Dear colleagues,

The Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics runs an internationally
recognized seminar series featuring weekly talks by leading experts in
population genetics.

We invite interested viewers to stream the seminars during the upcoming
winter term (Tuesdays at 17:00 CET/CEST). Sign up here to receive weekly
streaming links (Webex): https://forms.gle/eaWbQEWvEN9A1z4CA

Schedule and updates are listed on our website:
https://www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

Many talks are posted to YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@popgenvienna8051

Winter term schedule:

08.10.24 - Lara Radovic (Vetmeduni, AT)

Y chromosome enlightens the last 1,500 years of horse history.

15.10.24 - Rasmus Nielsen (Univ. of California, Berkeley, US)
Ancestral Recombination Graphs and their use for population genetic
inferences.

22.10.24 - Patrick Tschopp (Univ. of Basel, CH)

Cell fate convergence in the vertebrate skeleton.

29.10.24 - Ann-Marie Waldvogel (Univ. of Cologne, DE)
Understanding ecological impact on genome evolution - from rivers
to deserts.

05.11.24 - Aurelien Tellier (TU Munich, DE)
Inference of past demography and life-history traits from genomic and
epigenomic polymorphism data.

12.11.24 - Nandita Garud (Univ. of California, Los Angeles, US)

Inference of demography and selection from human gut commensal microbiota.

19.11.24 - Ralf Sommer (Max Planck Inst. for Developmental Biology, DE)
What's wrong with evolutionary theory?

26.11.24 - Alexander Suh (Univ. of East Anglia, UK)
Unusual inheritance and evolution of the germline-restricted chromosome
of songbirds.

03.12.24 - Mario dos Reis (Queen Mary Univ. of London, UK) Modeling
the action of natural selection on protein-coding genes.

10.12.24 - Rhonda Snook (Stockholm Univ., SE) Ecological and
evolutionary consequences of reproductive stress in insects.

17.12.24 - Katie Lotterhos (Northeastern Univ., US) Inversions as
concentrators of polygenic architectures.

14.01.25 - Martin Kaltenpoth (Max Planck Inst. For Chemical Ecology,
DE) Microbial symbionts as sources of evolutionary innovations in beetles.

21.01.25 - George Cresswell (St. Anna Kinderkrebsforschung, AT) Cancer
Evolution: Basic principles to clinical implications.

28.01.25 - Simon Martin (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK) Chromosomal
rearrangements and local adaptation: more than meets the eye.

Sincerely,

Carina Baskett

Coordinator, Joint Research Program (SFB)--Polygenic Adaptation
Coordinator, Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics
she/her/hers
carina.baskett@vetmeduni.ac.at

Baskett Carina <Carina.Baskett@vetmeduni.ac.at>

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