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Welcome to the site for the 23rd Bay Area Population Genomics (#BAPGXXIII) Conference at Berkeley
Hosted by : Exposito-Alonso Lab!
The conference will be held on November 8, 2024 at the Bakar BioEnginuity Hub on Berkeley Campus. Look below for more information on exact location and parking.
Registration is free to academic researchers (but required). Bakar BioEnginuity Hub is a gated building and only registered guests are allowed to enter. We will include coffee/breakfast and lunch.
Note: We are reaching the maximum capacity, registrations after Nov 4th will be put on the waitlist. https://forms.gle/XphGBFSKZh22KXfVA
Talk/poster submissions are now closed.
Sponsors
Sponsors
Location
Location
Bakar BioEnginuity Hub
2625 Durant Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704
(The ONLY entrance is on Durant Ave)
Parking
The closest public parking lot is the Telegraph-Channing Garage at 2450 Durant Avenue ($9 per day if you enter before 9 am, $16 after 9 am). Please see the visitor parking information for UC Berkeley at https://pt.berkeley.edu/parking/visitor-parking for additional options.
Agenda
Agenda
8:00 - 8:50 Check-in & Breakfast
9:00 - 9:10 Opening remarks: Assistant Professor Moi Exposito-Alonso (University of California Berkeley & HHMI)
9:10 - 10:15 Session 1: Experimental Evolutionary Genetics (moderators: Moi Exposito-Alonso & Meixi Lin)
9:10 - 9:30 Early career keynote talk: Evolution of evolvability in rapidly evolving populations
Speaker: Assistant Professor Benjamin Good (Stanford University)
9:30 - 9:45 Direct measurement of the mutation rate and its evolutionary consequences in a critically endangered mollusk
Speaker: Tyler Brock Wooldridge (Paleogenomics Lab, UC Santa Cruz)
9:45 - 10:00 The fitness effects of mutations across a gradient from the lab to a natural environment
Speaker: Milo Johnson (Koskella lab, LBNL / UC Berkeley)
10:00 - 10:15 Rapid evolution of Arabidopsis thaliana in new climates
Speaker: Xing Wu (Exposito-Alonso lab, UC Berkeley)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee & Tea break
10:45 - 12:00 Session 2: Population & Quantitative Genomic Methods (moderators: Ruth Epstein & Laura Leventhal)
10:45 - 11:00 Phylo-pangenomic genotyping and assembly with panmap
Speaker: Alexander Kramer (Corbett-Detig Lab, UC Santa Cruz)
11:00 - 11:15 Quantifying the stability of microbiomes and the timescale of antibiotic perturbation with FAVA
Speaker: Maike Morrison (Rosenberg Lab, Stanford University)
11:15 - 11:30 Autoencoders for Genomics
Speaker: Margarita Geleta (Nilah Ioannidis lab, UC Berkeley & Ioannidis lab, UC Santa Cruz-Stanford University)
11:30 - 11:45 Why do GWAS and rare variant tests prioritize different genes?
Speaker: Jeffrey Spence (Pritchard Lab, Stanford University)
11:45 - 12:00 The utility of environmental data from traditional varieties for climate-adaptive maize breeding
Speaker: Forrest Li (Ross-Ibarra lab and Runcie lab, UC Davis)
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:10 Session 3: Species Population History Reconstruction (moderators: Tatiana Bellagio & Xing Wu )
1:30 - 1:45 50,000 years of Evolutionary History of India: Insights from ~2,700 Whole Genome Sequences
Speaker: Elise Kerdoncuff (Moorjani lab, UC Berkeley)
1:45 - 2:00 Recapitulating the evolutionary history of a 30 year old somatic embryo culture
Speaker: Matthew Davis (Monroe lab & Brown Lab, UC Davis)
2:00 -2:15 Recurrent evolution and histories of selection in human and non-human primates in the pangenomic era
Speaker: Joana Rocha (Sudmant Lab, UC Berkeley)
2:15 - 2:30 Coffee Tea Break
2:30 - 3:10 Keynote talk: Two teosintes made modern maize: the admixed origins of the world's most successful crop
Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra (UC Davis)
3:10 - 6:00 Posters and happy hour
Poster Presentation
Poster Presentation
Conformity to continuous and discrete ordered traits, Elisa Heinrich Mora & Kaleda Denton (Feldman lab, Stanford)
Origin and maintenance of a shared sexual mimicry polymorphism, Tristram Dodge (Schumer lab, Stanford)
Genetic diversity continues long after habitat loss, Kristy Mualim (Exposito-Alonso lab, UC Berkeley)
Test of the Levene Model of balancing selection using a genomic time series, Diler Haji (Whiteman lab, UC Berkeley)
Revisiting the evolution of lactase persistence: insights from South Asians genomes, Meaghan Marohn (Moorjani lab, UC Berkeley)
No evidence for disassortative mating based on HLA genotype in a natural fertility, endogamous African population, Gillian Meeks (Henn lab, UC Davis)
