Events
Upcoming 5 days
This workshop will feature talks from esteemed scientists, covering topics such as zoonoses, spread of infectious diseases, animal movement and more. Registration to attend the event at the Academy is closed, but you can follow the event via streaming.
The REPEAT group (PIs: Kjetill S. Jakobsen and Melinka A. Butenko) are interested in the functional and evolutionary importance of short tandem repeats in genomes. Short tandem repeats are common, but hypermutable regions. This leads to a high number of short tandem repeat variants in a population. We have combined population genomics and experimental approaches to study the impact of short tandem repeat alleles in Arabidopsis, with emphasis on their role in gene regulation and how they impact protein function. Based on our findings from Arabidopsis, we conducted a study of repeats across 1,270 species, including animal, fungal, plant, and other eukaryotic genomes. In this seminar I will present the results from this (recently submitted) study.
NB: NEW DATE MAY 16.
Further upcoming events
Late Lunch Talk by Iris Bea Ramiro
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) as tools in evolutionary biology. With Mackenzie Mathis and Matteo Fumagalli.