Our weekly lab meetings and journal clubs are held together with the Andolfatto and Sella labs.
Meeting times: Fridays 12:45 – 2:00 pm (lab meeting) & 2:15-3:30 pm (journal club). Once a month, journal club will be at the alternate time of 4:00 – 5:15 pm.
Upcoming:
| When | What | Who | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 16th | Lab Meeting | Florian Labourel | A mechanistic view of the Evolution of diversity. |
To sign up for lab meeting or journal club click here.
Full Schedule:
| 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 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 | Author, Title Journal | |
| 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 | TBD |
| 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 |
| 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 | TBD. |
| 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 | TBD. |
| 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 | TBD. |
| 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 | TBD. |
| 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. |
For examples of topics previously discussed by our lab, please view schedules from previous semesters.