New York Area Population Genomics Meeting 2023
Friday, January 27, 2023 | 9:30am - 5:00pm | Registration starts from 9:00 am | The Rockefeller University | Carson Family Auditorium
January 27, 2023
9:00 – 9:30am
REGISTRATION AND SNACKS
9:30-9:50 William Miligan, Columbia University, When should we expect adaptation via a highly polygenic response vs selective sweeps?
9:50 – 10:10 Samuel Champer, Cornell University, Resource-Explicit Interaction Models for Spatial Populations
10:10 – 10:30 Natalie Niepoth, Columbia University, An evolutionarily novel adrenal cell type contributes to species differences in biparental care
10:30 – 11:00 Invited talk, Edward Buckler, USDA-ARS, Tackling agriculture’s contribution to climate by learning from genomic diversity
11:00 – 11:20 COFFEE BREAK
11:20 – 11:40 Ziyi Mo, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Domain adaptive neural networks improve robustness of supervised machine learning models based on simulated population genetic data
11:40 – 12:00 Kip Lacy, The Rockefeller University, A programmed violation of random segregation maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant
12:00 – 12:20 Andrew Clark, Cornell University, Dynamics of interaction between genes and prions in yeast and Drosophila
12:20 – 12:40 Laura Colbran, University of Pennsylvania, A gene-level test for directional selection on gene expression
12:40 – 2:00 LUNCH AND POSTER SESSION: In front of Carson
2:00 – 2:30 Invited Talk, Mia Levine, University of Pennsylvania, Adaptive evolution to preserve genome integrity
2:30 – 2:50 Junhui Peng, The Rockefeller University, Intermolecular Interactions Drive Protein Adaptive and Coadaptive Evolution at Both Species and Population Levels
2:50 – 3:10 Michelle Stitzer, Cornell University, Elevated transposable element content is subtly associated with reduced fitness in maize
3:10 – 3:30 COFFEE BREAK
3:30 – 3:50 Sonal Gupta, New York University, Selection on gene expression under salinity stress in rice
3:50 – 4:10 Carla Hoge, Columbia University, Recombination patterns in corn snakes suggest a tug of war between PRDM9 and promoter-like features
4:10 – 4:30 Solomon Sloat, New York University, A new dimension of sex ratio theory predicts sexual antagonism under the Haystack Model
4:40 – 6:15 RECEPTION AND POSTER SESSION
There are 28 poster presenters.
1.Ana Pinharanda, Columbia University, Rapid changes in the recombination landscape shape patterns of genetic variation and molecular evolution in Drosophilad
2.Leandros Boukas, Children's National Hospital, Natural selection acts on epigenetic marks
3.Daniel Hooper, American Museum of Natural History, Linked-read genomic data (Haplotagging) helps reveal the evolutionary history of chromosome inversions and their effect on reproductive isolation in an avian hybrid zone
4.UnJin Lee, Rockefeller University, Evolution and Maintenance of Phenotypic Plasticity
5.UnJin Lee, Rockefeller University, The Role of the 3-Dimensional Genome in New Gene Evolution
6.Anastasia Stolyarova, Columbia University, Complex fitness landscape shapes variation in a hyperpolymorphic species
7.Sophia Tintori, New York University, Radioactivity of nematode collection site in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone does not predict mutation load or mutagen tolerance
8.Elissa Cosgrove, Cornell University, Estimation of selection components in a pedigreed population of Florida Scrub-Jays
9.Mariko Isshiki, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Fine-scale population structure in New York City reveal borough-specific patterns
10.Daniel Uribe, GenoBank.io, Privacy laws, Genomics Data & NFTs
11.Titir De, New York University, Reversion dynamics of copy number variants: cost versus benefit in the absence of selection pressures
12.Julie Chuong, New York University, The effect of genome architecture on copy number dynamics during adaptive evolution
13.Ornob Alam, New York University, Towards accurate demographic inference in non-model species: Revisiting the U-shaped site frequency spectrum of domesticated Asian rice
14.Sam Khodursky, Rockefeller University, Sex differences in interindividual gene expression variability across human tissues
15.Jennifer Merritt, Columbia University, The genetic basis of steroid levels in biparental deer mice
16.Pei-Yin Shih, Columbia University, Evolutionary genetics of aggression of the Siamese fighting fish
17.Sung-Ya Lin, University of Pennsylvania, Coevolution between two essential telomere binding proteins preserves chromosome end-protection
18.Wyatt Toure, Columbia University, Genetic and molecular bases of hybrid dysgenesis in deer mice
19.Tuc Nguyen, New York University, Mapping the genetic basis underlying different mitochondrial toxicants in Caenorhabditis elegans
20.Cassandra Buzby, New York University, Chromosome Substitution for Identifying Epistasis in Budding Yeast
21.Jody Taft, University of the Witwatersrand, Uncovering the effect of habitat transformation on the genetic diversity of southern African dwarf chameleons (Bradypodion)
22.Iskander Said, Cornell University, Human population specific variation in simple satellite abundances mined from short-read libraries
23.Sheng-Kai Hsu, Institute for genomic diversity, Cornell university, The impact of kinship matrices on the power of genome-wide association studies across species
24.Aimee Schulz, Cornell University, 101 Evolutions: Evaluating maize gene annotations with genome sequences across the Andropogoneae
25.Mohamed El-Walid, Cornell University, Mapping Freezing Tolerance in Tripsacum by Bulk Segregant Analysis
26.Mitch Lokey, Cornell University, Exploring the evolution of deleterious variation in the endangered Florida scrub-jay.
27.Conor Gilligan, NYU GSAS, Interrogating intraspecific variation in larval life-history strategies
28.Sadye Paez, The Rockefeller University, Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion +: navigating principles to address the shortcomings of modern biodiversity genomics