Population Genetics

Previous seminars

Spring 2024

Seminar and journal club in Population genetics and Bioinformatics
Date
 Title
19.02.2024  Introduction
26.02.2024
 JC: Dr. Stefan Strütt

Smith et al. (2023) Dispersal inference from population genetic variation using a convolutional neural network. Genetics.
04.03.2023  Prof. Cosimo Posth, University of Tübingen, Germany

The genomic landscape of Europe before the advent of farming
11.03.2024

 
18.03.2024  Dr. Lucy van Dorp, University College London, UK
Tracking zoonotic pathogens in space and time
25.03.2024 JC: Patric Aellen

Zhou et al. (2022) 80 million years of rapid evolution of theprimate Y chromosome. NatEcolEvol. Sup: AK
08.04.2024 Dr. Stéphane Peyrégne, MPI Leipzig, Germany

Dissecting Denisovan Ancestry in present-day people with a new high coverage Denisovan genome
15.04.2024 JC: Sandra Riverendo

Couce et al. (2024) Changing fitness effects of mutations through long-term bacterial evolution. Science. Sup: SP
22.04.2024 Dr. Moritz Muschick, EAWAG, Lucerne

Diversity in time and space - paleogenomics and lake sediment records inform evolutionary biology, ecology and conservation
29.04.2024 JC: Ramona Bruderer

Kuderna et al. (2023) Identification of constrained sequence elements across 239 primate genomes. Nature. Sup: LE
06.05.2024 JC: Janis Steiner

Irving-Pease et al. (2024) The selection landscape and genetic legacy of ancient Eurasians. Nature. Sup: SO

Time change: 12.15 instead of 11.15 !
13.05.2024 Dr. Marcel Keller, University of Bern

A Refined Phylochronology of the Second Plague Pandemic in Western Eurasia


27.05.2024
 Dr. Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, University of Geneva

Adaptive immunity in humans: evolutionary aspects

Fall 2023

Seminar and journal club in Population genetics and Bioinformatics
Date
 Title
18.09.2023  Allocation of presentations
25.09.2023
 Flavia Schlichta JC on "Inbreeding depression explains killer whale population dynamics" by Kardos et al. (2023) Nature Ecology and Evolution Sup: LE
02.10.2023 Sandra Reverendo JC on "A unique Toxoplasma gondii haplotype accompanied the global expansion of cats" by Galal et al. (2023) Nature Comm. Sup: GH
09.10.2023

Dr. Loic Marrec, IEE, University of Bern
Evolutionary dynamics in subdivided populations
16.10.2023  Dr. Magdalena Bohutinska, IEE, University of Bern
Genomic basis of repeated adaptation varies with divergence in Arabidopsis (and other species)!
23.10.2023 Dr. Stephan Schiffels, MPI Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Spatial inference of population structure and prehistoric human mobility from ancient and modern genomes
30.10.2023 Dr. Alexander Sang-Jae Suh, Evolutionsbiologiskt centrum, Uppsala University

Programmed DNA elimination - a bird's eye view
06.11.2023 Giulia Capella JC on "Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant" by Simoes et al. (2023) Nature. Sup:AK
13.11.2023 Ji Yun JC on "A null model for the distribution of fitness effects of mutations" by Cotto and day (2023) PNAS. Sup: SP
20.11.2023 Prof. Tomas Marques-Bonet, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

 Global patterns of genome diversity across the primate radiation
27.11.2023 Laura (Ilya) Dziomber, IPS, University of Bern

 From Past to Present: Tracing vegetation dynamics in the Swiss Alps with the help of paleoecology and ancient DNA
04.12.2023 Sidney Friedrich  JC on "Whole-genome sequencing reveals a complex African population demographic history and signatures of local adaptation" by Fan et al. (2023) Cell. Sup: NM
11.12.2023 Zhihui Wang JC on "Selection against admixture and gene regulatory divergence in a long-term primate field study" by Vilgalys et al. (2023) Science. Sup. SdSO
18.12.2023
 Roman Schwob JC on "Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition" by Hu et al. (2023) Science Sup: LE

Spring 2023

Seminar and journal club in Population genetics and Bioinformatics
Date
 Title
20.02.2023  Allocation of presentations
27.02.2023
 Dr. Chiara Barbieri, Distributional Linguistics Lab, Department of Comparative Language Science, University of Zurich
Contrasting linguistic and genetic histories of human populations with a global genetic dataset.
06.03.2023 Nuschin Reynas JC on "Admixture has obscured signals of historical hard sweeps in humans" by Soulimi et al. (2022) Nat. Ecol. Evol. Sup: LE
13.03.2023

