Event Details:
Monday, March 9, 2026
8:00am - 5:00pm PDT
The 2026 CEHG Symposium will take place on March 9, 2025 in Paul Brest Hall, from 8 AM - 5 PM. This year's Cavalli-Sforza Lecture will be given by Neil Risch (UCSF). Register here!
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 8:30 AM | Breakfast | |
| 8:45 AM | Welcome | |
| 8:55 AM | Doc Edge | Introgression of phylogenetic comparative methods into statistical genetics. |
| 9:30 AM | Olivia Ghosh | Genotype-fitness mapping of adaptive mutants reveals shifting low-dimensional structure across divergent environments |
| 9:50 AM | Yun Deng | Revealing the Dynamics of Population Structure Through Genome-Wide Genealogies |
| 10:10 AM | Karen Feng | Genetic Neighbors Predict Individual Polygenic Risk Score Accuracy |
| 10:30 AM | Coffee break | |
| 10:55 AM | Marc introduces lecture | |
| 11:00 AM | Neil Risch | Reverse Behavior Genetics |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00 PM | Jessica Riskin | Book talk: The Power of Life, The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck |
| 1:45 PM | Tristam Dodge | Turnover and introgression shape the dynamic evolution of a sexual mimicry polymorphism shared across the genus Xiphophorus |
| 2:05 PM | Daniel Bauman | The Sackin tree balance index in a biased speciation model |
| 2:25 PM | Erick Matsen | Why antibody affinity maturation is an outstanding system for quantitative evolutionary inference |
| 3:00 PM | Break, poster session | |
| 3:45 PM | Alex Starr | Disentangling cell-intrinsic and cell-extrinsic factors underlying evolution". |
| 4:05 PM | Alison Feder | Ultra-soft sweeps drive HIV evolutionary escape from broadly neutralizing antibodies |
| 4:40 PM | Marc Lipsitch | Using Genomics to Reinterpret Clinical Trials: the Botswana Ya Tsie trial of antiretroviral treatment-as-prevention for HIV |
| 5:15 PM | Closing remarks |
The program can be found below:
2026_cehg_symposium_program.pdf
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