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Past PMB Seminars
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Christopher Jerde: Inferring species presence using environmental DNA
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Center for Computational Biology Seminar: Dr. Ed Green, University of California, Santa Cruz
Long-range and highly accurate de novo assembly from short-read data is one of the most pressing challenges in genomics. Recently, it has been shown that read pairs generated by proximity ligation of DNA in chromatin of living tissue can address this problem, dramatically increasing the scaffold contiguity of assemblies. Here, we describe a simpler approach (“Chicago”) based on in vitro...
Jen Burney: The Air Pollution Impacts of the Natural Gas Transition
Energy and Resources Group Spring 2015 Colloquium Series (ER295)
Nadia Barhoum: The Global Food System and its Discontents
As part of SESAME, the CMES's working group on Sustainability and Stewardship in North Africa and the Middle East, two researchers at the Haas Institute will speak about the global food system. Nadia Barhoum: The Political Economy of Wheat in Egypt By tracing the political economy of wheat in Egypt, we begin to understand the both the deep complexity and fragility of the food system and its...
Sandy Johnson: Remodeling the Bacterial Cell During Sporulation and Antiobiotic Treatment
How Transcription Networks Evolve and Produce Biological Novelty
Center for Computational Biology Seminar: Dr. Jonathan Pritchard, Stanford University
Most common phenotypic variation in humans is highly polygenic. Although there are examples of strong selective sweeps at individual loci, we and others have hypothesized that the bulk of human adaptation occurs through small shifts in allele frequencies at hundreds or thousands of relevant loci. In this talk I will describe our recent work on methods for studying the genetic basis of a variety...