John Novembre: UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Interdepartmental Program in Bioinformatics

Novel technological developments are providing an unprecedented opportunity to study the geographic distribution of human genomic diversity. This information has been leveraged to study population structure and interrogate signatures of natural selection. In this talk I will review emerging results from geographic studies of human genetic variation that provide insights into 1) human population structure; and 2) the genetic basis of the response by human populations to recent selective pressures.
http://www.bec.ucla.edu/NovembreTalk.pdf