PopGen Vienna (hybrid) seminars

Please note that some seminars are online, only. Location of in-person hybrid seminars:
Lecture Hall B (building FA, ground floor), Vetmeduni Vienna
How to find the lecture hall: campus map

Time: 17:00 CEST/CET

Covid rules: PCR-tested negative & FFP2 masks, or join us online.

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Schedule:

impromptu: Friday, 12.08.22 - Jacqueline Sztepanacz (Univ. of Toronto, CA)
The role of pleiotropy in the evolution of quantitative genetic variation.
Lecture Hall B and online

impromptu: Friday, 16.09.22 - David Stern (Janelia Research Campus, US)
Toward an understanding of the mechanisms of plant gall induction by aphids.
Lecture Hall B and online
Youtube abstract

11.10.22 - Loren Rieseberg (Univ. of British Columbia, CA)
Recombination and speciation.
online
watch talk here

18.10.22 - Justin Fay (Univ. of Rochester, US)
Evolution of thermal tolerance in Saccharomyces.
Lecture Hall B and online
watch talk here

25.10.22 - Dan Schrider (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US)
Automating my own job: machine learning for evolutionary genetics.
online
watch talk here

08.11.22 - Kateryna Makova (Pennsylvania State Univ., US)
Non-B DNA structures and evolution of our genomes.
online
watch talk here

15.11.22 - Martin Polz (Univ. of Vienna, AT)
The eco-evolutionary dynamics of bacteria and their viruses in the wild.
Lecture Hall B and online
watch talk here

22.11.22 - Mihaela Pavlicev (Univ. of Vienna, AT)
No preterm birth, at the cost of endometriosis? Antagonistic pleiotropy of a SNP in human reproductive traits.
Lecture Hall B and online
watch talk here

29.11.22 - Franz Baumdicker (Univ. Tübingen, DE)
Adaptive training for machine learning in population genetics.
online

13.12.22 - Wesley Warren (Univ. of Missouri, US)
The power and limitations of sequence variation discovery with trait consequences.
Lecture Hall B and online

10.01.23 - Li Zhao (The Rockefeller Univ., US)
The origin and evolution of genetic and functional innovation.
Lecture Hall B and online

17.01.23 - Joana Meier (Wellcome Sanger Inst. & Univ. of Cambridge, UK)
Rapid speciation fueled by admixture.
Lecture Hall B and online

24.01.23 - Tatiana Giraud (Université Paris-Saclay, FR)
A new general theory for the evolution of sex chromosomes and other supergenes.
online

31.01.23 - Bret Payseur (Univ. of Wisconsin -  Madison, US)
Evolution of recombination rate on broad and fine genomic scales.
online