Events

Population Genetics Seminar and Journal Club (Kolloqium in Populationsgenetik) Teaching module: 10854-FS2013-0

Local or invited speakers present their work or reviews of a particular topic in the field of Population Genetics. Journal club sessions are integrated into the seminar, and attending students are required to read the papers in advance before each session. PDFs of the papers are accessible through the ILIAS system.

Below is the list of forthcoming events. We also maintain a list of previous speakers for that seminar.

Date  
18.02.13 Introduction to Journal Club
25.02.13 Dr Vitor Sousa, CMPG, University of Bern
Identifying loci under selection in isolation with migration models
04.03.13 JC: Adaptionism then and today.
Gould and Lewontin 1979 Proc S Soc Lond B:581-598; Nielsen 2009 Evolution:2487-2490.
Presenter: Miriam Zemanova - Supervisor: SP
11.03.13 Dr Diogo Meyer, University of Geneva
Causes and consequences of balancing selection: a case study with human MHC genes
18.03.13 JC: Hybridization and speciation.
Abbott et al. 2013 Journal of Evolutionary Biology:229-246.
Presenter: Vanessa Weber de Melo - Supervisor: SP
25.03.13 JC: miRNA regulatory variation in human evolution.
Li and Zhang 2013 Trends in Genetics:116-124.
Presenter: Moritz Hilty - Supervisor:
08.04.13 JC: Genetics of burrowing behavior.
Weber et al. 2013 Nature:402-405.
Presenter: Sandro Sterchi - Supervisor: GH
15.04.13 Dr Reto Burri, Uppsala University, Sweden
The landscape(s) or genome divergence in Ficedula flycatchers
22.04.13 Dr. Romain Studer, UCL, London, UK
Structural analyses of the impact of positive selection in evolution
Thursday 02.05.13 11:15 ! Dr Tanja Stadler, ETH Zurich
New phylogenetic methods uncover past macroevolutionary and epidemiological dynamics
06.05.13 Prof. Mattias Jakobsson, Uppsala University
Inference of early human history
27.05.13 JC: Resolving South African population history.
Pickrell & Pritchard 2012; Pickrell et al. 2012.
Presenter: Isabel Alves - Supervisor:
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