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 summer term (Tuesdays at 17:00 CET/CEST).

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

Many talks are recorded and can be found on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@popgenvienna8051

Summer term schedule:

04.03.25 - Lutz Becks (Univ. of Konstanz, DE)
The evolutionary dynamics of novel endosymbiosis.

11.03.25 - Ilkka Kronholm (Univ. of Jyväskylä, FI)
How chromatin structure influences genetic and epigenetic variation.

18.03.25 - Katja Hoedjes (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam, NL)
Understanding functional impact of genetic variation on complex traits
at a single nucleotide resolution.

25.03.25 - Sophie Armitage (Freie Univ. of Berlin, DE)
Evolutionary ecology of host-pathogen interactions.

01.04.25 - Matthew Rockman (New York Univ., US)
Developmental evolution is a population-genetics problem.

08.04.25 - Wen-Juan Ma (Vrije Univ. Brussels, BE)
The evolution of sex chromosomes and sex determination in frogs.

15.04.25 - Almorò Scarpa (Vetmeduni, AT) Two centuries of transposable
element invasions in Drosophila melanogaster

22.04.25 - Julia Kreiner (Univ. of Chicago, US) The mode and tempo of
genomic adaptation to contemporary agriculture.

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

06.05.25 - Luisa Pallares (Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, DE) Phenotypic
robustness across the genotype-phenotype map, from genes to environment
and back.

13.05.25 - Diana Rennison (Univ. of Calif., San Diego, US)
Understanding the predictability of evolutionary trajectories using
threespine stickleback.

20.05.25 - Filipa Sousa (Univ. of Vienna, AT) Bioenergetics Evolution:
The link between Earth's and Life's history.

27.05.25 - Yun Song (Univ. of California, Berkeley, US) Learning and
applying complex probability distributions over biological sequences.

03.06.25 - April Wei (Cornell Univ., US) Enabling efficient analysis
of biobank-scale data with genotype representation graphs.

10.06.25 - Lauren McIntyre (Univ. of Florida, US) SFB Polygenic
Adaptation <https://www.vetmeduni.ac.at/sfb-polygenic-adaptation>
Distinguished Speaker Disentangling cis and trans effects: a novel
crossing design.

17.06.25 - Stephan Schiffels (Max Planck Inst. of Evolutionary
Anthropology, DE) Spatial inference of population structure and
prehistoric human mobility from ancient and modern genomes.

24.06.25 - Margarida Matos (Univ. of Lisboa, PT)
>From nature to the lab: The role of history, chance and selection during
adaptation to novel environments.

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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