| 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 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 |
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 Manuel | The evolution of sex bias in mutation across amniotes |
| Journal Club | TBD | Deep Learning part 2 | |
| October 1st | Lab Meeting | Michael Goldberg | Variation in germline de novo mutagenesis in human families |
| Journal Club | Will Milligan | Cagan et al. 2021, Somatic mutation rates scale with lifespan across mammals BioRxiv. |
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| October 8th | Journal Club | Hannah Munby | Ferris et al. 2021, The genomics of rapid climatic adaptation and parallel evolution in North American house mice PLOS Genetics. |
| October 22st | Journal Club | Ziqing Pan | Dukler et al. 2021, Extreme purifying selection against point mutations in the human genome BioRxiv. |
| October 29th | Journal Club | Group | Deep learning part 2 |
| Journal Club | Minyoung Wyman | Svensson et al. 2021, Correlational selection in the age of genomics Nature Ecology & Evolution. |
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| November 5th @ 12pm | Lab Meeting | Ipsita Agarwal | Fitness effects of new mutations |
| Journal Club | Group | Deep learning part 3 | |
| November 19th | Lab Meeting | Natanael Spisak | Insights into affinity maturation from B cell repertoire sequencing |
| Journal Club | Hannah Munby | Ferris et al. 2021, The genomics of rapid climatic adaptation and parallel evolution in North American house mice PLOS Genetics. |
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| December 3rd | Journal Club | Marc de Manuel Montero | Murat et al. 2021, The molecular evolution of spermatogenesis across mammal BioRxiv. |
| December 10th | Lab Meeting | Nicholas Lillis | TBD |
| Journal Club | Jiarun Chen | Cortes et al. 2020, Identifying cross-disease components of genetic risk across hospital data in the UK Biobank Nature Genetics. |
| 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 Turkheimer | Are SNPs related to complex human behavior causal? Does it matter? |
| Journal club | Eric Turkheimer | Fisher 1919, The causes of human variability Eugenics Review | |
| January 29th | Lab Meeting | Felix Wu and Marc de Manuel | Estimating male mutation bias across mammals |
| February 5th | Journal club | Felix Wu | Bhutani et al. 2021, Widespread haploid-biased gene expression enables sperm-level natural selection/a> Science |
| February 12th | Journal club | Ana Pinharanda | Kennedy and Reade 2017, Why does drug resistance readily evolve but vaccine resistance does not? Proceedings of the Royal Society B |
| March 5th | Lab Meeting | Hakhamanesh Mostafavi | |
| March 12th | Lab Meeting | Vince Buffalo | Why do species get a thin slice of π? Revisiting Lewontin’s Paradox of Variation. |
| March 19th | Lab Meeting | Arslan Zaidi | |
| March 26th | Lab Meeting | Molly Schumer | The genetic architecture and evolutionary origin of a lethal hybrid incompatibility. |
| Journal Club | Zach Fuller | Jones et al. 2020, Convergent evolution of seasonal camouflage in response to reduced snow cover across the snowshoe hare range Evolution | |
| April 2nd | Lab Meeting | Ben Strober | Diverse transcriptomic signatures identify functional rare genetic variation. |
| Journal Club | Will Milligan | Strogatz, Exploring complex networks Nature | |
| April 9th | Lab Meeting | Thomas Sasani | A wild-derived antimutator drives germline mutation spectrum differences in a genetically diverse murine family. |
| April 15th @ 9:30 AM | Lab Meeting | Flora Borne | Evolution of the glue produced by Drosophila larvae. |
| April 16th | Journal Club | Anna Yoney | Bizzotto et al. 2021, Landmarks of human embryonic development |
| April 23rd | Lab Meeting | Chris Large | |
| Journal Club | Ana Pinharanda | Gokhman et al. 2021, Human–chimpanzee fused cells reveal cis-regulatory divergence underlying skeletal evolution Nature Genetics | |
| May 13th @ 10:30 AM (EDT) | Lab Meeting | Djivan Prentout | Plant genera Cannabis and Humulus share the same pair of well-differentiated sex chromosomes. |
| May 14th | Journal Club | Marc de Manuel Montero | Abascal et al. 2021, Somatic mutation landscapes at single-molecule resolution nature. |
