Online journal club (ISCB Academy webinars)
ISCB and SMBE are collaborating to organize an online journal club (as part of the ISCBacademy series of webinars) on Evolution and Comparative Genomics.
The format of webinars is that abstract/papers are presented by their first author to promote presentations by young researchers, and questions and answers are exchanged throughout the presentation to value discussion and attendee input.
If you are interested in presenting, or you want to suggest an article of interest, please send an abstract to webinar@evolcompgen.org with “Abstract for Webinar” as the title of your message.
Participation is free for any member of ISCB or SMBE, but registration is required.
Next webinar
To be announced soon!
Past webinars
April 25, 2024
Title: Reconstructing the horizontal movement of genes using Bayesian phylogenetic network inference
by Nicola F. Müller (University of California San Francisco).
Read the summary : https://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/academy/history?year=2024#133
Read the article : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31749-8
Watch the webinar : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HbYg6ki5cg
November 10, 2023
Title: Phylogenetic network estimation from site patterns using composite likelihood
by Sungsik Kong (University of Wisconsin-Madison).
Read the summary : https://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/academy/history?year=2023#124
Read the article : https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/advance-article/doi/10.1093/sysbio/syae054/7817714
Watch the webinar : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OONdZfSLh0A
Tuesday April 11, 2023 at 10:30AM EDT
Title: Machine learning enables prediction of metabolic system evolution in bacteria
by Naoki Konno (University of Tokyo).
Read the summary : https://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/academy/history?year=2023#102
Read the article : https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adc9130
Watch the webinar : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16aRqv15bOI
Tuesday November 1, 2022 at 10:30AM EDT
Title: Accurate Identification of Transcription Regulatory Sequences and Genes in Coronaviruses
by Mohammed El-Kebir (University of illinois).
Read the summary : https://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/academy/history?year=2022#84
Read the article : https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/39/7/msac133/6608352
Watch the webinar : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8YwpMmv9lE
Wednesday April 12, 2022 at 10:30AM EDT
Title: Combining evolution and proteomics to discover protein complexes conserved across plants
by Claire McWhite (University of Texas at Austin).
Read the summary : https://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/academy/history?year=2022#64
Read the article : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.02.049
Watch the webinar : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJzCYAi1guA
Tuesday November 2, 2021 at 11:00AM EDT
Title: Scalable Inference of Phylogentetic Networks
by Claudia Solis-Lemus (University of Wisconsin).
Read the summary : https://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/academy/history?year=2021#49
Read the articles : https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1005896; https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01758
Watch the webinar : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9HjsJ9PaGI
Thursday January 28, 2021 at 11:00AM EDT
Title: SaGePhy: A phylogenetic simulation framework for gene and subgene evolution
by Soumya Kundu (University of Connecticut).
Read the summary : https://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/academy/history?year=2021#32
Read the article : https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/35/18/3496/5305633
Watch the webinar : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8P_yDeInN4
Wednesday September 30, 2020 at 11:00AM EDT
RAxML-NG: a fast, scalable and user-friendly tool for maximum likelihood phylogenetic inference
by Alexey Kozlov and Alexandros Stamatakis (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies).
Read the summary : https://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/academy/history?year=2020#24
Read the article : https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/35/21/4453/5487384
Watch the webinar : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSLVcgPfUUo
Monday August 24, 2020
Unravelling the mystery of orphan genes to understand the origins of genetic novelty
presented by Nikos Vakirlis (Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Center).
Read the summary : https://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/academy/history?year=2020#22
Read the articles : https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.53500 ; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14500-z
Watch the webinar : https://youtu.be/ScGPP19WWE8
Tuesday July 7, 2020
Genetic Basis Of De Novo Appearance Of Carotenoid Ornamentation In Bare-Parts Of Canaries
presented by Malgorzata Gazda (Universidade do Porto).
Read the summary : https://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/academy/history?year=2020#18
Read the article : https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaa006
Watch the webinar : https://youtu.be/lxD6XDkbmV8
Friday June 12, 2020
Fast Coalescent-Based Computation of Local Branch Support from Quartet Frequencies
presented by Erfan Sayyari (UCSD).
Read the summary : https://www.iscb.org/cms_addon/academy/history?year=2020#14
Read the article : https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msw079
Watch the webinar : https://youtu.be/Ud7Sf9zsT5w