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Summer semester 2001
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Speaker
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From
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When
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What
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| Dr Gerald Kerth |
Universität Zürich,
Switzerland |
20.4.01 |
Relatedness, life history and social behavior in the
long-lived Bechstein's bat (Myotis bechsteinii) |
| Prof AxelMeyer |
Universität
Konstanz, Germany |
08.5.01 |
The evolution of the adaptive radiation of cichlid
fishes: comparative developmental and genomic approaches |
| Prof Michael Whitlock |
University of
British Columbia |
15.5.01 |
Simple selection in complex metapopulations |
| Dr Eric Petit |
Université de
Rennes, France |
22.5.01 |
Mitochondrial diversity along an altitudinal gradient in
the shrew Crocidura russula |
| Dr Jonathan Adams |
University of Rhode
Island |
16.8.01 |
A quick guide to the last ice age - Changes in
geography, vegetation distribution and climate |
| Prof Philip W. Hedrick |
Arizona State
University, USA |
10.9.01 |
Population genetics: A potpourri of recent research |
| Dr Arcadi Navarro i Cuartiellas |
Institute of Cell,
Animal and Population Biology, Edinburgh |
20.9.01 |
Thinking about whole genome data: Neutral variability
and multilocus balancing selection |
| Dr Guillaume Laval |
Institut National
de la Recherche Agronomique, Toulouse, France |
20.9.01 |
Estimation under drift assumption of the within
population inbreeding coefficient by genetic distances,
maximum likelihood and Bayesian approaches: Application to
QTL detection in pig and poultry selected lines |
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Winter semester 2001-2002
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Speaker
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From
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When
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What
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| Literature seminar |
CMPG |
29.10.01 |
Genetic diversity and introgression in the Scottish
wildcat: Beaumont et al. 2001, Molecular Ecology 10,
319-336 |
| Prof NicolasPerrin |
Université de
Lausanne |
30.10.01 |
The evolution of dispersal |
| Gerald Heckel |
CMPG |
05.11.01 |
Evolution of mating systems, genetic diversity and
dispersal in Microtus voles |
| Carlo Largiadèr and other speakers |
CMPG |
10.11.01 |
Symposium on the use of DNA microarrays in evolutionary
biology |
| Literature seminar |
CMPG |
19.11.01 |
Parentage testing I - Exclusion of non-parents - Double
et al. 1997, Molecular Ecology 6, 1155-1166 - for an early
example: McCracken & Bradbury 1977, Science 198,
303-306 |
| Dr Filip Volckaert |
Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven, Belgium |
28.11.01 |
Timing of the population dynamics of bullhead Cottus
gobio (Teleostei: Cottidae) during the Pleistocene |
| Thomas Giger |
CMPG |
03.12.01 |
Isolation and characterization of sex-linked markers in
brown trout and sticklebacks |
| Literature seminar |
CMPG |
17.12.01 |
Parentage testing II - Likelihood-based parentage
assessment - Marshall et al. 1998, Molecular Ecology 7,
639-655 - Slate et al. 2000, Molecular Ecology 801-808 |
| Mathias Currat |
CMPG |
7.1.02 |
Genetic structure of two human Swiss Alpine populations |
| Dr Fabrizio Stefani |
University of
Milano-Bicocca, Italy |
14.1.02 |
Phylogeographical patterns of Rudd (Scardinius
erythrophtalmus L., Cyprinidae) in Italy |
| Dr Gordon Luikart |
Université de
Grenoble, France |
21.1.02 |
Conservation and evolutionary history of wild and
domestic goats (Capra spp.) inferred from molecular
markers |
| Dr Thomas Wiehe |
Max-Planck-Institut
Jena, Germany |
28.1.02 |
Evolutionary approaches to genome analysis |
| biology02 |
University of Bern |
14-15.2.02 |
Annual Symposium of the Swiss Zoological, Botanical and
Mycological Societies |
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Summer semester 2002
|
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Speaker
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From
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When
|
What
|
| Prof Laurent Excoffier |
CMPG |
8.4.02 |
Molecular diversity in spatially expanding populations |
| Prof Marc Beaumont |
University of
Reading |
22.4.02 |
Approximate Bayesian methods in population genetics |
| Dr Maarit Jaarola |
Lund University |
29.4.02 |
Species-wide phylogeographies of voles (Microtus)
inferred from mitochondrial and Y chromosome DNA sequences |
| Dr Thomas Schmitt |
Universität Trier |
5.5.02 |
A view back to the past: phylogeography of butterflies |
| Jean-Claude Nicod |
CMPG |
13.5.02 |
Length polymorphism in Whitefishes (Coregonus
spp.) from Swiss lakes |
| Dr Juan Montoya |
Université de
Montpellier |
27.5.02 |
Testing the refuge theory of diversification in
neotropical freshwater fishes: the genus Hypostomus
as a model |
| Dr Kara O'Keefe |
Duke University |
10.6.02 |
The evolution of virulence in sterilizing pathogens |
| Prof Monty Slatkin |
University of
California |
20.6.02 |
The age of alleles |
| Dr Luca Fumagalli |
Université de
Lausanne |
24.6.02 |
Extreme levels of genetic differentiation in remnant
populations of marble trout (Salmo marmoratus) in
Slovenia |
|
Winter semester 2002-2003
|
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Speaker
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From
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When
|
What
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| Dr Jean-François Rubin |
Musée du Léman |
29.10.02 |
Management of salmonid species in the lake Geneva basin.
