EvoGen Supergroup

Boston Evolutionary Genomics Supergroup

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🧬2026 Annual Retreat, this Friday, September 4

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May 2026: David Reich's chalk talk on 'Hypothesis: A modern human range expansion ~300,000 years ago explains Neandertal origins.'

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March 2026: Kasper Daniel Hansen and Leandros Boukas on "Gene constraint and the evolutionary forces that shape epigenomic landscapes" [3/13 (F), 9am]

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February 2026: Tami Lieberman and Paul Torrillo's chalk talk on "Deep learning to predict and understand bacterial evolution" [2/13 (F), 9am]

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January 2026: Alkes Price and Javier Maravall-López on 'M. tuberculosis and intestinal pathogens drove immune adaptations in ancient West Eurasians' [1/16 (F), 9am]

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December 2025: Maha Farhat and Grace Moore'a talk on 'The origin of the M. tuberculosis complex and its co-evolution with its human host' [12/5, Friday 9am] @MahaFarhat

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November 2025: Kevin Esvelt's Talk on "Engineering fitness in the wild - for good and for ill" [11/7, Friday 9am]

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October 2025: Yoav Gilad's talk on 'Beyond the Mean: The Biology of Gene Expression Dispersion' [10/17, Friday 9am]

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Please mark your calendar and save the date for our Annual Retreat 2025 - Friday, September 5 :: Further details will soon follow.

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May 2025: John Wakeley and Jack Edwards' Talk on 'Coalescence conditional on the pedigree of a population: An application to the site-frequency spectrum of Atlantic cod' [5/16 Friday 9am]

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April 2025: Scott Edwards, Bohao Fang and Tim Sackton's Talk on 'Using pangenomes to understand the diversity and fitness effects of structural variation in birds' [4/4 Friday 9am]

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February 2025: Terence Capellini and Gayani Senevirathne's talk on 'Bipedalism in two steps: Dual innovations underlie hominin pelvic biology' [2/14 Friday 9am]

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January 2025: Sean Eddy's talk on 'Catalytic RNAs in bacteriophage genomes' [1/10 Friday 9am]

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December 2024: Sarah Davies and Hannah Aichelman on 'Functional variation among cryptic coral lineages' - 12/6 Friday 9am

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November 2024: Kamila Naxerova and David Cheek's talk on 'Age distinguishes selection from causation in cancer genomes'. [11/8 Friday 9am]

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October Talk 2024: Elinor Karlsson and Diane Genereux on 'Detecting convergent evolution of gene expression' - 10/11 Friday 9am

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Annual Retreat 2024: September 6, Friday @ BROAD

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May Talk 2024: David Page and Neha Bokil on 'In the light of evolution: making sense of females and males, X and Y' @PageLabXY - 5/17 Friday 9am

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April Talk 2024: David Des Marais and Meghan Blumstein on 'What population genomics can tell us about the future of the terrestrial carbon sink' - 4/5 Friday 9am

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March Talk 2024: Manolis Kellis and Riley Mangan on 'Recent gene-regulatory innovations in the human lineage' - 3/29 Friday 9am