Seminars

20 November  2025
Journal Club. Review of the article “ Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs ” will be 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, will discuss 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” will be 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” will be 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” will be 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 will focus 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". will be 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).  

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