Population Genetics

Previous seminars

Fall 2021

Date	Title
20.09.2021	Allocation of presentations
27.09.2021	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
04.10.2021	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
11.10.2021	Dr. Jerome Kelleher (Zoom), Big Data Institute, Oxford University, UK (ZOOM seminar only) A unified genealogy of modern and ancient genomes
18.10.2021	Dr. Jens Blöcher, University of Mainz, Germany (in presence seminar) Palaeogenomics and European pre-history
25.10.2021	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
01.11.2021	Dr. Milan Malinsky, IEE, Uni. Bern TBA (in presence seminar) Evolution of genomes and recombination rates
08.11.2021	Journal Club : Célestin Luisier 21 Patton et al. A transmissible cancer shifts from emergence to endemism in Tasmanian devils. Sup: GH
15.11.2021	Prof. Katja Nowick, Free University, Berlin, Germany (in presence seminar) Evolution of gene regulatory differences in primates
22.11.2021	Dr. Ana Y. Morales-Arce, IEE, Uni. Bern (in presence seminar) Computational approaches for within-host population genetics of human pathogens.
29.11.2021	Journal Club: Marta Fernandez-Freire 21-Cheng and Kirkpatrick Molecular evolution and the decline of purifying selection with age. Sup: LE
06.12.2021	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
13.12.2021	Written exam
20.12.2021	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

Spring 2021

Date	Title
22.02.2021	Allocation of presentations
01.03.2021	Dr. Rémi Matthey-Doret, CMPG Plasticity via feedback reduces the cost of developmental instability.
08.03.2021	JC: Brina Lopez Gfeller. Albers and McVean. (2020) Dating genomic variants and shared ancestry in population-scale sequencing data. Sup: AK
15.03.2021	JC: Tobias Böni Wang et al. (2020) Tracking human population structure through time from whole genome sequences. PLOS Genetics. Sup. LE
22.03.2021	Anton Labutin, CMPG Species-like behaviour of parapatric European hantaviruses in a single host lineage
29.03.2021	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
12.04.2021	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
19.04.2021	Dr. Simone Rubinacci Genotype imputation methods for SNP arrays and low coverage sequencing datasets
26.04.2021	Dr. Lounès Chikhi, Evolution & Diversité Biologique, CNRS, Toulouse, France and Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência, Lisbon, Portugal Demographic inference under the n-island model and possible applications to humans and lemurs
03.05.2021	JC: Flavia Schlichta. Fortes-Lima and Verdu (2021) Complex genetic admixture histories reconstructed with Approximate Bayesian Computation. MolEcolResources. Sup: NM
10.05.2021	JC: Xuejing Wang. Jay et al (2021) Mutation load at mimicry supergene sheds new light on the evolution of inversion polymorhisms. Nature Genetics. Sup: SP
17.05.2021	Qindong Tang, CMPG Bird radiation under cryptic morphology
31.05.2021	Dr. Florent Mazel, University of Lausanne Specificity of the mammalian gut microbiota

