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Full list of past talks

21st May 2025
Testing gut microbial contributions to lizards thermal physiology
Garazi Martin Bideguren
A temporal assessment of genomic erosion in the pink pigeon
Carolina Pacheco

15th April 2025
The genomic structure and population dynamics of European wolves
Evelyn Todd
Giant forest Hog and the final piece of the puzzle to explore African Pig diversity
Marta Maria Ciucani

10th December 2024
Tracing the Evolutionary History of Epstein-Barr Virus Through Ancient and Modern Genomes
Yuejiao Huang
Home ground advantage: Local adaptation in wild Atlantic salmon
Kenyon Mobley

26th November 2024
Evolutionary explosions: Phylogenomic insights into the diversification of birds
Josephin Stiller
The genomic natural history of the aurochs
Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding

22nd October 2024
Genetic fine structure in Greenland and consequences for disease
Frederik Filip Vinggaard Stæger
Genetics to Genomics - Conservation of the Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra)
Sarah du Plessis

24th September 2024
Translating ecological models into genomic simulations - a spatially-explicit reconstruction of muskox genomic data responding to climate change and human hunting
Aleksandra Laura Pach
The importance of small island populations in conserving endemic Wallacean ungulates
Sabhrina Gita Aninta

14th June 2024
Genetics of small isolated populations
Anubhab Khan
Nutrient availability drives selection for reduced body size in leopards from the Cape of South Africa
Laura Tensen

14th May 2024
The evolution of genetic diversity in insular adaptive radiations - Transposable element accumulation in the Hawaiian Tetragnatha radiation and the Galápagos Scalesia radiation
José Cerca
Three dimensions of 3D genomics
Juan Rodríguez

17th April 2024 (EPIC night)
Measuring linkage disequilibrium in structured populations with applications
Ulises Bercovich
From the vault to the present - Exploring past and present genomes of koalas and black rhinos
Binia De Cahsan

19th March 2024
Using genomics to understand the biology and ecology of Beluga whales
Mikkel Skovrind
QUILT2 - Rapid genotype imputation and phasing from sequences and cell-free DNA with very large reference panels
Zilong Li

13th February 2024
Parent of Origin inference via Identity-by-descent and pedigrees
Ryan Waples
Genomic consequences of long isolation of the Orkney vole
Xuejing Wang

16th January 2024
Inferring genome-wide ancestry and signatures of adaptation in admixed populations
Garrett Hallenthal

12th December 2023
Genomic signature of population decline in a highly mobile endangered Australian bird
Xufen Liu
Signatures of divergent ancestry and selection occurring early in dog domestication
Lauren Hennelly

16th November 2023
A whole-genome investigation of the Faroese horse
Signa Joensen
Superhumans: medical insights from genetically adapted populations
Melissa Ilardo

17th October 2023
MWAS (microbiome-wide association studies) of Greenlandic gut samples
Shixu He
Feces, bones and primates
Claudia Fontsere Alemany

7th June 2023
A very hairy situation - Untangling bearded seal population genomics
Morgan McCarthy
Evolutionary history of African bushpigs and red river hogs
Renzo Fidel Ferdinando Balboa

9th May 2023
A probabilistic approach for Analysis of Molecular Variance (AMOVA), Dxy and Neighbor-Joining Trees
Isin Altinkaya
Evolutionary travelers - acetic acid bacteria, from insect gut micro biomes to human food ferments
Ana Cuesta

12th April 2023
How much did cavemen pay for dental care?
Vincent Vendius
Ethical Publishing, how do we get there?
Fernando Racimo

8th August 2023
Palaeoproteomic study of Pleistocene human evolution
Zandra Fagernäs
The Origin and Admixture in Indonesian Cattle
Casia Nursyifa

8th February 2023
Evolutionary dynamics of genomic erosion
Hernan Morales
The ecological perspective of evolutionary genetics
Elisabetta Canter

16th January 2022
Ancient protein sequences from Late Pleistocene orangutans and Early Miocene rhinocerotids reveal the current limits of palaeoproteomics for phylogenetic studies
Ryan Sinclair
Dental Calculus as a Proxy for Oral Health in Medieval Danes
Liam Lanigan

14th November 2022
A plague epidemic at the Neolithic decline
Frederik Valeur Seersholm
Recovering traces of DNA from old books to explore livestock histories
Laura Cristina Viñas Caron

10th October 2022
Next generation simulator for next generation sequencing data
Rasmus Henriksen
Divergence with gene flow in wildebeest
Long Lin

12th September 2022
The evolutionary mystery of the extinct camel, C.knoblochi
Mick Westbury
Ancestral population structure from admixed individuals
Kristian Hanghøj

15th June 2022
Detecting selection in epidemic-driven bottlenecks
Cindy Gilda Santander
Reconstructing Deep Population History using Palaeoproteomics
Ioannis Patramanis

18th May 2022
Can gut microbes affect animal behavior?
Luisa dos Santos Bay Nielsen
Detecting positive selection on a temporal genomic transect
Rasa Muktupavela

20th April 2022
Next generation of ecological niche models can unlock eco-evolutionary patterns and processes
Nicholas Freymueller
Human, microbiome and dietary DNA from Middle to Early Holocene masticated plant material from the North American Great Basin
Thomaz Pinotti

23rd March 2022
metaDMG - Estimating ancient DNA damage in metagenomic samples
Christian Michelsen
A dog’s tale: Inferring patterns of selection in ancient dog lineages
Katia Bougiouri

17th February 2022
distAngsd - Fast and accurate inference of genetic distances for Next Generation Sequencing data
Lei Zhao
Genetics history and fine-structure of the Greenlandic Inuit
Frederik Filip Stæger

10th January 2022
Evolutionary history of seahorses, pipefishes and seadragons
Josefin Stiller
Colonial era activity had bigger impact than Rinderpest pandemic on loss of genetic diversity in cape buffalo across Africa
Liam James Quinn

November 2021
A framework for simulating spatio-temporal genomic data on a real geographic landscape
Martin Petr
Unraveling the evolutionary history of mammoths using the world’s oldest DNA
Patrícia Chrzanová Pecnerová