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

• Feb 27, 2026 - Lead by Luis Arge Language models - genetics
  Yang, H et al. (2026). .
• Mar 6, 2026 - Lead by Alex Skallas Population genomics and selection
  Gaut BS et al. (2026). .
• Mar 13, 2026 - Lead by Jacob Pacheco New whole-genome alignment tools are needed for tapping into plant diversity
  Song B, Buckler ES, Stitzer MC (2024). Trends Plant Sci 29: 355-369.
• Mar 20, 2026 - Lead by Jacob Pacheco VACmap: an accurate long-read aligner for unraveling complex genomic rearrangements
  Ding H, Sedlazeck FJ, Proukakis C, Morley C, Toffoli M, Schapira AH, Liao Z, Pu L, Zhu S (2026). .
• Mar 20, 2026 - Lead by Peter Morrell Inferring whole-genome histories in large population datasets
  Kelleher J, Wong Y, Wohns AW, Fadil C, Albers PK, McVean G (2019). Nat Genet 51: 1330-1338.

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