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

• May 1, 2026 - Lead by Roland Akakpo The nature of selection during plant domestication
  Purugganan MD, Fuller DQ (2009). Nature, 457, 843–848.
• May 8, 2026 - Lead by Camilla Mercado Estimating scale-specific and localized spatial patterns in allele frequency
  Lasky JR, Takou M, Gamba D, Keitt TH (2024). Genetics, 227, iyae082.
• May 15, 2026 - Lead by Roland Akakpo A comparison of 27 *Arabidopsis thaliana* genomes and the path toward an unbiased characterization of genetic polymorphism
  Igolkina AA, Vorbrugg S, Rabanal FA et al. (2025). Nature Genetics, 57, 2289–2301.
• May 22, 2026 - Lead by Prakriti Adhikari Minor allele frequency thresholds strongly affect population structure inference with genomic data sets
  Linck E, Battey CJ (2019). Mol Ecol Resour, 19, 639–647.

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