Our weekly lab meetings and journal clubs are held together with the Andolfatto and Sella labs.
We meet on Fridays at 1 PM or 2:30 PM in the conference room in Fairchild 602.
Upcoming:
| When | What | Who | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 15 Thursday at 2:30 |
Lab meeting | Hannah Munby |
To sign up for lab meeting or journal club click here.
See suggestions for journal club here.
Full Schedule:
| 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 and fitness effect of missense variants. |
| Nov. 4 | Lab meeting | Magnus Nordborg | Methylation madness continued. |
| Journal club | Minyoung Wyman | Cosby et al. 2021, Recurrent evolution of vertebrate transcription factors by transposase capture (Science). | |
| Nov. 11 | Journal club | Carla Hoge | Wang et al. 2022, Comparative genome anatomy reveals evolutionary insights into a unique amphitriploid fish (Nat Ecol Evol). |
| Nov. 14 | Lab meeting | Jeremy Berg | |
| Nov. 18 | Journal club | Marc de Manuel | Kaplanis et al. 2022, Genetic and chemotherapeutic influences on germline hypermutation (Nature). |
| Dec. 2 | Lab meeting | Meret Arter | |
| Journal club | Vanesa Getseva | Mbatchou et al. 2021, Computationally efficient whole-genome regression for quantitative and binary traits (Nature Genetics). | |
| Dec. 9 | Lab meeting | Manyuan Long | The Origination of Genes from Scratch under Sexual Conflict. |
| Journal club | Magnus Nordborg | Brovkina et al. 2022, A common genomic architecture for interacting with the external world (bioRxiv). | |
| Dec. 16 | Lab meeting | David Stern | |
| Lab meeting | Joy Bergelson and Magnus Nordborg |
Field GWAS and experimental evolution experiments reveal genetic tradeoffs in response to temporally and spatially variable selection | |
| 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 Getseva | An approach to identify mutator alleles in humans. |
| Journal club | Akanksha Bhat | Muralidhar et al. 2022, Assortative mating enhances postzygotic barriers to gene flow via ancestry bundling (PNAS). | |
| Mar. 3 | Lab meeting | Natanael Spisak | Modeling helps to identify key parameters of human mutagenesis. |
| Carla Hoge | A tug of war between PRDM9 and promoter-like features revealed by the study of a non-mammalian vertebrate. | ||
| Journal club | Andrés Bendesky and Magnus Nordborg |
Dutrow et al. 2022, Domestic dog lineages reveal genetic drivers of behavioral diversification (Cell). | |
| Mar. 13 | Lab meeting | Simon Myers | |
| Apr. 7 | Journal club | Natanael Spisak | Jumper et al. 2021, Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold (Nature). |
| Apr. 14 | Lab meeting | Robin Burns | Cycles of satellite and transposon evolution in arabidopsis centromeres. |
| Apr. 21 | Lab meeting | Marc de Manuel and Natanael Spisak |
Mechanisms behind mutational signatures. |
| Apr. 28 | Lab meeting | Djivan Prentout | Recombination in zebra finch. |
| May 5 | Lab meeting | Aleksandra Kornienko | Extensive natural variation and silencing of lncRNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana. |
| May 8 | Lab meeting | Joyce Wang | The poor portability of polygenic scores is only partially attributable to genetic ancestry. |
| May 12 | Thesis defense | Will Milligan | |
| May 19 | Lab meeting | Vladimir Seplyarskiy | Evolution of mutational processes in mammals. |
| June 15 | Lab meeting | Hannah Munby |
For examples of topics previously discussed by our lab, please view schedules from previous semesters.