Previous seminars

16.09.2024

Introduction

23.09.2024

Dr. Kevin Korfmann, Technical University of Munich, Germany
ARG-oriented population genomic inference using Deep Learning Methods

30.09.2024

JC: Tatjana Lero
Carbek et al. 2023 Candidate genes under selection in song sparrows co-vary with climate and body mass in support of Bergmann’s Rule. Sup. GH

07.10.2024

JC: Tim Schlatter
Nosil et al. 2023. Complex evolutionary processes maintain an ancient chromosomal inversion. Sup. SP

14.10.2024

Sascha Künzler
Veller and Simons 2024 Stabilizing selection generates selection against introgressed DNA. Sup. SO

21.10.2024

Prof. Fanny Pouyet, Université Paris Sarclay, France
Beyond Recombination: Exploring the Impact of Facultative Sex on Genome-wide Genetic Diversity

28.10.2024

JC: Thomas von Graffenried
Dehasque et al. 2024. Temporal dynamics of woolly mammoth genome erosion prior to extinction. Sup. LE

04.11.2024

JC: Luise Schnabel
Cubaynes et al. 2022. Disease outbreaks select for mate choice and coat color in wolves. Sup GH

11.11.2024

JC: Federico Silva Gutierez
Le Veve et al. 2024. The genetic architecture of the load linked to dominant and recessive self-incompatibility alleles in Arabidopsis halleri and A. lyrata. Sup. SS

18.11.2024

JC: Qingdong Zhu 
Rose et al. 2023. Dating the origin and spread of specialization on human hosts in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Sup. AK

25.11.2024

Dr. Manas Joshi, University hospital Groningen, Netherlands
Comparative and population genomics analyses of Transcription factor-DNA interactions

02.12.2024

JC: Sarai Verdu Cruz
Pape et al. 2024. Sex contextualism in laboratory research: Enhancing rigor and precision in the study of sex-related variables. Sup. SS

09.12.2024

Prof. Isabel Alves, Université de Strasbourg, France
The genomic history of domestication of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

16.12.2024

Dr. Mehmet Somel, Department of Biological Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
 CANCELED 

 Introduction

JC: Dr. Stefan Strütt

Smith et al. (2023) Dispersal inference from population genetic variation using a convolutional neural network. Genetics.

 Prof. Cosimo Posth, University of Tübingen, Germany

The genomic landscape of Europe before the advent of farming

 Dr. Lucy van Dorp, University College London, UK
Tracking zoonotic pathogens in space and time

JC: Patric Aellen

Zhou et al. (2022) 80 million years of rapid evolution of theprimate Y chromosome. NatEcolEvol. Sup: AK

Dr. Stéphane Peyrégne, MPI Leipzig, Germany

Dissecting Denisovan Ancestry in present-day people with a new high coverage Denisovan genome

JC: Sandra Riverendo

Couce et al. (2024) Changing fitness effects of mutations through long-term bacterial evolution. Science. Sup: SP

Dr. Moritz Muschick, EAWAG, Lucerne

Diversity in time and space - paleogenomics and lake sediment records inform evolutionary biology, ecology and conservation

JC: Ramona Bruderer

Kuderna et al. (2023) Identification of constrained sequence elements across 239 primate genomes. Nature. Sup: LE

JC: Janis Steiner

Irving-Pease et al. (2024) The selection landscape and genetic legacy of ancient Eurasians. Nature. Sup: SO

Time change: 12.15 instead of 11.15 !

Dr. Marcel Keller, University of Bern

A Refined Phylochronology of the Second Plague Pandemic in Western Eurasia

Dr. Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, University of Geneva

Adaptive immunity in humans: evolutionary aspects

 Allocation of presentations

Flavia Schlichta JC on "Inbreeding depression explains killer whale population dynamics" by Kardos et al. (2023) Nature Ecology and Evolution Sup: LE

Sandra Reverendo JC on "A unique Toxoplasma gondii haplotype accompanied the global expansion of cats" by Galal et al. (2023) Nature Comm. Sup: GH

Dr. Loic Marrec, IEE, University of Bern
Evolutionary dynamics in subdivided populations

 Dr. Magdalena Bohutinska, IEE, University of Bern
Genomic basis of repeated adaptation varies with divergence in Arabidopsis (and other species)!

