Spring 2017

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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.

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