Dear colleagues,

The Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics runs a weekly seminar series featuring talks by leading experts in population genetics. The talks are open to interested audience via online streaming. Please find the following schedule for the upcoming winter semester.

Details are found on our website: https://www.popgen-vienna.at/news/seminars/

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Many talks are recorded and can be found on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@popgenvienna8051

Winter semester schedule:

All Tuesdays, starting at 17:00 CET/CEST

06.10.26 - Dan Nussey (Univ. Edinburgh, UK)
The evolutionary ecology of senescence in wild animals
13.10.26 - Howard Rundle (Univ. Ottawa, CA)
The population genetic consequences of mate competition: Empirical insights from Drosophila
20.10.26 - Josephine Pemberton (Univ. Edinburgh, UK)
Evolutionary genetic studies in long term, individually-monitored wild animal populations
27.10.26 - Richard Benton (Univ. Lausanne, CH)
Niche specialisation in nervous systems and beyond
03.11.26 - Thomas Bataillon (Aarhus Univ., DK)
How to find a “Ruby in the Rubbish?”: On using population genomics to make inference about beneficial mutations, deleterious mutations and their impact on adaptation
24.11.26 - John Welch (Univ. Cambridge, UK)
When will hybridization be beneficial?
01.12.26 - Thomas Flatt (Univ. Fribourg, CH)
Inversions and the hunt for the genomic targets of selection
15.12.26 - Andreas Futschik (Vetmeduni, AT)
Frequentist and Bayesian inference for population genetic data
12.01.27 - Leif Andersson (Uppsala Univ., SW)
On the origin of Baltic herring by means of natural selection
19.01.27 - Mikkel Schierup (Aarhus Univ., DK)
De novo mutations, cross-overs and gene conversions across primate species inferred from HiFi sequencing of sperm and testis tissue
26.01.27 - Thomas Wiehe (Univ. Cologne, DE)
Looking at (some) plant genes with a joint LLM-population genetics lens

Sincerely,
Junya Watanabe

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