2017-18 speaker series: For abstract and bio info on each speaker, visit our Events pages, and click on the date of the presentation you would like to read more about.
| Name | Affiliation | Talk Title | Date | Location |
| Yoav Ram | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Biology | Vertical and oblique transmission under fluctuating selection | Wed 11/1, 12pm | Alway M114 |
| Gill Bejerano | Associate Professor, Stanford Developmental Biology and Computer Science |
Oh, what joy we'll have--comparative genomics in the land of plenty |
Wed 11/15, 12pm | Alway M106 |
| Julie Granka | Manager of Personalized Genomics, Ancestry DNA | Characterization and implications of fine-scale population structure in the United States | Wed 12/6, 12pm | Alway M106 |
| Justin Kao | Co-Founder and SVP, Helix |
Digitizing the Genome: How using your DNA will be as common as using your smartphone |
Wed 12/13, 12pm | Alway M106 |
| Mark Daly; and Ellie Armstrong | Director of Market Development at Dovetail Genomics; and PhD Student, Stanford Hadly and Petrov Labs |
Dovetail Genomics--Building the Best Genomes on Earth and the Latest Technology for Genome Assembly |
Wed 1/31, 12pm | Alway M106 |
| Anne Brunet | Michele and Timothy Barakett Endowed Professor, Stanford Genetics |
Developing the African killifish as a new model for the evolution of lifespan and aging |
Wed 3/7, 12pm | LKSC 130 |
| Huwenbo Shi | PhD Student, UCLA Bioinformatics |
Partition heritability and genetic correlation by genomic regions from GWAS summary statistics |
Wed 3/14, 12pm | Alway M106 |
| Kristin Lee | PhD Candidate, UC Davis (Coop Lab) |
Detecting signatures of convergent adaptation in population genomic data |
Wed 5/2, 12pm | Alway M106 |
| Brenna Henn | Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC Davis |
No evidence for recent selection at FOXP2 among diverse human populations |
Wed 5/16, 12pm | Alway M106 |
| Noah Zaitlen | Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSF |
An evolutionary compass for elucidating selection mechanisms shaping complex traits |
Wed 5/30, 12pm | Alway M106 |