Dr. Daniel Lee Jeffries, IEE, UniBe
Drivers of sex chromosome evolution in stickleback
20.03.2023 Lou Meili JC on "The spatiotemporal patterns of major human admixture events during the European Holocene" by Chintalapati et  al.(2022)  eLife. Sup: SdSO
CANCELED, rescheduled to 22.05.2023
27.03.2023 Ekaterina Noskova
Demographic inference from genetic data using GADMA
03.04.2023 Anna Sassara JC on "Evolutionary rescue of resistant mutants is governed by a balance between radial expansion and selection in compact populations" by Aif et al. (2022) Nat. Comm. Sup: SP
17.04.2023 Sandra Riverendo JC on "Ancient oral microbiomes support gradual Neolithic dietary shifts towards agriculture" by Quagliariello et al. (2022) Nat. Comm. Sup: AK
24.04.2023 Dr. Sandra Oliveira JC on "Questionning Neanderthal admixture: on models, robustness and consensus in human evolution" by Tournebize and Chikhi (2023) bioRxiv
01.05.2023 Prof. Vitor Sousa, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Impact of hybridization, divergent selection and deleterious mutations on genomic patterns
08.05.2023 Prof. Andy Foote, NTNU University Museum, Trondheim, Norway
Threespine sticklebacks as a model for studying evolution in small populations
15.05.2023 Dr. Lucy van Dorp,  Genetics Institute, University College, London, UK (by Zoom)
Reconstructing pathogen histories in space and time using big genetic data
22.05.2023 Lou Meili JC on "The spatiotemporal patterns of major human admixture events during the European Holocene" by Chintalapati et  al.(2022)  eLife. Sup: SdSO

Fall 2022

Date
 Title
19.09.2022  Allocation of presentations
26.09.2022
 JC: Flavia Schlichta
Tam et al. (2019) Benefits and limitations of genomewide association studies. Nat. Rev. Genet. 20:467-484
03.10.2022 JC: Rafel al Doori
Barber et al. (2022) Anti-bat ultrasound production in moths is globally and phylogenetically widespread. PNAS 119:e2117485119. Sup. LE
10.10.2022

Prof. Amy Goldberg. Duke University (USA)

Evolutionary perspectives on malaria over historical timescales
17.10.2022

Dr. Tim Vaughn. ETHZ
Phylodynamics in Action: Using genomes and computers to understand COVID-19 outbreaks
24.10.2022 JC: Benjamin Juhl

Jay et al. (2022) Sheltering of deleterious mutations explains the stepwise extension of recombination suppression on sex chromosomes and other supergenes. PLoS Biology. 20: e3001698. Sup: SP
31.10.2022 JC: Nuschin Renas
Witt et al. (2022)  Apportioning archaic variants among modern populations. Phil. Trans. B 377:20200411. Sup. SdSO
07.11.2022 Prof. Roman Arguello, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Lausanne

Evolutionary diversification of the olfactory system in flies
14.11.2022 JC: Honghong Fang: 
Deng et al. (2021) The distribution of waiting distances in ancestral recombination graphs TPB. 141:34-43. Sup. SS
21.11.2022 JC: Jerome Frei
Novembre et al. (2008) Genes mirror geography within Europe. Nature 456:98-101. Sup. NM
28.11.2022 Prof. Marc Robinson-Rechavi, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Lausanne

Natural selection in the hourglass pattern of animal Evo-Devo
05.12.2022 JC: Sheila Christen

Robinson et al. (2022) The critically endangered vaquita is not doomed to extinction by inbreeding depression. Science  376:635-639. Sup: GH
12.12.2022

Dr. Philine Feulner, Department Fish Ecology & Evolution, EAWAG & Prof. Rob Waterhouse, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Lausanne

A genome atlas of European biodiversity: introducing the European reference genome atlas (ERGA) initiative
19.12.2022

Dr. Joana Meier, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge (UK)

Rapid speciation facilitated by admixture

Spring 2022

Date
 Title
21.02.2022  Allocation of presentations
28.02.2022
 Journal Club: Antoine Roulin (Marnetto et al. 2022 Current Biology)
Ancestral genomic contributions to complex traits in contemporary European Sup. NM
07.03.2022  Journal Club:  Qin-Dong Tang.  (Novo et al. 2022 PLoS Genetics) 
The estimates of effective population size based on linkage disequilibrium are virtually unaffected by natural selection. Sup. SP
14.03.2022

Xuejing Wang. PhD progress presentation.

