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Spring 2023

When What Who Details Jan. 13 Lab meeting Minyoung Wyman Transcription-coupled repair in the germline. Journal club Hannah Munby Schield et al. 2022, The roles of balancing selection and recombination in the evolution of rattlesnake venom (Nat Ecol Evol). Feb. 10 Lab meeting Vanesa… Continue Reading “Spring 2023”

Fall 2022

  When What Who Details Sept. 30 Journal club Young Mi Kwon Tilk et al. 2022, Most cancers carry a substantial deleterious load due to Hill-Robertson interference (eLife). Oct. 7 Lab meeting Magnus Nordborg Methylation madness. Oct. 21 Lab meeting Yige Zhao Predicting functional… Continue Reading “Fall 2022”

Spring 2022

When What Who Details 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… Continue Reading “Spring 2022”

Fall 2021

Schedule for Fall 2021: When What Who Details September 17th Lab Meeting (1:30 PM – 2:45 PM) Will Milligan Polygenic adaptation with low polygenicity Journal Club Felix Wu LeCun et al. 2015, Deep Learning Nature. September 24th Lab Meeting Felix Wu and Marc de… Continue Reading “Fall 2021”

Spring 2021

When What Who Details January 8th Lab Meeting Ipsita Agarwal Mutation saturation in current samples Journal club Marc de Manuel Baur & Berger 2020, Experimental evidence for effects of sexual selection on condition-dependent mutation rates Nature Ecology & Evolution January 15th Lab Meeting Eric… Continue Reading “Spring 2021”

Fall 2020

When What Who Details August 14th Journal Club Ipsita Agarwal Sinnott-Armstrong et al. 2020, GWAS of three molecular traits highlights core genes and pathways alongside a highly polygenic background bioRxiv. August 21th Journal Club Carla Hoge Murakami et al. 2020, Multilayered mechanisms ensure that… Continue Reading “Fall 2020”

Spring 2020

When What Who Details January 24th Lab Meeting Zach Fuller Towards a genetic prediction of bleaching in Corals. January 31st Journal club Carla Hoge Jung et al. 2019, Unified single-cell analysis of testis gene regulation and pathology in five mouse strains eLife Journal club… Continue Reading “Spring 2020”

Fall 2019

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… Continue Reading “Fall 2019”

Spring 2019

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… Continue Reading “Spring 2019”

Winter 2018

Full Schedule: When What Who Details July 26th Lab Meeting Lluis Q-M Unraveling the genetic and evolutionary sources of variation in immune response phenotypes July 27th Journal Club Jeremy Berg Cvijovic et al 2018 The effect of strong purifying selection on genetic diversity. Genetics.… Continue Reading “Winter 2018”