PopGen Vienna (hybrid) seminars

Physical location of hybrid seminars:
Vetmeduni Vienna
Typically Lecture Hall B (building FA, ground floor), but note exceptions marked with an asterisk under the title
How to find the lecture hall: campus map

Time: 17:00 CEST/CET on Tuesdays

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Schedule:

04.03.25 – Lutz Becks (Univ. of Konstanz, DE)
The evolutionary dynamics of novel endosymbiosis.
*Online only.

11.03.25 – Ilkka Kronholm (Univ. of Jyväskylä, FI)
How chromatin structure influences genetic and epigenetic variation.

18.03.25 – Katja Hoedjes (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam, NL)
Understanding functional impact of genetic variation on complex traits at a single nucleotide resolution.

25.03.25 – Sophie Armitage (Freie Univ. of Berlin, DE)
Evolutionary ecology of host-pathogen interactions.
*Online only.

01.04.25 – Matthew Rockman (New York Univ., US)
Developmental evolution is a population-genetics problem.

08.04.25 – Wen-Juan Ma (Vrije Univ. Brussels, BE)
The evolution of sex chromosomes and sex determination in frogs.

15.04.25 – Almorò Scarpa (Vetmeduni, AT)
Two centuries of transposable element invasions in Drosophila melanogaster

22.04.25 – Julia Kreiner (Univ. of Chicago, US)
The mode and tempo of genomic adaptation to contemporary agriculture.

29.04.25 – Martin Kaltenpoth (Max Planck Inst. for Chemical Ecology, DE)
Microbial symbionts as sources of evolutionary innovations in beetles.

06.05.25 – Luisa Pallares (Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, DE)
Phenotypic robustness across the genotype-phenotype map, from genes to environment and back.

13.05.25 – Diana Rennison (Univ. of Calif., San Diego, US)
Understanding the predictability of evolutionary trajectories using threespine stickleback.

20.05.25 – Filipa Sousa (Univ. of Vienna, AT)
Bioenergetics Evolution: The link between Earth’s and Life’s history.

27.05.25 – Yun Song (Univ. of California, Berkeley, US)
Learning and applying complex probability distributions over biological sequences.
*Lecture Hall A (Building FA, ground floor)

03.06.25 – April Wei (Cornell Univ., US)
Enabling efficient analysis of biobank-scale data with genotype representation graphs.

10.06.25 – Lauren McIntyre (Univ. of Florida, US)
SFB Polygenic Adaptation Distinguished Speaker
Disentangling cis and trans effects: a novel crossing design.
*UWien Faculty of Mathematics, Oskar-Morgenstern Platz 1, Room 09.141

17.06.25 – Stephan Schiffels (Max Planck Inst. of Evolutionary Anthropology, DE)
Spatial inference of population structure and prehistoric human mobility from ancient and modern genomes.
*Lecture Hall M (building HA, 1st floor)

24.06.25 – Margarida Matos (Univ. of Lisboa, PT)
From nature to the lab: The role of history, chance and selection during adaptation to novel environments.
*Online only.