Events
Dissertation title: The genetic basis and architecture of local adaptation with gene flow.
Hosted by Nina Therkildsen and Kelly Zamudio
Dr. Zeribe Nwosu, a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan, will share his Journey Through Science with us on Thursday, June 22nd at 3:30 PM on Zoom.
He recently visited Cornell last Fall through the FIRST Future Faculty Symposium, and again this Spring, to present his work on “Disrupting Compensatory Metabolism to Improve Cancer Therapy.” To learn more about Dr. Nwosu and his work, please visit his website.
You are encouraged to attend our in-person watch party in Weill 226. To attend this event and for Zoom information, please register here by 6/21.
This event is hosted by the MBG+ Diversity Council, in collaboration with the Weill Institute Diversity Council and the Weill Institute Careers Committee. Please forward any questions to Jawuanna McAllister (jhm364).
Part of the Pathways from Postdoc to Faculty series: In this session we will discuss the differences between chalk talks and seminars, why they are so important, what the interviewers are looking for, what your presentation says about you, and most of all, how to stand out as a candidate!
Dr. Sriram Sankararaman, Assoc Prof, Dept Comp Sci, Dept of Human Genetics, Dept Comp Medicine, UCLA. http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~sriram/
“Understanding the genetic basis of complex traits from Biobank-scale data”
The quest to understand the interplay between evolution, genes and traits has been revolutionized by the collection of rich phenotypic and genetic data across millions of individuals in diverse populations. However, analyses of these Biobank-scale datasets present substantial statistical and computational challenges.
I will describe how we bring together statistical and computational insights to design accurate and highly scalable algorithms for a suite of problems that arise in the analysis of Biobank data: highly
scalable randomized inference algorithms to dissect the genetic architecture of complex traits, deep-learning based phenotype imputation to deal with complex patterns of missingness, and tools to leverage genetic information to obtain robust causal inference from observational data. By applying these methods to about half a million individuals from the UK Biobank, we obtain novel insights how genetic effects are distributed across the genome, the relative contributions of additive, dominance and gene-environment interaction effects to trait variation, and new genes that confer risk for hard-to-measure diseases.
Dr. Felipe Zapata, Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UCLA
Seminar: Plant adaptation and evolution across temporal and spatial scales.
Host: William Crepet
Dr. Zapata’s research addresses questions about the evolutionary processes that generate biological diversity at multiple phylogenetic, spatial, temporal, and phenotypic scales. This includes genomics, phenomics and the evolution of species and speciation processes; micro- and macro-evolutionary patterns and processes from populations to clades; and the genomic basis of adaptations and evolution of functional phenotypes.
Learn more about Fulbright opportunities for graduate students that fund your international research or teaching from a Fulbright advisor at Cornell.
Fulbright at Cornell is administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. The Einaudi Center's Fulbright advisor works with you to create and submit a competitive application for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program or the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad program.
Learn more about student information sessions from the Einaudi Center on minors, funding opportunities, Fulbright, summer language programs, and much more.
Dr. Ludo Orlando, Professor Director, Centre for Anthropobiology & Genomics of Toulouse (CAGT)
Seminar: The Genomic History of the Domestic Horse
Sponsored by the Cornell Genome Biology Task Force
Host: Dr. Charles Danko
Where the Wild Things Are: How environment hones mammal-worm-germ symbioses and immune phenotypes.
Hosted my Andy Moeller
The Evolution of Chemical Communication and Reproductive Isolation in Orchid Bees.
Hosted by Andre Kessler.
