Seminars

2 April 2026
Seminar. Artem Kasyanov, Assistant Researcher, HUMANEVOL Group, BIOPOLIS-CIBIO, Vairão, Portugal, will present on post-admixture selection on the FY*BES allele in the Khwe population under pressure from Plasmodium vivax — "Post-admixture selection favours Duffy negativity in the Lower Okavango Basin". Offline meeting with live stream (https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/56833937746075)

 12 March  2026
Journal Club. Review of the article "From North Asia to South America: Tracing the longest human migration through genomic sequencing" will presented by Vadim Spirin, Research Intern at the International Laboratory for Statistical and Computational Genomics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). Offline meeting with live stream at 2:40 p.m. (https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/56833937746075)

05 March  2026
Journal Club.  Review of the article "Learning evolutionary parameters from genealogies using allelic trees" was presented by  Dmitrii Bosov, Research Intern at the International Laboratory for Statistical and Computational Genomics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). Offline meeting with live stream at 2:40 p.m. (https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/56833937746075)

26 February  2026
Journal Club.  Review of the article "Accelerated Bayesian inference of population size history from recombining sequence data" was presented by Igor Mirniy, Research Intern at the International Laboratory for Statistical and Computational Genomics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). Offline meeting with live stream at 2:40 p.m. (https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/56833937746075)

19 February 2026
Seminar. Ilya Belalov, PhD, Research Fellow, Institute of Biotechnology RAS, was discuss Linear algorithm in nonlinear biology. Offline meeting with live stream at 2:40 p.m. (https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/56833937746075). 

Linear algorithm for non-linear biology (PDF, 121 Kb) 

12 February 2026
Journal Club.  Review of the article "The structural context of mutations in proteins predicts their effect on antibiotic resistance" was presented by  Natalia Podkopaeva, Research Intern at the International Laboratory for Statistical and Computational Genomics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). Offline meeting with live stream at 2:40 p.m. (https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/56833937746075)

05 February 2026
Journal Club. Review of the article "Non-identifiability and the Blessings of Misspecification in Models of Molecular Fitness" was presented by  Konstantin Kostin, Research Intern at the International Laboratory for Statistical and Computational Genomics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). Offline meeting with live stream at 2:40 p.m. (https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/56833937746075)

29 January 2026
Journal Club. Review of the article  "An ancient DNA perspective on the Russian conquest of Yakutia"  was presented by  Anna Budkina, Junior Research Assistant at the International Laboratory for Statistical and Computational Genomics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). Offline meeting with live stream at 2:40 p.m. (https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/56833937746075)

22  January  2026
Journal Club.  Review of the article  "The history and evolution of the Denisovan-EPAS1 haplotype in Tibetans"   was presented by  Ekaterina Zhemchugova, student at the Faculty of Computer Science, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). Offline meeting with live stream at 2:40 p.m. (https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/56833937746075)

18 December 2025
Journal Club. Review of the article "The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago"  was presented by Nikita Gayanov, Research Intern at the International Laboratory for Statistical and Computational Genomics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). Offline meeting with live stream at 2:40 p.m. (https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/82894409816524)

11 December 2025
Journal Club. Review of the articles "Deviations in RSV epidemiological patterns and population structures in the United States following the COVID-19 pandemic" and "Spatial and temporal transmission dynamics of respiratory syncytial virus in New Zealand before and after the COVID-19 pandemic" was presented by Yakov Korobitsyn, Research Intern at the International Laboratory for Statistical and Computational Genomics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). Offline meeting with live stream at 2:40 p.m. (https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/82894409816524)

04 December 2025
Journal Club. Review of the article "Robust and accurate Bayesian inference of genome-wide genealogies for hundreds of genomes"  was presented by Mikhail Shishkin, Junior Research Fellow at the International Laboratory for Statistical and Computational Genomics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). Offline meeting with live stream at 2:40 p.m. (https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/82894409816524)

27 November  2025
Journal Club. Review of the article “ Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs ” was presented by Appolinariya Khandaeva-Prokopovich , Research Intern at the International Laboratory for Statistical and Computational Genomics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). Offline meeting with live stream at 2:40 p.m. (https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/82894409816524). 

13 November  2025
Seminar. Ekaterina Ryumina, Skoltech PhD student, was discussed the population escape of SARS-CoV-2 from cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Offline meeting with live stream at 2:40 p.m. (https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/82894409816524). 

6 November  2025
Journal Club. Review of the article “A likelihood-based framework for demographic inference from genealogical trees”  was presented by Mikhail Shishkin, Junior Research Fellow at the International Laboratory for Statistical and Computational Genomics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). Offline meeting with live stream at 2:40 p.m. (https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/82894409816524). 

2 October  2025
Journal Club. Review of the article “GHOST: Recovering Historical Signal from Heterotachously Evolved Sequence Alignments”  was presented by Andrey Kolchin, Research Intern at the International Laboratory for Statistical and Computational Genomics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Offline meeting with live stream at 2:40 p.m. (https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/82894409816524). 