Fall 2020

Date	Title
14.09.2020	Introduction to the Seminar and Journal Club and allocation of presentations
21.09.2020	JC: Adamantia Kapopoulou. Severin et al. (2020) Gender and other potential biases in peer review: cross-sectional analysis of 38 250 external peer review reports BMJ Open
28.09.2020	JC: Tobias Böni. Esteller-Cucala et al. (2020) Genomic analysis of the natural history of attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder using Neanderthal and ancient Homo sapiens samples. Scientific Reports . Sup: NM
05.10.2020	JC: Anton Labutin Düx et al. (2020) Measles virus and rinderpest virus divergence dated to the sixth century BCE. Science. Sup. GH.
12.10.2020	Dr. Mathias Currat, Anthropology Unit, University of Geneva Hybridization and introgression during the range expansion of European wildcats in the Jura Mountains
19.10.2020	JC: Iris. Tellis et al (2020) Selection against archaic hominin genetic variation in regulatory regions . Nat Ecol. Evol. Sup: LE
26.10.2020	JC: Ivan . Teixeira and Huber (2020) Dismantling a dogma: the inflated significance of neutral genetic diversity in conservation genetics. bioRxiv. Sup. AM
02.11.2020	JC: Flavia Schlichta Jasper and Yeaman (2020) Local adaptation can cause both peaks and troughs in nucleotide diversity within populations. Sup. RMD
09.11.2020	Xuejing Wang. CMPG Effects of demography and mutation load on multiple islands after 10,000 generations of isolation
16.11.2020	JC: Sabrina. Galtier and Rousselle (2020) How much does Ne vary among species? Genetics. Sup: SP
23.11.2020	Brina Lopez Gfeller, CMPG Assessment of human health in ancient Europeans
30.11.2020	Julia Lanner. Institute for Integrative Nature Conservation Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU) Investigations on colonization pathways and ecological factors promoting the invasion of the Asian wild bee species, Megachile sculpturalis, in Europe.
07.12.2020	Dr. Reto Büri and Dave Lutgen, Swiss Ornithlogical Institute, Sempach Genomics of hybridization, speciation, and phenotypic evolution in wheatears: first results
14.12.2020

Spring 2020

Date	Title
17.02.2020	Introduction to the Seminar and Journal Club and allocation of presentations
24.02.2020	Dr. Antoine Moinet, CMPG, IEE, University of Berne, Complex networks in biology
23.03.2020	Dr.Stephan Peischl. Interfacultary Bioinformatics Unit. University of Berne. Evolution on expanding wave fronts
30.03.2020	Anton Labutin, CMPG, IEE, University of Berne, Host genetic factors associated with the range limit of European hantavirus “species”
06.04.2020	Qindong Tang, CMPG, IEE, Cryptic diversification along the speciation continuum in the pale sand martin Riparia diluta
27.04.2020	Prof. François Balloux, Dept. of Genetics, Environment and Evolution, UCL, UK, Emergence and apportionment of genomic diversity in SARS-Cov-2, the agent of the Covid19 pandemia
04.05.2020	Guy-Alain Schnidrig and Joana Rechsteiner, CMPG, IEE, University of Berne, MSc theses presentations

Fall 2019

Date	Title
16.09.2019	Introduction to the Seminar and Journal Club and allocation of presentations
23.09.2019	Dr. Garett Hellenthal, Genetics Institute, University College London, UK Identifying and dating historical admixture and selection in modern humans
30.09.2019	Dr. Oscar Lao, National Center of Genomic Analysis, Barcelona, Spain Natural programming in the field of population genomics
07.10.2019	Prof. Olivier Delaneau, Dept. of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne Accurate and scalable haplotype and genotype imputation
14.10.2019	Dr. Josephine Daub, Beyond synthetic lethality: Multiple mechanisms can explain genetic interactions within childhood cancer
18.11.2019	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.
09.12.2019	Prof. Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas , Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne Some insights into the peopling of Bronze Age Europe from ancient DNA

Spring 2019

Date	Title
18.02.2019	Introduction to the Seminar and Journal Club and allocation of presentations
25.02.2019	Hira Imeri, IBU, University of Bern Exploring the effects of demographic misspecification on the accuracy of machine learning methods in population genetics.
01.04.2019	Pr. Katie Peichel, IEE, University of Bern Chromosome evolution in sticklebacks.
08.04.2019	Pr. Brian Charlesworth, University of Edinburgh, UK Associative overdominance and patterns of variability in low recombination genomic regions.
15.04.2019	Dr Daniel Berner, Evolutionary Biology, University of Basel Polygenic adaptation - insights from stickleback fish.
29.04.2019	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.
20.05.2019	Dr Florence Debarre, Sorbonne-Université, Paris, France Population control using gene drives: theoretical insights.
11.06.2019 (Room C159)	Pr Serena Tucci, Yale Uniersity, USA The genetic legacy of archaic hominin admixture.

