Third NYA Population Genomics Workshop
(Hashtag #NYAPG17)
January 19th, 2017
Hosted by Columbia University
Low Library [map]
Schedule:
8:30 arrival and registration/breakfast
Session 1 (Chair: Guy Sella)
9:00 Matthew Combs (Fordham)
Spatial population genomics of brown rats in New York City
9:20 Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn (Rutgers)
Are bat populations infected with white-nose syndrome undergoing rapid natural selection?
9:40 Noah Rose (Princeton)
Genomic architecture of resilience to the third global coral bleaching event
10:00 Khanh Dao Duc (UPenn)
Identification and quantitative analysis of the major determinants of translation elongation rate variation
10:20 Coffee
Session 2 (Chair: Joe Pickrell)
10:40 Invited speaker: Molly Przeworski (Columbia)
Of mice, men and birds: recombination hotspots and their evolution
11:10 Christina Zakas (NYU)
The genetic basis of evolutionary transitions in early development
11:30 Raquel Assis (Penn State)
Transcriptional interference promotes rapid expression divergence of Drosophila nested genes
11:50 YoSon Park (UPenn)
Functional genomics of evolutionarily conserved and newly evolved primate cis-regulatory elements
12:10 Lunch
Session 3 (Chair: Barbara Engelhardt)
1:40 Invited speaker: Yun Song (Penn)
Robust and scalable population genetic inference using unphased whole genomes
2:10 Malin Pinsky (Rutgers)
Marine dispersal scales are congruent over evolutionary and ecological time
2:30 Stephanie Lauer (NYU)
High-resolution analysis of copy number variation in evolving populations
2:50 Derek Aguiar (Princeton)
Efficient construction of haplotype cluster graphs and estimating the age of mutations
3:10 Coffee
Session 4 (Chair: Casey Brown)
3:30 Hakhamanesh Mostafavi (Columbia)
Identifying genetic variants that affect viability in large cohorts
3:50 Katherine Siewert (UPenn)
Detecting Long-term Balancing Selection using Allele Frequency Correlation
4:10 Joshua Schraiber (Temple)
Assessing the relationship of ancient and modern genomes
4:30 Coffee
Session 5 (Chair: Adam Siepel)
4:50 Lauren Alpert Sugden (Brown)
An interpretable, dependence-aware composite classification framework for hard sweep detection and localization, with application to a Southern African population
5:10 Daniel Schrider (Rutgers)
Soft sweeps are the dominant mode of adaptation in the human genome
5:30 David Murphy (Columbia)
Linked selection on functional elements via selective sweeps and background selection
5.50 Reception (drinks and hors d’oeuvres)
Organizers:
Guy Sella (Columbia)
Barbara Engelhardt (Princeton University)
Joe Pickrell (NYGC and Columbia University)
Sponsors:
Registration
Registration is free but required, see the Registration page.
The abstract deadline is December 1st, 2016
