IGEM 2017

2016 | 2017

• Wednesday February 15, 2017 at 12:00, SERC 603

  Phenotypic Plasticity Promotes Balanced Polymorphism and Recombination Modification in Periodic Environments

  Dr Davorka Gulisija, University of Pennsylvania.

• Wednesday February 22, 2017 at 12:00, SERc 604

  Genomic Insights from a 40,000 year old Individual from Asia

  Dr. Melinda Yang, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China

  Host: Dr. Joshua Schraiber

• Wednesday March 1, 2017 at 12:00, SERC 603

  Probabilistic Modeling and Inference of the Translation Dynamics using Ribosome Profiling Data

  Dr Yun Song, University of Pennsylvania.

• Wednesday March 8, 2017 at 12:00, SERC Room 604

  Estimating the Ages of Singletons and Other Rare Variants

  Dr. Alexander Platt, Research Assistant Professor, CCGG, Temple University

  Host: Dr. Jody Hey

• Wednesday April 12, 2017 at 12:00, Carnell 4th Floor

  Evolutionary Dynamics of Conformational Flexibility And Its Importance for Functional Divergence

  Dr. Jessica Siltberg-Liberles, Florida International University.

  Host: Dr. David Liberles

• Wednesday April 26, 2017 at 12:00, SERC Room 604

  Phylogenetic Approaches for Quantifying Interlocus Gene Conversion

  Xiang Ji. Xiang, Ph.D. Candidate, Bioinformatics Research Center, Department of Statistics, of North Carolina State University

  Host: Dr. Sergei Pond

• Wednesday May 3, 2017 at 12:00, SERC Room 604

  A “Sexy” Co-Evolutionary Arms Race: Structural Insights into the Rapid Evolution of Egg-Sperm Interactions in Pacific Abalone

  Dr. Damien B. Wilburn, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington

  Host: Dr. Joshua Schraiber

2016 | 2017