When | What | Who | Details |
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January 28th | Lab Meeting | Pei-Yin Shih | Population genetics of fighting fish |
February 18th | Lab Meeting | Margaret Antonio | Using ancient DNA to explore recent human population structure. |
Journal Club | Hannah Munby | Ebel et al. 2022, Revisiting the malaria hypothesis: accounting for polygenicity and pleiotropy Trends in Parasitology. |
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March 4th | Lab Meeting | Alison Barton | Investigating the contribution of rare coding variants to phenotypes in UK Biobank. |
Journal Club | Carla Hoge | Marcovitz et al. 2019, A functional enrichment test for molecular convergent evolution finds a clear protein-coding signal in echolocating bats and whales PNAS. |
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March 11th | Lab Meeting | Jeff Spence | Simulation-based machine learning in population genetics as approximate Bayesian inference |
Journal Club | Marc de Manuel | Rockweiler et al. 2022, The origins and functional effects of postzygotic mutations throughout the human lifespan bioRxiv. |
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March 18th | Lab Meeting | Carla Hoge | Recombination patterns in cornsnakes suggest a tug of war between PRDM9 and promoter-like features |
Journal Club | Djivan Prentout | Lenormand and Roze 2022, Y recombination arrest and degeneration in the absence of sexual dimorphism Science and Jay et al. 2022 Modeling the stepwise extension of recombination suppression on sex chromosomes and other supergenes through deleterious mutation sheltering bioRxiv. |
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March 25th | Lab Meeting | Minyoung Wyman | T-asymmetry in the human germline |
April 29th | Journal Club | Will Milligan | Genetics of participation |
May 6th | Lab Meeting | Carrie Zhu | Amplification is the primary mode of gene-by-sex interaction in complex human traits |
May 11th | Lab Meeting | Will Milligan | Conditions for large effect fixations under polygenic adaptation |
May 13th | Lab Meeting | Djivan Prentour | TBD |
June 3rd | Lab Meeting | Carla Hoge | TBD |
Lab Meeting | Will Milligan | Practice PEQG talk | |
June 13th | Lab Meeting | Jiarun Chen | Polygenic Adaptation under Recurrent Changes in Environment |
June 17th | Journal Club | Molly Przeworski | Okbay et al. 2022, Polygenic prediction of educational attainment within and between families from genome-wide association analyses in 3 million individuals Nature genetics. |
July 13th | Lab Meeting | Marc de Manuel | TBD |
July 20th | Lab Meeting | Ana Pinharanda | TBD |
July 27th | Lab Meeting | Flora Borne | TBD |