Events
Finding a needle in a haystack: looking for non-coding RNA functions
Dr. Martin Crespi, Université Paris-Saclay
Abstract: The non-coding genome is the major part of the eukaryotic transcriptome and many long noncoding RNAs, or lncRNAs, were shown to act as positive or negative quantitative regulators of gene expression in…
Penn Science Café: Sex, Courtship, and Bird Behavior Go High Tech
Dr. Marc Schmidt, Professor of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
Join us for an engaging, stimulating conversation, with a Q&A session following the talk.
During the breeding season, male birds work very hard to impress potential partners, often using complex courtship…
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Dr. Sebastien Roch, University of Wisconsin, Madison
The tempo of adaptation to agriculture across timescales in weeds and crops
Dr. Julia Kreiner, University of Chicago
Abstract: Genomic time-series data from natural and cultivated populations are increasingly being recovered from herbarium and archeological records. These resources provide the opportunity to directly observe…
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Dr. Thomas Fai, Brandeis University