Population Genetics

Seminar & events

Seminar and journal club in Population genetics and Bioinformatics

Teaching module on KSL: 10854-FS2023
Seminar schedule on ILIAS with PDFs

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.

  • Time: unless specified otherwise, every Monday, at 11:15
  • Place: Hörraum C159, Zellbiologie, Baltzerstrasse 4
  • Contact: Laurent Excoffier

Below is the list of forthcoming events. We also maintain a list of previous seminars.

Seminar and journal club in Population genetics and Bioinformatics
Date
 Title
20.02.2023  Allocation of presentations
27.02.2023
 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.
06.03.2023 Nuschin Reynas JC on "Admixture has obscured signals of historical hard sweeps in humans" by Soulimi et al. (2022) Nat. Ecol. Evol. Sup: LE
13.03.2023

Dr. Daniel Lee Jeffries, IEE, UniBe
Drivers of sex chromosome evolution in stickleback
20.03.2023 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
27.03.2023 Ekaterina Noskova
Demographic inference from genetic data using GADMA
03.04.2023 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
17.04.2023 Sandra Riverendo JC on "Ancient oral microbiomes support gradual Neolithic dietary shifts towards agriculture" by Quagliariello et al. (2022) Nat. Comm. Sup: AK
24.04.2023 Dr. Sandra Oliveira JC on "Questionning Neanderthal admixture: on models, robustness and consensus in human evolution" by Tournebize and Chikhi (2023) bioRxiv
01.05.2023 Prof. Vitor Sousa, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Impact of hybridization, divergent selection and deleterious mutations on genomic patterns
08.05.2023 Prof. Andy Foote, NTNU University Museum, Trondheim, Norway
Threespine sticklebacks as a model for studying evolution in small populations
15.05.2023 Dr. Lucy van Dorp,  Genetics Institute, University College, London, UK (by Zoom)
Reconstructing pathogen histories in space and time using big genetic data
22.05.2023 Lou Meili JC on "The spatiotemporal patterns of major human admixture events during the European Holocene" by Chintalapati et  al.(2022)  eLife. Sup: SdSO

Supervisors:
(emails can be found on our web page)
NM: Nina Marchi
SP: Stephan Peischl
SdSO: Sandra Da Silva Oliveira
SS: Stefan Struett
AK: Adamandia Kapopoulou
GH: Gerald Heckel
LE: Laurent Excoffier
The list of papers for the JC can be found on Ilias here