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

• Nov 6, 2026 - Lead by Han Yang GLARE: Genomic Language model for Automated Repetitive Element classification
  Haas N, Brůna T (2026). UbioRxiv.
• Nov 13, 2026 - Lead by Prakriti Adhikari Panagram reveals pangenome architectures underlying trait variation in plants and animals
  Jenike KM, Brown NL et al. (2026). bioRxiv.
• Nov 20, 2026 - Lead by Roland Akakpo Complete telomere-to-telomere genomes of cowpea reveal insights into centromere evolution in Phaseoleae
  Wei C, Sun S, Wang Y, Liu L, Pearson S, Wang Y, Dorjee T, Mace E, Jordan D, Yang Y, Tao Y (2026). Horticulture Research.

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