Demographic history and genomic consequences of 10,000 generations of isolation of Orkney voles

21.03.2022 Journal Club: Anton Labutin. (Monroe et al. 2022 Nature) 
Mutation bias reflects natural selection in Arabidopsis thaliana. Sup. KG.
28.03.2022 Journal Club: Thomas von Graffenried (Campbell-Staton et al. 2022 Science) 
Ivory poaching and the rapid evolution of tusklessness in African elephants. Sup. GH.
04.04.2022  Stefan Struett. Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding, Köln, Germany

Identifying and estimating shifts from outcrossing to selfing
11.04.2022 Dr. Benjamin Peter, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

A geometric relationship of F2, F3 and F4-statistics with Principal Component Analysis
25.04.2022 Dr. Sandra Oliveira, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, germany

 Human genomic variation across the Holocene in Wallacea
02.05.2022 Prof. Roman Arguello, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Lausanne

Evolutionary diversification of the olfactory system in flies

(REPORTED FOR NEXT SEMESTER)
09.05.2022 Dr. Tristan Cumer, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Lausanne

Genomic tales: Neutral and adaptive history of the barn owl in the western Palearctic
16.05.2022 Dr. Yannis Michalakis, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France
Living with a scattered genome: multipartite viruses and the genomic integrity cost
23.05.2022

Dr. Pavlos Pavlidis, Institute of Computer Science, Heraklion, Crete, Greece (ZOOM seminar only)

Simulations in genetics: Gene Regulatory Networks and spatial processes
30.05.2022

Dr. Martin Petr, GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (ZOOM seminar only)
A framework for simulating spatio-temporal population genomic data on real geographic landscapes

Fall 2021

Date
 Title
20.09.2021  Allocation of presentations
27.09.2021
  Journal Club: Anna Räss

21-Coll Macia et al. Different historical generation intervals in human populations inferred from Neanderthal fragment lengths and mutation signatures. Sup: NM
04.10.2021  Journal Club: Anita Schmid

21- Kerner et al. Human ancient DNA analyses reveal the high burden of tuberculosis in Europeans over the last 2,000 years. Sup: AK
11.10.2021 Dr. Jerome Kelleher (Zoom), Big Data Institute, Oxford University, UK (ZOOM seminar only)

A unified genealogy of modern and ancient genomes
18.10.2021 Dr. Jens Blöcher, University of Mainz, Germany (in presence seminar)

Palaeogenomics and European pre-history
25.10.2021 Dr. José Melo-Ferreira, CIBIO-InBIO, Universidade do Porto, Portugal   (in presence seminar)

To change, or not to change: repeated evolution of seasonal coat colour polymorphism
01.11.2021

Dr. Milan Malinsky, IEE, Uni. Bern    TBA  (in presence seminar)

Evolution of genomes and recombination rates
08.11.2021 Journal Club : Célestin Luisier

21 Patton et al. A transmissible cancer shifts from emergence to endemism in Tasmanian devils. Sup: GH
15.11.2021 Prof. Katja Nowick, Free University, Berlin, Germany  (in presence seminar)

Evolution of gene regulatory differences in primates
22.11.2021 Dr. Ana Y. Morales-Arce, IEE, Uni. Bern   (in presence seminar)

Computational approaches for within-host population genetics of human pathogens.
29.11.2021 Journal Club: Marta Fernandez-Freire

21-Cheng and Kirkpatrick Molecular evolution and the decline of purifying selection with age. Sup: LE
06.12.2021 Journal Club: Angélique Rüfenacht

79- Gould and Lewontin The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme. Sup: SP
13.12.2021 Written exam
20.12.2021

Dr. Martin Petr, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark  (in presence seminar)   

A framework for simulating spatio-temporal population genomic data on a real geographic landscape

CANCELED (postponed to next semester) due to COVID

Spring 2021

Date
 Title
22.02.2021  Allocation of presentations
01.03.2021
 Dr. Rémi Matthey-Doret, CMPG
Plasticity via feedback reduces the cost of developmental instability.
08.03.2021  JC: Brina Lopez Gfeller. Albers and McVean. (2020) Dating genomic variants and shared ancestry in population-scale sequencing data. Sup: AK
15.03.2021  JC: Tobias Böni Wang et al. (2020) Tracking human population structure through time from whole genome sequences. PLOS Genetics. Sup. LE
22.03.2021
Anton Labutin, CMPG
Species-like behaviour of parapatric European hantaviruses in a single host lineage
29.03.2021 JC: Qindong Tang. Erikkson et al (2021) The effect of the recombination rate between adaptive loci on the capacity of a population to expand its range. AmNat. Sup: AM
12.04.2021 Prof. Jeffrey Jensen, Arizona State University -- Exceptionally the talk is at 16h30