The case study of the Arctic char, Salvelinus alpinus
and Brown trout, Salmo trutta |
| Prof David Balding |
Imperial College,
London |
5.11.02 |
Likelihood-based estimation of Wright's
genetic correlation coefficients |
| Jean-Claude Nicod |
CMPG |
11.11.02 |
DNA length polymorphisms in Whitefishes (Coregonus
spp.) from Swiss lakes |
| Simona Arigoni |
Université de
Genève et Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille |
18.11.02 |
Genetic population structure of Symphodus ocellatus
in the Mediterranean Sea |
| Sylvain Ursenbacher |
Université de
Lausanne |
2.12.02 |
Phylogeography of the two Swiss' vipers (Vipera aspis
and Vipera berus): signs for French refugia? |
| Dr Michel Chapuisat |
Université de
Lausanne |
09.12.02 |
The evolution of breeding systems in ants |
| Dr Isabelle Dupanloup |
University of
Ferrara |
16.12.02 |
Evidence for a genetic discontinuity between Neandertals
and Cro-Magnons |
| Prof Evelyne Heyer |
Musée de l'Homme,
MNHN, Paris |
14.1.03 |
Genetic History of a Human Population: effect of
non-genetic heritability of fertility |
| Dr Grant Hamilton |
CMPG |
20.1.03 |
When you can't see the rabbits for the trees: the effect
of spatial resource distribution on connectivity and
population genetic structure |
| Dr Estella Poloni |
LGB, Dept.
d'Antropologie de l'Université de Genève |
27.1.03 |
Thawing out the past: an ongoing freezer anthropology
project on Southern Ethiopian samples |
|
Summer semester 2003
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Speaker
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From
|
When
|
What
|
| Dr David Rand |
Brown University,
USA |
31.3.03 |
Selection on genes and genomes: neutrality tests in vivo
and in silico |
| Dr Armin Peter |
EAWAG, Switzerland |
14.4.03 |
Brown trout and bullhead: Habitat characterization and
mechanisms of dispersal |
| Dr Oscar Gaggiotti |
University of
Helsinki, Finland |
28.4.03 |
Beyond the simple estimation of parameters: Combining
genetic, demographic, and environmental data to make
inferences about metapopulation processes |
| Gabriele Soland |
CMPG |
19.5.03 |
Postglacial recolonization of the upper Rhone basin by
the bullhead (Cottus gobio) |
| Dr Giorgio Bertorelle |
Universitá di
Ferrara, Italy |
26.5.03 |
Translocation and hybridization in the wild boar:
inferences based on multi-locus genotypes |
| Prof Mark Stoneking |
Max-Planck-Institute,
Leipzig, Germany |
02.6.03 |
Detecting Local Natural Selection in Human Populations |
| Dr Roman Biek |
University of
Montana |
18.8.03 |
Ecology, evolution, and population structure of a feline
retrovirus in cougars (Puma concolor) |
|
Winter semester 2003-2004
|
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Speaker
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From
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When
|
What
|
| Sabine Fink |
CMPG |
27.10.03 |
Evolutionary relationships of Microtus vole populations
inferred from coding and non-coding mtDNA |
| Reto Burri |
CMPG |
03.11.03 |
Microsatellite analyses in a large scale population
sample of Microtus arvalis voles |
| Dr Arnaud Estoup |
University of
Montpellier |
24.11.03 |
Genetic analysis of complex demographic scenarios: the
case of spatially expanding populations in cane toad Bufo
marinus |
| Pierre Berthier |
CMPG |
01.12.03 |
Bayesian estimation of individual inbreeding
coefficients from multi-locus genotypes |
| Dr Benjamin Gantenbein |
University of
Edinburgh |
15.12.03 |
Of tiny, stingy animals (scorpions), the Mediterranean
and the evolutionary rate in genes |
| Gabriele Gerlach |
Woodshole, USA |
05.1.04 |
Sympatric speciation in perch in Lake Constance? |
| Simon Walther |
CMPG |
12.1.04 |
Nuclear and mtDNA diversity of Myotis myotis populations
from Italy |
| Vincent Laudet |
University of Lyon |
19.1.04 |
Thyroid hormone regulated metamorphosis: A Chordate
innovation? |
| Dr Grant Hamilton |
CMPG |
26.1.2004 |
Approaches to estimating the parameters of
rangeexpansion |
| Prof Henrik Kaessmann |
University of
Lausanne |
2.2.04 |
Extensive gene traffic on the mammalian X chromosome |
|
Summer semester 2004
|
|
Speaker
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From
|
When
|
What
|
| Pierre Franck |
Avignon, France |
29.3.04 |
Genetic approaches of evolutionary questions on
sociobiology and phylogeography in the honeybee (Apis
mellifera) |
| Samuel Neuenschwander |
CMPG |
10.5.04 |
Do virtual bullhead migrate better than their wild
siblings? |
| Thomas Giger |
CMPG |
17.5.04 |
Differences in global gene expression levels between
sedentary and migratory forms of brown trou |
| Pierre Berthier |
CMPG |
07.6.04 |
Is there gene flow between the two bat sibling species Myotis
myotis and Myotis blythii ? |
| David Bittner |
CMPG |
14.6.04 |
Genetic population structure of brown trout in the Lake
Thun area and assessment of stocking impact on natural
populations |
| Pascal Vonlanthen |
CMPG |
21.6.04 |
Postglacial colonisation history of the Lake Geneva
basin by the bullhead (Cottus gobio L.) revealed by
microsatellite markers |
|
Winter semester 2004-2005
|
|
Speaker
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From
|
When
|
What
|
| Patrick Basset |
Lausanne |
25.10.04 |
Can chromosomal rearrangements induce barriers to gene
flow at specific parts of the genome? |
| Simone Barnetta |
CMPG |
01.11.04 |
Admixture of Atlantic and Mediterranean brown trout (Salmo
