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 16, 2026 - Lead by Alex Skallas Cross Examination: A Primer on Multiparent Populations for Mapping Complex Traits
  Ruckman SN and Burke MK (2026). Genetics.
• Oct 23, 2026 - Lead by Jacob Pacheco This must be the place: deep learning local adaptation
  Rodriguez J, Cronn R, Tittes S, Kern AD (2026). bioRxiv.
• Oct 30, 2026 - Lead by Camilla Mercado Variant calling in nonmodel organisms with snpArcher
  Mirchandani C, Omarjee A, Achaz G, Enbody E, Thomas G, Sackton T (2026). Molecular Biology and Evolution.

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