Population genetics journal club 2007-2008

The population genetics journal club meets approximately every other Friday 12:00-1:00pm in Palmer Commons room 2036 (on the 2nd floor of the building, right next to the elevators in the center of the building). This is an informal gathering to discuss some of the latest topics in population genetics.

Organizers are Noah Rosenberg and Sebastian Zöllner. To receive announcements about upcoming journal club events, send an email to Sebastian (uniqname szoellne).

Click here for directions to Palmer Commons (we meet just down the hall from the Rosenberg lab).

This website is maintained by Noah Rosenberg
+1 734 615 9556 (office phone)
+1 734 615 9551 (lab phone)

Last modified 2-5-2008

Archives of past gatherings [2005-2006] [2006-2007]

Friday, July 20, 2007, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Jenna VanLiere

Convergent adaptation of human lactase persistence in Africa and Europe. Sarah A Tishkoff, Floyd A Reed, Alessia Ranciaro, Benjamin F Voight, Courtney C Babbitt, Jesse S Silverman, Kweli Powell, Holly M Mortensen, Jibril B Hirbo, Maha Osman, Muntaser Ibrahim, Sabah A Omar, Godfrey Lema, Thomas B Nyambo, Jilur Ghori, Suzannah Bumpstead, Jonathan K Pritchard, Gregory A Wray, Panos Deloukas. Nature Genetics 39, 31-40 (2007).

Friday, January 4, 2008, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Jeff Long

Research presentation: "Natural selection on ALDH2"

Friday, January 18, 2008, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Kun Chen, visiting from the Department of Statistics, University of California at Davis

Seminar: "Properties of principal component analysis for correlated samples and its application in admixture mapping"

Friday, February 8, 2008, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — James Degnan

Research presentation: "The multispecies coalescent: implications for inferring species trees"

Friday, February 22, 2008, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Shamil Sunyaev, visiting from the Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School

Seminar: "Learning from re-sequencing data: what do we do when the $1000 genome arrives?"

Friday, March 14, 2008, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Lucy Huang

Imputation-based analysis of association studies: candidate regions and quantitative traits. Bertrant Servin, Matthew Stephens. PLoS Genetics 3, e114 (2007).

Friday, April 4, 2008, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Yegor Bazykin

Research presentation: "Natural selection in molecular evolution: genome-scale, parsimony-based approach"

Friday, April 11, 2008, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Jun Li

High-resolution mapping of crossovers reveals extensive variation in fine-scale recombination patterns among humans. Graham Coop, Xiaoquan Wen, Carole Ober, Jonathan K. Pritchard, Molly Przeworski. Science 319: 1395-1398.

Friday, April 18, 2008, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Nicole Scott

A maximum-likelihood method for the estimation of pairwise relatedness in structured populations. Amy D. Anderson, Bruce S. Weir. Genetics 176: 421-440.

Friday, April 25, 2008, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Zach Szpiech

The genetic structure of Pacific islanders. Jonathan S. Friedlaender, Françoise R. Friedlaender, Floyd A. Reed, Kenneth K. Kidd, Judith R. Kidd, Geoffrey K. Chambers, Rodney A. Lea, Jun-Hun Loo, George Koki, Jason A. Hodgson, D. Andrew Merriwether, James L. Weber. PLoS Genetics 4, e19 (2008).

Friday, May 9, 2008, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Mike DeGiorgio

Natural selection and cultural rates of change. Deborah S Rogers, Paul R Ehrlich. PNAS 105, 3416-3420 (2008).

Friday, July 11, 2008, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Raquel Assis

Neofunctionalization of duplicaed genes under pressure of gene conversion. Kosuke M. Teshima, Hideki Innan. Genetics 178, 1385-1398 (2008).

Friday, July 18, 2008, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Lucy Huang

Research presentation: TBA