trutta) in the Chevenne: the power of diagnostic
markers |
| Seraina Klopfstein |
CMPG |
08.11.04 |
Surfing mutations - the fate of mutations that occur at
the wave front of a range expansion |
| Manuel Schweizer |
CMPG |
15.11.04 |
Genetic structure of Microtus voles in a
fragmented landscape: First results of a temporal study |
| Dr Yannis Michalakis |
Montpellier |
22.11.04 |
Biotic interactions and life history trait evolution |
| Dr Nicolas Ray |
CMPG |
29.11.2004 |
Uncertainties in modeling |
| Daniel Wegmann |
CMPG |
06.12.04 |
Impacts of heterogeneous environments on genetic
patterns in spatially expanding populations |
| Johan Michaux |
Montpellier |
13.12.04 |
Comparative phylogeography of four forest rodents and
one of its nematode parasite in the Western Palaearctic
region: how the same Quaternary climatic changes led to
different evolutionary histories |
| Dr Gunter Weiss |
Düsseldorf |
10.1.05 |
Towards a neutral model of gene expression |
| Prof François Balloux |
Cambridge |
14.1.05 |
Genes, genomes and infectious diseases |
| Birgit Thorenz |
CMPG |
31.1.05 |
Glacial and colonization history of common vole (Microtus
arvalis) populations |
|
Summer semester 2005
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Jean-Claude Nicod |
CMPG |
4.4.05 |
The evolutionary diversification of lake whitefish in
Switzerland |
| Dr Guillaume Laval |
CMPG |
18.4.05 |
On the inferrence of gametic phase and summary
statistics estimation |
| Dr Stuart Baird |
Montpellier /
Edinburgh |
25.4.05 |
An efficient lattice for inference over the structured
coalescent |
| Prof Rasmus Nielsen |
Copenhagen |
2.5.05 |
Detecting positive selection from comparative sequence
data |
| David Bittner |
CMPG |
9.5.05 |
MicroCore: Analysis of genetic polymorphisms and gene
expression patterns of Whitefish (Coregonus sp.) in
context with abnormal and unexplained gonad deformations
observed in Lake Thun |
| Dr Lounès Chikhi |
Toulouse |
30.5.05 |
Population structure and demographic history of Orang
Utans from Sabah (Borneo, Malaysia) using genetic data |
| Sabine Fink |
CMPG |
6.6.05 |
Evolutionary genetics of the rodent genus Microtus |
| Samuel Neuenschwander |
CMPG |
13.6.05 |
Did the fish Cottus gobio jump from the Rhine
river system into Lake Geneva? |
| Jinliang Wang |
London |
20.6.05 |
Sibship reconstruction from genetic marker data |
|
Winter semester 2005-2006
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Dr Mathias Currat |
CMPG |
31.10.05 |
Impact of the Neolithic expansion on the genetic
structure of European populations |
| Prof Pierre Taberlet |
University of
Grenoble |
08.11.05 |
Phylogeography of Alpine plants |
| Nicole Weyeneth |
CMPG |
21.11.05 |
Are drones loyal to their mother? |
| Prof Jerôme Goudet |
University of
Lausanne |
28.11.05 |
Maintenance of polymorphism in genetic systems with
multiple loci |
| Ursula Amstutz |
CMPG |
05.12.05 |
Validation and characterization of candidate genes
linked to the smoltification process in brown trout |
| Dr Giorgio Bertorelle |
University of
Ferrara |
12.12.05 |
Multiple origins of European cattle |
| Prof Alexandre Reymond |
CIG, Lausanne |
19.12.05 |
Large genomic deletions influence expression levels of
the non-hemizygous flanking genes |
| Dr Michael Krützen |
University of
Zürich |
09.1.06 |
Investigation of social structure and cultural
transmission in a fission-fusion society of bottlenose
dolphins |
| Dr Guillaume Laval |
CMPG |
16.1.06 |
Linkage Disequilibrium in European human populations |
| Dr Peter Wandeler |
University of
Zürich |
23.1.06 |
Population genetics of red foxes following a rabies
epizootic |
| Gabriele Soland |
CMPG |
30.1.06 |
Geneflow and admixture in different environments between
subspecies of the western honeybee (Apis mellifera) |
|
Summer semester 2006
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Dr Isabelle Dupanloup |
CMPG |
3.4.06 |
Impact of alternative splicing on human and primate
genome evolution |
| Nelson Fagundes |
Federal University
of Rio Grande do Sul |
24.4.06 |
Molecular studies on the peopling of the Americas |
| Dr Louis-Félix Bersier |
Universität
Freiburg |
1.5.06 |
Neutral models of biodiversity and the abundances of
pairs of closely related species |
| Dr Irene Keller |
Queen Mary,
University of London |
8.5.06 |
The genetic basis of hybrid inviability in the
grasshopper Podisma pedestris |
| Dr Felix Gugerli |
WSL Birmensdorf |
15.5.06 |
Are gene and species diversities driven by the same
evolutionary processes? Correlations might tell the story |
| Dr Jean-Vincent Chamary |
Université de
Lausanne |
22.5.06 |
Hearing the silence in mammalian genes |
| Prof Georges Périquet |
Université de
Tours |
29.5.06 |
Parasitoid wasps use viruses as a weapon: genomic
analysis and insights into symbiotic virus evolution |
| Prof Ziheng Yang |
University
College London |
8.6.06 |
Detection of selection in protein-coding genes |
| Samuel Neuenschwander |
CMPG |
20.6.06 |
Reconstruction of the post-glacial re-colonization of
the Swiss Alps by the bullhead (Cottus gobio) based
on spatially explicit computer simulations |
| Prof Mark Beaumont |
University of
Reading |
21.6.06 |
Genetic data analysis in populations that are diverging
in the presence of migration |
| Dr Nicolas Salamin |
Université de
Lausanne |
26.6.06 |
Understanding speciation patterns and processes using
phylogenetic trees |
| Dr Dmitry Konovalov |
James Cook
University, Townsville, Australia |
