| When | What | Who | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 9 | Journal club | Anastasia Stolyarova | Kitch et al. 2024, A phylogeny-based approach to discover mutational processes in primates (bioRxiv). |
| Jan. 16 | Journal club | Lino Ferreira | Ferreira et al. 2025, Interactions with polygenic background impact quantitative traits in the UK Biobank (medRxiv). |
| Feb. 13 | Journal club | Jiarun Chen | Bertram et al. 2025, Strong amplification of quantitative genetic variation under a balance between mutation and fluctuating stabilizing selection (bioRxiv). |
| Mar. 20 | Lab meeting | Jennifer Merritt | Extreme glucocorticoid levels in deer mice emerge from an evolutionary arms race. |
| Apr. 24 | Lab meeting | Tristram Dodge | Turnover and introgression shape the dynamic evolution of a sexual mimicry trans-species polymorphism. |
| May 1 | Lab meeting | Anastasia Stolyarova | A pedigree study in rhesus macaques reveals a large fraction of early embryonic germline mutations. |
| May 5 @ 1 p.m. |
Lab meeting | Charlotte Lemay and Liaoyi Xu |
New methods to study the evolution of gene families. |
| May 8 @ 4:30 p.m. |
Biology of Genomes | Jonathan Pritchard and Janet Kelso |
Keynote talks. |
| May 15 @ 3 p.m. |
PhD defense | Vanesa Getseva | Leveraging relatedness in genomic datasets to study variation in germline mutation rates. |
| May 22 | Lab meeting | Daria Bykova and Arjun Sai Krishnan |
Population genetics of Acropora millepora. |
| May 29 | Journal club | Daria Bykova | Xia et al. 2026, Mapping the zygote-to-adult developmental cell phylogeny in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals a three-cell rule of branching (Nature Plants). |
| June 5 | Journal club | Hannah Munby and Mischa Langley |
Henfrey et al. 2026, A genome-wide atlas of meiotic recombination intermediates reveals distinct modes of DNA repair that direct crossovers away from transcriptionally marked genes (bioRxiv). |