Seminar by Anna Igolkina, Gregor Mendel Institute
2025-10-27 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome structure evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Monday, October 27th.
Seminar Details:

Date: October 27th, 2025

Time: 15:00 – 16:00

Speaker: Anna Igolkina, GMI – Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you review the following preprint: Towards an unbiased characterization of genetic polymorphism: a comparison of 27 A. thaliana genomes

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Angela Poole, Cornell University
2025-11-03 15:00 - 16:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on human evolutionary genetics and genome structure evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Monday, November 3rd.
Seminar Details:
Date: November 3rd, 2025
Time: 15:00 – 16:00
Speaker: Angela Poole, Cornell University
Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor
Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link
As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you review the following article: The association between salivary amylase gene copy number and enzyme activity with type 2 diabetes status
Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.
Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.
We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Leon Hilgers, Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research (SGN)
2025-11-17 15:00 - 16:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome structure evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Monday, November 17th.
Seminar Details:

Date: November 17th, 2025

Time: 15:00 – 16:00

Speaker: Leon Hilgers, Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research (SGN)

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you review the following article: TBA

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Zexuan Chen, Durham University
2026-01-16 09:00 - 10:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome structure evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Friday, January 16th.
Seminar Details:

Date: January 16th, 2026

Time: 09:00 – 10:00

Speaker: Zexuan Chen, Durham University

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you review the following article: TBA

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Rozenn Pineau, University of Chicago
2026-01-23 14:00 - 15:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome structure evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Friday, January 23rd.
Seminar Details:

Date: January 23rd, 2026

Time: 14:00 – 15:00

Speaker: Rozenn Pineau, University of Chicago

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you read the following article: The genomic response to drought across spatiotemporal scales in Amaranthus tuberculatus

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Aaron Pfennig, Princeton University
2026-02-06 13:00 - 14:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome structure evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Friday, February 6th.
Seminar Details:

Date: February 6th, 2026

Time: 13:00 – 14:00

Speaker: Aaron Pfennig, Princeton University

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you read the following article: The evolutionary fate of Neanderthal DNA in 30,780 admixed genomes with recent African-like ancestry

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Natanael Spisak, Columbia University
2026-02-20 11:00 - 12:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome structure evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Friday, February 20th.
Seminar Details:

Date: February 20th, 2026

Time: 11:00 – 12:00

Speaker: Natanael Spisak, Columbia University

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you read the following article: Collateral mutagenesis funnels multiple sources of DNA damage into a ubiquitous mutational signature

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Marta Farré, University of Kent
2026-03-13 14:00 - 15:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome structure evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Friday, March 13th.
Seminar Details:

Date: March 13th, 2026

Time: 14:00 – 15:00

Speaker: Marta Farré, University of Kent

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you read the following article: TBA

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Anastasia Ignatieva, University of Oxford
2026-03-20 14:00 - 15:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome structure evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Friday, March 20th.
Seminar Details:

Date: March 20th, 2026

Time: 14:00 – 15:00

Speaker: Anastasia Ignatieva, University of Oxford

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you read the following article: The Length of Haplotype Blocks and Signals of Structural Variation in Reconstructed Genealogies

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Ammon Corl, University of California, Berkeley
2026-04-03 14:00 - 15:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome structure evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Friday, April 3rd.
Seminar Details:

Date: April 3rd, 2026

Time: 14:00 – 15:00

Speaker: Ammon Corl, University of California, Berkeley

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you read the following article: The genetics, evolution, and maintenance of a biological rock-paper-scissors game

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Arjun Biddanda, Johns Hopkins University
2026-04-10 14:00 - 15:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome structure evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Friday, April 10th.
Seminar Details:

Date: April 10th, 2026

Time: 14:00 – 15:00

Speaker: Arjun Biddanda, Johns Hopkins University

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you read the following article: Common variation in meiosis genes shapes human recombination and aneuploidy

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Robin Hofmeister, University of Lausanne
2026-04-17 11:00 - 12:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome structure evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Friday, April 17th.
Seminar Details:

Date: April 17th, 2026

Time: 11:00 – 12:00

Speaker: Robin Hofmeister, University of Lausanne

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you read the following article: Parental haplotypes reconstruction in up to 440,209 individuals reveals recent assortative mating dynamics

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Gayani Senevirathne, Harvard University
2026-05-01 14:00 - 15:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome structure evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Friday, May 1st.
Seminar Details:

Date: May 1st, 2026

Time: 14:00 – 15:00

Speaker: Gayani Senevirathne, Harvard University

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you read the following article: The evolution of hominin bipedalism in two steps

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Charlotte Wright, Wellcome Sanger Institute
2026-05-15 14:00 - 15:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome structure evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Friday, May 15th.
Seminar Details:

Date: May 15th, 2026

Time: 14:00 – 15:00

Speaker: Charlotte Wright, Wellcome Sanger Institute

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you read the following article: Constraints on chromosome evolution revealed by the 229 chromosome pairs of the Atlas blue butterfly

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Sophie Jean Walton, Stanford University
2026-05-29 14:00 - 15:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome structure evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Friday, May 29th.
Seminar Details:

Date: May 29th, 2026

Time: 14:00 – 15:00

Speaker: Sophie Jean Walton, Stanford University

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you read the following article: Community coalescence reveals strong selection and coexistence within species in complex microbial communities

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Yulin Zhang, University of California, Berkeley
2026-09-04 14:00 - 15:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome structure evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Friday, September 4th.
Seminar Details:

Date: September 4th, 2026

Time: 14:00 – 15:00

Speaker: Yulin Zhang, University of California, Berkeley

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you read the following article: Recovering signatures of archaic introgression using ancestral recombination graphs

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Hrushikesh Loya, University of Oxford
2026-09-18 14:00 - 15:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Friday, September 18th.
Seminar Details:

Date: September 18th, 2026

Time: 14:00 – 15:00

Speaker: Hrushikesh Loya, University of Oxford

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you read the following article: Genome-wide genealogies reveal deep admixtures forming modern humans

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Richard Wolff, UC San Diego
2026-10-02 14:00 - 15:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Friday, October 2nd.
Seminar Details:

Date: October 2nd, 2026

Time: 14:00 – 15:00

Speaker: Seminar by Richard Wolff, UC San Diego

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you read the following article: Gene-specific selective sweeps are pervasive across human gut microbiomes

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Nolan Kamitaki, Harvard Medical School
2026-10-16 14:00 - 15:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Friday, October 16th.
Seminar Details:

Date: October 16th, 2026

Time: 14:00 – 15:00

Speaker: Seminar by Nolan Kamitaki, Harvard Medical School

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you read the following article: Human and bacterial genetic variation shape oral microbiomes and health

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Anders Bergström, University of East Anglia
2026-10-30 14:00 - 15:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Friday, October 30th.
Seminar Details:

Date: October 30th, 2026

Time: 14:00 – 15:00

Speaker: Seminar by Anders Bergström, University of East Anglia

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you read the following article: Genomic history of early dogs in Europe

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Isabella Salamone, University of Chicago
2026-11-13 14:00 - 15:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Friday, November 13th.
Seminar Details:

Date: November 13th, 2026

Time: 14:00 – 15:00

Speaker: Seminar by Isabella Salamone, University of Chicago

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you read the following article: TBD

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.

Seminar by Matthew Aguirre, Genentech
2026-11-20 14:00 - 15:00
As part of our ongoing seminar series on evolutionary genetics and genome evolution, we are excited to announce our upcoming seminar scheduled for Friday, November 20th.
Seminar Details:

Date: November 20th, 2026

Time: 14:00 – 15:00

Speaker: Seminar by Matthew Aguirre, Genentech

Location: Large Conference room, Hochstetter Hall 5th floor

Zoom Link: Zoom Meeting Link

As part of your preparation for the seminar, we kindly recommend that you read the following article: Regulatory network topology and the genetic architecture of gene expression

Whether you plan to attend in person or via Zoom, we welcome your participation and look forward to your questions and engagement during the Q&A session.Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require further information.

We hope to see you all there.