5.7.06 |
An unbiased maximum-likelihood estimator of relatedness |
|
Winter semester 2006/2007
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Sonja Braaker |
CMPG |
30.10.06 |
Complex postglacial recolonization of the alps by Microtus
arvalis |
| Raphael Rytz |
CMPG |
6.11.06 |
Social dynamics in a fluctuating vole population |
| Dr Andreas Wagner |
University of
Zurich |
13.11.06 |
Genetic networks and natural selection |
| Nelson Fagundes |
CMPG and Federal
University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
20.11.06 |
Simulation approaches to human evolution |
| Dr Meike Thomas |
University of
Cologne and University of Zurich |
30.11.06, 11:15
(Thursday!) |
A systematic assessment of signatures of positive
selection events in natural populations |
| Dr Toni Wilson |
Zoological Museum,
University of Zurich |
4.12.06 |
Male pregnancy in seahorses and pipefish: Beyond the
mammalian model |
| Dr Jose Melo Ferreira |
University of
Porto, Portugal and University of Montpellier, France |
7.12.06, 11:15
(Thursday!) |
Massive ancient mitochondrial introgression from an
Iberian hares: can history and demography explain it all? |
| Prof Marc Robinson-Rechavi |
University of
Lausanne |
11.12.06 |
What can we learn about genome duplication from teleost
fishes? |
| Dr Carlo Largiadèr |
Inselspital Bern |
18.12.06
|
Pharmacogenetics of 5-Fluorouracil |
| Fabian Zimmermann |
CMPG |
8.1.07 |
Impact of alternative splicing on human genome
evolution |
| Prof Nicolas Galtier |
University of
Montpellier |
15.1.07 |
Population size does not influence mitochondrial
genetic diversity in animals |
| Dr Thomas Giger |
Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig |
22.1.07 |
Cell type specific gene expression in primates |
| Dr Giorgina Bernasconi |
University of
Lausanne |
29.1.07 |
Genetic basis for siring success in the white campion, Silene
latifolia |
| Prof Evgeny Zdobnov |
University of
Geneva |
5.2.07 |
Quantification of insect genome divergence |
|
Summer semester 2007
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Dr Jörg Hahne |
University of
Jenna, Germany |
26.3.07 |
Dispersal: demographic and spatio-temporal implications
in the common vole (Microtus arvalis) |
| Karine Berthier |
Conservation
Biology, University of Berne |
2.4.07 |
Role of dispersal in spatial dynamics and long term
maintenance of rodent cyclic populations |
| Dr David Roessli |
Anthropology Dept,
University of Geneva |
16.4.07 |
The future of web applications in science |
| Dr Iris Biebach |
Zoologisches
Museum, University of Zürich |
23.4.07 |
Genetic footprints of the Alpine ibex history |
| David Bittner |
CMPG |
30.4.07 |
Man-induced rapid evolution and hybridization in
sympatric whitefish forms in a Swiss lake? |
| Dr Matthieu Foll |
Laboratoire
d'Ecologie Alpine, University of Grenoble, France |
14.5.07 |
Estimating population structure from AFLP markers :
what's new and what results can we expect? |
| Dr Rainer Ulrich |
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut,
Greifswald, Germany |
21.5.07 |
Network "Rodent-borne pathogens": Aims and first results |
| Daniel Wegmann |
CMPG |
4.6.07 |
Markov chain Monte Carlo and Approximate Bayesian
Computation |
| Pascal Vonlanthen |
Aquatic Ecology,
University of Berne |
11.6.07 |
Towards an adaptive landscape for the Swiss whitefish
radiation. Preliminary results in ecology and genetics |
| Sabine Fink |
CMPG |
18.6.07 |
High variability and non-neutral evolution in a
mammalian hormone receptor gene |
| Dr Maria Anisimova |
University College
London |
25.6.07 |
Multiple-testing correction when using branch-site
models to detect positive selection |
|
Fall semester 2007
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Dr Olivier François |
Institut National
Polytechnique de Grenoble, France |
1.10.07 |
Adaptive and sequential approximate Bayesian algorithms:
An empirical study |
| Prof Sergey Gavrilets |
University of
Tennessee, USA |
15.10.07 |
The effects of sexual selection in adaptive radiation |
| Barbara Walser |
CMPG |
22.10.07 |
Genetic diversity and the impact of immigration in an
isolated vole population |
| Andreas Sutter |
CMPG |
12.11.07 |
Sex specific secondary contact in the common vole (Microtus
arvalis) |
| Tamara Hofer |
CMPG |
3.12.07 |
Large allele frequency differences in human genetic
markers |
| Prof Jukka Corander |
Abo Akademi
University |
10.12.07 |
What can you learn about the evolution of populations by
twisting BAPS |
| Prof Wolfgang Stephan |
Universität
München, Germany |
17.12.07 |
Genomic footprints of positive selection, and evidence
for adaptation |
| Dr Céline Becquet |
University of
Chicago, USA |
18.12.07, 14:15
(Tuesday!) |
Population genetic approaches to speciation, with
application to apes |
|
Spring semester 2008
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Introduction to the seminar |
|
18.2.08 |
Introduction, presentation of the papers |
| Journal Club |
|
25.2.08 |
Adaptation from standing genetic variation
Barrett and Schluter 2007, TREE 23(1), 38-44 [PDF
file]
Presenter: Heidi Lischer / Supervisor: GH |
| Dr Matthieu Foll |
CMPG |
3.3.08 |
A genome scan method to identify selected loci
appropriate for both dominant and codominant markers: A
Bayesian perspective |
| Felix Gugerli & Kurt Bollmann |
WSL, Birmensdorf,
Switzerland |
10.3.08 |
Conservation biology of capercaillie in the Swiss Alps |
| Dr Olaf Thalmann |
Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig,
Germany |
31.3.08 |
Gorilla population history - What genetics can tell us |
| Dr Bill Klitz |
UC Berkeley, USA |
14.4.08 |
The Ljungan virus, a new rodent borne infectious agent
responsible for diabetes |
| Prof Jeremy Searle |
University of York,
UK |
7.5.08, 14:15
(Wednesday!) |
Chromosomal hybrid zones |
| Dr Arjun Sivasundar |
Aquatic Ecology,
University of Bern |
26.5.08 |
Population genetics and adaptive evolution in the
rockfishes (Sebastes) of the northeast Pacific |
|
Fall semester 2008
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Dr Michael Blum |
University of
Grenoble, France |
22.9.08 |
Approximate Bayesian computation (almost) without
rejection |
Justin Travis &
Olivia Burton |
University of
Aberdeen, UK |
3.11.08 |
The dynamics of non-neutral mutations that occur during
range expansions: insights from simulation studies |
| Nicole Weyeneth |
Natural History
Museum, Geneva |
17.11.08 |
Biogeography of Miniopterus and Myotis
bats endemic to the Malagasy region: phylogenetic and
population genetic analyses using mtDNA |
| Dr Séverine Vuilleumier |
University of
Lausanne |
24.11.08 |
Fixation in heterogeneous selective environments |
| Dr Oskar Hallatschek |
Harvard University,
USA |
1.12.08 |
Evolution at expanding frontiers |
| Heidi Lischer |
CMPG |
8.12.08 |
Population genetics data acquisition and visualization |
| Rahel Struchen |
CMPG |
15.12.08 |
Estimation of demography and settlement history of
Orkney voles from genetic data |
|
Spring semester 2009
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Dr Toby Johnson |
University of
Lausanne |
2.3.09 |
Is population genetics important for genetic
epidemiology? |
| Dr Cristiane Bastos-Silveira |
Lisbon |
9.3.09 |
To be announced |
| Dr Markus Ritz |
University of Jena,
Germany |
30.3.09 |
Speciation and hybridization in Antarctic skuas |
| Prof Ole Seehausen |
University of Bern
and EAWAG |
6.4.09 |
Speciation through sensory drive in cichlid fish |
| Yang Liu |
CMPG |
20.4.09 |
Genetic analysis of migration in avian influenza vectors |
| David Bittner |
CMPG |
7.5.09 |
PhD defense: Gonad deformations in whitefish (Coregonus
spp.) from Lake Thun, Switzerland - A population genetic
and transcriptomic approach |
| Dr Michael Krützen |
University of
Zurich |
18.5.09 |
To be announced |
|
Fall semester 2009
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Benjamin Peter |
CMPG |
21.9.09 |
Distinguishing between population bottleneck and
population subdivision by a Bayesian model choice
procedure |
| Daniel Wegmann |
CMPG |
28.9.09 |
Inferring demographic and selective histories using
Approximate Bayesian Computations and Intra Genome
Comparisons |
| Dr Jochen Wolf |
Uppsala University,
Sweden |
5.10.09 |
Deciphering the genetic architecture of the European
Crow hybrid zone |
| Thomas White |
Durham University,
UK |
26.10.09 |
Population genetics in the deep-sea |
| Eveline Kindler |
CMPG |
9.11.09 |
Colonization history and genetic structure of a locally
endangered grasshopper |
| Andreas Gschwind |
CMPG |
16.11.09 |
AVPR1a variation and social behavior in the common vole
(Microtus arvalis)< |
| Dr Christoph Haag |
University of
Fribourg |
30.11.09: cancelled ! |
Evolutionary genetics of Daphnia metapopulations |
| Dr Walter Salzburger |
University of Basel |
14.12.09 |
Cichlidomics: uncovering the molecular mechanisms
underlying explosive speciation and adaptive radiation in
East African cichlid fishes |
|
Spring semester 2010
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Reto Burri |
University of
Lausanne |
8.3.10 |
Avian MHC evolution: new insights and a population
genomic perspective |
| Dr Christoph Haag |
University of
Fribourg |
22.3.10 |
Evolutionary genetics of Daphnia metapopulations |
| Tamara Hofer |
CMPG |
3.5.10 |
Islands of natural selection in the human genome |
| Dr John Wang |
University of
Lausanne |
10.5.10 |
Genomic approaches to social biology in ants |
| Emilie Cutivet |
CMPG |
17.5.10 |
Development of a computational pipeline for genomic
databases |
| Dr Michael Krützen |
University of
Zurich |
31.5.10 |
Genetic and cultural diversity among orang-utan
populations from Sumatra and Borneo |
|
Fall semester 2010
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Prof Monty Slatkin |
University of
California, Berkeley |
24.09.10, 15:15
(Friday!) |
Methods for inferring admixture from genomic sequence
data and applications to ancient hominids |
| Dr Miguel Arenas Busto |
CMPG |
4.10.10 |
Applications of the coalescent with recombination in
molecular evolution |
| Dr Matthieu Foll |
CMPG |
1.11.10 |
Quantifiying population structure using the F-model |
| Dr Daniel Wegmann |
University of
California, Los Angeles |
22.11.10 |
Inferring recombination rates in recently admixed human
populations |
| Dr Thomas Bataillon |
Aarhus University |
6.12.10 |
Beneficial mutations and dynamics of adaptation:
insights from experimental evolution in bacteria and
filamentous fungi |
| Irma Glatt |
CMPG |
13.12.10 |
PRDM9 - the first two zinc fingers have their own
role in the holding hand |
| Prof Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas |
University of
California, Berkeley |
20.12.10 |
A likelihood method to estimate selection and allele age
from time serial samples |
|
Spring semester 2011
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Dr Kerstin Musolf |
University of
Zurich |
28.2.11 |
