UCL RESEARCH DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS, EVOLUTION AND ENVIRONMENT

GEE, from January 2011, will reinstate the lunchtime-lecture series every
Friday, from 12:10 -1:00 pm(two talks a week), in the Wolfson House Library.
These are being chiefly coordinated by  Dr Daniel Jeffares.
It's been agreed that all the postdocs will talk, and we will schedule
only 3rd year PhD students. Each will give a 25 minute talk about
their research. Each will give a 25 minute talk about their research.

The first of the lunchtime seminars will be held on Friday 28th January, starting at 12:10:

Do hosts determine the distribution of parasites in the oceans?

2 February 2011, 4pm (Flett Lecture Theatre).  A reception will follow the talks.

Prof Steve Jones has been elected President of the Association for Science Education for 2011 and will launch their document on field work in schools at the House of Commons next week.

UCL’s GEE staff and students are passionate about green issues and wish to do our best to help preserve the environment.  The following are Green Champions in GEE:

GEE's Professor Mark Thomas and Professor David Balding, co-authors of a study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), 6 January, 2011.  See additional print and online coverage here.

Scientists at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry have found the underlying genetic change that caused an eighteenth century patient, known at the time as the ‘Irish giant’, to grow to over 7 and a half feet (231cm) tall. Results of the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 6 January 2011, will help identify and treat patients living with gigantism and acromegaly today.   More

Professor Andrew Pomiankowski, Head of the UCL Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment (GEE), has been awarded Fellowship of The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).