Summer Term 2024

Schedule:

12.03.24 - Laura Hayward (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, AT)
Polygenic adaptation with pleiotropy.
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19.03.24 - Thomas Lenormand (CNRS, CEFE Montpellier, FR)
Regulatory evolution, sex chromosomes and speciation.
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09.04.24 - Otto X. Cordero (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US)
Deconstructing and reconstructing the microbiomes that digest recalcitrant organic matter in the ocean.

16.04.24 - Hannah Götsch (Univ. of Vienna, AT)
Polygenic Puzzles: Investigating quantitative traits under directional selection.
(canceled)

online, only 23.04.24 - Molly Schumer (Stanford Univ., US)
Unraveling the tangled web: Genetics and evolution in natural populations.
(canceled)

30.04.24 - Anna Maria Langmüller (Univ. of Vienna, AT)
Gaussian Process Emulation: an application in epidemiology.

online, only 07.05.24 - Moisés Expósito-Alonso (Univ. of California, Berkeley, US)
Rapid evolution across climates in globally distributed experiments of an annual herb.
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online, only 14.05.24 - Nicolas Galtier (Univ. of Montpellier, FR)
Phylogenetic conflicts: distinguishing gene flow from incomplete lineage sorting.
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21.05.24 - Darren Obbard (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK)
Mutation, recombination, and transposition in Drosophilidae.

28.05.24 - Benjamin Blackman (Univ. of California, Berkeley, US)
Tracing sunflower domestication through space and time with archaeological DNA.

online, only 04.06.24 - Christian Landry (Univ. Laval, CA)
Evolution of protein-protein interactions after gene duplication.
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11.06.24 - Rasmus Nielsen (Univ. of California, Berkeley, US)
Population genetic inferences using ancestral recombination graphs.
(canceled)

lecture hall M! 18.06.24 - Charles Baer (Univ. of Florida, US)
Exploring heritable variation in mammalian cells.
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25.06.24 - Nancy Chen (Univ. of Rochester, US)
Tracking short-term evolution in a pedigreed wild population.
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