Dr. Stephan Schiffels, MPI Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Spatial inference of population structure and prehistoric human mobility from ancient and modern genomes

Dr. Alexander Sang-Jae Suh, Evolutionsbiologiskt centrum, Uppsala University

Programmed DNA elimination - a bird's eye view

Giulia Capella JC on "Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant" by Simoes et al. (2023) Nature. Sup:AK

Ji Yun JC on "A null model for the distribution of fitness effects of mutations" by Cotto and day (2023) PNAS. Sup: SP

Prof. Tomas Marques-Bonet, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

 Global patterns of genome diversity across the primate radiation

Laura (Ilya) Dziomber, IPS, University of Bern

 From Past to Present: Tracing vegetation dynamics in the Swiss Alps with the help of paleoecology and ancient DNA

Sidney Friedrich  JC on "Whole-genome sequencing reveals a complex African population demographic history and signatures of local adaptation" by Fan et al. (2023) Cell. Sup: NM

Zhihui Wang JC on "Selection against admixture and gene regulatory divergence in a long-term primate field study" by Vilgalys et al. (2023) Science. Sup. SdSO

Roman Schwob JC on "Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition" by Hu et al. (2023) Science Sup: LE

 Allocation of presentations

Dr. Chiara Barbieri, Distributional Linguistics Lab, Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich
Contrasting linguistic and genetic histories of human populations with a global genetic dataset.

Nuschin Reynas JC on "Admixture has obscured signals of historical hard sweeps in humans" by Soulimi et al. (2022) Nat. Ecol. Evol. Sup: LE

Dr. Daniel Lee Jeffries, IEE, UniBe
Drivers of sex chromosome evolution in stickleback

Lou Meili JC on "The spatiotemporal patterns of major human admixture events during the European Holocene" by Chintalapati et  al.(2022)  eLife. Sup: SdSO
CANCELED, rescheduled to 22.05.2023

Ekaterina Noskova
Demographic inference from genetic data using GADMA

Anna Sassara JC on "Evolutionary rescue of resistant mutants is governed by a balance between radial expansion and selection in compact populations" by Aif et al. (2022) Nat. Comm. Sup: SP

Sandra Riverendo JC on "Ancient oral microbiomes support gradual Neolithic dietary shifts towards agriculture" by Quagliariello et al. (2022) Nat. Comm. Sup: AK

Dr. Sandra Oliveira JC on "Questionning Neanderthal admixture: on models, robustness and consensus in human evolution" by Tournebize and Chikhi (2023) bioRxiv

Prof. Vitor Sousa, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Impact of hybridization, divergent selection and deleterious mutations on genomic patterns

Prof. Andy Foote, NTNU University Museum, Trondheim, Norway
Threespine sticklebacks as a model for studying evolution in small populations

Dr. Lucy van Dorp,  Genetics Institute, University College, London, UK (by Zoom)
Reconstructing pathogen histories in space and time using big genetic data

 Allocation of presentations

JC: Flavia Schlichta
Tam et al. (2019) Benefits and limitations of genomewide association studies. Nat. Rev. Genet. 20:467-484

JC: Rafel al Doori
Barber et al. (2022) Anti-bat ultrasound production in moths is globally and phylogenetically widespread. PNAS 119:e2117485119. Sup. LE

Evolutionary perspectives on malaria over historical timescales

Dr. Tim Vaughn. ETHZ
Phylodynamics in Action: Using genomes and computers to understand COVID-19 outbreaks

JC: Benjamin Juhl

Jay et al. (2022) Sheltering of deleterious mutations explains the stepwise extension of recombination suppression on sex chromosomes and other supergenes. PLoS Biology. 20: e3001698. Sup: SP

JC: Nuschin Renas
Witt et al. (2022)  Apportioning archaic variants among modern populations. Phil. Trans. B 377:20200411. Sup. SdSO

Prof. Roman Arguello, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Lausanne

Evolutionary diversification of the olfactory system in flies

JC: Honghong Fang: 
Deng et al. (2021) The distribution of waiting distances in ancestral recombination graphs TPB. 141:34-43. Sup. SS

JC: Jerome Frei
Novembre et al. (2008) Genes mirror geography within Europe. Nature 456:98-101. Sup. NM

Prof. Marc Robinson-Rechavi, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Lausanne

