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George Coyne, 87, Vatican Astronomer and Galileo Defender, Dies

While seeking to reconcile science and religion, Father Coyne also vigorously supported Darwin and challenged believers in intelligent design.

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Car-sized turtle fossils unearthed

The turtle is believed to have lived in northern South America between 13 and seven million years ago.

From the BBC News-2020-2-13:14:6:1

This Rodent Was Giant. Its Brain Was Tiny.

Reconstruction of a fossil of an extinct South American relative of the capybara shows it didn't have much space in its skull for a brain.

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The New Zealand Journal of Zoology invites submissions of papers focused on animal environmental DNA. (Feb 17).

Royal Society Publishing has a special issue entitled Crossroads between transposons and gene regulation freely available online. (Feb 13).

Evolutionary Developmental Biology: A Reference Guide by Laura Nuno de la Rosa (Editor), Gerd Müller (Editor) from Springer Intl. Publ. (Feb 9).

Current Zoology has a call for abstracts for a special issue on sexual selection and environmental change. (Feb 6).

50 Great Myths of Human Evolution: Understanding Misconceptions about Our Origins , by John H. Relethford, from Wiley-Blackwell (Feb 2).

The Crispr/Cas9 System: Applications and Technology, edited by Alfred A. Bertelsen, from Nova Science Pub Inc (Jan 26).

Evolutionary Neuropsychology: An Introduction to the Evolution of the Structures and Functions of the Human Brain by Frederick L Coolidge, from Oxford University Press (Jan 18).

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Feb 15 12:00	Duplications and functional convergence of intestinal carbohydrate-digesting enzymes - Antonio Brun et al. (MBE)
Feb 15 12:00	Evolutionary analysis of the Bacillus subtilis genome reveals new genes involved in sporulation - Lei Shi et al. (MBE)

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Dear Colleagues,

Registration is NOW OPEN for the 10th Annual Yosemite Symbiosis Workshop!

http://www.sachslab.com/symbiosis-2015.php

The TENTH annual Yosemite Symbiosis Workshop will take place on May 15-17,
2020 at the Sierra Nevada Research Institute, Yosemite National Park.

Keynote speaker 2020: Martin Kaltenpoth Professor, Johannes Gutenberg
University, Mainz

Information about our meeting:

Why: Our continuing goal is to better integrate the broad groups of
scientists that focus on symbiosis and microbiome research. Yosemite serves
as an ideal site as it is both beautiful and secluded. This will be our
TENTH annual meeting and we have been consistently attracting scientists
from all over the United States and overseas.

Who: The meeting is small by design (~50 participants) and we seek to focus
on scientists interested in the microbiome, cooperation, mutualism, and
symbiosis. In the past we have covered a range of symbiosis topics from
ecology and evolution to molecular mechanisms in different model and
non-model systems. We would like to make room for a diverse group
of people so we will initially accept up to 3 lab members per group
(including the PI) on a first come first served basis.

When: The talks and formal meeting will be held 16-17, 2020, though we make
accommodation arrangements available for attendees to arrive on Friday the
15th to provide opportunities to enjoy the park. Since time at the
conference is limited, we ask attendees to submit an abstract
and a preference (talk versus poster). Priority will be given to those
presenting.

Past attendees and talks can be found here:
http://www.sachslab.com/symbiosis-2015.php

Where: SNRS has a set of cabins in Wawona and all within a short walk of
the conference room.  Costs: See details in the registration page (up
soon). We will only be able to accept credit card payments this year

Please follow the below link to the registration page. You must register
and provide payment to be fully registered to attend the meeting. The
payment link can be found within the registration page and is also found
below.

Registration Page:
https://snri.ucmerced.edu/form/symbiosis-workshop-2020-registration

Payment Link (found on the registration site)
https://commerce.cashnet.com/cashneti/selfserve/EditItem.aspx?PC=F103_W2-SYWK&ItemCount=1
More information:
http://www.sachslab.com/symbiosis-2015.php

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