| When | What | Who | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 16 | Journal Club | Molly Schumer | Fu et al. 2016 The genetic history of Ice Age Europe. Nature. |
| Sept 23 | Lab Meeting | Avi Flamholz (UC Berkeley) | Mangan and Flamholz et al. 2016 pH determines the energetic efficiency of the cyanobacterial CO2 concentrating mechanism. PNAS. |
| Oct 7 | Lab Meeting | Zachary Baker | The evolutionary history of PRDM9 in vertebrates: implications for recombination mechanisms. |
| Journal Club | Fernando Racimo | Aeschbacher et al. 2016 Population-genomic inference of the strength and timing of selection against gene flow. bioRxiv. | |
| Oct 21 | Lab Meeting | Molly Schumer | Recombination patterns in fish reveal evolutionary conservation of recombination mechanisms across the vertebrate phylogeny. |
| Journal Club | Zachary Baker | Halldorsson et al. 2016 The rate of meiotic gene conversion varies by sex and age. Nature Genetics. | |
| Nov 4 | Journal Club | Jeremy | Halldorsson et al. 2016 Linkage disequilibrium dependent architecture of human complex traits reveals action of negative selection. BioRxiv. |
| Nov 18 | Lab Meeting | Ipsita Agarwal | Comparing mutational patterns on the X chromosome and Autosomes using ExAC data. |
| Journal Club | Chen Chen | Lindsay et al. 2016 Striking differences in patterns of germline mutation between mice and humans. BioRXiv. | |
| Dec 2 | Lab Meeting | Michel Georges | Insights in the de novo mutation process from sequencing cows: frequency of mosaicism points towards mutation prone early cleavage cell divisions. |
| Dec 13 (Tuesday) | Lab Meeting | Zachary Fuller | Evolutionary mechanisms that shape chromosome structure in Drosophila pseudoobscura |
For examples of topics previously discussed by our lab, please view schedules from previous semesters.