My ex-student Mohamed Noor (now a professor at Duke), made a video of my presidential address to the Society for the Study of Evolution on Sunday evening. He apologizes for the quality of both audio and video, for he filmed the whole thing on his iPhone. There are five parts, and it’s about an hour long in toto.
I was introduced by another of my ex-students, Allen Orr, a professor at the University of Rochester and my predecessor as SSE president. If you have the patience, and want to know what our lab has been up to for the past eight or nine years, here it is. I’ll post the first part and links to the four others.
Note that Allen, Mohamed, and I all went to The College of William & Mary, where we got a superb undergraduate education in biology (Bruce Grant mentored all of us).
I am only part-way through the lectures, but it is surprisingly “watchable” as well as audible, considering the exceedingly compact & amateur technology involved.
One can almost read the on-screen presentations.
Congratulations to the budding DeMille.
Could you post “The seven ages of the scientist”. I’ve looked on google for them but can’t find anything.
Noor and Orr; what distinguished students you have Jerry. What can be more satisfying than that!
Noor n’ Orr – that’s almost a tandem repeat!
So, you’re a very good teacher, too.
Agree with the thumbs up in pt. 5!
I was there and I found it a very user-friendly talk (it was out of my intellectual wheelhouse). My only criticism is that it seemed rushed at times but that was a lot of material for one hour…
Noor’s talk in the “Education” session (he was on several papers at the meeting) was awesome.
Just finished watching your nice (youtube) talk at Evolution. Given the somewhat peculiar variation in hybrid inviability that observed between the lab and field, I thought of an old article in 2001 that we published on GxE effects on hybrid incompatibilities. Perhaps it will be of some help to this topic. Best regards, Seth
Genotype-by-environment interaction and the Dobzhansky±Muller model of postzygotic isolation. 2001. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Volume 14, Issue 3, pages 490–501
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1420-9101.2001.00289.x/abstract
How abt posting the slides?
I was sitting right behind Dr. Noor and he tirelessly held up his phone to record it, switching views between the screen and Dr. Coyne. It was a cool talk and I really enjoyed it. As I remarked to Dr. Coyne later, turns out I work on mosquitoes from Bioko island, which is just north of San Tome in the gulf of Guinea.