A further consideration of the effects of deleterious mutations on patterns of genetic variabilility
19.04.2021
Dr. Simone Rubinacci
Genotype imputation methods for SNP arrays and low coverage sequencing datasets
26.04.2021 Dr. Lounès Chikhi, Evolution & Diversité Biologique, CNRS, Toulouse, France and  Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência, Lisbon, Portugal
Demographic inference under the n-island model and possible applications to humans and lemurs
03.05.2021 JC: Flavia Schlichta. Fortes-Lima and Verdu (2021) Complex genetic admixture histories reconstructed with Approximate Bayesian Computation. MolEcolResources. Sup: NM
10.05.2021 JC: Xuejing Wang. Jay et al (2021) Mutation load at mimicry supergene sheds new light on the evolution of inversion polymorhisms. Nature Genetics. Sup: SP
17.05.2021
Qindong Tang, CMPG
Bird radiation under cryptic morphology
31.05.2021

Dr. Florent Mazel, University of Lausanne

Specificity of the mammalian gut microbiota

Fall 2020

Date
 Title
14.09.2020 Introduction to the Seminar and Journal Club and allocation of presentations
21.09.2020
  JC: Adamantia Kapopoulou. Severin et al. (2020) Gender and other potential biases in peer review: cross-sectional analysis of 38 250 external peer review reports BMJ Open
28.09.2020  JC: Tobias Böni. Esteller-Cucala et al. (2020) Genomic analysis of the natural history of attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder using Neanderthal and ancient Homo sapiens samples. Scientific Reports . Sup: NM
 05.10.2020  JC: Anton Labutin Düx et al. (2020) Measles virus and rinderpest virus divergence dated to the sixth century BCE. Science. Sup. GH.
12.10.2020 Dr. Mathias Currat, Anthropology Unit, University of Geneva
Hybridization and introgression during the range expansion of European wildcats in the Jura Mountains
19.10.2020 JC: Iris. Tellis et al (2020) Selection against archaic hominin genetic variation in regulatory regions . Nat Ecol. Evol. Sup: LE
26.10.2020 JC: Ivan . Teixeira and Huber (2020) Dismantling a dogma: the inflated significance of neutral genetic diversity in conservation genetics. bioRxiv. Sup. AM
02.11.2020
JC: Flavia Schlichta  Jasper and Yeaman (2020) Local adaptation can cause both peaks and troughs in nucleotide diversity within populations. Sup. RMD
09.11.2020 Xuejing Wang. CMPG
Effects of demography and mutation load on multiple islands after 10,000 generations of isolation
 16.11.2020 JC: Sabrina. Galtier and Rousselle (2020) How much does Ne vary among species? Genetics. Sup: SP
 23.11.2020 Brina Lopez Gfeller, CMPG
Assessment of human health in ancient Europeans
30.11.2020 Julia Lanner. Institute for Integrative Nature Conservation Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU)
 Investigations on colonization pathways and ecological factors promoting the invasion of the Asian wild bee species, Megachile sculpturalis, in Europe.
07.12.2020 Dr. Reto Büri and Dave Lutgen, Swiss Ornithlogical Institute, Sempach
Genomics of hybridization, speciation, and phenotypic evolution in wheatears: first results
14.12.2020

Spring 2020

Date
 Title
17.02.2020 Introduction to the Seminar and Journal Club and allocation of presentations
24.02.2020
 Dr. Antoine Moinet, CMPG, IEE, University of Berne, Complex networks in biology
23.03.2020 Dr.Stephan Peischl. Interfacultary Bioinformatics Unit. University of Berne. Evolution on expanding wave fronts
30.03.2020 Anton Labutin, CMPG, IEE, University of Berne, Host genetic factors associated with the range limit of European hantavirus “species” 
 06.04.2020
Qindong Tang, CMPG, IEE, Cryptic diversification along the speciation continuum in the pale sand martin Riparia diluta
 27.04.2020
Prof. François Balloux, Dept. of Genetics, Environment and Evolution, UCL, UK, Emergence and apportionment of genomic diversity in SARS-Cov-2, the agent of the Covid19 pandemia
 04.05.2020  Guy-Alain Schnidrig and Joana Rechsteiner, CMPG, IEE, University of Berne, MSc theses presentations

Fall 2019

Date
 Title
16.09.2019 Introduction to the Seminar and Journal Club and allocation of presentations
23.09.2019 Dr. Garett Hellenthal, Genetics Institute, University College London, UK
Identifying and dating historical admixture and selection in modern humans
30.09.2019 Dr. Oscar Lao, National Center of Genomic Analysis, Barcelona, Spain
Natural programming in the field of population genomics​​​​​​​
07.10.2019 Prof. Olivier Delaneau, Dept. of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne
Accurate and scalable haplotype and genotype imputation
14.10.2019 Dr. Josephine Daub, 
Beyond synthetic lethality: Multiple mechanisms can explain genetic interactions within childhood cancer
18.11.2019 Dr. Matthieu Foll, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO),Lyon France
A multi-omics study of spatial and temporal tumor evolution in thoracic cancers with clinical implications.
09.12.2019 Prof. Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas , Department of Computational Biology, University of Lausanne
Some insights into the peopling of Bronze Age Europe from ancient DNA