Ultrasonic vocalizations in house mice: a cryptic mode
of acoustic communication |
| Prof Arne Nolte |
Max-Planck-Institute
Plön, Germany |
14.3.11 |
Admixture and genome clashes - sculpin hybrids in the
River Rhine system |
| Tania Jenkins |
University of Jena
and CMPG |
21.3.11 |
Exploring the habitat component of genetic structure in
the bank vole, Myodes glareolus |
| Dr Stefan Prost |
University of
Otago, New Zealand |
6.4.11, 10:00
(Wednesday!) |
Reconstructing past human settlement in Polynesia using
Approximate Bayesian Computation |
| Dr Anna Lindholm |
University of
Zurich |
11.4.11 |
Selfish genes in house mice |
| Mathias Beysard |
CMPG |
18.4.11 |
Genetics of intraspecific hybrid zones in Microtus
voles |
| Prof Ziheng Yang |
University College
London, UK |
9.5.11: cancelled
! |
Bayesian species delimitation using genomic sequence
data |
| Yang Liu |
CMPG |
25.5.11, 10:00
(Wednesday!) |
PhD defense: Genetic analysis of migration in two avian
influenza vectors: tufted duck and common pochard |
|
Fall semester 2011
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Prof Lavinia Schüler Faccini |
FGRS, Porto Alegre,
Brazil |
10.10.11 |
Science vs. Conspiracy Theory - A town of twins in
Brazil: Nazi Experiment or Founder Effect? |
| Dr Mathias Currat |
Anthropology Unit,
Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of
Geneva |
17.10.11 |
Rare hybridization between Neanderthals and modern
humans |
| Dr Stephan Peischl |
CMPG |
31.10.11 |
A sequential coalescent algorithm for chromosomal
inversions |
| Dr Daniel Wegmann |
UCLA, USA |
05.12.11, 16:00
(!) |
Deep re-sequencing reveals the abundance and geographic
structure of rare variant diversity in humans |
| Dr Mark Ibberson |
Vital-IT,
University of Lausanne |
12.12.11 |
Biological data analysis using networks |
| Prof Jerome Goudet |
Department of
Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne |
19.12.11 |
Spatial Approximate Bayesian Computations in model and
non model organisms |
|
Spring semester 2012
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Dr Pierre Bize |
University of
Lausanne |
27.2.12 |
Life history variation along an elevation gradient:
dissecting the contribution of genetics, ambient
temperature and non-shivering thermogenesis |
| Dr Lounes Chikhi |
Instituto
Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal |
12.3.12 |
Very spatial indeed: some consequences of space (and
time) on population genetics inference |
| Stefan Laurent |
University of
Munich, Germany |
19.3.12 |
Demographic history of Drosophila melanogaster and
inference of seed bank parameters in two wild tomato
species using ecological and genetic data |
| Dr Kai Stölting |
University of
Fribourg |
16.4.12 |
Genomics of hybridization in Populus trees |
| Dr Claudia Bank |
EPFL |
23.4.12 |
The limits to parapatric speciation |
| Prof Martin Ackermann |
ETH |
7.5.12 |
An evolutionary perspective on bacterial individuality |
| Dr Alex Buerkle |
University of
Wyoming |
29.5.12, (Tuesday!) |
Overlap in the genomics of speciation and adaptation |
| Dr Nicolas Lartillot |
Université de
Montréal |
11.6.12 |
Bayesian integrative models for macroevolutionary
studies |
|
Fall semester 2012
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Tamara Hofer |
University of Bern |
25.9.12, 13:00
(Tuesday!) |
PhD defense: Impact of range expansion and natural
selection on human genomic diversity |
| Eduardo Amorim |
University of Bern
and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
1.10.12 |
Cultural, adaptive, and neutral evolution in Amerindians |
| Robert Carreras |
University of Bern
and Universitat de Barcelona, Spain |
8.10.12 |
Ecological genetic predictors for cardiovascular disease
and population patterns of NOS genes in human populations
from Europe and the Mediterranean basin |
| Dr Ferran Casals |
Institute of
Evolutionary Biology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona |
15.10.12 |
Rare is meaningful. Whole-exome sequencing in the
French-Canadian population |
| Dr Thomas White |
CMPG |
5.11.12 |
Population genomics of a range expansion: the bank vole
in Ireland |
| Prof David Nelson |
Dept. of Physics,
Harvard University |
16.11.12, 11:15
(Friday!) |
Competition and Cooperation at Frontiers |
| Dr Sarah Perkins |
University of
Cardiff |
19.11.12 |
Shining light on infections disease dynamics |
| Prof Chris Jiggins |
University of
Cambridge |
17.12.12 |
Genomic insights into speciation in Heliconius
butterflies |
|
Spring semester 2013
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Dr Vitor Sousa |
CMPG, University of
Bern |
25.2.13 |
Identifying loci under selection in isolation with
migration models |
| Dr Diogo Meyer |
University of
Geneva |
11.3.13 |
Causes and consequences of balancing selection: a case
study with human MHC genes |
| Dr Reto Burri |
Uppsala University,
Sweden |
15.4.13 |
The landscape(s) or genome divergence in Ficedula
flycatchers |
| Dr Romain Studer |
UCL, London, UK |
22.4.13 |
Structural analyses of the impact of positive selection
in evolution |
| Dr Tanja Stadler |
ETH Zurich |
2.5.13, (Thursday!) |
New phylogenetic methods uncover past macroevolutionary
and epidemiological dynamics |
| Prof Mattias Jakobsson |
Uppsala University,
Sweden |
6.5.13 |
Inference of early human historyMartin Ackermann |
|
Fall semester 2013
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Dr Alexander Drakesmith |
Radcliffe Dpt.
