Seminar
April 26, 2017 at Botanical Garden, University of Zurich
Speaker:
- Greg Wray, Duke University, USA
Title: Building a bigger brain: genetic bases for the evolution of the human cortex
Informal Get-Together
July 4, 2017 at Bar Damm in Zurich
Sponsored Symposium: Detecting the Genomic Signal of Polygenic Adaptation and the Role of Epistasis in Evolution
August 31 and September 1, 2017 at University of Zurich
Speakers:
- Thomas Hansen, University of Oslo, Norway
- Joachim Hermisson, University of Vienna, Austria
- Nick Barton, IST Austria
- Markus Stetter, University of California Davis, USA
- Peter Visscher, University of Queensland, Australia
- John Mckay, Colorado State University, USA
- Josh Payne, University of Zurich, Switzerland
- Mato Lagator, IST Austria
- Daniel Croll, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
- Anna Santure, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Örjan Carlborg, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Sergey Kryazhimskiy, University of California San Diego, USA
- Luke Mackley Noble, New York University, USA
- Santiago C. González-Martínez, INRA, France
- Anna Maria Langmüller, Vetmed University Vienna, Austria
- Sam Yeaman, University of Calgary, Canada
- Martina Rauscher, University of Cologne, Germany
- Simon Aeschbacher, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Diana Jessie Rennison, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Josephine Daub, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
- Jeremy Berg, Columbia University, USA
Scientifica
September 1 - 3, 2017 at University of Zurich
Booth: Vom DNA-Buchstabensalat zur Erkenntnis
Annual Retreat 2017
September 5 - 7, 2017 at Seehotel Waldstätterhof in Brunnen
Key Note Speaker:
- Sophien Kamoun, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich, UK
The program comprised progress reports from all research projects of the URPP Evolution in Action, workshops, discussion rounds and a bioinformatics session.
Seminar
October 9, 2017 at Botanical Garden, University of Zurich
Speaker:
- Walter Salzburger, University of Basel
Title: Evolution in Darwin's Dreampond: The adaptive radiation of cichlid fishes in East African Lake Tanganyika
