The paper “Evolution of suicide as a defence strategy against pathogens in a spatially structured environment” is about bacteria, but plant populations can also be spatially structured. Probably plants do not commit suicide, but it would be worthwhile looking at other possible altruistic types of behaviour in plants within the context of this analysis. The paper is at
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12064/abstract
A related paper “Altruism can evolve when relatedness is low: evidence from bacteria committing suicide upon phage infection.” This paper is available at
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1759/20123035
Maybe these papers could be discussed in a future journal club.
The Story of César Milstein and Monoclonal Antibodies
Recommended reading. There is a lot to read in this “exhibition”, but worth the time spent. It is a very nicely told story of a Nobel prize winner’s career and the ups and downs of research.
International Union of Photobiology. The URL for the society web site has changed.
The 16th Congress of photobiology (http://www.photobiology2014.com.ar/) will take place in Córdoba, Argentina in 2014.
http://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/blogs-about-research/
from this list, I think this one, can be particularly useful for people early in their carreer:
http://thesistips.wordpress.com/
PSB 2013 in Vancouver BC The Society for Plant Signaling & Behavior will meet for the first time in North America on July 8th – 10th, 2013 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
An interesting article on why our students need computer programming skills is available at http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/0012-9623-93.4.373
The article appeared in the ESA Bulletin.
Carlos Ballaré and Amy Austin are organizing the 32nd New Phytologist Symposium ‘Plant interactions with other organisms: Molecules, ecology and evolution’ in Buenos Aires on 20-23 November 2013. Futher details at http://www.newphytologist.org/interactions/default.htm.