How can gene expression heritability be so diffuse across the genome?, Matthew Aguirre (Pritchard lab, Stanford)
Machine Learning-Driven Pipeline for Predicting E.coli Drug Resistant, Abdoul Abdillahi (Code lab, San Francisco State University)
Diversity of ribosomes at the level of rRNA variation associated with human health and disease, Daphna Rothschild (Pritchard labs, Stanford)
Feeling salty: explorations into the evolution of a Bay Area extremophile fly, Kirsten Verster (Hadly lab, Stanford)
Understanding the relationship between short-term fitness and long-term evolutionary success using a collection of wild yeast isolates, Sasha Khristich (Petrov lab, Stanford)
An atlas of conserved transcription factor binding sites reveals the cell type-resolved gene regulatory landscape of flowering plants, Sharon Greenblum (Joint Genome Institute / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Dominance reversal protects large-effect resistance polymorphisms in temporally varying environments, Marianna (Marianthi) Karageorgi (Petrov lab, Stanford)
Ancestry and genetic structure of Oncorhynchus mykiss in Argentina, Carolina Lazari (UC Santa Cruz)
APOBEC3 Restriction in the Bat Innate Immune System, Michael Singer, (Sudmant lab, UC Berkeley)
Challenges in detecting ecological interactions using sedimentary ancient DNA, Fiona Callahan (Nielsen lab UC Berkeley)
Genetic diversity under nonequilibrium demography, Anastasia Lyulina (Petrov/Good labs, Stanford)
Genetic basis of a unique iridescence trait in Xiphophorus, Nadia Haghani (Schumer lab, Stanford)
Leveraging D-statistics to identify footprints of archaic ancestry in modern humans, Sarah Johnson (UC Berkeley, Moorjani Lab)
Reconstructing Mutation Patterns over the course of Human Evolution, Yulin Zhang (UC Berkeley, Moorjani Lab)
Catostomid genetics, Johnathan Lo (Sudmant / Boots labs, UC Berkeley)
Contributions of mutation and selection to the evolution of plant immune receptors, Chandler Sutherland (Krasileva Lab, UC Berkeley)
Fitness effects of mitonuclear incompatibilities in Swordtail (Xiphophorus) hybrids, Nim Robles (Schumer lab, Stanford)
Molecular clock calibration using sedimentary ancient DNA, Maya Lemmon-Kishi (Nielsen lab, UC Berkeley)
Social organization shapes the evolution of the worker caste across Formicidae, Kailey Ferger (McCall lab, UC Berkeley)
Genetic signatures from the Dutch East India slave trade in southern Africa, Dana Al-Hindi (Henn lab, UC Davis)
Ancient structural variants control sex-specific flowering time morphs in walnuts and hickories, Jeff Groh (Coop lab, UC Davis)
Reversing the ratchet: identifying putative micro-chromosomes in the Amazon molly with chromosome – scale genomics, Max Chin (Laskowski / Whitehead Labs, UC Davis)
Neutral genetic variation in Acropora tenuis across a reefscape, Jaelyn Bos (UC Santa Cruz)
The evolutionary landscape of introner elements in Micromonas pusilla, Christopher Condon (UC Santa Cruz)
Exploring shifts in life-history traits of Chinook salmon through historical and contemporary data, Anne Beulke (UC Santa Cruz)
Phylogenomic analysis sheds light on the origin of Burkholderia gladioli in Bangladesh, Ismam Ahmed Protic (University of Nevada, Reno)
Nonhuman Primate Models for Hominin Introgression and Genetic Admixture, Alaina Brenner (Henn Lab, UC Davis)
DNA methylation underlies thermal stress responses in the California mussel, Tina Cai (Kelley Lab, UC Santa Cruz)
Mechanisms of extreme heat adaptation, Joanna Feehan (Rhee lab, MSU/Carnegie/Stanford)
Navigating Climate Resilience: Genomic Strategies for Kelp Ecosystem Management and Restoration, Roy Roberts (UC Santa Cruz)
TBD, Li Lei
Tissue Specific mtDNA Mutational Landscapes in the Aging Brain, Hannah Aguilar (Sudmant lab, UC Berkeley)
Spatial Genomic Scale and Determinants of Human Germline Mutation Landscape, Nathan Cramer (Moorjani Lab, UC Berkeley)
Deletious and adaptive variants linked to adaptation in climate manipulated common garden, Laura Leventhal (Exposito-Alonso lab, UC Berkeley)
Worldwide patterns of diversity at a large inversion locus in modern and ancient human genomes, Samvardhini Sridharan (Sudmant lab, UC Berkeley)
Genomic Architecture of a Body Size Polymorphism in Xiphophorus, Gabriel Preising (Schumer lab, Stanford)
Genetic diversity and history of plant species in the Red List, Jules Perez (Exposito-Alonso lab, UC Berkeley)
Using the past to predict the future: how receptor-eptiope variation can inform plant pathogen outcomes, Danielle Stevens (Krasileva Lab UC Berkeley)
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