TAGC 2020
TAGC 2020
TAGC brings together seven research communities at a unique conference to encourage collaboration and inspire new ideas.
Below, we’ve highlighted some of the sessions of particular interest to those working on evolutionary and quantitative genetics. Plus: Don’t miss the talks from Ed Buckler, Cassandra Extavour, and Sally Otto in the Keynote Sessions!
8:00-10:00 a.m.
Demographic Inference
Chair
Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard University/HHMI
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
The Evolution of Gene Expression
Chair
Daniel Matute, UNC Chapel Hill
1:45 -3:45 p.m.
The Architectures of Complex Traits
Chair
Kelley Harris, University of Washington
4:00 -5:30 p.m.
Crow Award Talks
Chair
Bret Payseur, University of Wisconsin at Madison
8:00-10:00 a.m.
Workshop: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know about Sex
Organizers: R. Graze, K. McJunkin, B. Draper
Workshop: Metabolic Plasticity – Exploring the Flexibility of Metabolic Networks in the Context of Development, Evolution, Environmental Stress, and Disease
Organizers: J. Tennessen, K. Montooth, M. Walhout
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Adaptation in Natural Populations
Chair
Felicity Jones, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Through a Population Genetics Lens
Chair
Brandon Ogbunu, Brown University
8:00-10:00 a.m.
Departures from Additivity: Dominance, Epistasis and GxE
Chair
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, University of California, Davis
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Complex Trait Adaptation
Chair
Emily B. Josephs, Michigan State University
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Divergence, Hybridization and Reproducible Isolation
Chair
Molly Schumer, Stanford University
8:00-10:00 a.m.
Future Visions of Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics
Chair
Dmitri Petrov, Stanford University
Schedule
Professional Development
Keynote Speakers
Community Speakers and Events