Wednesdays, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - KCBD Auditorium, Room 1103
- January 24, 2024 Nels Elde, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Title: The Impact of infections on evolution
- February 28, 2024 Ann Morning, PhD, New York University. Title: Genetics in the Racial Imagination
- March 20, 2024 Greg Barsh, PhD, HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Title: Developmental genetics of periodic pattern: How the cheetah gets its spots
- April 10, 2024 Greg Gibson, PhD, Georgia Tech. Title: Polygenic Risk is Tantalizingly Complex: Environmental modifiers and molecular heterogeneity
- May 1, 2024 Christopher Burge, PhD, MIT, Department of Biology. Title: TBD
Please contact Sandra Wallace at swallace@bsd.uchicago.edu for additional information
Wednesdays, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - CLSC 119
- Wednesday, November 29, 2023: Xiaochang Zhang Lab & Joe Thornton Lab
- Wednesday, January 10, 2024: Maanasa Raghavan Lab & Jeremy Berg Lab
- Wednesday, January 31, 2024: Yang Li Lab & Xin He Lab
- Wednesday, February 21, 2024: Xuanyao Liu Lab & Yoav Gilad Lab
- Wednesday, March 27, 2024: Carole Ober Lab & Andy Dahl Lab
- Wednesday, April 17, 2024: Francois Spitz Lab & Marcelo Nobrega Lab
- Wednesday, April 24, 2024: John Novembre Lab & Matthew Stephens Lab - NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD AT 4:00 PM IN CLSC 119
- Wednesday, May 29, 2024: Luis Barreiro Lab & Duhman Muhtaseb (Jubao Duan Lab)
Please contact Sue Levison at slevison@bsd.uchicago.edu for additional information
Wednesdays, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - CLSC 119
- Wednesday, November 8, 2023: TOPIC: Determining the impact of Neanderthal introgressions in complex traits: are these archaic introgressions really relevant for the onset of some complex traits? - Student Discussion Leader: Tono Urban / Faculty Discussion Leader: John Novembre / Paper: The lingering effects of Neanderthal introgression on human complex traits. eLife 2023;12:e80757
- Wednesday, January 17, 2024: Student Discussion Leader: Cecily Choy/ Faculty Discussion Leader: Francois Spitz/ Paper: The functional and evolutionary impacts of human-specific deletions in conserved elements. Science 380, 369 (2023).
- Wednesday, February 14, 2024: Student Discussion Leaders: Marida Ianni-Ravn & Sherif Negm / Faculty Discussion Leader: Pavirtra Muralidhar Paper: "Amplification is the primary mode of gene-by-sex interaction in complex human traits. Cell Genomics 3. May 10, 2023.
- Wednesday, March 6, 2024: Student Discussion Leaders: Anna Cormack & Maria Meneses / Faculty Discussion Leader: Zhuzhu Zhang. Paper: “Epigenomic dissection of Alzheimer’s disease pinpoints causal variants and reveals epigenome erosion” Cell 186, 4422–4437. September 28, 2023
- Wednesday May 22, 2024: Student Discussion Leaders: Zicheng Wang / Faculty Discussion Leader: Haky Im Paper: “Isoform-level transcriptome-wide association uncovers genetic risk mechanisms for neuropsychiatric disorders in the human brain” Nature Genetics volume 55, pages 2117–2128 (2023)
Please contact Sue Levison at slevison@bsd.uchicago.edu for additional information