Natural selection in the hourglass pattern of animal Evo-Devo

JC: Sheila Christen

Robinson et al. (2022) The critically endangered vaquita is not doomed to extinction by inbreeding depression. Science  376:635-639. Sup: GH

Dr. Philine Feulner, Department Fish Ecology & Evolution, EAWAG & Prof. Rob Waterhouse, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Lausanne

A genome atlas of European biodiversity: introducing the European reference genome atlas (ERGA) initiative

Dr. Joana Meier, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge (UK)

 Allocation of presentations

Journal Club: Antoine Roulin (Marnetto et al. 2022 Current Biology)
Ancestral genomic contributions to complex traits in contemporary European Sup. NM

 Journal Club:  Qin-Dong Tang.  (Novo et al. 2022 PLoS Genetics) 
The estimates of effective population size based on linkage disequilibrium are virtually unaffected by natural selection. Sup. SP

Xuejing Wang. PhD progress presentation.

Journal Club: Anton Labutin. (Monroe et al. 2022 Nature) 
Mutation bias reflects natural selection in Arabidopsis thaliana. Sup. KG.

Journal Club: Thomas von Graffenried (Campbell-Staton et al. 2022 Science) 
Ivory poaching and the rapid evolution of tusklessness in African elephants. Sup. GH.

 Stefan Struett. Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Köln, Germany

Identifying and estimating shifts from outcrossing to selfing

Dr. Benjamin Peter, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

A geometric relationship of F2, F3 and F4-statistics with Principal Component Analysis

Dr. Sandra Oliveira, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, germany

 Human genomic variation across the Holocene in Wallacea

Prof. Roman Arguello, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Lausanne

Evolutionary diversification of the olfactory system in flies

(REPORTED FOR NEXT SEMESTER)

Dr. Tristan Cumer, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Lausanne

Genomic tales: Neutral and adaptive history of the barn owl in the western Palearctic

Dr. Yannis Michalakis, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France
Living with a scattered genome: multipartite viruses and the genomic integrity cost

Dr. Pavlos Pavlidis, Institute of Computer Science, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (ZOOM seminar only)

Simulations in genetics: Gene Regulatory Networks and spatial processes

Dr. Martin Petr, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (ZOOM seminar only)
A framework for simulating spatio-temporal population genomic data on real geographic landscapes

 Allocation of presentations

 Journal Club: Anna Räss

21-Coll Macia et al. Different historical generation intervals in human populations inferred from Neanderthal fragment lengths and mutation signatures. Sup: NM

 Journal Club: Anita Schmid

21- Kerner et al. Human ancient DNA analyses reveal the high burden of tuberculosis in Europeans over the last 2,000 years. Sup: AK

Dr. Jerome Kelleher (Zoom), Big Data Institute, Oxford University, UK (ZOOM seminar only)

A unified genealogy of modern and ancient genomes

Dr. Jens Blöcher, University of Mainz, Germany (in presence seminar)

Palaeogenomics and European pre-history

Dr. José Melo-Ferreira, CIBIO-InBIO, Universidade do Porto, Portugal   (in presence seminar)

To change, or not to change: repeated evolution of seasonal coat colour polymorphism

Dr. Milan Malinsky, IEE, Uni. Bern    TBA  (in presence seminar)

Evolution of genomes and recombination rates

Journal Club : Célestin Luisier

21 Patton et al. A transmissible cancer shifts from emergence to endemism in Tasmanian devils. Sup: GH

Prof. Katja Nowick, Free University, Berlin, Germany  (in presence seminar)

Evolution of gene regulatory differences in primates

Dr. Ana Y. Morales-Arce, IEE, Uni. Bern   (in presence seminar)

Computational approaches for within-host population genetics of human pathogens.