Fall 2018

Date	Title
15.10.2018	Jérémy Choin, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France Reconstructing the genetic history of Melanesian Islanders: Implication for human evolution and health
29.10.2018	Dr. Miguel Arenas, University of Vigo, Spain Deciphering migration routes with approximate Bayesian computation based on spatially-explicit computer simulations
05.11.2018	Dr. Julien Dutheil & Gustavo Barroso, MPI Plön, Germany Population genetics with complete genomes: new developments of the sequentially Markov coalescent
03.12.2018	Dr. Pierre-Alexandre Gagnaire, University of Montpellier, France Inferring the history of speciation from phased genome sequences
17.12.2018	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

Spring 2018

Date	Title
26.02.2018	Nina Marchi, CMPG Impacts of cultural behaviors on the genetic diversity of human populations from Inner Asia
12.03.2018	Dr. Christine Grossen, University of Zurich Fate of deleterious mutations in severely bottlenecked Alpine ibex
19.03.2018	Fernando Racimo, University of Copenhagen Detecting polygenic adaptation and single-locus selection using admixture graphs
09.04.2018	Dr. Benjamin Peter, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Genetic landscapes reveal how human genetic diversity aligns with geography
30.04.2018	Dr. Wolfram Möbius, Living Systems Institute and College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter Evolutionary dynamics meets geometrical optics: How isolated features in the habitat shape genetic diversity during range expansions for long times and at large distances
04.05.2018	Dr. Roman Biek, University of Glasgow Unraveling pathogen transmission in structured host populations
28.05.2018	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

Fall 2017

Date	Title
25.09.2017	Dr. Victor Sousa , cE3c – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Lisboa Learning the evolutionary history from genomes
13.11.2017	Dr. John Pannell, University of Lausanne Evolution of plant populations subject to colonisation and range expansions
20.11.2017	Sylvain Glemin, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Effective population size, efficacy of selection and the mutation load
27.11.2017	Melanie Hiltbrunner, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern Genomics of Tula hantavirus evolution in central Europe
04.12.2017	Hannes Svardal, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge Lake Malawi cichlids: consecutive adaptive radiations linked by (adaptive) gene flow

Spring 2017

Date	Title
06.03.2017	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
27.03.2017	Dr. Guillaume Achaz, ENS, Paris, France The strange case of the standard neutral model: when, what and why
03.04.2017	Dr Ophelie Ronce University of Montpellier, France Mathematical models for the evolution of range shifts under climate change
13.03.2017	Dr Erik Postma, University of Zurich Of mice and men: Predicting evolution in a changing environment
28.04.2017	Dr. Jessica Plucain, ENS, Paris, France Genetic bases of the emergence of phenotypical innovations in E. coli and M. xanthus
01.05.2017	Dr. Sara Lipshutz, Tulane University, USA Hybridization between sex-role reversed tropical shorebirds
08.05.2017	Prof. Leslie Turner, University of Bath, UK Genetic mechanisms of speciation in house mice: functional genomics of hybrid male sterility in natural populations
13.03.2017	Prof. Tanja Schwander, University of Lausanne Gene expression and evolutionary rate changes after parallel evolution of asexuality in stick insects

Fall 2016

Date	Title
19.09.2016	Dr. Maxime Deforet Sloan Kettering Institute, NYC, USA The contribution of growth and dispersal to the evolution of expanding populations
03.10.2016	Dr. Nicolas Lartillot, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, France The Red-Queen model of recombination hot-spot evolution: a theoretical investigation
05.10.2016	Dr. Kavita Jain J. Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengalore, India Rapid adaptation of polygenic traits after a sudden environmental shift
31.10.2016	Dr. Martin Zieger Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern Forensic Genetics: Current state and future developments
14.11.2016	Dr. Matteo Fumagalli Computational Biology Group, UCL, UK Population genomics in the high-throughput sequencing era
21.11.2016	Dr. Diana Rennison University of British Columbia, Canada Detecting the drivers of divergence: Identifying and estimating natural selection in threespine stickleback
05.12.2016	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

