At #UCDavis 3/8: Jeremy Berg “Tales from the land of human genetics: How selection, drift and pleiotropy have impacted quantitative trait evolution in humans”

***** CPB Seminar Reminder for Tuesday, March 8, 2016, 4:10pm in 1022 Life Sciences *****

Speaker: Jeremy Berg
Graduate Student, Population Biology Graduate Group, UC Davis
Title: “Tales from the land of human genetics: How selection, drift and pleiotropy have impacted quantitative trait evolution in humans”
Host: Graham Coop

The entire CPB Seminar schedule for Winter Quarter 2016 is available here.

Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis

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