Journal Club: Marta Fernandez-Freire

21-Cheng and Kirkpatrick Molecular evolution and the decline of purifying selection with age. Sup: LE

Journal Club: Angélique Rüfenacht

79- Gould and Lewontin The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme. Sup: SP

Dr. Martin Petr, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark  (in presence seminar)   

A framework for simulating spatio-temporal population genomic data on a real geographic landscape

CANCELED (postponed to next semester) due to COVID

 Allocation of presentations

JC: Qindong Tang. Erikkson et al (2021) The effect of the recombination rate between adaptive loci on the capacity of a population to expand its range. AmNat. Sup: AM

Prof. Jeffrey Jensen, Arizona State University -- Exceptionally the talk is at 16h30

A further consideration of the effects of deleterious mutations on patterns of genetic variabilility

Dr. Florent Mazel, University of Lausanne

Specificity of the mammalian gut microbiota

Introduction to the Seminar and Journal Club and allocation of presentations

JC: Iris. Tellis et al (2020) Selection against archaic hominin genetic variation in regulatory regions . Nat Ecol. Evol. Sup: LE

JC: Ivan . Teixeira and Huber (2020) Dismantling a dogma: the inflated significance of neutral genetic diversity in conservation genetics. bioRxiv. Sup. AM

Dr. Reto Büri and Dave Lutgen, Swiss Ornithlogical Institute, Sempach
Genomics of hybridization, speciation, and phenotypic evolution in wheatears: first results

Introduction to the Seminar and Journal Club and allocation of presentations

Dr. Antoine Moinet, CMPG, IEE, University of Berne, Complex networks in biology

Dr.Stephan Peischl. Interfacultary Bioinformatics Unit. University of Berne. Evolution on expanding wave fronts

Anton Labutin, CMPG, IEE, University of Berne, Host genetic factors associated with the range limit of European hantavirus “species” 

Introduction to the Seminar and Journal Club and allocation of presentations

Dr. Garett Hellenthal, Genetics Institute, University College London, UK
Identifying and dating historical admixture and selection in modern humans

Dr. Oscar Lao, National Center of Genomic Analysis, Barcelona, Spain
Natural programming in the field of population genomics​​​​​​​

Prof. Olivier Delaneau, Dept. of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne
Accurate and scalable haplotype and genotype imputation

Dr. Josephine Daub, 
Beyond synthetic lethality: Multiple mechanisms can explain genetic interactions within childhood cancer

Dr. Matthieu Foll, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO),Lyon France
A multi-omics study of spatial and temporal tumor evolution in thoracic cancers with clinical implications.

Prof. Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas , Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne
Some insights into the peopling of Bronze Age Europe from ancient DNA

Introduction to the Seminar and Journal Club and allocation of presentations

Hira Imeri, IBU, University of Bern
Exploring the effects of demographic misspecification on the accuracy of machine learning methods in population genetics.

Pr. Katie Peichel, IEE, University of Bern
Chromosome evolution in sticklebacks.

Pr. Brian Charlesworth, University of Edinburgh, UK
Associative overdominance and patterns of variability in low recombination genomic regions.

Dr Daniel Berner, Evolutionary Biology, University of Basel
Polygenic adaptation - insights from stickleback fish.

Dr Frederic Austerlitz, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France
Inference of past historical events using ABC and MCMC methods on population genomics data sets. Applications to human populations.

Dr Florence Debarre, Sorbonne-Université, Paris, France
Population control using gene drives: theoretical insights.

Jérémy Choin, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Reconstructing the genetic history of Melanesian Islanders: Implication for human evolution and health

Dr. Miguel Arenas, University of Vigo, Spain
Deciphering migration routes with approximate Bayesian computation based on spatially-explicit computer simulations

Dr. Julien Dutheil & Gustavo Barroso, MPI Plön, Germany
Population genetics with complete genomes: new developments of the sequentially Markov coalescent

Inferring the history of speciation from phased genome sequences

Dr. Paul Verdu, Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France
Parallel studies of genetic and linguistic diversities: reconstructing the biological and cultural histories of human populations

Nina Marchi, CMPG
Impacts of cultural behaviors on the genetic diversity of human populations from Inner Asia

Dr. Christine Grossen, University of Zurich
Fate of deleterious mutations in severely bottlenecked Alpine ibex

Fernando Racimo, University of Copenhagen
Detecting polygenic adaptation and single-locus selection using admixture graphs

Dr. Benjamin Peter, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Genetic landscapes reveal how human genetic diversity aligns with geography

04.05.2018

Dr. Isabel Alves, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto/l'institut du thorax, Nantes
The role of gene expression in buffering the effects of potentially harmful variation

Dr. Victor Sousa , cE3c – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Lisboa
Learning the evolutionary history from genomes

Dr. John Pannell, University of Lausanne
Evolution of plant populations subject to colonisation and range expansions