Spring 2016

Date	Title
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
29.02.2016	Dr. Felix Goldschmidt EAWAG, CH Successive range expansions promote diversity in a microbial cross-feeding community
04.04.2016	Dr. Alan Hodgkinson King's College, London, UK High-Resolution Genomic Analysis of Human Mitochondrial RNA Sequence Variation
25.04.2016	Prof. Nicolas Bierne ISEM, Montpellier Investigating genome-wide heterogeneity in local introgression rates and its cause
02.05.2016	Dr. Georgios Athanasiadis Aarhus University, Denmark The genetic history of Denmark: data from a nationwide public engagement project
09.05.2016	Dr. Martin Kapun University of Lausanne Clinal inversions and rapid adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster
13.05.2016	Prof. Michael Whitlock University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Deleterious mutations and the complexities of selection in a spatial context
23.05.2016	Prof. Ida Moltke University of Copenhagen, Denmark Adaptation and association studies in the Arctic
30.05.2016	Dr. Laure Segurel Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France Adaptation to diet: human and microbial perspective

Fall 2015

Date	Title
21.09.2015	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
28.09.2015	Prof. Ioannis Xenarios, University of Lausanne Vital-IT and Swiss-Prot : a tale of two groups
19.10.2015	Dr. Simon Aeschbacher, University of California Detecting selection against gene flow: a complementary approach to Fst outlier scans
09.11.2015	Dr. Peter Fields, University of Basel Phylogeographic inference of an intercontinental sample of Daphnia magna
09.11.2015	Prof. Hugues Abriel, University of Berne Introducing Human Genetic Research at the University of Kinshasa (DRC): the Case of Channelopathies
30.11.2015	Prof. Asger Hobolth, Aarhus University Statistical inference in the Wright-Fisher model using allele frequency data
14.12.2015	Prof. Laurent Duret, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I, France Biased gene conversion: the dark side of recombination

Spring 2015

Date	Title
23.02.2015	Dr. Andy Foote, Uppsala University, Sweden The genomic landscape of the speciation continuum in the killer whale
02.03.2015	Dr. Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark & CMPG, Berne Peopling of the Americas: a genomic perspective
09.03.2015	Dr. Sam Yeaman, UBC, Canada The architecture of local adaptation: transient alleles and long-term genomic re-patterning
16.03.2015	Prof. Oscar Gaggiotti, Univ. St Andrews, UK Making FST-based genome-scan methods more robust to deviations from the underlying model
11.05.2015	Lars Bosshard, CMPG, Berne Accumulation of deleterious mutations in expanding bacterial populations
18.05.2015	Moritz Saxenhofer, CMPG, Berne Delimiting the impact of host speciation on pathogen divergence

Fall 2014

Date	Title
22.09.2014	Dr. Stefan Laurent, EPFL, Lausanne Identifying adaptive regulatory mutations in the absence of phenotypic information
29.09.2014	Dr. Michael Blum, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France Genome scans for detecting footprints of local adaptation: embracing the post-Fst era
13.10.2014	Dr. Richard Neher, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany Genetic diversity in rapidly adapting populations and predictability of evolution
20.10.2014	Dr. Susanne Pfeifer, Center for Integrative Bioinformatics, Vienna, Austria Recombination and selection in the chimpanzee genome
27.10.2014	Dr. Cedric Simillion, Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit, University of Bern Avoiding the pitfalls of gene set enrichment analysis with SetRank
01.12.2014	Alex Cagan, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Nice rats, Nasty rats: Towards the genetic basis of tameness and aggression
15.12.2014	Prof. Adam Eyre-Walker, University of Sussex, UK Geographic and genomic features that affect the rate of evolution