Medicine, University of Oxford |
20.9.13, (Friday!) |
Hepcidin and BMPs in innate immunity |
| Dr Konstantin Popadin |
CMU, University of
Geneva |
23.9.13 |
The low mutation burden of live-birth Down syndromes |
| Prof. Monty Slatkin |
Berkeley,
University of California |
30.9.13 |
Population genetics of the Neanderthal genome project |
| Dr Camille Roux |
DEE, University of
Lausanne |
7.10.13 |
Investigating speciation in face of gene flow or
polyploidization : What can we learn from ABC ? |
| Prof. Ivo Große |
Martin-Luther-Universität
Halle-Wittenberg |
4.11.13 |
De-Novo discovery of differentially abundant DNA binding
sites including their positional preference |
| Prof. Thomas Flatt |
DEE, University of
Lausanne |
11.11.13 |
Population genomic basis of evolutionary change in Drosophila
life history |
| Dr Thomas Lenormand |
CNRS, University of
Montpellier |
25.11.13 |
Mutation landscape models : theory and data |
| Prof. Hélène Vézina |
Université du
Québec à Chicoutimi |
28.11.13, (Thursday!) |
Genealogical investigation of the genetic heritage of
the French Canadian population |
| Heidi Lischer |
CMPG, University of
Bern |
12.12.13, 10.00
(Thursday !) |
PhD defense: Genomic inference of evolutionary history
and gene expression divergence in rodents |
|
Spring semester 2014
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Prof. Gilles Guillot |
Technical
University of Denmark |
24.2.14 |
Models and algorithms to integrate spatial information
in genetic ecology |
| Dr Maria Warnefors |
CIG, University of
Lausanne |
31.3.14 |
The evolution of mammalian gene expression |
| Dr Florian Altermatt |
Eawag: Swiss
Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology |
7.4.14 |
Diversity patterns and dispersal processes in riverine
metacommunities |
| Dr Aida Andrés |
Department of
Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig |
28.4.14 |
Persistent polymorphism: the role of selection in
maintaining advantageous diversity in humans |
| Prof. Thomas Wiehe |
University of
Cologne |
5.5.14 |
Coalescent trees and induced subtrees |
| Dr Sebastien Wielgoss |
ETH Zurich |
12.5.14 |
Small changes with large effects: deciphering the
molecular basis of evolutionary change in experimental and
natural settings with bacteria |
|
Fall semester 2014
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Dr Stefan Laurent |
EPFL, Lausanne |
22.9.14 |
Identifying adaptive regulatory mutations in the absence
of phenotypic information |
| Dr Michael Blum |
Université Joseph
Fourier, Grenoble, France |
29.9.14 |
Genome scans for detecting footprints of local
adaptation: embracing the post-Fst era |
| Dr Richard Neher |
Max Planck
Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany |
13.10.14 |
Genetic diversity in rapidly adapting populations and
predictability of evolution |
| Dr Susanne Pfeifer |
Center for
Integrative Bioinformatics, Vienna, Austria |
20.10.14 |
Recombination and selection in the chimpanzee genome |
| Dr Cedric Simillion |
Interfaculty
Bioinformatics Unit, University of Bern |
27.10.14 |
Avoiding the pitfalls of gene set enrichment analysis
with SetRank |
| Alex Cagan |
Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig,
Germany |
1.12.14 |
Nice rats, Nasty rats: Towards the genetic basis of
tameness and aggression |
| Prof. Adam Eyre-Walker |
University of
Sussex, UK |
15.12.14 |
Geographic and genomic features that affect the rate of
evolution |
|
Spring semester 2015
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Dr Andy Foote |
Uppsala University,
Sweden |
23.2.15 |
The genomic landscape of the speciation continuum in the
killer whale |
| Dr Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas |
Univ. Copenhagen,
Denmark & CMPG, Berne |
2.3.15 |
Peopling of the Americas: a genomic perspective |
| Dr Sam Yeaman |
UBC, Canada |
9.3.15 |
The architecture of local adaptation: transient alleles
and long-term genomic re-patterning |
| Prof Oscar Gaggiotti |
Univ. St Andrews,
UK |
16.3.15 |
Making FST-based genome-scan methods more robust
to deviations from the underlying model |
| Lars Bosshardt |
CMPG, Berne |
11.5.15 |
Accumulation of deleterious mutations in expanding
bacterial populations |
| Moritz Saxenhofer |
CMPG, Berne |
18.5.15 |
Delimiting the impact of host speciation on pathogen
divergence |
|
Fall semester 2015
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Alexandre Gouy |
University of Berne |
21.9.15 |
A likelihood approach to simulation-based inference:
application to the case of insecticide resistance
evolution in the mosquito Culex pipiens |
| Prof. Ioannis Xenarios |
University of
Lausanne |
28.9.15 |
Vital-IT and Swiss-Prot : a tale of two groups |
| Dr Simon Aeschbacher |
University of
California |
19.10.15 |
Detecting selection against gene flow: a complementary