Sylvain Glemin, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Effective population size, efficacy of selection and the mutation load

Melanie Hiltbrunner, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern
Genomics of Tula hantavirus evolution in central Europe

Hannes Svardal, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge
Lake Malawi cichlids: consecutive adaptive radiations linked by (adaptive) gene flow

Dr. Konrad Lohse , Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh
Mirages and fruit flies in the desert revisited: towards model-based genomic maps of post-divergence gene-flow

13.03.2017

Dr. Zoltan Kutalik, University of Lausanne
The interplay between genetic predisposition and lifestyle impacting human lifespan and obesity

Dr. Guillaume Achaz, ENS, Paris, France
The strange case of the standard neutral model: when, what and why

Dr Ophelie Ronce University of Montpellier, France
Mathematical models for the evolution of range shifts under climate change

Dr Erik Postma, University of Zurich
Of mice and men: Predicting evolution in a changing environment

Dr. Jessica Plucain, ENS, Paris, France
Genetic bases of the emergence of phenotypical innovations in E. coli and M. xanthus

Dr. Sara Lipshutz, Tulane University, USA
Hybridization between sex-role reversed tropical shorebirds

Prof. Leslie Turner, University of Bath, UK
Genetic mechanisms of speciation in house mice: functional genomics of hybrid male sterility in natural populations

Prof. Tanja Schwander, University of Lausanne
Gene expression and evolutionary rate changes after parallel evolution of asexuality in stick insects

Dr. Maxime Deforet Sloan Kettering Institute, NYC, USA
The contribution of growth and dispersal to the evolution of expanding populations

Dr. Nicolas Lartillot, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, France
The Red-Queen model of recombination hot-spot evolution: a theoretical investigation

Dr. Kavita Jain J. Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengalore, India
Rapid adaptation of polygenic traits after a sudden environmental shift

Dr. Martin Zieger Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern
Forensic Genetics: Current state and future developments

Dr. Matteo Fumagalli Computational Biology Group, UCL, UK
Population genomics in the high-throughput sequencing era

Dr. Diana Rennison University of British Columbia, Canada
Detecting the drivers of divergence: Identifying and estimating natural selection in threespine stickleback

Prof. Manfred Claassen Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich
Learning global and disease associated cell population heterogeneity from single cell recordings

12.12.2016

Prof. Yvonne Willi, University of Basel
Population genomics and species range limits

15.02.2016

Prof. Lavinia Faccini Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Birth defects in Brazil - from genetic conditions in isolated populations to Zika virus congenital infection

Dr. Felix Goldschmidt EAWAG, CH
Successive range expansions promote diversity in a microbial cross-feeding community

Dr. Alan Hodgkinson King's College, London, UK
High-Resolution Genomic Analysis of Human Mitochondrial RNA Sequence Variation

Prof. Nicolas Bierne ISEM, Montpellier
Investigating genome-wide heterogeneity in local introgression rates and its cause

Dr. Georgios Athanasiadis Aarhus University, Denmark
The genetic history of Denmark: data from a nationwide public engagement project

Dr. Martin Kapun University of Lausanne
Clinal inversions and rapid adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster

Prof. Michael Whitlock University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Deleterious mutations and the complexities of selection in a spatial context

Prof. Ida Moltke University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Adaptation and association studies in the Arctic

Dr. Laure Segurel Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France
Adaptation to diet: human and microbial perspective

Alexandre Gouy, University of Berne
A likelihood approach to simulation-based inference: application to the case of insecticide resistance evolution in the mosquito Culex pipiens

Prof. Ioannis Xenarios, University of Lausanne
Vital-IT and Swiss-Prot : a tale of two groups

Dr. Simon Aeschbacher, University of California
Detecting selection against gene flow: a complementary approach to Fst outlier scans

Dr. Peter Fields, University of Basel
Phylogeographic inference of an intercontinental sample of Daphnia magna

Prof. Hugues Abriel, University of Berne
Introducing Human Genetic Research at the University of Kinshasa (DRC): the Case of Channelopathies

Prof. Asger Hobolth, Aarhus University
Statistical inference in the Wright-Fisher model using allele frequency data

Prof. Laurent Duret, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I, France
Biased gene conversion: the dark side of recombination

Dr. Andy Foote, Uppsala University, Sweden
The genomic landscape of the speciation continuum in the killer whale

