talks
Invited seminars and conference contributions.
Invited seminars
| Date | Host | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | Third Annual Rising Stars in Genetics and Genomics Symposium, University of Utah, USA | From the amylase locus to genome-wide structural variation |
| July 2026 | Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Denmark | From the amylase locus to genome-wide structural variation |
| March 2026 | Malaspinas Lab, University of Lausanne, Switzerland | Why complexity persists: Evolutionary dynamics of the amylase locus in humans and non-human primates |
| March 2026 | Flatt Lab, University of Fribourg, Switzerland | Origins of recurrent structural variation: lessons from the primate amylase locus |
| December 2025 | Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria | Origins of recurrent structural variation: lessons from the primate amylase locus |
| October 2025 | Biology Seminar, iTHEMS, RIKEN, Japan | Why complexity persists: Evolutionary dynamics of the amylase locus in primates |
| March 2025 | Brock University, St Catharines, Canada | Reconstruction of the human amylase locus reveals ancient duplications seeding modern-day variation |
| February 2024 | Biological Sciences Seminar Series, University at Buffalo, USA | Ancient AMY1 gene duplications primed the amylase locus for adaptive evolution upon the onset of agriculture |
| March 2022 | Eric Lai Lab, Sloan Kettering Institute, USA | Comparative population genomics of natural populations of Drosophila subobscura: Understanding the establishment and maintenance of chromosomal inversion polymorphisms |
| February 2022 | Gokcumen Lab, University at Buffalo, USA | Comparative population genomics of natural populations of Drosophila subobscura: Understanding the establishment and maintenance of chromosomal inversion polymorphisms |
| September 2021 | Pavlidis Lab, FORTH, Crete, Greece | Population genomics of inversion polymorphisms in Drosophila subobscura: Mechanisms of establishment and maintenance |
Conference contributions
2026
- ASHG, Montréal, Canada. Poster: Integrating long-read assemblies and ancestry graphs to map Neanderthal-introgressed structural variation in humans. Reviewers’ Choice Abstract. I also moderated the platform session Move Over SNPs: Structural Variants, Repeat Expansions, and More.
- Population, Evolutionary, and Quantitative Genetics (PEQG), Pacific Grove, California, USA. Poster: Integrating long-read assemblies and ancestry graphs to map Neanderthal-introgressed structural variation in humans. I also served as a poster judge.
- Virtual Evolution. Moderator, Evolutionary Theory session.
2025
- ESEB, Barcelona, Spain. Talk: Convergent evolution through recurrent rearrangements and regulatory rewiring in the primate amylase locus. Poster: Reconstruction of the human amylase locus reveals ancient duplications seeding modern-day variation.
- Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics Gordon Research Conference, Il Ciocco, Italy. Talk: Why this locus? Recurrent duplications and extensive structural polymorphism at the amylase locus in humans and non-human primates. I also chaired the associated Gordon Research Seminar with Joaquin Nunez and co-chaired the GRC Power Hour.
- Evolution, Athens, Georgia, USA. Talk: Convergent evolution through recurrent rearrangements in the primate amylase locus. Poster: Reconstruction of the human amylase locus reveals ancient duplications seeding modern-day variation.
- Virtual Evolution. Talks on the human amylase locus and convergent evolution through recurrent rearrangements in the primate amylase locus. Moderator, Population Genetics Theory and Molecular Evolution sessions.
Earlier contributions
- 2024, Annual Postdoctoral Research Symposium, University at Buffalo, USA. Poster: Reconstruction of the human amylase locus reveals ancient duplications seeding modern-day variation.
- 2024, GLAM EvoGen, Syracuse University, USA. Talk: Reconstruction of the human amylase locus reveals ancient duplications seeding modern-day variation.
- 2024, SMBE, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Poster: Paleolithic gene duplications primed adaptive evolution of human amylase locus upon agriculture. Co-organizer of the symposium Deciphering the functional and adaptive effects of genomic structural variation.
- 2023, Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics Gordon Research Conference, Bryant University, USA. Poster: Modeling the evolutionary and functional impact of genomic structural variation in mammalian saliva.
- 2022, 15th International Congress on the Zoogeography and Ecology of Greece and Adjacent Regions, Mytilene, Greece. Talk: Disentangling the origin of the Cretan wild goat Capra aegagrus cretica.
- 2022, Third Joint NEOMATRIX Meeting, virtual. Talk: Disentangling the origin of the Cretan wild goat Capra aegagrus cretica.
- 2021, SMBE, virtual. Poster: The cyclically seasonal Drosophila subobscura inversion O7 originated from fragile genomic sites and relocated immunity and metabolic genes.
- 2021, SMRT Leiden Young Investigator Virtual Conference. Poster on the origin and evolutionary consequences of the Drosophila subobscura O7 inversion.
- 2019, VII Jornada de Bioinformatica i Genomica, Barcelona, Spain. Poster: Long-read based assembly and synteny analysis of a reference Drosophila subobscura genome reveals signatures of structural evolution driven by inversions recombination-suppression effects.
- 2019, European Drosophila Research Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland. Poster on the Drosophila subobscura reference genome and structural evolution driven by inversions.
- 2019, VII Jornades de Biorecerca UABio, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Talk: Comparative population genomics of natural populations of Drosophila subobscura.
- 2018, VI Jornades de Biorecerca UABio, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Talk: The genome of Drosophila subobscura.
Details of conference organization, outreach, and teaching are on the outreach and service page. The full CV includes the complete record.