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. Jerome Kelleher, Big Data Institute, University of Oxford Inferring the ancestry of everyone
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| 30.03.2020 |
Anton Labutin, CMPG, IEE, University of Berne TBA |
| 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 |
| 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 TBA |
| 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 Making a microbiome: ecological and evolutionary forces shaping the gut microbiome of wild mammals |
| 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 |
| 25.05.2020 |
Dr. Mathias Currat, Anthropology Unit, University of Geneva TBA |
The list of papers for the JC can be found on Ilias
here