Spring 2019

Date
 Title
18.02.2019 Introduction to the Seminar and Journal Club and allocation of presentations
25.02.2019 Hira Imeri, IBU, University of Bern
Exploring the effects of demographic misspecification on the accuracy of machine learning methods in population genetics.
01.04.2019 Pr. Katie Peichel, IEE, University of Bern
Chromosome evolution in sticklebacks.
08.04.2019 Pr. Brian Charlesworth, University of Edinburgh, UK
Associative overdominance and patterns of variability in low recombination genomic regions.
15.04.2019 Dr Daniel Berner, Evolutionary Biology, University of Basel
Polygenic adaptation - insights from stickleback fish.
29.04.2019 Dr Frederic Austerlitz, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France
Inference of past historical events using ABC and MCMC methods on population genomics data sets. Applications to human populations.
20.05.2019 Dr Florence Debarre, Sorbonne-Université, Paris, France
Population control using gene drives: theoretical insights.
11.06.2019
(Room C159)
Pr Serena Tucci, Yale Uniersity, USA
The genetic legacy of archaic hominin admixture.

Fall 2018

Date
 Title
15.10.2018 Jérémy Choin, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Reconstructing the genetic history of Melanesian Islanders: Implication for human evolution and health
29.10.2018 Dr. Miguel Arenas, University of Vigo, Spain
Deciphering migration routes with approximate Bayesian computation based on spatially-explicit computer simulations
05.11.2018 Dr. Julien Dutheil & Gustavo Barroso, MPI Plön, Germany
Population genetics with complete genomes: new developments of the sequentially Markov coalescent
03.12.2018
Dr. Pierre-Alexandre Gagnaire, University of Montpellier, France

Inferring the history of speciation from phased genome sequences
17.12.2018 Dr. Paul Verdu, Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France
Parallel studies of genetic and linguistic diversities: reconstructing the biological and cultural histories of human populations

Spring 2018

Date
 Title
26.02.2018 Nina Marchi, CMPG
Impacts of cultural behaviors on the genetic diversity of human populations from Inner Asia
12.03.2018 Dr. Christine Grossen, University of Zurich
Fate of deleterious mutations in severely bottlenecked Alpine ibex
19.03.2018 Fernando Racimo, University of Copenhagen
Detecting polygenic adaptation and single-locus selection using admixture graphs
09.04.2018 Dr. Benjamin Peter, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Genetic landscapes reveal how human genetic diversity aligns with geography
30.04.2018 Dr. Wolfram Möbius, Living Systems Institute and College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter
Evolutionary dynamics meets geometrical optics: How isolated features in the habitat shape genetic diversity during range expansions for long times and at large distances
04.05.2018 Dr. Roman Biek, University of Glasgow
Unraveling pathogen transmission in structured host populations
28.05.2018 Dr. Isabel Alves, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto/l'institut du thorax, Nantes
The role of gene expression in buffering the effects of potentially harmful variation

Fall 2017

Date
 Title
25.09.2017
 Dr. Victor Sousa , cE3c – Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Lisboa
Learning the evolutionary history from genomes
13.11.2017 Dr. John Pannell, University of Lausanne
Evolution of plant populations subject to colonisation and range expansions
20.11.2017 Sylvain Glemin, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Effective population size, efficacy of selection and the mutation load
27.11.2017 Melanie Hiltbrunner, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern
Genomics of Tula hantavirus evolution in central Europe
04.12.2017 Hannes Svardal, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge
Lake Malawi cichlids: consecutive adaptive radiations linked by (adaptive) gene flow

Spring 2017

Date
 Title
06.03.2017 Dr. Konrad Lohse , Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh
Mirages and fruit flies in the desert revisited: towards model-based genomic maps of post-divergence gene-flow
 

13.03.2017

 Dr. Zoltan Kutalik, University of Lausanne
The interplay between genetic predisposition and lifestyle impacting human lifespan and obesity
27.03.2017 Dr. Guillaume Achaz, ENS, Paris, France
The strange case of the standard neutral model: when, what and why
03.04.2017 Dr Ophelie Ronce University of Montpellier, France
Mathematical models for the evolution of range shifts under climate change
13.03.2017 Dr Erik Postma, University of Zurich
Of mice and men: Predicting evolution in a changing environment
28.04.2017 Dr. Jessica Plucain, ENS, Paris, France
Genetic bases of the emergence of phenotypical innovations in E. coli and M. xanthus
01.05.2017 Dr. Sara Lipshutz, Tulane University, USA
Hybridization between sex-role reversed tropical shorebirds
08.05.2017 Prof. Leslie Turner, University of Bath, UK
Genetic mechanisms of speciation in house mice: functional genomics of hybrid male sterility in natural populations
13.03.2017 Prof. Tanja Schwander, University of Lausanne
Gene expression and evolutionary rate changes after parallel evolution of asexuality in stick insects

