PopGen Vienna (hybrid) seminars

Physical location of hybrid seminars:
Vetmeduni Vienna
Typically either Lecture Hall A or Lecture Hall B (both Building FA, ground floor), but occasionally Lecture Hall M (Building HA, first floor). Check schedule below.
How to find the lecture hall: campus map

Time: 17:00 CEST/CET on Tuesdays

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Schedule

06.10.26 – Dan Nussey (Univ. Edinburgh, UK)
The evolutionary ecology of senescence in wild animals
Location: Lecture Hall B

13.10.26 – Howard Rundle (Univ. Ottawa, CA)
The population genetic consequences of mate competition: Empirical insights from Drosophila
Location: Lecture Hall B

20.10.26 – Josephine Pemberton (Univ. Edinburgh, UK)
Evolutionary genetic studies in long term, individually-monitored wild animal populations
SFB Polygenic Adaptation Distinguished Speaker
Location: Lecture Hall A

27.10.26 – Richard Benton (Univ. Lausanne, CH)
Niche specialisation in nervous systems and beyond
Location: Lecture Hall B

03.11.26 – Thomas Bataillon (Aarhus Univ., DK)
How to find a “Ruby in the Rubbish?”: On using population genomics to make inference about beneficial mutations, deleterious mutations and their impact on adaptation
Location: Lecture Hall A

24.11.26 – John Welch (Univ. Cambridge, UK)
When will hybridization be beneficial?
Location: Lecture Hall A

01.12.26 – Thomas Flatt (Univ. Fribourg, CH)
Inversions and the hunt for the genomic targets of selection
Location: Lecture Hall A

15.12.26 – Andreas Futschik (Vetmeduni Vienna, AT)
Frequentist and Bayesian inference for population genetic data
Location: Lecture Hall M

12.01.27 - Leif Andersson (Uppsala Univ., SW)
On the origin of Baltic herring by means of natural selection
Location: Lecture Hall A

19.01.27 – Mikkel Schierup (Aarhus Univ., DK)
De novo mutations, cross-overs and gene conversions across primate species inferred from HiFi sequencing of sperm and testis tissue
Location: Lecture Hall A

26.01.27 – Thomas Wiehe (Univ. Cologne, DE)
Looking at (some) plant genes with a joint LLM-population genetics lens
Location: Lecture Hall M