald M.J., Rice D.P., Desai M.M. 2016. Sex speeds adaptation by altering the dynamics of molecular evolution. Nature. 531:233–236.
April 24th, 2017 Centre, B.114 3 pm Julie Faure Serrano-Serrano et al. 2017. Hummingbird pollination and the diversification of angiosperms: an old and successful association in Gesneriaceae. Proc R Soc London B. 284:20162816.

Fall 2016

Date Location Time Presenter Article Doc
Sept 12th, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Sébastien Renaut Ziemann M. et al. 2016. Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature. Genome Biology. 17:177.
Sept 19th, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Julie Faure Culbert B.M., Forrest J. 2016. Floral symmetry affects bumblebee approach consistency in artificial flowers. Journal of Pollination Ecology. 18.
Sept 26th, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Simon Joly Spribille T. et al. 2016. Basidiomycete yeasts in the cortex of ascomycete macrolichens. Science. 353:488–492.
Oct 3rd, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Sébastien Renaut Streicher J.W. et al. 2016. How Should Genes and Taxa be Sampled for Phylogenomic Analyses with Missing Data? An Empirical Study in Iguanian Lizards. Syst Biol. 65:128–145.
Oct 17th, 2016 IRBV, D.362 3 pm Boris Domenech Kozak K.H., Wiens J.J. 2010. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters. 13:1378–1389.
Oct 24th, 2016 -- -- - No meeting...
Oct 31st, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Étienne Laliberté Werner et al. 2014. A single evolutionary innovation drives the deep evolution of symbiotic N2-fixation in angiosperms. Nat Commun. 5:4087.
Nov 14th, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Sébastien Renaut Skibba R. 2016. The polling crisis: How to tell what people really think. Nature News. 538:304.
Nov 21st, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Anne Bruneau O’Meara et al. 2016. Non-equilibrium dynamics and floral trait interactions shape extant angiosperm diversity. Proc. R. Soc. B. 283:20152304.
Dec 12th, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Alexis Carteron Phillips et al. 2013. The mycorrhizal-associated nutrient economy: a new framework for predicting carbon–nutrient couplings in temperate forests. New Phytologist. 199:41–51.

Summer 2016

Date Location Time Presenter Article Doc
May 2nd, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Julie Faure Ollerton et al. 2009. A global test of the pollination syndrome hypothesis. Ann Bot. 103:1471–1480.
May 9th, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Julie Faure Aigner. 2001. Optimality modeling and fitness trade-offs: when should plants become pollinator specialists? Oikos. 95:177–184.
R script for playing with Aigner's model with interactions: Aigner_negative_interactions.R
May 16th, 2016 Centre, B.114 noon Gonzalo Davis Rabosky et al. 2016. Coral snakes predict the evolution of mimicry across New World snakes. Nat Commun. 7:11484.
May 30th, 2016 IRBV, D.362 15h00 Boris Domenech Thomas et al. 2015. The historical origins of palaeotropical intercontinental disjunctions in the pantropical flowering plant family Annonaceae. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. 17:1–16.
June 6th, 2016 Centre, B.114 3pms Sébastien Renaut Mills J.A. et al. 2015. Archiving primary data: solutions for long-term studies. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 30:581–589.
July 4th, 2016 Centre, B.114 3pm Boris Domenech Field trip in Brazil
July 18th, 2016 Centre, B.114 3pm Simon Joly Lindholm et al. 2016. The ecology and evolutionary dynamics of meiotic drive. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 31:315–326.