Fall 2016

Date
 Title
19.09.2016 Dr. Maxime Deforet Sloan Kettering Institute, NYC, USA
The contribution of growth and dispersal to the evolution of expanding populations
03.10.2016 Dr. Nicolas Lartillot, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, France
The Red-Queen model of recombination hot-spot evolution: a theoretical investigation
05.10.2016 Dr. Kavita Jain J. Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengalore, India
Rapid adaptation of polygenic traits after a sudden environmental shift
31.10.2016 Dr. Martin Zieger Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Bern
Forensic Genetics: Current state and future developments
14.11.2016 Dr. Matteo Fumagalli Computational Biology Group, UCL, UK
Population genomics in the high-throughput sequencing era
21.11.2016 Dr. Diana Rennison University of British Columbia, Canada
Detecting the drivers of divergence: Identifying and estimating natural selection in threespine stickleback
05.12.2016 Prof. Manfred Claassen Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich
Learning global and disease associated cell population heterogeneity from single cell recordings
12.12.2016 Prof. Yvonne Willi, University of Basel
Population genomics and species range limits

Spring 2016

Date
 Title
 

15.02.2016

 Prof. Lavinia Faccini Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Birth defects in Brazil - from genetic conditions in isolated populations to Zika virus congenital infection
29.02.2016 Dr. Felix Goldschmidt EAWAG, CH
Successive range expansions promote diversity in a microbial cross-feeding community
04.04.2016 Dr. Alan Hodgkinson King's College, London, UK
High-Resolution Genomic Analysis of Human Mitochondrial RNA Sequence Variation
25.04.2016 Prof. Nicolas Bierne ISEM, Montpellier
Investigating genome-wide heterogeneity in local introgression rates and its cause
02.05.2016 Dr. Georgios Athanasiadis Aarhus University, Denmark
The genetic history of Denmark: data from a nationwide public engagement project
09.05.2016 Dr. Martin Kapun University of Lausanne
Clinal inversions and rapid adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster
13.05.2016 Prof. Michael Whitlock University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Deleterious mutations and the complexities of selection in a spatial context
23.05.2016 Prof. Ida Moltke University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Adaptation and association studies in the Arctic
30.05.2016 Dr. Laure Segurel Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France
Adaptation to diet: human and microbial perspective

Fall 2015

Date
 Title
21.09.2015 Alexandre Gouy, University of Berne
A likelihood approach to simulation-based inference: application to the case of insecticide resistance evolution in the mosquito Culex pipiens
28.09.2015 Prof. Ioannis Xenarios, University of Lausanne
Vital-IT and Swiss-Prot : a tale of two groups
19.10.2015 Dr. Simon Aeschbacher, University of California
Detecting selection against gene flow: a complementary approach to Fst outlier scans
09.11.2015 Dr. Peter Fields, University of Basel
Phylogeographic inference of an intercontinental sample of Daphnia magna
09.11.2015 Prof. Hugues Abriel, University of Berne
Introducing Human Genetic Research at the University of Kinshasa (DRC): the Case of Channelopathies
30.11.2015 Prof. Asger Hobolth, Aarhus University
Statistical inference in the Wright-Fisher model using allele frequency data
14.12.2015 Prof. Laurent Duret, Université Claude Bernard - Lyon I, France
Biased gene conversion: the dark side of recombination

Spring 2015

Date
 Title
23.02.2015 Dr. Andy Foote, Uppsala University, Sweden
The genomic landscape of the speciation continuum in the killer whale
02.03.2015 Dr. Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, Univ. Copenhagen, Denmark & CMPG, Berne
Peopling of the Americas: a genomic perspective
09.03.2015 Dr. Sam Yeaman, UBC, Canada
The architecture of local adaptation: transient alleles and long-term genomic re-patterning
16.03.2015 Prof. Oscar Gaggiotti, Univ. St Andrews, UK
Making FST-based genome-scan methods more robust to deviations from the underlying model
11.05.2015 Lars Bosshard, CMPG, Berne
Accumulation of deleterious mutations in expanding bacterial populations
18.05.2015 Moritz Saxenhofer, CMPG, Berne
Delimiting the impact of host speciation on pathogen divergence

