Columbia University in the City of New York

Apr 20, 20188:30 am
Symposium

Genetics of the Evolutionary Process

A one-day symposium on current research in evolutionary genetics.

April 20th, 8:30 am – 6:00 pm at the Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th floor lecture hall)

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9:00 - 10:00am -- Neil Shubin, Keynote -- University of Chicago -- Fossils, genes, and the origin of limbs

10:00 - 10:30am -- Break

10:30 - 11:10am -- Peter Andolfatto -- Princeton University -- Constraints on adaptation revealed by the convergent evolution of toxin insensitivity

11:10 - 11:50am -- Richard Durbin -- Cambridge, UK -- Hybridisation, speciation and diversity in Lake Malawi cichlid fish

11:50am - 12:30pm -- Kristen Bomblies -- John Innes Centre, UK -- The evolution of meiosis proteins and recombination rates in Arabidopsis

12:30 - 1:30pm -- Lunch

1:30 - 2:10pm -- Andrés Bedensky -- Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute -- The genetic and neuronal bases of parental behavior evolution in monogamous mice

2:10 - 2:50pm -- Nancy Moran -- University of Texas, Austin -- Cooperation and conflict in a coevolved community of gut bacteria

2:50 - 3:30pm -- Michael Eisen -- University of California, Berkeley -- A mind controlling fungal pathogen of Drosophila melanogaster

3:30 - 4:00pm -- Break

4:00 - 4:40pm -- David Reich -- Harvard University -- Who we are and how we got here: ancient DNA and the new science of the human past

4:40 - 5:00pm -- Closing Remarks

5:00 - 6:00pm -- Reception
 

This symposium will be held in the 9th floor lecture hall of the Jerome L. Greene Science Center.

Please reserve a free ticket, which will count as your registration. Closing date for registration is March 26, 2018.

Supported by the Precision Medicine​ Initiative, Arts and Sciences and the Dept. of Biological Sciences.

Venue: the Jerome L. Greene Science Center (9th floor lecture hall)
3227 Broadway, New York, NY 10027

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