Dr. Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark & CMPG, Berne
Peopling of the Americas: a genomic perspective

Dr. Sam Yeaman, UBC, Canada
The architecture of local adaptation: transient alleles and long-term genomic re-patterning

Prof. Oscar Gaggiotti, Univ. St Andrews, UK
Making FST-based genome-scan methods more robust to deviations from the underlying model

Lars Bosshard, CMPG, Berne
Accumulation of deleterious mutations in expanding bacterial populations

Moritz Saxenhofer, CMPG, Berne
Delimiting the impact of host speciation on pathogen divergence

Dr. Stefan Laurent, EPFL, Lausanne
Identifying adaptive regulatory mutations in the absence of phenotypic information

Dr. Michael Blum, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Genome scans for detecting footprints of local adaptation: embracing the post-Fst era

Dr. Richard Neher, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Genetic diversity in rapidly adapting populations and predictability of evolution

Dr. Susanne Pfeifer, Center for Integrative Bioinformatics, Vienna, Austria
Recombination and selection in the chimpanzee genome

Dr. Cedric Simillion, Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit, University of Bern
Avoiding the pitfalls of gene set enrichment analysis with SetRank

Alex Cagan, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Nice rats, Nasty rats: Towards the genetic basis of tameness and aggression

Prof. Adam Eyre-Walker, University of Sussex, UK
Geographic and genomic features that affect the rate of evolution

Prof. Gilles Guillot, Technical University of Denmark
Models and algorithms to integrate spatial information in genetic ecology

Dr. Maria Warnefors, CIG, University of Lausanne
The evolution of mammalian gene expression

Dr. Florian Altermatt, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Diversity patterns and dispersal processes in riverine metacommunities

Dr. Aida Andrés, Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig
Persistent polymorphism: the role of selection in maintaining advantageous diversity in humans

Prof. Thomas Wiehe, University of Cologne
Coalescent trees and induced subtrees

Dr. Sebastien Wielgoss, ETH Zurich
Small changes with large effects: deciphering the molecular basis of evolutionary change in experimental and natural settings with bacteria

Dr. Alexander Drakesmith, Radcliffe Dpt. Medicine, University of Oxford
Hepcidin and BMPs in innate immunity

Dr. Konstantin Popadin, CMU, University of Geneva
The low mutation burden of live-birth Down syndromes

Prof. Monty Slatkin, Berkeley, University of California
Population genetics of the Neanderthal genome project

Dr. Camille Roux, DEE, University of Lausanne
Investigating speciation in face of gene flow or polyploidization : What can we learn from ABC?

Prof. Ivo Große, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
De-Novo discovery of differentially abundant DNA binding sites including their positional preference

Prof. Thomas Flatt, DEE, University of Lausanne
Population genomic basis of evolutionary change in Drosophila life history

Dr. Thomas Lenormand, CNRS, University of Montpellier
Mutation landscape models : theory and data

Prof. Hélène Vézina, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Genealogical investigation of the genetic heritage of the French Canadian population

Heidi Lischer, CMPG, University of Bern
PhD defense: Genomic inference of evolutionary history and gene expression divergence in rodents

Dr. Vitor Sousa, CMPG, University of Bern
Identifying loci under selection in isolation with migration models

Dr. Diogo Meyer, University of Geneva
Causes and consequences of balancing selection: a case study with human MHC genes

Dr. Reto Burri, Uppsala University, Sweden
The landscape(s) or genome divergence in Ficedula flycatchers

Dr. Romain Studer, UCL, London, UK
Structural analyses of the impact of positive selection in evolution

Dr. Tanja Stadler, ETH Zurich
New phylogenetic methods uncover past macroevolutionary and epidemiological dynamics

Prof. Mattias Jakobsson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Inference of early human history

Tamara Hofer, University of Bern
PhD defense: Impact of range expansion and natural selection on human genomic diversity

Eduardo Amorim, University of Bern and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Cultural, adaptive, and neutral evolution in Amerindians

Robert Carreras, University of Bern and Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Ecological genetic predictors for cardiovascular disease and population patterns of NOS genes in human populations from Europe and the Mediterranean basin

Dr. Ferran Casals, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Rare is meaningful. Whole-exome sequencing in the French-Canadian population