Spring 2014

Date	Title
24.02.2014	Prof. Gilles Guillot, Technical University of Denmark Models and algorithms to integrate spatial information in genetic ecology
31.03.2014	Dr. Maria Warnefors, CIG, University of Lausanne The evolution of mammalian gene expression
07.04.2014	Dr. Florian Altermatt, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology Diversity patterns and dispersal processes in riverine metacommunities
28.04.2014	Dr. Aida Andrés, Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig Persistent polymorphism: the role of selection in maintaining advantageous diversity in humans
05.05.2014	Prof. Thomas Wiehe, University of Cologne Coalescent trees and induced subtrees
12.05.2014	Dr. Sebastien Wielgoss, ETH Zurich Small changes with large effects: deciphering the molecular basis of evolutionary change in experimental and natural settings with bacteria

Fall 2013

Date	Title
20.09.2013	Dr. Alexander Drakesmith, Radcliffe Dpt. Medicine, University of Oxford Hepcidin and BMPs in innate immunity
23.09.2013	Dr. Konstantin Popadin, CMU, University of Geneva The low mutation burden of live-birth Down syndromes
30.09.2013	Prof. Monty Slatkin, Berkeley, University of California Population genetics of the Neanderthal genome project
07.10.2013	Dr. Camille Roux, DEE, University of Lausanne Investigating speciation in face of gene flow or polyploidization : What can we learn from ABC?
04.11.2013	Prof. Ivo Große, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg De-Novo discovery of differentially abundant DNA binding sites including their positional preference
11.11.2013	Prof. Thomas Flatt, DEE, University of Lausanne Population genomic basis of evolutionary change in Drosophila life history
25.11.2013	Dr. Thomas Lenormand, CNRS, University of Montpellier Mutation landscape models : theory and data
28.11.2013	Prof. Hélène Vézina, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Genealogical investigation of the genetic heritage of the French Canadian population
12.12.2013	Heidi Lischer, CMPG, University of Bern PhD defense: Genomic inference of evolutionary history and gene expression divergence in rodents

Spring 2013

Date	Title
25.02.2013	Dr. Vitor Sousa, CMPG, University of Bern Identifying loci under selection in isolation with migration models
11.03.2013	Dr. Diogo Meyer, University of Geneva Causes and consequences of balancing selection: a case study with human MHC genes
15.04.2013	Dr. Reto Burri, Uppsala University, Sweden The landscape(s) or genome divergence in Ficedula flycatchers
22.04.2013	Dr. Romain Studer, UCL, London, UK Structural analyses of the impact of positive selection in evolution
02.05.2013	Dr. Tanja Stadler, ETH Zurich New phylogenetic methods uncover past macroevolutionary and epidemiological dynamics
06.05.2013	Prof. Mattias Jakobsson, Uppsala University, Sweden Inference of early human history

Fall 2012

Date	Title
25.09.2012	Tamara Hofer, University of Bern PhD defense: Impact of range expansion and natural selection on human genomic diversity
01.10.2012	Eduardo Amorim, University of Bern and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Cultural, adaptive, and neutral evolution in Amerindians
08.10.2012	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
15.10.2012	Dr. Ferran Casals, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Rare is meaningful. Whole-exome sequencing in the French-Canadian population
05.11.2012	Dr. Thomas White, CMPG Population genomics of a range expansion: the bank vole in Ireland
16.11.2012	Prof. David Nelson, Dept. of Physics, Harvard University Competition and Cooperation at Frontiers
19.11.2012	Dr. Sarah Perkins, University of Cardiff Shining light on infections disease dynamics
17.12.2012	Prof. Chris Jiggins, University of Cambridge Genomic insights into speciation in Heliconius butterflies