Fall 2014

Date
 Title
22.09.2014 Dr. Stefan Laurent, EPFL, Lausanne
Identifying adaptive regulatory mutations in the absence of phenotypic information
29.09.2014 Dr. Michael Blum, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Genome scans for detecting footprints of local adaptation: embracing the post-Fst era
13.10.2014 Dr. Richard Neher, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Genetic diversity in rapidly adapting populations and predictability of evolution
20.10.2014 Dr. Susanne Pfeifer, Center for Integrative Bioinformatics, Vienna, Austria
Recombination and selection in the chimpanzee genome
27.10.2014 Dr. Cedric Simillion, Interfaculty Bioinformatics Unit, University of Bern
Avoiding the pitfalls of gene set enrichment analysis with SetRank
01.12.2014 Alex Cagan, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
Nice rats, Nasty rats: Towards the genetic basis of tameness and aggression
15.12.2014 Prof. Adam Eyre-Walker, University of Sussex, UK
Geographic and genomic features that affect the rate of evolution

Spring 2014

Date
 Title
24.02.2014 Prof. Gilles Guillot, Technical University of Denmark
Models and algorithms to integrate spatial information in genetic ecology
31.03.2014 Dr. Maria Warnefors, CIG, University of Lausanne
The evolution of mammalian gene expression
07.04.2014 Dr. Florian Altermatt, Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Diversity patterns and dispersal processes in riverine metacommunities
28.04.2014 Dr. Aida Andrés, Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig
Persistent polymorphism: the role of selection in maintaining advantageous diversity in humans
05.05.2014 Prof. Thomas Wiehe, University of Cologne
Coalescent trees and induced subtrees
12.05.2014 Dr. Sebastien Wielgoss, ETH Zurich
Small changes with large effects: deciphering the molecular basis of evolutionary change in experimental and natural settings with bacteria

Fall 2013

Date
 Title
20.09.2013 Dr. Alexander Drakesmith, Radcliffe Dpt. Medicine, University of Oxford
Hepcidin and BMPs in innate immunity
23.09.2013 Dr. Konstantin Popadin, CMU, University of Geneva
The low mutation burden of live-birth Down syndromes
30.09.2013 Prof. Monty Slatkin, Berkeley, University of California
Population genetics of the Neanderthal genome project
07.10.2013 Dr. Camille Roux, DEE, University of Lausanne
Investigating speciation in face of gene flow or polyploidization : What can we learn from ABC?
04.11.2013 Prof. Ivo Große, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
De-Novo discovery of differentially abundant DNA binding sites including their positional preference
11.11.2013 Prof. Thomas Flatt, DEE, University of Lausanne
Population genomic basis of evolutionary change in Drosophila life history
25.11.2013 Dr. Thomas Lenormand, CNRS, University of Montpellier
Mutation landscape models : theory and data
28.11.2013 Prof. Hélène Vézina, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Genealogical investigation of the genetic heritage of the French Canadian population
12.12.2013 Heidi Lischer, CMPG, University of Bern
PhD defense: Genomic inference of evolutionary history and gene expression divergence in rodents

Spring 2013

Date
 Title
25.02.2013 Dr. Vitor Sousa, CMPG, University of Bern
Identifying loci under selection in isolation with migration models
11.03.2013 Dr. Diogo Meyer, University of Geneva
Causes and consequences of balancing selection: a case study with human MHC genes
15.04.2013 Dr. Reto Burri, Uppsala University, Sweden
The landscape(s) or genome divergence in Ficedula flycatchers
22.04.2013 Dr. Romain Studer, UCL, London, UK
Structural analyses of the impact of positive selection in evolution
02.05.2013 Dr. Tanja Stadler, ETH Zurich
New phylogenetic methods uncover past macroevolutionary and epidemiological dynamics
06.05.2013 Prof. Mattias Jakobsson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Inference of early human history

Fall 2012

Date
 Title
25.09.2012 Tamara Hofer, University of Bern
PhD defense: Impact of range expansion and natural selection on human genomic diversity
01.10.2012 Eduardo Amorim, University of Bern and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Cultural, adaptive, and neutral evolution in Amerindians
08.10.2012 Robert Carreras, University of Bern and Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Ecological genetic predictors for cardiovascular disease and population patterns of NOS genes in human populations from Europe and the Mediterranean basin
15.10.2012 Dr. Ferran Casals, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Rare is meaningful. Whole-exome sequencing in the French-Canadian population
05.11.2012 Dr. Thomas White, CMPG
Population genomics of a range expansion: the bank vole in Ireland
16.11.2012 Prof. David Nelson, Dept. of Physics, Harvard University
Competition and Cooperation at Frontiers
19.11.2012 Dr. Sarah Perkins, University of Cardiff
Shining light on infections disease dynamics
17.12.2012 Prof. Chris Jiggins, University of Cambridge
Genomic insights into speciation in Heliconius butterflies

