| When | What | Who | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 6th | Journal Club | David Murphy | Campos et al. 2016 Estimating the parameters of background selection and selective sweeps in Drosophila in the presence of gene conversion. |
| January 13th | Lab Meeting | Fernando Racimo | Detecting polygenic adaptation in an admixture graph |
| Journal Club | Zachary Baker | Larson et al. 2016 The composite regulatory basis of the large X-effect in mouse speciation. Mol Bio Evol. | |
| January 27th | Lab Meeting | Joe Pickrell | Methods for scaling genome-wide association studies using ultra-low-coverage sequencing and mobile phenotyping |
| February 10th | Lab Meeting | Diego Hartasanchez | Modeling and simulation of interlocus gene conversion |
| Journal Club | Ipsita Agarwal | Lynch et al. 2016 Genetic drift, selection and the evolution of the mutation rate. Nature Review Genetics. | |
| February 17th | Lab Meeting | Jeremy Berg | How Natural Selection has Impacted the Evolution of Anthropometric Traits |
| Journal Club | Yuki Haba | Miles et al. 2016 Natural diversity of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. BioRxiv. | |
| March 3rd | Symposium | – | Public symposium on Social Evolution and Genome Complexity |
| March 20th (Monday @2:30pm) | Lab Meeting | Claude Bhérer | |
| March 24th | Journal Club | Fernando Racimo | Robinson et al. 2016 Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans. Nature Human Behavior. |
| April 7th (@3:00pm) | Lab Meeting | Molly Schumer | |
| April 14th | Journal Club | Jeremy Berg | Cassa et al. 2017 Estimating the selective effects of heterozygous protein-truncating variants from human exome data. Nature Genetics. |
| April 26th (Wednesday @10:00am) | Lab Meeting | Ana Pinharanda | Speciation in two sympatric species of neo-tropical butterflies |
| April 28th | Symposium | – | Precision Medicine symposium |
| May 5th | Journal Club | – | Practice talks for Biology of Genomes |
| May 8th (Monday @12:00pm) | Lab Meeting | Thanasis Kousathanas | The demographic history and mutational load of African hunter-gatherers and farmers |
| May 26th | Lab Meeting | Felix Wu | TBD |
| Journal Club | Hakhamanesh Mostafavi | Kong et al. 2016 Selection against variants in the genome associated with educational attainment. PNAS. | |
| June 2nd | Lab Meeting | Li Zhao | Evolution of de novo genes in Drosophila melanogaster. |
| June 6th (Tuesday) | Lab Meeting | Arbel Harpak | The high rate of non-allelic gene conversion in humans and its effect on the divergence of gene duplicates |
| June 10th | Journal Club | Guy Sella | Malinsky et al. 2017 Whole Genome Sequences Of Malawi Cichlids Reveal Multiple Radiations Interconnected By Gene Flow. BioRxiv. |