30 October  2025
Journal Club. Review of the article “GHOST: Recovering Historical Signal from Heterotachously Evolved Sequence Alignments”  was presented by Andrey Kolchin, Research Intern at the International Laboratory for Statistical and Computational Genomics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Offline meeting with live stream at 2:40 p.m. (https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/82894409816524). 
 
23 October  2025
Seminar. Viktor Novosad, PhD student at the HSE Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology (FBB), will discuss his dissertation. The seminar was focused on the SRPseq algorithm — an interpretable method for modeling alternative splicing regulation. The method treats isoform switching as a sequence of decisions at the nodes of a binary tree and integrates two sources of features: RNA-binding protein expression and their binding motifs. The connection between isoform balance and clinical outcomes in colorectal cancer is demonstrated using the CD44 gene as an example. The full analytical pipeline is discussed: preparation of public RNA-sequencing data, feature extraction, model training and validation, as well as limitations and transferability between tumor tissues.. Offline meeting with live stream at 2:40 p.m. (https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/82894409816524). 

16 October  2025
Journal Club. Review of the article: "Genetic and training adaptations in the Haenyeo divers of Jeju, Korea"  was presented by Georgy Kim, Research Intern at the International Laboratory for Statistical and Computational Genomics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). Offline meeting with live stream at 2:40 p.m. (https://telemost.yandex.ru/j/82894409816524).  

01 July 2025
Seminar. Polina Shlapakova, Neurologist, Junior Research Assistant, 3rd Neurological Department of the Research Center of Neurology was discussed "Problems and prospects of population-based molecular genetic studies of age-dependent cerebral microangiopathy"

30 April 2025
Journal Club. Review of the article: "A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans" (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02117-1)  was presented by Anna Ilyina, Research Fellow International Laboratory for Statistical and Computational Genomics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE). 

23 April 2025
Seminar.  Nikita Gayanov, Research Intern at the International Laboratory for Statistical and Computational Genomics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) was discussed "Glhap и glcont: methods for haplogroup detection and contamination assessment based on similar genotypes".

09 April 2025
Seminar.  Attila Kertesz-Farkas, Laboratory Head, Laboratory on AI for Computational Biology at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) was discussed "False discovery rate control in large-scale hypothesis testing".

08 April 2025
Seminar.  Sergey Shmakov, National Center for Biotechnology Information/National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health, USA was discussed "Computational Approaches for Uncovering Microbial Functional Diversity"

19 March 2025
Seminar.  Artem Kasyanov Assistant researcher, HUMANEVOL Group, BIOPOLIS-CIBIO, Vairão, Portugal  was discussed "How can functional genomics help in the study of evolution?"

19 February 2025
Journal Club. Review of the article: "The temporal and genomic scale of selection following hybridization" (https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2309168121?doi=10.1073%2Fpnas.2309168121) was presented Nikita Gayanov, Research Intern at the International Laboratory for Statistical and Computational Genomics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE)

15 Jenuary 2025
Seminar.  Anna Igolkina, The All-Russian Research Institute of Agricultural Microbiology RAS and  and Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology)  "Reconstruction of the evolutionary history of chickpea populations using modeling of complex mixing events and compositional data analysis".

18 November 2020
Vagheesh Narasimhan, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
"Understanding natural selection using ancient DNA and GWAS data".

16 September 2020
Lucas Vicuña, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Facultad de Ingenieria y Ciencias and Instituto Milenio de Investigación sobre los Fundamentos de los Datos, Chile,
" Effects of Mapuche Native American genetic ancestry on natural selection and pubertal growth"

09 June 2020
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, PhD, Brown University (Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Center for Computational Molecular Biology),
" Inferring Denisovan introgression in East Asia"

26 May 2020
Prof. Egor Prokhorchuk, Head of the laboratory of genomics and epigenomics of vertebrates of the Federal Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, dean of the MBF Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University


19 May 2020
Peter Wilton, PhD, University of California, Berkeley (currently 23andMe, Inc., California, USA), 
" Dynamics of mitochondrial DNA in 345 individuals from 96 human families"

05 May 2020
Dr. Stephan Schiffels, Group Leader for Population Genetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Department for Archaeogenetics, Jena, Germany), 
" Structure runs deep: Inference of human separation dynamics from whole genome sequences"

28 April 2020

Prof. Egor Prokhorchuk, Head of the laboratory of genomics and epigenomics of vertebrates of the Federal Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, dean of the MBF Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University

21 April 2020
Stepan Kuznetsov , Senior researcher at the V.A. Steklov Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the International Laboratory for Intelligent Systems and Structural Analysis, FCS NRU HSE

14 April 2020
Prof. Egor Prokhorchuk, Head of the laboratory of genomics and epigenomics of vertebrates of the Federal Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, dean of the MBF Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University

09 April 2020
Dmitry Ivankov, Assistant Professor of the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology