Our weekly lab meetings and journal clubs were held together with the Andolfatto and Sella labs.
Meeting times: Fridays 2:15-3:30 pm (lab meeting) & 3:45-5:00 pm (journal club)
Full Schedule:
| When | What | Who | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 2nd | Lab Meeting | Xiaoheng Cheng | Statistical approaches for detecting ancient positive selection and balancing selection |
| Journal Club | Carla Hoge | Mihola et al. 2019, Histone methyltransferase PRDM9 is not essential for meiosis in male mice Genome Research and Genomic structure of Hstx2 modifier of Prdm9-dependent hybrid male sterility in mice BioRxiv. | |
| August 9th | Lab Meeting | Tom Sasani | Rates and patterns of de novo mutation in large human pedigrees. |
| Journal club | Will Milligan | Ruan et al. 2019, Mutations beget more mutations – The baseline mutation rate and runaway accumulation. bioRxiv | |
| August 28th | Lab Meeting (10:30AM -12:00PM) | Nasa Sinnott-Armstrong | GWAS of biomarkers reveals core genes and recapitulates omnigenic inheritance |
| September 6th | Lab Meeting | Nicole Rockweiler | Whole-body maps of postzygotic mutations in 946 normal individuals. |
| Journal club | Arbel Harpak | Morrison et al. 2019, Mendelian randomization accounting for horizontal and correlated pleiotropic effects using genome-wide summary statistics bioRxiv | |
| September 13th | Lab Meeting | Ipsita Agarwal, Zach Fuller | Practice Talks for Biological Sciences Retreat |
| Sept. 16th | Lab Meeting: 12:00PM – 1:30PM | Kira Delmore | Studying speciation using hybrid zones and focusing on seasonal migration. |
| September 18th | Lab Meeting (1:00PM – 2:00PM) | Zach Baker | Practice Talk for Biology Retreat |
| September 20th | Lab Meeting | Marc de Manuel | Chimpanzees, lions and sled dogs; case studies of genetic introgression and adaptation |
| Journal club | Felix Wu | Mackintosh et al. 2019, The determinants of genetic diversity in butterflies Nature Communications | |
| September 24th | Lab Meeting (10:30AM – 12:00PM) | Simon Myers | Tree reconstruction method and applications (the Siedel et al. preprint) |
| September 27th | Lab Meeting 10:00AM – 11:00AM | Felix Wu | Practice talk for Systems Biology Retreat |
| Lab Meeting | Brielin Brown | Cross-population complex trait genetics | |
| Journal club | Daniel Hooper | Toews et al. 2019, Selection on VPS13A linked to migration in a songbird PNAS and Toews et al. 2016, Plumage Genes and Little Else Distinguish the Genomes of Hybridizing Warblers Current Biology | |
| September 30th | Lab Meeting (1:00PM – 2:00PM) | Laura Hayward & Will Milligan | Practice Probgen Talks |
| November 1st | Lab Meeting | Dalton Conley | Social Science Genomics |
| Journal club | Ipsita Agarwal | Speidel et al. 2019, A method for genome-wide genealogy estimation for thousands of samples Nature Genetics | |
| November 8th | Lab Meeting | Stephen Gaughran | Mutation accumulation in endangered and abundant mammal species. |
| Journal club | Laura Hayward | Kelleher et al. 2019, Inferring whole-genome histories in large population datasets Nature Genetics | |
| November 15th | Journal club | Will Milligan | Goldberg and Harris 2019, Great ape mutation spectra vary across the phylogeny and the genome due to distinct mutational processes that evolve at different rates BioRxiv |
For examples of topics previously discussed by our lab, please view schedules from previous semesters.