Full Schedule:
| When | What | Who | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 25th | Lab Meeting | Bárbara Bitarello | Ancestry effects on the accuracy of polygenic scores for height in African-Americans |
| (second talk) | Iain Mathieson | Polygenic scores for height in Ancient Europeans, and the evolution of skeletal morphology | |
| February 11th | Journal club | Carla Hoge | Halldorsson et al. 2019, Characterizing mutagenic effects of recombination through a sequence level genetic map |
| February 18th | Journal club | Ipsita Agarwal | Warrington et al. 2019, Maternal and fetal genetic effects on birth weight and their relevance to cardio-metabolic risk factors. bioRxiv. |
| February 22nd, time TBD | Lab Meeting | Nancy Chen | Tracking short-term evolution in a pedigreed wild population |
| March 4th | Journal club | Laura Hayward | Hou et al. 2019, Accurate estimation of SNP-heritability from biobank-scale data irrespective of genetic architecture. bioRxiv. |
| March 13th, 9AM | Lab Meeting | Dan Belsky | Phenotypic Annotation: Polygenic Score Analysis of Human Development to Advance Translation of GWAS Discovery |
| March 18th | Lab Meeting | Jeremy Berg | Polygenic mutation selection drift balance under the liability threshold model |
| March 19th @10:30 | Lab Meeting | Elora López | Molecular processes associated with long life span and resilience to stress in reef-building corals |
| March 25th | Lab Meeting | Tyler Joseph | Time-series models for population structure. |
| April 29th | Journal club | Arbel Harpak | Selzam et al. 2019, Comparing within- and between-family polygenic score prediction. bioRxiv. |
| May 6th | Lab Meeting | Mikkel Schierup | Neanderthal fragments lengths and mutational signatures suggests different historical generation times in non-African population over the past 50,000 years |
| May 13th | Lab Meeting | Lucas Moreira | Genomics of parallel divergence and local adaptation in two North American woodpeckers |
| May 20th | Lab Meeting | Kristin Lee | Evolution of Color Vision in New World Monkeys |
| May 28th | Lab Meeting | Felix Wu | Directly estimating the sex-specific mutation rate in olive baboons |
| June 3rd | Lab Meeting | Carla Hoge | Towards Understanding the Evolution of Recombination Localization in Vertebrates |
| June 10th | Lab Meeting | Shyamalika Gopalan | Characterizing the natural genetic and epigenetic diversity of human populations |
| Journal Club | Zach Fuller | Weghorn et al 2019 Applicability of the Mutation–Selection Balance Model to Population Genetics of Heterozygous Protein-Truncating Variants in Humans. Molecular Biology and Evolution. | |
| June 13th @ 10am | Thesis Defense | Hakhamamesh Mostafavi | Quantitative trait variation and adaptation in contemporary humans. |
| June 14th @ 9am | Lab Meeting | Will Milligan | Selection against mutator alleles limits their impact on mutation rates |
| June 17th | Journal club | Isabel Alves | Shanfelter et al. 2019, Divergent fine-scale recombination landscapes between a freshwater and marine population of threespine stickleback fish. Genome Biology and Evolution. |
| June 24th | Lab Meeting | Zach Baker | An evolutionary perspective on the localization of meiotic recombination events. |