Dr. Thomas White, CMPG
Population genomics of a range expansion: the bank vole in Ireland

Prof. David Nelson, Dept. of Physics, Harvard University
Competition and Cooperation at Frontiers

Dr. Sarah Perkins, University of Cardiff
Shining light on infections disease dynamics

Prof. Chris Jiggins, University of Cambridge
Genomic insights into speciation in Heliconius butterflies

Dr. Pierre Bize, University of Lausanne
Life history variation along an elevation gradient: dissecting the contribution of genetics, ambient temperature and non-shivering thermogenesis

12.03.2012

Dr. Lounès Chikhi, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Very spatial indeed: some consequences of space (and time) on population genetics inference

Stefan Laurent, University of Munich, Germany
Demographic history of Drosophila melanogaster and inference of seed bank parameters in two wild tomato species using ecological and genetic data

Dr. Kai Stölting, University of Fribourg
Genomics of hybridization in Populus trees

Dr. Claudia Bank, EPFL
The limits to parapatric speciation

Prof. Martin Ackermann, ETH
An evolutionary perspective on bacterial individuality

Dr. Alex Buerkle, University of Wyoming
Overlap in the genomics of speciation and adaptation

Dr. Nicolas Lartillot, Université de Montréal
Bayesian integrative models for macroevolutionary studies

Prof. Lavinia Schüler Faccini, FGRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Science vs. Conspiracy Theory - A town of twins in Brazil: Nazi Experiment or Founder Effect?

Dr. Mathias Currat, Anthropology Unit, Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva
Rare hybridization between Neanderthals and modern humans

Dr. Stephan Peischl, CMPG
A sequential coalescent algorithm for chromosomal inversions

Dr. Daniel Wegmann, UCLA, USA
Deep re-sequencing reveals the abundance and geographic structure of rare variant diversity in humans

Dr. Mark Ibberson, Vital-IT, University of Lausanne
Biological data analysis using networks

Prof. Jerome Goudet, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne
Spatial Approximate Bayesian Computations in model and non model organisms

28.02.2011

Dr. Kerstin Musolf, University of Zurich
Ultrasonic vocalizations in house mice: a cryptic mode of acoustic communication

Prof. Arne Nolte, Max-Planck-Institute Plön, Germany
Admixture and genome clashes - sculpin hybrids in the River Rhine system

Tania Jenkins, University of Jena and CMPG
Exploring the habitat component of genetic structure in the bank vole, Myodes glareolus

Dr. Stefan Prost, University of Otago, New Zealand
Reconstructing past human settlement in Polynesia using Approximate Bayesian Computation

Dr. Anna Lindholm, University of Zurich
Selfish genes in house mice

Mathias Beysard, CMPG
Genetics of intraspecific hybrid zones in Microtus voles

Prof. Ziheng Yang, University College London, UK
Bayesian species delimitation using genomic sequence data

Yang Liu, CMPG
PhD defense: Genetic analysis of migration in two avian influenza vectors: tufted duck and common pochard

Prof. Monty Slatkin, University of California, Berkeley
Methods for inferring admixture from genomic sequence data and applications to ancient hominids

Dr. Miguel Arenas Busto, CMPG
Applications of the coalescent with recombination in molecular evolution

Dr. Matthieu Foll, CMPG
Quantifiying population structure using the F-model

Dr. Daniel Wegmann, University of California, Los Angeles
Inferring recombination rates in recently admixed human populations

Dr. Thomas Bataillon, Aarhus University
Beneficial mutations and dynamics of adaptation: insights from experimental evolution in bacteria and filamentous fungi

Irma Glatt, CMPG
PRDM9 - the first two zinc fingers have their own role in the holding hand

Prof. Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, University of California, Berkeley
A likelihood method to estimate selection and allele age from time serial samples

Reto Burri, University of Lausanne
Avian MHC evolution: new insights and a population genomic perspective

Dr. Christoph Haag, University of Fribourg
Evolutionary genetics of Daphnia metapopulations

Tamara Hofer, CMPG
Islands of natural selection in the human genome

Dr. John Wang, University of Lausanne
Genomic approaches to social biology in ants

Emilie Cutivet, CMPG
Development of a computational pipeline for genomic databases

Dr. Michael Krützen, University of Zurich
Genetic and cultural diversity among orang-utan populations from Sumatra and Borneo