Winter Term 2017/18

03.10.17 - Artyom Kopp (UC Davis, US)
Origin and evolution of sex-specific traits in flies.

10.10.17 - Antonio Barbadilla (UAB, ES)
The enquiry power of population genomics.

17.10.17 - Sam Yeaman (Univ. of Calgary, CA)
A tale of two architectures: what can convergent local adaptation tell us about evolution?

24.10.17 - Ilik Saccheri (Univ. of Liverpool, UK)
The evolutionary genetics of industrial melanism – an unfolding story.

21.11.17 - Erik van Nimwegen (Univ. of Basel, CH)
Gene expression noise, gene regulation, and genome evolution in E. coli.

28.11.17 - Magnus Nordborg (GMI, A)
Epigenetic variation in Arabidopsis.

05.12.17 - Richard Durbin (Sanger Institute, UK)
Inferring population and species history from whole genome sequences.

12.12.17 - Örjan Carlborg (Uppsala Univ., SE)
Complex trait genetics beyond additivity.

19.12.17 - Justin Blumenstiel (Univ. of Kansas, US)
Evolution of off-target effects of piRNA silencing.

09.01.17 -  Jean-Michel Marin (Univ. of Montpellier, FR)
Inferring demographic histories from genomic polymorphism data.

16.01.18 - Joshua Akey (Princeton Univ., US)
Interpreting patterns of human genomic diversity: from archaic admixture to recent relaxation of functional constraint.

23.01.18 - Hervé Colinet (UMR CNRS ECOBIO, FR)
Complexity of cold tolerance plasticity mechanisms in Drosophila flies.

30.01.18 - Hugo Stocker (ETH Zürich, CH)
Another kind of population genetics: How clonal populations of tumor suppressor-deficient cells perform within a growing epithelium.