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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 4th | Lab Meeting | Carla Hoge | Investigating the determinants of recombination localization in vertebrates using the snake Pantherophis guttatus |
| December 11th @ 4PM | 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 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 |
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 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 |
For examples of topics previously discussed by our lab, please view schedules from previous semesters.