Seminar & events
Seminar and journal club in Population genetics and Bioinformatics
Teaching module on KSL: 10854-HS2020-0
Teaching module on ILIAS
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: The CMPG Seminar and journal club series will now be given as zoom-only ((zoom link is available on Ilias web page)
- Contact: Laurent Excoffier
Below is the list of forthcoming events. We also maintain a list of previous seminars.
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Date |
Title |
|---|---|
| 14.09.2020 | Introduction to the Seminar and Journal Club and allocation of presentations |
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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
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| 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 |
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Supervisors:
AM: Antoine Moinet
GH: Gerald Heckel
LE: Laurent Excoffier
NM: Nina Marchi
SP: Stephan Peischl
The list of papers for the JC can be found on Ilias here
AM: Antoine Moinet
GH: Gerald Heckel
LE: Laurent Excoffier
NM: Nina Marchi
SP: Stephan Peischl
The list of papers for the JC can be found on Ilias here