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

• Aug 21, 2026 - Lead by Camilla Mercado GBStools: A statistical method for estimating allelic dropout in reduced representation sequencing data
  Cooke TF, Yee M-C, Muzzio M, Sockell A, Bell R, Cornejo OE, Kelley JL, Bailliet G, Bravi CM, Bustamante CD, Kenny EE (2016). PLoS Genet 12: e1005631.
• Aug 28, 2026 - Lead by Luis Arge Balanced polymorphism in a floral transcription factor underlies the ancient rhythm of daily sex alternation in avocado
  Groh JS, Soares Dos Santos MF, Avila de Dios E, Ackerman G, Solares E, Iturrieta RA, Focht E, Seymour D, Gaut BS, Arpaia ML, Coop G (2026). Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 123: e2606876123.
• Sep 4, 2026 - Lead by Roland Akakpo Short-read sequencing benchmarking with donor-specific assemblies
  McGee SR, Smith JD, Frazar CD, Ryke E, Vollger MR, Kwon Y, Bennett JT, Eichler EE, Stergachis AB, Wei C-L (2026). bioRxiv 2026.06.24.734333.

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