| May 21st | Lab Meeting | Ellen Leffler | Host-parasite genetic interactions in malaria |
| May 28th 10:30 AM -12 PM | Lab Meeting | Ziyue Gao | |
| June 11th | Journal Club | Carla Hoge | Pratt et al. 2021, Germline DNA replication shapes the recombination landscape in mammals BioRxiv. |
| Journal Club | Daniel Hooper | Wang et al. 2021, Transcriptional regulatory divergence underpinning species-specific learned vocalization in songbirds PLOS Biology. | |
| July 16th | Lab Meeting | Florian Labourel | A mechanistic view of the Evolution of diversity. |
| When | What | Who | Details |
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| 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 short chromosomes recombine in meiosis Nature. |
| August 28th | Journal Club | Felix Wu | Pearce and Vandenbroucke 2020, Educational note: types of causes International Journal of Epidemiology. |
| October 23rd | Lab Meeting | Vagheesh Narasimhan | Natural selection through different time epochs in ancient Europeans. |
| October 30th | Journal club | Zach Fuller and Carla Hoge | Kuntz et al. 2020, Juvenile corals inherit mutations acquired during the parent’s lifespan bioRxiv and Barfield et al. 2016, Evolutionary origins of germline segregation in Metazoa: evidence for a germ stem cell lineage in the coral Orbicella faveolata (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) Proceedings of the Royal Society B |
| November 13th | Lab Meeting | Ipsita Agarwal | Fitness consequences of DNMs |
| Journal club | Daniel Hooper | ||
| November 20th | Lab Meeting | Arbel Harpak | Interpreting signals of polygenic adaptation – Part 1 |
| Journal club | Anna Yoney | Guo et al. 2020 The Dynamic Transcriptional Cell Atlas of Testis Development during Human Puberty, Cell Stem Cell | |
| December 4th | Lab Meeting | Carla Hoge | |
| December 11th | Lab Meeting | Laura Hayward & Guy Sella | Interpreting signals of polygenic adaptation – Part 2 |
| December 18th | Lab Meeting | Peter Andolfatto | Diet unmasks cryptic genetic variants that regulate lifespan in outbred Drosophila |
| When | What | Who | Details |
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| 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 | Luke Sarre | Lopez and Palumbi 2019, Somatic mutations and genome stability maintenance in clonal coral colonies bioRxiv | |
| March 6th | Lab Meeting | Ana Pinharanda | Gene regulatory network evolution in morphological divergence between Drosophila species. |
| Journal Club | Felix Wu | Seplyarskiy et al. 2020, Population sequencing data reveal a compendium of mutational processes in human germline. BioRxiv | |
| March 13th | Journal Club | Will Milligan | Watson et al. 2016, Germline replications and somatic mutation accumulation are independent of vegetative life span in Arabidopsis PNAS and Schmid-Siegert et al. 2017 Low number of fixed somatic mutations in a long-lived oak tree Nature Plants. |
| March 20th | Journal Club | Zach Fuller | Cirulli et al. 2020, Genome-wide rare variant analysis for thousands of phenotypes in over 70,000 exomes from two cohorts Nature. |
| March 26th | Journal Club | Collective | COVID19 Part 1 |
| April 3rd | Lab Meeting | Carla Hoge | Towards identifying determinants of meiotic recombination landscapes in non-mammalian animals |
| Journal Club | Collective | COVID19 Part 2 | |
| April 10th | Journal Club | Arbel Harpak | Howe et al. 2020, Assortative mating and within-spouse pair comparisons BioRxiv. |
| April 29th | Lab Meeting | Ipsita Agarwal | Estimating fitness consequences of de novo mutations |
| May 15th | Lab Meeting | Daniel Hooper | Evaluating the Faster-Z Effect in a recent radiation of Australian grassfinches |
| Journal Club | Carla Hoge | Malinsky et al. 2018, Whole-genome sequences of Malawi cichlids reveal multiple radiations interconnected by gene flow Nature Ecology and Evolution and Svardal et al. 2019 Ancestral Hybridization Facilitated Species Diversification in the Lake Malawi Cichlid Fish Adaptive Radiation Molecular Biology and Evolution. | |
| May 22th | Journal Club | Arbel Harpak | Wang et al. 2020, Theoretical and empirical quantification of the accuracy of polygenic scores in ancestry divergent populations BioRxiv. |
| May 29th | Lab Meeting | Aaron Stern | Quantifying & disentangling selection on genetically-correlated complex traits |
| Journal Club | Laura Hayward | Buffalo and Coop 2009 Genetics The Linked Selection Signature of Rapid Adaptation in Temporal Genomic Data. | |
| June 5th | Journal Club | Ana Pinharanda | Meier et al. 2020, Haplotype tagging reveals parallel formation of hybrid races in two butterfly species BioRxiv. |
| June 12th | Lab Meeting | Izabel Alves | The evolution and coevolution of PRDM9. |
| June 26th | Lab Meeting | Will Milligan | Evolution of Genetic Variance in Mutation Rates |
| Journal Club | Ipsita Agarwal and Zach Fuller | Karczewski et al. 2020, The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans Nature and Collins et al. 2020, A structural variation reference for medical and population genetics Nature. | |
| July 3rd | Journal Club | Arbel Harpak | Wang et al. 2020, Theoretical and empirical quantification of the accuracy of polygenic scores in ancestry divergent populations BioRxiv. |
| July 10th | Journal Club | Felix Wu | Volkova et al. 2020, Mutational signatures are jointly shaped by DNA damage and repair BioRxiv. |
| July 17th | Journal Club | Luke Sarre | Cantina et al. 2020, Evolutionary Persistence of DNA Methylation for Millions of Years after Ancient Loss of a De Novo Methyltransferase BioRxiv. |
| July 24th | Journal Club | Marc de Manuel Montero | Bell et al. 2020, Insights into variation in meiosis from 31,228 human sperm genomes Nature. |
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.
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 club | Carla Hoge | Halldorsson et al. 2019, Characterizing mutagenic effects of recombination through a sequence level genetic map |
| February 18th | Journal club | Ipsita Agarwal | Warrington et al. 2019, Maternal and fetal genetic effects on birth weight and their relevance to cardio-metabolic risk factors. bioRxiv. |
| February 22nd, time TBD | Lab Meeting | Nancy Chen | Tracking short-term evolution in a pedigreed wild population |
| March 4th | Journal club | Laura Hayward | Hou et al. 2019, Accurate estimation of SNP-heritability from biobank-scale data irrespective of genetic architecture. bioRxiv. |
| March 13th, 9AM | Lab Meeting | Dan Belsky | Phenotypic Annotation: Polygenic Score Analysis of Human Development to Advance Translation of GWAS Discovery |
| March 18th | Lab Meeting | Jeremy Berg | Polygenic mutation selection drift balance under the liability threshold model |
| March 19th @10:30 | Lab Meeting | Elora López | Molecular processes associated with long life span and resilience to stress in reef-building corals |
| March 25th | Lab Meeting | Tyler Joseph | Time-series models for population structure. |
| April 29th | Journal club | Arbel Harpak | Selzam et al. 2019, Comparing within- and between-family polygenic score prediction. bioRxiv. |
| May 6th | Lab Meeting | Mikkel Schierup | Neanderthal fragments lengths and mutational signatures suggests different historical generation times in non-African population over the past 50,000 years |
| May 13th | Lab Meeting | Lucas Moreira | Genomics of parallel divergence and local adaptation in two North American woodpeckers |
| May 20th | Lab Meeting | Kristin Lee | Evolution of Color Vision in New World Monkeys |
| May 28th | Lab Meeting | Felix Wu | Directly estimating the sex-specific mutation rate in olive baboons |
| June 3rd | Lab Meeting | Carla Hoge | Towards Understanding the Evolution of Recombination Localization in Vertebrates |
| June 10th | Lab Meeting | Shyamalika Gopalan | Characterizing the natural genetic and epigenetic diversity of human populations |
| Journal Club | Zach Fuller | Weghorn et al 2019 Applicability of the Mutation–Selection Balance Model to Population Genetics of Heterozygous Protein-Truncating Variants in Humans. Molecular Biology and Evolution. | |
| June 13th @ 10am | Thesis Defense | Hakhamamesh Mostafavi | Quantitative trait variation and adaptation in contemporary humans. |
| June 14th @ 9am | Lab Meeting | Will Milligan | Selection against mutator alleles limits their impact on mutation rates |
| June 17th | Journal club | Isabel Alves | Shanfelter et al. 2019, Divergent fine-scale recombination landscapes between a freshwater and marine population of threespine stickleback fish. Genome Biology and Evolution. |
| June 24th | Lab Meeting | Zach Baker | An evolutionary perspective on the localization of meiotic recombination events. |
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. |
| August 16th (@2:00pm) | Lab Meeting | Will Milligan | TBD |
| August 17th | Lab Meeting | Hakhamanesh Mostafavi | Decomposing pitfalls of polygenic score portability across populations |
| September 12th (Wednesday) @9:30am | Lab Meeting | Wynn Meyer | From blue eyes to the deep blue sea: exploring the genetic basis of convergent traits in mammals |
| October 16th, 9am | Lab Meeting | Zach Fuller | Using genomics to understand adaptation in the coral Acropora millepora |
| Nov 14th | Journal Club | Arbel Harpak | O’Connor et al. 2018, Distinguishing genetic correlation from causation across 52 diseases and complex traits. Nature Genetics. |
| Nov 27th @9AM | Journal Club @9AM | Jeremy Berg | O’Connor et al. 2018 Polygenicity of complex traits is explained by negative selection. bioRxiv. |
| Dec 12th | Journal Club @9AM | Will Milligan | Young and Donelly 2018 Identifying loci affecting trait variability and detecting interactions in genome-wide association studies. Nature Genetics. |
| Dec 19th | Journal Club @9AM | Laura Hayward | Hoellinger et al. 2018 Polygenic Adaptation: From sweeps to subtle frequency shifts. bioRxiv. |
Full Schedule:
| When | What | Who | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 19th | Lab Meeting | Jeremy Berg | Practice Job Talk |
| January 26th | Lab Meeting (@11:30am) | Hakhamanesh Mostafavi | Viability selection in contemporary humans |
| February 2nd | Conference | NY Genome Center | NY Human Genetics in NYC Conference |
| February 9th | Lab Meeting (@1:30pm) |
Nitin Phadnis | The molecular basis of speciation in Drosophila |
| February 16th | Journal Club (@12:00pm) | Felix Wu | Liggett et al 2017 Conserved patterns of somatic mutations in human peripheral blood cells. bioRxiv. |
| February 23rd | Journal Club | Jeremy Berg | Stephens 2017 False Discovery Rates: A New Deal. Biostatistics. |
| March 2nd | Lab Meeting | Zachary Fuller | A population genetics perspective on the intolerance to mutation |
| March 9th | Lab Meeting | Felix Wu | Estimating De Novo Mutation Rates in Humans and Baboons by Deep Sequencing of Family Units |
| March 23rd | Journal Club | Laura Hayward | Chan et al 2018 A Likelihood-Free Inference Framework for Population Genetic Data using Exchangeable Neural Networks. bioRxiv. |
| March 30th | Lab Meeting | Iain Mathieson | Watching evolution with ancient DNA |
| Journal Club | Hakhamanesh Mostafavi | Kong et al 2018 The nature of nurture: Effects of parental genotypes. Science. | |
| April 5th | Lab Meeting (@10:00am) | Yoav Benjamini | The replicability problems in science: it’s not the p-value’s fault |
| April 6th | Lab Meeting | Felix Wu | Estimating De Novo Mutation Rates in Humans and Baboons by Deep Sequencing of Family Units |
| Journal Club | Carla Hoge | Murray et al 2018 Natural selection shaped the rise and fall of passenger pigeon genomic diversity. Science. | |
| April 13th | Journal Club | Yuval Simons | Nelson and Cresko 2018 Ancient genomic variation underlies repeated ecological adaptation in young stickleback populations. Evolution Letters. |
| April 26th | Lab Meeting | Tom DiPrete | Genetic Instrumental Variable (GIV) regression: Explaining socioeconomic and health outcomes in non-experimental data |
| April 27th | Journal Club | Zachary Fuller | Meiklejohn et al 2018 Gene flow mediates the role of sex chromosome meiotic drive during complex speciation. BioRxiv. |
| May 4th | Lab Meeting (@2:30pm) | Carla Hoge and Xiaoting Li | Rotation Project Overviews |
| May 11th | Conference | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories | Biology of Genomes |
| May 18th | Lab Meeting | Zachary Baker | The story of PRDM9 |
| Lab Meeting (@1:45pm) | Molly Schumer | Searching for adaptive introgression with linked deleterious sites | |
| May 25th | Lab Meeting | Guy Amster | Life history effects on X-to-autosomes polymorphism ratios |
| Journal Club | Zachary Baker | Brand et al 2018 Molecular Evolution at a Meiosis Gene Mediates Species Differences in the Rate and Patterning of Recombination. Current Biology. | |
| June 8th | Lab Meeting | Jeremy Berg | All of the empirical results from my PhD thesis are wrong! |
| Journal Club | Hakhamanesh Mostafavi | Haworth et al 2018 Common genetic variants and health outcomes appear geographically structured in the UK Biobank sample: Old concerns returning and their implications. BioRxiv.Yengo et al 2018 Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for height and body mass index in ~700,000 individuals of European ancestry. BioRxiv. |
Full Schedule:
| When | What | Who | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 21st | Lab Meeting (@2:00pm) | Magnus Nordborg | Epigenetic Variation in Arabidopsis |
| Journal Club | Guy Amster | Pelletier et al. 2017 Eco-evolutionary dynamics in a contemporary human population. Nature. | |
| July 28th | Journal Club | Hakhamanesh Mostafavi | Ge et al. 2017 Phenome-wide heritability analysis of the UK Biobank. Plos Genetics. |
| August 4th | Lab Meeting | Jeremy Berg | Population genetic models for the evolution of human complex disease |
| August 18th | Lab Meeting | Yuki Haba | The genomics of behavioral adaptation to photoperiodism in an Asian burying beetle |
| Journal Club | Laura Hayward | Fernando et al. 2009 Additive Genetic Variability and the Bayesian Alphabet. Genetics. | |
| August 25th | Lab Meeting | Zach Fuller | Genetic variation associated with heat tolerance in corals |
| September 8th | Lab Meeting | Laura Hayward | A model for selection on a polygenic trait after a sudden change in environment |
| Journal Club | David Murphy | Lunter et al. 2014 8.2% of the Human Genome Is Constrained: Variation in Rates of Turnover across Functional Element Classes in the Human Lineage.GeneticsPlos Genetics | |
| September 22nd | Journal Club | Felix Wu | Niederhuber et al. 2017 Germline De Novo Mutation Clusters Arise During Oocyte Aging In Genomic Regions With Increased Double-Strand Break Incidence. BioRxiv. |
| September 29th | Lab Meeting | Andy Kern | Putting the HAL in Haldane: leveraging machine learning for population genetics |
| Journal Club | Jeremy Berg | Cherry et al. 1998 Should We Expect Substitution Rate to Depend on Population Size?. Genetics. | |
| October 6th | Lab Meeting | Kristen Lee | Detecting signatures of convergent adaptation in population genomic data |
| Journal Club | Hakhamanesh Mostafavi | Tahmasbi et al. 2017 Testing the moderation of quantitative gene by environment interactions in unrelated individuals. BioRxiv. | |
| October 20th | Journal Club | Laura Hayward | Lello et al. 2017 Accurate Genomic Prediction Of Human Height. BioRxiv. |
| October 27th | Lab Meeting (@10:00am) |
Ipsita Agarwal | Sex differences in the mutation spectrum |
| Journal Club | Zach Fuller | Prince et al. 2017 The evolutionary basis of premature migration in Pacific salmon highlights the utility of genomics for informing conservation. ScienceAdvances. | |
| November 10th | Lab Meeting (@9:45am) |
Parul Johri | Population genomics reveals evolutionary constraints across the genomes of Paramecium species |
| Journal Club | Yuval Simons | Crawford et al. 2017 Loci associated with skin pigmentation identified in African populations. Science. | |
| November 17th | Lab Meeting | Noah Reid | Rapid repeated evolution of extreme pollution tolerance in killfishes (Fundulus) |
| Journal Club | Guy Amster | Lynch et al. 2008 The Cellular, Developmental and Population-Genetic Determinants of Mutation-Rate Evolution. Genetics. | |
| December 1st | Lab Meeting | Eduardo Amorim | Barbarian migrations and social organization in 6th century Europe |
| Journal Club | Zach Baker | Latrille et al. 2017 The Red Queen model of recombination hot-spot evolution: a theoretical investigation. Philos Trans R Soc Lond. | |
| December 8th | Lab Meeting | Molly Schumer | Breakdown of population structure and hybrid incompatibility in a swordtail population |
| Journal Club | Ipsita Agarwal | Ju et al. 2017 Somatic mutations reveal asymmetric cellular dynamics in the early human embryo. Nature. |
For examples of topics previously discussed by our lab, please view schedules from previous semesters.