The SMBE meeting is one of the most important evolutionary biology meetings of the year. This year (2014) it takes place in Puerto Rico from June 9th till June 12th. The Stanford Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG) sponsors the event. We are also well represented with 17 talks, 7 posters and 2 symposia that are (co-)organized by CEHG members. Visit us at Stand 9! Here is a list of the CEHG talks:
Monday June 9th
David Enard
David Enard A global landscape of protein adaptation to viruses in mammals Monday 9th June: S9: Evolutionary Networks 10:00 – 10:15
Tuesday June 10th
Dmitri Petrov
Dmitri Petrov Balancing selection and maintenance of variation as a natural consequence of adaptation in diploids Tuesday 10th June: S18: Does ploidy matter? Ploidy impacts on evolutionary process 09:30 – 11:00
Zoe Assaf
Zoe Assaf Staggered sweeps: The obstruction of adaptation in diploids by recessive, strongly deleterious alleles Tuesday 10th June: S18: Does ploidy matter? Ploidy impacts on evolutionary process 10:00 – 10:15
Nicole Creanza
Nicole Creanza Worldwide linguistic and genetic variation Tuesday 10th June: S15: Out of Africa: Humans, commensals, pathogens, oh my! 10:00 – 10:30
David Enard
David Enard Genome-wide signals of positive selection in human evolution. Tuesday 10th June: S12: Genomics of adaptation (cont) 12:15 – 12:30
Alan Bergland
Alan Bergland Genomic evidence of rapid and stable adaptive oscillations over seasonal time scales in Drosophila Tuesday 10th June: S12: Genomics of adaptation 16:15 – 16:30
Ben Wilson
Ben Wilson Soft selective sweeps in complex demographic scenarios Tuesday 10th June: S12: Genomics of adaptation 17:45 – 18:00
Diamantis Sellis
Diamantis Sellis Widespread heterozygote advantage in diploids Tuesday 10th June: S12: Genomics of adaptation 18:45 – 19.00
Wednesday June 11th
Morten Rasmussen
Morten Rasmussen The genome of a Late Pleistocene human from a Clovis burial site in western Montana Wednesday 11th June: S27: Genomic perspectives on the population history of the Americas 09:30 – 09:45
Maria Avila
María Ávila-Arcos Tracing the genetic ancestry of enslaved Africans using ancient DNA Wednesday 11th June: S27: Genomic perspectives on the population history of the Americas 10:45 – 11:00
Andres Moreno Estrada
Andres Moreno Estrada Patterns of genetic diversity in Latin America: insights from human population genomics Wednesday 11th June: S27: Genomic perspectives on the population history of the Americas 11:30 – 11:45
Philipp Messer
Philipp Messer New statistical methods detect both hard and soft sweeps in malaria parasites Wednesday 11th June: S25: Detecting selection in natural populations: making sense of genome scans and towards alternative solutions 12:30 – 12:45
Gavin Sherlock
Gavin Sherlock Tracking hundreds of thousands of lineages in an evolving population allows determination of the beneficial mutation rate and elucidation of the distribution of their fitness effects Wednesday 11th June: S23: Genome-scale Approaches in Experimental Evolution 12:45 – 13:00
Nandita Garud
Nandita Garud Disentangling the effects of demography and selection on haplotype signatures in Drosophila. Wednesday 11th June: S25: Detecting selection in natural populations: making sense of genome scans and towards alternative solutions 16:15 – 16:30
Carlo Artieri
Carlo Artieri Accounting for biases in riboprofiling data identifies a conserved effect of proline incorporation as the major determinant of translational stalling Wednesday 11th June: S24: Creative use of nest generation sequencing technology in evolutionary genomics: solving old problems with new approaches 18:45 – 19:00
Thursday June 12th
Tomas Babak
Tomas Babak An atlas of human and mouse genomic imprinting reveals evolutionary causes and consequences Thursday 12th June: S36: Evolutionary Epigenomics 13:00 – 13:15
Fernando Mendez
Fernando Mendez Use of Long-Read Sequence-aided phasing to improve ancestry assignment in admixed populations Thursday 12th June: S39: Next generation Genome Annotation and Analysis 16:15 – 16:30
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