Fall 2016

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.

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