All seminars are in KCBD 1103 at 12pm unless otherwise specified.
October 22, 2025
Adam Siepel, PhD
Cold Spring Harbor Lab
Talk Title: Phylogenetics revisited: cell lineages, cancer metastasis, and variational inference
October 29, 2025
Sriram Sankararaman, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
Talk Title: Biobank-scale methods to understand the evolutionary and genetic architecture
of human complex traits
November 19, 2025
Jeramiah Smith, PhD
University of Kentucky
Talk Title: Evolution and Function of Programmed DNA loss in lamprey and hagfish
December 10, 2025
Jacob Kitzman, PhD
University of Michigan
Talk Title: Saturation variant-to-function maps across DNA repair pathways
January 14, 2026
Julia Zeitlinger, PhD
Stowers Institute
Talk Title: Deep-learning derived sequence rules for nucleosomes and their role in gene regulation
January 21, 2026
Jeremy Berg, PhD
University of Chicago
Talk Title: Dynamics of Complex Traits: Selection, Stratification, and Inference
March 25, 2026
Nicholas Banovich, PhD
Translational Genomics Research Institute
Talk Title: TBD
April 15, 2026
Omer Gokcumen, PhD
University at Buffalo
Talk Title: Human Amylase from the Andes to the Lab Bench: Insights into Structurally Complex Regions in the Genome
May 20, 2025
Guy Sella, PhD
Columbia University
Talk Title: TBD
June 10, 2026
Yin Shen, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Talk Title: Characterizing cis-regulatory elements and genetic variants underlying human brain development and disease