Time: 10:00
Speaker: Cortland Griswold (University of Guelph)
Title: "Ancestral graph theory of ecological communities and the theoretical population genetics of polyploid cross-over interference"
Room: MC 204

Abstract: In this talk I will give an overview of ancestral graph theory (the coalescent; ancestral recombination and selection graphs), and present work from my group in which we have applied the theory to understand evolution in microbial communities using metagenomic sampling, as well as the evolution of pangenomes. This will be followed by work on modeling cross-over interference in autotetraploids. The talk will finish with summaries of student-focused research, including plasmid, epigenetic and eco-evolutionary genetic theory.

Time: 15:30
Speaker:
Title: "Math Comprehensive Exams"
Room: MC 107

Abstract: