We meet on Fridays in the conference room in Fairchild 602. Lab meetings start at 1:30 p.m. and journal clubs start at 3 p.m.
Our meetings are held together with the Andolfatto and Sella labs.
Upcoming:
| When | What | Who | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1 | Lab meeting | Anastasia Stolyarova | A pedigree study in rhesus macaques reveals a large fraction of early embryonic germline mutations. |
| May 5 @1pm | Lab meeting | Charlotte Lemay and Liaoyi Xu | New methods to study the evolution of gene families. |
| May 8 | Lab meeting | Daria Bykova and Arjun Sai Krishnan | Population genetics of Acropora millepora. |
| May 15 @3pm | PhD defense | Vanesa Getseva | TBA |
| May 22 | Journal club | Daria Bykova | Guo et al. 2026, Testing Weismann’s germ plasm theory in Arabidopsis (CellPress). |
To sign up for lab meeting or journal club click here.
Full schedule:
| 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 @1pm | Lab meeting | Charlotte Lemay and Liaoyi Xu | New methods to study the evolution of gene families. |
| May 8 | Lab meeting | Daria Bykova and Arjun Sai Krishnan | Population genetics of Acropora millepora. |
| May 15 @3pm | PhD defense | Vanesa Getseva | TBA |
| May 22 | Journal club | Daria Bykova | Guo et al. 2026, Testing Weismann’s germ plasm theory in Arabidopsis (CellPress). |
For examples of topics previously discussed by our lab, please view schedules from previous semesters.