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.

Monday August 24, 2020 at 11:00AM EDT:

Unravelling the mystery of orphan genes to understand the origins of genetic novelty

by Nikos Vakirlis (Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Center).

Read the summary : https://www.iscb.org/iscbacademy-upcoming#vakirlis

Read the articles : https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.53500 ; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14500-z

Registration : https://iscb.swoogo.com/iscbacademy-11-vakirlis

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/iscbacademy-archive#gazda

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/iscbacademy-archive#sayyari

Read the article : https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msw079

Watch the webinar : https://youtu.be/Ud7Sf9zsT5w