Spring 2012

Date	Title
27.02.2012	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
19.03.2012	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
16.04.2012	Dr. Kai Stölting, University of Fribourg Genomics of hybridization in Populus trees
23.04.2012	Dr. Claudia Bank, EPFL The limits to parapatric speciation
07.05.2012	Prof. Martin Ackermann, ETH An evolutionary perspective on bacterial individuality
29.05.2012	Dr. Alex Buerkle, University of Wyoming Overlap in the genomics of speciation and adaptation
11.06.2012	Dr. Nicolas Lartillot, Université de Montréal Bayesian integrative models for macroevolutionary studies

Fall 2011

Date	Title
10.10.2011	Prof. Lavinia Schüler Faccini, FGRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil Science vs. Conspiracy Theory - A town of twins in Brazil: Nazi Experiment or Founder Effect?
17.10.2011	Dr. Mathias Currat, Anthropology Unit, Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva Rare hybridization between Neanderthals and modern humans
31.10.2011	Dr. Stephan Peischl, CMPG A sequential coalescent algorithm for chromosomal inversions
05.12.2011	Dr. Daniel Wegmann, UCLA, USA Deep re-sequencing reveals the abundance and geographic structure of rare variant diversity in humans
12.12.2011	Dr. Mark Ibberson, Vital-IT, University of Lausanne Biological data analysis using networks
19.12.2011	Prof. Jerome Goudet, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne Spatial Approximate Bayesian Computations in model and non model organisms

Spring 2011

Date	Title
28.02.2011	Dr. Kerstin Musolf, University of Zurich Ultrasonic vocalizations in house mice: a cryptic mode of acoustic communication
14.03.2011	Prof. Arne Nolte, Max-Planck-Institute Plön, Germany Admixture and genome clashes - sculpin hybrids in the River Rhine system
21.03.2011	Tania Jenkins, University of Jena and CMPG Exploring the habitat component of genetic structure in the bank vole, Myodes glareolus
06.04.2011	Dr. Stefan Prost, University of Otago, New Zealand Reconstructing past human settlement in Polynesia using Approximate Bayesian Computation
11.04.2011	Dr. Anna Lindholm, University of Zurich Selfish genes in house mice
18.04.2011	Mathias Beysard, CMPG Genetics of intraspecific hybrid zones in Microtus voles
09.05.2011	Prof. Ziheng Yang, University College London, UK Bayesian species delimitation using genomic sequence data
25.05.2011	Yang Liu, CMPG PhD defense: Genetic analysis of migration in two avian influenza vectors: tufted duck and common pochard

Fall 2010

Date	Title
24.09.2010	Prof. Monty Slatkin, University of California, Berkeley Methods for inferring admixture from genomic sequence data and applications to ancient hominids
04.10.2010	Dr. Miguel Arenas Busto, CMPG Applications of the coalescent with recombination in molecular evolution
01.11.2010	Dr. Matthieu Foll, CMPG Quantifiying population structure using the F-model
22.11.2010	Dr. Daniel Wegmann, University of California, Los Angeles Inferring recombination rates in recently admixed human populations
06.12.2010	Dr. Thomas Bataillon, Aarhus University Beneficial mutations and dynamics of adaptation: insights from experimental evolution in bacteria and filamentous fungi
13.12.2010	Irma Glatt, CMPG PRDM9 - the first two zinc fingers have their own role in the holding hand
20.12.2010	Prof. Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, University of California, Berkeley A likelihood method to estimate selection and allele age from time serial samples

Spring 2010

Date	Title
08.03.2010	Reto Burri, University of Lausanne Avian MHC evolution: new insights and a population genomic perspective
22.03.2010	Dr. Christoph Haag, University of Fribourg Evolutionary genetics of Daphnia metapopulations
03.05.2010	Tamara Hofer, CMPG Islands of natural selection in the human genome
10.05.2010	Dr. John Wang, University of Lausanne Genomic approaches to social biology in ants
17.05.2010	Emilie Cutivet, CMPG Development of a computational pipeline for genomic databases
31.05.2010	Dr. Michael Krützen, University of Zurich Genetic and cultural diversity among orang-utan populations from Sumatra and Borneo