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

• Oct 17, 2025 - Lead by Alex Skallas A high-resolution consensus linkage map for barley based on GBS-derived genotypes
  Abed A, Badea A, Beattie A, Khanal R, Tucker J, Belzile F (2022). Genome 65: 83-94.
• Oct 24, 2025 - Lead by Han Yang Plantcad2: A long-context DNA language model for cross-species functional annotation in angiosperms
  Zhai J, Gokaslan A, Hsu S-K, Chen S-P, Liu Z-Y, Marroquin E, Czech E, Cannon B, Berthel A, Cinta Romay M, Pennell M, Kuleshov V, Buckler ES (2025). bioRxiv 2025.08.27.672609.
• Oct 31, 2025 - Lead by Luis Arge HiTE: a fast and accurate dynamic boundary adjustment approach for full-length transposable element detection and annotation
  Hu K, Ni P, Xu M, Zou Y, Chang J, Gao X, Li Y, Ruan J, Hu B, Wang J (2024). Nat Commun 15: 5573.
• Nov 7, 2025 - Lead by Roland Akakpo Pangenome analysis of transposable element insertion polymorphisms reveals features underlying cold tolerance in rice
  Qian Y, Zhou Z, Ouyang T, Li D, Li R, Gan P, Qiao R, Tan Y, Qian M, Liu L, Li J, Lu K, Luo J, Chen L-L, Song J-M (2025). Nat Commun 16: 7634.

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