PopGen Vienna (hybrid) seminars

Location of in-person hybrid seminars:
Lecture Hall B (building FA, ground floor), Vetmeduni Vienna (PLEASE NOTE EXCEPTIONS marked with an asterisk under the title!)
How to find the lecture hall: campus map

Time: 17:00 CEST/CET

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Schedule:

SPECIAL SEPTEMBER SEMINAR! (in-person only)
12.09.2024 – Nitin Phadnis (Univ. of Utah, US) 
Genomic conflict and the origins of hybrid incompatibilities.

08.10.24 – Lara Radovic (Vetmeduni, AT)
Y chromosome enlightens the last 1,500 years of horse history.

15.10.24 – Rasmus Nielsen (Univ. of California, Berkeley, US)
Ancestral Recombination Graphs and their use for population genetic inferences.
*Online only

22.10.24 – Patrick Tschopp (Univ. of Basel, CH)
Cell fate convergence in the vertebrate skeleton.

29.10.24 – Ann-Marie Waldvogel (Univ. of Cologne, DE)
Title TBD
*Lecture Hall M

05.11.24 – Aurelien Tellier (TU Munich, DE)
Inference of past demography and life-history traits from genomic and epigenomic polymorphism data.

12.11.24 – Nandita Garud (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, US)
Inference of demography and selection from human gut commensal microbiota.
*Online only

19.11.24 – Ralf Sommer (Max Planck Inst. for Developmental Biology, DE)
What’s wrong with evolutionary theory?
*Lecture Hall D

26.11.24 – Alexander Suh (Univ. of East Anglia, UK)
Unusual inheritance and evolution of the germline-restricted chromosome of songbirds.

03.12.24 – Mario dos Reis (Queen Mary Univ. of London, UK)
Modeling the action of natural selection on protein-coding genes.

10.12.24 – Rhonda Snook (Stockholm Univ., SE)
Ecological and evolutionary consequences of reproductive stress in insects.
*UWien Faculty of Mathematics, Oskar-Morgenstern Platz 1, Room 09.141

17.12.24 – Katie Lotterhos (Northeastern Univ., US)
Inversions as concentrators of polygenic architectures.
*UWien Faculty of Mathematics, Oskar-Morgenstern Platz 1, Room 09.141

14.01.25 – Martin Kaltenpoth (Max Planck Inst. For Chemical Ecology, DE)
Microbial symbionts as sources of evolutionary innovations in beetles.
*Lecture Hall M

21.01.25 – George Cresswell (St. Anna Kinderkrebsforschung, AT)
Cancer Evolution: Basic principles to clinical implications.

28.01.25 – Simon Martin (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK)
Chromosomal rearrangements and local adaptation: more than meets the eye.