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

• Sep 11, 2026 - Lead by Han Yang Leveraging long-read assemblies and machine learning to enhance short-read transposable element detection and genotyping
  Daigle A, Whitehouse LS, Zhao R, Emerson JJ, Schrider DR (2026). Genetics 233: iyag101.
• Sep 18, 2026 - Lead by Prakriti Adhikari Efficient phasing and imputation of low-coverage sequencing data using large reference panels
  Rubinacci S, Ribeiro DM, Hofmeister RJ, Delaneau O (2021). Nat Genet 53: 120-126.
• Sep 25, 2026 - Lead by Alex Skallas Accurate, scalable structural variant genotyping in complex genomes at population scales
  Hu M, Wan P, Chen C, Tang S, Chen J, Wang L, Chakraborty M, Zhou Y, Chen J, Gaut BS, Emerson JJ, Liao Y (2025). Mol Biol Evol 42: msaf180.

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