Lab Meetings

Our weekly meetings involve discussion of papers related to population or quantitative genetics, molecular evolution, plant evolution, DNA sequencing, and computational biology. Everyone is welcome to attend! You’ll even get a chance to lead the discussion! Participants in our lab meeting are also tracking relevant journals that cover genetics, genomics and evolutionary biology.

During spring 2024, meetings are every Friday from 9:00 - 10:00 AM in 409 Borlaug Hall. For the time being, we are moving to remote meetings. Here is the Zoom join link for meeting ID 912 2609 7732.

For a list of classic papers, see our Reading the Classics page.

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Meeting Schedule

• Dec 5, 2025 - Lead by Camilla Mercado A genus-wide pangenome of Hordeum
  Mascher M, Feng J-W, Himmelbach A, et al. (2025). Research Square 0.
• Dec 12, 2025 - Lead by Jacob Pacheco AnchorWave: Sensitive alignment of genomes with high sequence diversity, extensive structural polymorphism, and whole-genome duplication
  Song B, Marco-Sola S, Moreto M, Johnson L, Buckler ES, Stitzer MC (2022). Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 119: e2113075119.
• Dec 19, 2025 - Lead by Alex Skallas Polygenic adaptation: a unifying framework to understand positive selection
  Barghi N, Hermisson J, Schlötterer C (2020). Nat Rev Genet 21: 769-781.

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