| When | What | Who | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 19 | Lab meeting | Georgii Bazykin | Towards understanding and forecasting evolution of pathogenic viruses. |
| Jan. 26 | Lab meeting | Ruth Epstein | Investigating recombination rate evolution during maize domestication. |
| Feb. 1 | Lab meeting | Lin Poyraz | Lab meeting | Anastasia Stolyarova |
| Feb. 15 | Lab meeting | Lino Ferreira | Polygenic scores enable the discovery of genetic interactions associated with human complex traits in the UK Biobank. | Journal club | Allen Dinh | Buffalo et al. 2023, A quantitative genetic model of background selection in humans. |
| Mar. 1 | Lab meeting | Yuki Haba | Origin and evolutionary history of Culex pipiens complex mosquitoes. |
| Mar. 15 | Lab meeting | Hannah Munby | Identifying long-lived balanced polymorphisms in humans. |
| Mar. 22 | Journal club | Jiarun Chen | Hoellinger et al. 2023, A theory of oligogenic adaptation of a quantitative trait. |
| Apr. 18 | Lab meeting | Guillaume Achaz | Weak genetic draft and the Lewontin’s paradox. |
| May 17 | Conference | New York Area Population Genetics Meeting | |
| May 24 | Lab meeting | Carla Hoge Arjun Sai Krishnan |
Population genomics of the stony coral Acropora millepora across the Great Barrier Reef | Journal club | Lin Poyraz | Schneemann et al. 2024, Fisher’s geometric model as a tool to study speciation. |
| May 31 | Lab meeting | Jiarun Chen | Polygenic adaptation under recurrent changes in environment. |
| June 7 | Lab meeting | Kip Lacy | Co-inheritance of crossover products maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant. | Journal club | Flora Borne | Papkou et al. 2023, A rugged yet easily navigable fitness landscape. |
| June 14 | Lab meeting | Sylvia Durkin | Genetic and environmental determinants of adaptive phenotypes in tropical and temperate house mice. | Journal club | Carla Hoge | Hinch et al. 2023, Meiotic DNA breaks drive multifaceted mutagenesis in the human germ line. |
| June 21 | Lab meeting | Vanesa Getseva | A sibling study of parental mutation rates | Journal club | Natanael Spisak | Schraiber et al. 2024, Unifying approaches from statistical genetics and phylogenetics for mapping phenotypes in structured populations. |
| June 28 | Lab meeting | Matin Saeidi | Mutator alleles: from theoretical models to empirical evidence |