Full Schedule:
| When | What | Who | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 19th | Lab Meeting | Jeremy Berg | Practice Job Talk |
| January 26th | Lab Meeting (@11:30am) | Hakhamanesh Mostafavi | Viability selection in contemporary humans |
| February 2nd | Conference | NY Genome Center | NY Human Genetics in NYC Conference |
| February 9th | Lab Meeting (@1:30pm) |
Nitin Phadnis | The molecular basis of speciation in Drosophila |
| February 16th | Journal Club (@12:00pm) | Felix Wu | Liggett et al 2017 Conserved patterns of somatic mutations in human peripheral blood cells. bioRxiv. |
| February 23rd | Journal Club | Jeremy Berg | Stephens 2017 False Discovery Rates: A New Deal. Biostatistics. |
| March 2nd | Lab Meeting | Zachary Fuller | A population genetics perspective on the intolerance to mutation |
| March 9th | Lab Meeting | Felix Wu | Estimating De Novo Mutation Rates in Humans and Baboons by Deep Sequencing of Family Units |
| March 23rd | Journal Club | Laura Hayward | Chan et al 2018 A Likelihood-Free Inference Framework for Population Genetic Data using Exchangeable Neural Networks. bioRxiv. |
| March 30th | Lab Meeting | Iain Mathieson | Watching evolution with ancient DNA |
| Journal Club | Hakhamanesh Mostafavi | Kong et al 2018 The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypes. Science. | |
| April 5th | Lab Meeting (@10:00am) | Yoav Benjamini | The replicability problems in science: it’s not the p-value’s fault |
| April 6th | Lab Meeting | Felix Wu | Estimating De Novo Mutation Rates in Humans and Baboons by Deep Sequencing of Family Units |
| Journal Club | Carla Hoge | Murray et al 2018 Natural selection shaped the rise and fall of passenger pigeon genomic diversity. Science. | |
| April 13th | Journal Club | Yuval Simons | Nelson and Cresko 2018 Ancient genomic variation underlies repeated ecological adaptation in young stickleback populations. Evolution Letters. |
| April 26th | Lab Meeting | Tom DiPrete | Genetic Instrumental Variable (GIV) regression: Explaining socioeconomic and health outcomes in non-experimental data |
| April 27th | Journal Club | Zachary Fuller | Meiklejohn et al 2018 Gene flow mediates the role of sex chromosome meiotic drive during complex speciation. BioRxiv. |
| May 4th | Lab Meeting (@2:30pm) | Carla Hoge and Xiaoting Li | Rotation Project Overviews |
| May 11th | Conference | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories | Biology of Genomes |
| May 18th | Lab Meeting | Zachary Baker | The story of PRDM9 |
| Lab Meeting (@1:45pm) | Molly Schumer | Searching for adaptive introgression with linked deleterious sites | |
| May 25th | Lab Meeting | Guy Amster | Life history effects on X-to-autosomes polymorphism ratios |
| Journal Club | Zachary Baker | Brand et al 2018 Molecular Evolution at a Meiosis Gene Mediates Species Differences in the Rate and Patterning of Recombination. Current Biology. | |
| June 8th | Lab Meeting | Jeremy Berg | All of the empirical results from my PhD thesis are wrong! |
| Journal Club | Hakhamanesh Mostafavi | Haworth et al 2018 Common genetic variants and health outcomes appear geographically structured in the UK Biobank sample: Old concerns returning and their implications. BioRxiv.Yengo et al 2018 Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for height and body mass index in ~700,000 individuals of European ancestry. BioRxiv. |