approach to Fst outlier scans |
| Dr Peter Fields |
University of Basel |
9.11.15 |
Phylogeographic inference of an intercontinental sample
of Daphnia magna |
| Prof. Hugues Abriel |
University of Berne |
9.11.15 |
Introducing Human Genetic Research at the University of
Kinshasa (DRC): the Case of Channelopathies |
| Prof. Asger Hobolth |
Aarhus University |
30.11.15 |
Statistical inference in the Wright-Fisher model using
allele frequency data |
| Prof. Laurent Duret |
Université Claude
Bernard - Lyon |
14.12.15 |
Biased gene conversion: the dark side of recombination |
|
Spring semester 2016
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Prof. Lavinia Faccini |
Universidade
Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil |
15.2.16 |
Birth defects in Brazil - from genetic conditions in
isolated populations to Zika virus congenital infection |
| Dr Felix Goldschmidt |
EAWAG, CH |
29.2.16 |
Successive range expansions promote diversity in a
microbial cross-feeding community |
| Dr Alan Hodgkinson |
King's College,
London, UK |
4.4.16 |
High-Resolution Genomic Analysis of Human Mitochondrial
RNA Sequence Variation |
| Prof. Nicolas Bierne |
ISEM, Montpellier |
25.4.16 |
Investigating genome-wide heterogeneity in local
introgression rates and its cause |
| Dr Georgios Athanasiadis |
Aarhus University,
Denmark |
2.5.16 |
The genetic history of Denmark: data from a nationwide
public engagement project |
| Dr Martin Kapun |
University of
Lausanne |
9.5.16 |
Clinal inversions and rapid adaptation in Drosophila
melanogaster |
| Prof. Michael Whitlock |
University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
13.5.16 |
Deleterious mutations and the complexities of selection
in a spatial context |
| Prof. Ida Moltke |
University of
Copenhagen, Denmark |
23.5.16 |
Adaptation and association studies in the Arctic |
| Dr Laure Segurel |
Musée de l’Homme,
Paris, France |
30.5.16 |
Adaptation to diet: human and microbial perspective |
|
Fall semester 2016
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Dr Maxime Deforet |
Sloan Kettering
Institute, NYC, USA |
19.09.16 |
The contribution of growth and dispersal to the
evolution of expanding populations |
| Dr Nicolas Lartillot, |
Université Claude
Bernard Lyon I, France |
03.10.16 |
The Red-Queen model of recombination hot-spot evolution:
a theoretical investigation |
| Dr. Kavita Jain |
J. Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific
Research, Bengalore, India
|
05.10.16 |
Rapid adaptation of polygenic traits after a sudden
environmental shift |
| Dr Martin Zieger |
Institute of
Forensic Medicine, University of Bern |
31.10.16 |
Forensic Genetics – Current state and future
developments |
| Dr Matteo Fumagalli |
Computational Biology Group, UCL, UK |
14.11.16 |
Population genomics in the high-throughput sequencing
era |
| Dr Diana Rennison |
University of
British Columbia, Canada |
21.11.16 |
Detecting the drivers of divergence: Identifying and
estimating natural selection in threespine stickleback |
| Prof. Manfred Claassen |
Institute of
Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich |
05.12.16 |
Learning global and disease associated cell population
heterogeneity from single cell recordings |
| Prof. Yvonne Willi, |
University of Basel |
12.12.16 |
Population genomics and species range limits |
|
Spring semester 2017
|
|
Speaker
|
From
|
When
|
What
|
| Dr. Konrad Lohse, |
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh |
06.03.17 |
Mirages and fruit flies in the desert revisited – towards model-based genomic maps of post-divergence gene-flow |
| Dr. Zoltan Kutalik, |
University of Lausanne |
13.03.17 |
The interplay between genetic predisposition and lifestyle impacting human lifespan and obesity |
| Dr. Guillaume Achaz, |
ENS, Paris, France |
27.03.17 |
The strange case of the standard neutral model: when, what and why |
| Dr Ophelie Ronce |
University of Montpellier, France |
03.04.17 |
Mathematical models for the evolution of range shifts under climate change |
| Dr Erik Postma, |
University of Zurich |
13.03.17 |
Of mice and men: Predicting evolution in a changing environment |
| Dr. Jessica Plucain, |
ENS, Paris, France |
28.04.17 |
Genetic bases of the emergence of phenotypical innovations in E. coli and M. xanthus |
| Dr. Sara Lipshutz, |
Tulane University, USAe |
01.05.17 |
Hybridization between sex-role reversed tropical shorebirds |
| Prof.Leslie Turner, |
University of Bath, UK |
08.05.17 |
Genetic mechanisms of speciation in house mice: functional genomics of hybrid male sterility in natural populations |
| Prof. Tanja Schwander, |
University of Lausanne |
13.03.17 |
Gene expression and evolutionary rate changes after parallel evolution of asexuality in stick insects |