Spring 2012

Date
 Title
27.02.2012 Dr. Pierre Bize, University of Lausanne
Life history variation along an elevation gradient: dissecting the contribution of genetics, ambient temperature and non-shivering thermogenesis
12.03.2012 Dr. Lounès Chikhi, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
Very spatial indeed: some consequences of space (and time) on population genetics inference
19.03.2012 Stefan Laurent, University of Munich, Germany
Demographic history of Drosophila melanogaster and inference of seed bank parameters in two wild tomato species using ecological and genetic data
16.04.2012 Dr. Kai Stölting, University of Fribourg
Genomics of hybridization in Populus trees
23.04.2012 Dr. Claudia Bank, EPFL
The limits to parapatric speciation
07.05.2012 Prof. Martin Ackermann, ETH
An evolutionary perspective on bacterial individuality
29.05.2012 Dr. Alex Buerkle, University of Wyoming
Overlap in the genomics of speciation and adaptation
11.06.2012 Dr. Nicolas Lartillot, Université de Montréal
Bayesian integrative models for macroevolutionary studies

Fall 2011

Date
 Title
10.10.2011 Prof. Lavinia Schüler Faccini, FGRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Science vs. Conspiracy Theory - A town of twins in Brazil: Nazi Experiment or Founder Effect?
17.10.2011 Dr. Mathias Currat, Anthropology Unit, Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva
Rare hybridization between Neanderthals and modern humans
31.10.2011 Dr. Stephan Peischl, CMPG
A sequential coalescent algorithm for chromosomal inversions
05.12.2011 Dr. Daniel Wegmann, UCLA, USA
Deep re-sequencing reveals the abundance and geographic structure of rare variant diversity in humans
12.12.2011 Dr. Mark Ibberson, Vital-IT, University of Lausanne
Biological data analysis using networks
19.12.2011 Prof. Jerome Goudet, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne
Spatial Approximate Bayesian Computations in model and non model organisms

Spring 2011

Date
 Title
28.02.2011 Dr. Kerstin Musolf, University of Zurich
Ultrasonic vocalizations in house mice: a cryptic mode of acoustic communication
14.03.2011 Prof. Arne Nolte, Max-Planck-Institute Plön, Germany
Admixture and genome clashes - sculpin hybrids in the River Rhine system
21.03.2011 Tania Jenkins, University of Jena and CMPG
Exploring the habitat component of genetic structure in the bank vole, Myodes glareolus
06.04.2011 Dr. Stefan Prost, University of Otago, New Zealand
Reconstructing past human settlement in Polynesia using Approximate Bayesian Computation
11.04.2011 Dr. Anna Lindholm, University of Zurich
Selfish genes in house mice
18.04.2011 Mathias Beysard, CMPG
Genetics of intraspecific hybrid zones in Microtus voles
09.05.2011 Prof. Ziheng Yang, University College London, UK
Bayesian species delimitation using genomic sequence data
25.05.2011 Yang Liu, CMPG
PhD defense: Genetic analysis of migration in two avian influenza vectors: tufted duck and common pochard

Fall 2010

Date
 Title
24.09.2010 Prof. Monty Slatkin, University of California, Berkeley
Methods for inferring admixture from genomic sequence data and applications to ancient hominids
04.10.2010 Dr. Miguel Arenas Busto, CMPG
Applications of the coalescent with recombination in molecular evolution
01.11.2010 Dr. Matthieu Foll, CMPG
Quantifiying population structure using the F-model
22.11.2010 Dr. Daniel Wegmann, University of California, Los Angeles
Inferring recombination rates in recently admixed human populations
06.12.2010 Dr. Thomas Bataillon, Aarhus University
Beneficial mutations and dynamics of adaptation: insights from experimental evolution in bacteria and filamentous fungi
13.12.2010 Irma Glatt, CMPG
PRDM9 - the first two zinc fingers have their own role in the holding hand
20.12.2010 Prof. Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas, University of California, Berkeley
A likelihood method to estimate selection and allele age from time serial samples

Spring 2010

Date
 Title
08.03.2010 Reto Burri, University of Lausanne
Avian MHC evolution: new insights and a population genomic perspective
22.03.2010 Dr. Christoph Haag, University of Fribourg
Evolutionary genetics of Daphnia metapopulations
03.05.2010 Tamara Hofer, CMPG
Islands of natural selection in the human genome
10.05.2010 Dr. John Wang, University of Lausanne
Genomic approaches to social biology in ants
17.05.2010 Emilie Cutivet, CMPG
Development of a computational pipeline for genomic databases
31.05.2010 Dr. Michael Krützen, University of Zurich
Genetic and cultural diversity among orang-utan populations from Sumatra and Borneo