Population genetics journal club 2006-2007

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
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Last modified 12-1-2007

Friday, July 28, 2006, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Kangyu Zhang, visiting from the Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California

Seminar: "Comparative genomic study of regulatory divergence in recent duplicated genes in S. cerevisiae"

Friday, August 4, 2006, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Sohini Ramachandran, visiting from the Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University

Seminar: "Inference of migrational history from genetic data"

Friday, August 11, 2006, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Yungang He, visiting from Stanford Research International

Seminar: "Linkage disequilibrium between populations"

Friday, August 18, 2006, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — James Degnan, visiting from the Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University

Seminar: "Species trees from many genes: consensus and concatenation"

Friday, September 8, 2006, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Trevor Bruen, visiting from the Department of Mathematics, McGill University

Seminar: "A fresh look at maximum parsimony with applications to detecting recombination"

Friday, September 22, 2006, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Jeff Long

Pooled association genome scanning for alcohol dependence using 104,268 SNPs: Validation and use to identify alcoholism vulnerability loci in unrelated individuals from the collaborative study on the genetics of alcoholism. Catherine Johnson, Tomas Drgon, Qing-Rong Liu, Donna Walther, Howard Edenberg, John Rice, Tatiana Foroud, George R. Uhl. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.30346 (Published Online: 7 Aug 2006).

Friday, October 6, 2006, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Nicole Scott

On the abundance of polyploids in flowering plants. Lauren A. Meyers, Donald A. Levin. Evolution 6, 1198-1206 (2006).

Friday, October 20, 2006, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Sijia Wang, visiting from the Department of Biology, University College London

Seminar: "Population-genetic analysis of Native Americans and Latinos"

Friday, October 27, 2006, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Cris Van Hout

An utter refutation of the 'Fundamental Theorem of the HapMap.' Joesph D. Terwilliger and Tero Hiekkalinna. European Journal of Human Genetics 14: 426-437 (2006).

Friday, November 10, 2006, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Paul Scheet

Mapping trait loci by use of inferred ancestral recombination graphs. M. Minichiello and R. Durbin. American Journal of Human Genetics 79: 910-922 (2006).

Friday, November 17, 2006, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Olivier Francois, visiting from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble

Seminar: "Two statistical models for tumorigenesis"

Friday, December 1, 2006, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — David States

Global variation in copy number in the human genome. R. Redon et al. Nature 444: 444-454 (2006).

Friday, January 19, 2007, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Hua Chen, visiting from the Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley

Seminar: "Inferring selection from haplotype structure"

Friday, February 2, 2007, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Weihua Guan

A model-based approach to capture genetic variation for future association studies. Susana Eyheramendy, Jonathan Marchini, Gilean McVean, Simon Myers and Peter Donnelly. Genome Research doi:10.1101/gr.5675406.

Friday, February 9, 2007, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Liming Liang

GENOME: a rapid coalescent-based whole genome simulator. Liming Liang, Sebastian Zöllner, Goncalo R. Abecasis

Friday, March 9, 2007, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Sarah Cobey and Katia Koelle

Epochal evolution shapes the phylodynamics of interpandemic influenza A (H3N2) in humans. Katia Koelle*, Sarah Cobey*, Bryan Grenfell, Mercedes Pascual. Science 314, 1898-1903.

Friday, March 16, 2007, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Yun Li

Rapid in silico genotyping with MACH

Friday, April 27, 2007, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Keyan Zhao, visiting from the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California

Seminar: "Association mapping in a structured sample of Arabidopsis"

Friday, May 18, 2007, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Kari Schroeder, visiting from the Department of Anthropology, University of California at Davis

Seminar: "The peopling of the Americas: old questions and new directions"

Friday, June 29, 2007, 12:00-1:00, Palmer Commons 2036 — Don Conrad, visiting from the Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago

Seminar: "Analysis of copy number in a founder population"