Winter 2016

Date Location Time Presenter Article Doc
Jan 11th, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Sébastien Renaut Prum R.O. et al. 2015. A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing. Nature. 526:569–573.
Jan 18th, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Simon Joly Schweizer R.M. et al. 2016. Genetic subdivision and candidate genes under selection in North American grey wolves. Mol Ecol. 25:380–402.
Jan 25th, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Luc Brouillet Spalink D. et al. 2016. Evolution of geographical place and niche space: Patterns of diversification in the North American sedge (Cyperaceae) flora. Mol Phylogenet and Evol. 95:183–195.
Feb 1st, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Gonzalo Bilbao Donoghue & Sanderson. 2015. Confluence, synnovation, and depauperons in plant diversification. New Phytol. 207:260–274.
Feb 8th, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Sébastien Renaut Ledford H. 2015. Crispr, the disruptor. Nature. 522:20-24.
Feb 15th, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Hermine Alexandre Hermine will present simulation results that aim at determining the role of environmental fluxuations on the evolution of generalist strategies
Feb 22nd 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Simon Joly Discussion on preprints and post publication peer review (PPPR). These are trending subjects on social medias these days, which are associated with a meeting on the subject. See the site asapbio.org or the Twitter hashtag #ASAPbio for more information.
Feb 29th, 2016 -- -- -- Spring break
Mar 7th, 2016 -- -- -- Tahiana's defense -- No meeting
Mar 14th, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Boris Domenech Pennington & Lavin. 2016. The contrasting nature of woody plant species in different neotropical forest biomes reflects differences in ecological stability. New Phytol. 210:25–37.
Mar 21st, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm -- Naciri Y. and Linder H.P. 2015. Species delimitation and relationships: The dance of the seven veils. Taxon. 64:3–16.
April 4th, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Tahiana Strelin et al. 2016. Flower reshaping in the transition to hummingbird pollination in Loasaceae subfam. Loasoideae despite absence of corolla tubes or spurs. Evol Ecol.:1–17.
April 11th, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Simon Joly Lagomarsino et al. 2016. The abiotic and biotic drivers of rapid diversification in Andean bellflowers (Campanulaceae). New Phytol.
April 18th, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Tahiana Discussion on QUASSE and an empirical example on Angraecum.
April 25th, 2016 Centre, B.114 3 pm Simon Joly Présentation of complex results obtained with evolutionary models.
For reference: Butler & King. 2004. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis: A Modeling Approach for Adaptive Evolution. The American Naturalist. 164:683–695.

Fall 2015

Date Location Time Presenter Article
28 sept 2015 Centre, B.114 3 pm Sébastien Renaut Egan et al. 2015. Experimental evidence of genome-wide impact of ecological selection during early stages of speciation-with-gene-flow. Ecol Lett. 18:817–825.
4 Oct 2015 Centre, B.114 3 pm Simon Joly Beaulieu et al. 2015. Heterogeneous Rates of Molecular Evolution and Diversification Could Explain the Triassic Age Estimate for Angiosperms. Syst Biol. 64:869–878.
12 Oct 2015 -- -- -- Thanksgiving
19 Oct 2015 -- -- -- Reading week
26 Oct 2015 Centre, B.114 3 pm François Lambert Phuong et al. 2014. Delimiting species in the genus Otospermophilus (Rodentia: Sciuridae), using genetics, ecology, and morphology. Biol J Linn Soc, 113:1136-1151. pdf
2 Nov 2015 Centre, B.114 3 pm Julie Faure Forrest. 2015. Plant–pollinator interactions and phenological change: what can we learn about climate impacts from experiments and observations? Oikos. 124:4–13. pdf
9 Nov 2015 Centre, B.114 3 pm François Lambert Presentation of his Master project.
16 Nov 2015 Centre, B.114 3 pm -- Discussion on Publons. Look at this paper in Nature on the subject to get started...
23 Nov 2015 Centre, B.114 3 pm Simon Joly Bordenstein and Theis. 2015. Host Biology in Light of the Microbiome: Ten Principles of Holobionts and Hologenomes. Plos Biol. 13(8):e1002226. pdf
30 Nov 2015 Centre, B.114 3 pm Sébastien Renaut Vines. 2015. The Core Inefficiency of Peer Review and a Potential Solution. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin. 24:36-38. pdf
Axios Review
7 Dec 2015 Centre, B.114 3 pm Tahiana Andriananjamanantsoa Presentation of his paper on Angraecum biogeography
15 Dec 2015 Centre, B.114 3 pm Hermine Alexandre Boucher et al. 2014. Neutral biogeography and the evolution of climatic niches. The american naturalist. 183: 573--584