Syllabus

_{Lecture Number}	_Topic	_Date	_Lecturer	_Readings	_Discussion	_Quiz	_{Project due}
1	_Introduction	Jan-03	Owens	None
_{Evolution of Populations}
2	_{Genetic drift & population structure}	Jan-05	Owens	_{Dlugosch and Parker 2008}	✔
3	_{Gene flow}	Jan-10	Owens	_{Ellstrand 2014}
4	_{Phylogeography}	Jan-12	Owens	_{Sork et al. 2016}	✔
5	_{Local adaptation}	Jan-17	Owens	_{Savolainen et al. 2013}		✔
6	_Coevolution	Jan-19	Owens	_{Edger et al. 2015}	✔
7	_{Mating system evolution}	Jan-24	Owens	_{Grossenbacher et al. 2015}
8	_{Sexual system evolution}	Jan-26	Owens	_{Arunkumar et al. 2016}	✔
Plant Speciation
9	_{The nature of plant species}	Jan-31	Owens	_{Rieseberg et al. 2006}		✔
10	_{Reproductive isolation}	Feb-02	Owens	_{Ostevik et al. 2016}	✔
11	_{Chromosomal speciation}	Feb-07	Owens	_{Stathos and Fishman 2014}
12	_{Polyploid speciation}	Feb-09	Lee	_{Salman-Minkov et al. 2016}	✔
13	_{Hybrid speciation}	Feb-14	Owens	_{Schumer et al. 2014}		✔
14	_{Speciation and macroevolution}	Feb-16	Owens	_{Kafer et al. 2014}	✔
Plant Evolution and Us
15	_{Plant conservation genetics}	Feb-28	Owens	_{Gray et al. 2016}			✔
16	_{Climate change and plant evolution}	Mar-02	Lee	_{Parmesan & Hanley 2015}	✔
17	_{Weed evolution}	Mar-07	Owens	_{Colautti & Barrett 2013}		✔
18	_{Plant domestication}	Mar-09	Owens	_{Fuller et al. 2014}	✔
19	_{Crop diversity}	Mar-14	Owens	_{Voss-Fels & Snowdon 2015}
Plant Genome Evolution
20	_{Population genomics of adaptation}	Mar-16	Owens	_{Siol et al. 2010}	✔
21	_{Paleopolyploidy}	Mar-21	Owens	_{Garsmeur et al. 2014}		✔
22	_{Nuclear genome evolution}	Mar-23	Owens	_{Naito et al. 2009}	✔
23	_{Organelle genome evolution}	Mar-28	Owens	_{Bock et al. 2014}
Project presentations
	_{Part I+II}	Mar-30	None	None	✔	✔
	_{Part III}	Apr-04	None	None
	_{Part IV+V}	Apr-06	None	None	✔		✔

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