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. You can see their latest article picks in this GitHub repository.

During summer 2017, meetings are Wednesday at 1:00 PM. Weather permitting, we meet on the patio of Borlaug Hall (on the St. Paul campus). In inclement weather, we meet in 409 Borlaug Hall.

Joint meetings with the Brandvain/ Moeller/ McGaugh/ Tiffin lab groups are scheduled for roughly one per month in 371 Bioscience (also on the St. Paul campus). Also check out UMNEvolTwin for interaction with evolutionary biologists on campus.

Additionally, non-PI members from any lab are invited to come to the Population Genetics Discussion group, which meets every other week on Wednesday mornings. For an exact schedule and list of discussion materials, visit their Github page.

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Meeting Schedule

• Jul 26, 2017 - Lead by Colin Pierce Deep learning for population genetic inference
  Sheehan S, Song YS (2016). PLOS Computational Biology.
• Aug 2, 2017 - Lead by Peter Morrell and Li Lei - two papers Negative selection in humans and fruit flies involves synergistic epistasis
  Sohail et al. (2017). Science.
• Aug 2, 2017 - Lead by Peter Morrell and Li Lei - two papers Epistasis between deleterious mutations and the evolution of recombination
  Kouyos RD, Silander OK, Bonhoeffer S (2007). Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
• Aug 9, 2017 - Lead by Li Lei Molecular ecology, epistasis, and adaptive convergence
  Colin Pierce - Masters Thesis (2017). Will be distributed to lab.
• Aug 16, 2017 - Lead by Peter Morrell The draft genome of Tibetan hulless barley reveals adaptive patterns to the high stressful Tibetan Plateau
  Zeng W, Long H, Zhao S, Tang Y, Huang Z et al. (2015). PNAS.
• Aug 23, 2017 - Lead by Chaochih Liu Altitude adaptation in Tibetans caused by introgression of Denisovan-like DNA
  Huerta-Sánchez E, Jin X, Asan, Bianba Z, Peter BM et al. (2014). Nature.
• Aug 30, 2017 - Lead by Colin Pierce - Special time : 11 AM Mistranslation-induced protein misfolding as a dominant constraint on coding-sequence evolution
  Drummond DA, Wilke CO (2008). Cell.

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