Seminar Series

The Department of Computational Biology holds two regular seminar series: a department series featuring guests and faculty, and student series featuring graduate students. Both highlight topics and research relevant to the department and its community.

Kyle T. David and The Ecology and Evolution of Novelty

Computational Biology Seminar Series presents Kyle T. David

Friday, March 6, 2026, 3:00 PM, 121 Atkinson Hall

Dr. David's research program can be succinctly described as a study in novelty. He is interested in how novel structural variants (typically genome duplications) help or hinder organisms’ response to novel environmental conditions mediated through novel phenotypes like niche breadth and extremophily. Better known in plants, Dr. David has nevertheless discovered large-scale duplications linked to novel traits and extreme environments in animals and fungi. Through integrative approaches spanning comparative genomics, machine learning, and field sampling, his research investigates the uneven distribution of structural variants across time and space to bridge micro- and macro- scales of ecology and evolution.

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Kyle T. David

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Department Series

Graduate Student Seminars

Graduate Seminar Series

Computational Biology graduate students are required to attend the Friday Student Seminars to support their colleagues who present their research. As well, we encourage all CB field faculty to attend, especially the student speaker's special committee chair and members.

Fridays, 2:00 - 3:00pm, 121 Atkinson Hall

Graduate Student Seminars

Coming Soon: February 13 | Alison Ke/ Manqi Zhou
January 30 | Ziqing Pan/ Tianyu Xia/ Lucas Gallart
December 5 | Vrushali Fangal/ Rachel Goodridge/ Nating Wang
November 7 | Zimo Zhu/ Ziqi Chen/ Meihan Wei
October 17 | Abigail Grassick/ Kritika Grover/ Jinmin Li
October 3 | Marie Hédo/ Aditya Girish/ Yixin Zhu
September 19 | Yiwen Wang/ Amlan Nayak/ Lucy Tian

Affiliated Seminars

Affiliated department seminars