Seminar & events
Seminar and journal club in Population genetics and Bioinformatics
Teaching module: 10854-FS2020-0Local 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.
- Time: unless specified otherwise, every Monday, at 11:15
- Place: seminar room C159, Baltzerstr. 4
- Contact: Laurent Excoffier
Below is the list of forthcoming events. We also maintain a list of previous seminars.
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Date |
Title |
|---|---|
| 17.02.2020 | Introduction to the Seminar and Journal Club and allocation of presentations |
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24.02.2020 |
Dr. Antoine Moinet, CMPG, IEE, University of Berne Complex networks in biology |
| 02.03.2020 |
Brina Lopez Gfeller, JC Chen et al. 2020. Identifying and Interpreting Apparent Neanderthal Ancestry in African Individuals. Sup: N. Marchi |
| 09.03.2020 |
Adrian Metry, JC Rosandic et al. 2019. Novel look at DNA and life—Symmetry as evolutionary forcing. Sup: A. Thiéry |
| 16.03.2020 |
Stephanie Walker, JC Matute et al. 2020. Rapid and Predictable Evolution of Admixed Populations Between Two Drosophila Species Pairs. Sup: S. Peischl. |
| 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 |
Prof. François Balloux, Dept. of Genetics, Environment and Evolution, UCL, UK Reconstructing the spread of bacterial mobile elements in space and time CANCELLED. Replaced by Qindong Tang, CMPG, IEE Cryptic diversification along the speciation continuum in the pale sand martin Riparia diluta
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| 20.04.2020 |
Tobias Böni, JC Spence and Song. 2019. Inference and analysis of population-specific fine-scale recombination maps across 26 diverse human populations. Sup. L. Excoffier |
| 27.04.2020 |
Prof. Stephan Schiffels. MPI for the Science of Human History, Jenna, Germany CANCELLED Replaced by 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 |
| 11.05.2020 |
Dr. Sarah Knowles Department of Zoology, University of Oxford CANCELLED
Replaced by JC Xuejing Wang Walsh et al. 2020 Synonymous codon substitutions perturb cotranslational protein folding in vivo and impair cell fitness. PNAS |
| 18.05.2020 |
Dr. José Melo-Ferreira, CIBIO-InBIO, Universidade do Porto To change, or not to change: repeated evolution of seasonal coat colour polymorphism CANCELLED |
| 25.05.2020 |
Dr. Mathias Currat, Anthropology Unit, University of Geneva Hybridization and introgression during the range expansion of European wildcats in the Jura Mountains CANCELLED |
The list of papers for the JC can be found on Ilias
here