Frontiers of Population Genetics I

May 16, 2012, start: 9:30 am

Location: Lecture Hall M / Hörsaal M (building HA, 1st floor) Vetmeduni Vienna, Veterinärplatz 1, 1210 Vienna

09:30 Opening remarks

09:35-10:20 Brian Charlesworth - University of Edinburgh
“The effects of genetic recombination on molecular evolution and variation”
10:20-10:30 break

10:30-11:15 Laurent Excoffier – University of Bern
“Non-adaptative genetic processes during range expansions”
11:15-11:30 break

11:30-12:15 Andrew Clark - Cornell University
“Human genome variation and its role in shaping the gut microbiome”
12:15-13:15 lunch break

13:15-14:00 John Parsch – LMU München
“Population transcriptomics of Drosophila melanogaster”

PhD program contact meeting
Location: Seminarraum Institut für Tierzucht & Genetik (building NA, 2nd floor)

14:30-18:00 student presentations and poster session
Participants:
Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics (POPGEN, Austria)
Graduate Research School in Genomic Ecology (GENECO, Sweden)
Graduate Program in Evolution, Ecology & Systematics (EES, Germany)