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

• Jul 24, 2026 - Lead by Luis Arge Integration, abundance, and transmission of mutations and transgenes in a series of CRISPR/Cas9 soybean lines
  Michno J-M, Virdi K, Stec AO, Liu J, Wang X, Xiong Y, Stupar RM (2020). BMC Biotechnol 20: 10.
• Jul 31, 2026 - Lead by Jacob Pacheco A fast, reproducible, high-throughput variant calling workflow for population genomics
  Mirchandani CD, Shultz AJ, Thomas GWC, Smith SJ, Baylis M, Arnold B, Corbett-Detig R, Enbody E, Sackton TB (2024). Mol Biol Evol 41: msad270.
• Aug 7, 2026 - Lead by Prakriti Adhikari QTL mapping
  Xu S (2026). Genetics.
• Aug 14, 2026 - Lead by Max Okagaki Genetics of recombination rate variation within and between species
  Payseur BA (2025). J Evol Biol 38: 851-860.

Previous Meetings