Population and Statistical Genetics Group at UCPH

Highlights from this month’s #EPIC seminar series! Dinah Parker and @VizuetaJoel shared their fascinating work on #pathogenic #fungi 🍄and vision in #ants 🐜

Alex Brown from the @TheKids_AU gave a great talk on indigenous genomics and how to address health inequality in these communities! Thanks for joining us!

Just a few more days left to sign up for the EPIC conference 2025! Join us in Aarhus this August 🥳 ✍️Registration deadline for talk/poster: 1st June 2025 ✍️Registration deadline for attendance : 31st July 2025 #EPICdk25

This is a physical course but an online version will be available for those who can’t attend. We especially encourage students from African institutions to join online as this is offered as part of the African BioGenome Project Open Institute East&Central Africa Regional Workshop

Are you an evolutionary/population geneticist in Denmark? The EPIC conference is back and it will take place on 11-12 August 2025 in Aarhus. Come along for two days of great talks and networking! #EPICdk25 Hosts: @MolBiolAU & @PopGenDK Register now at: popgen.dk/epic/

Our population genetics PhD summer course 2025 @PopGenDK @Globe_UCPH is now open for registration! Featuring lectures & talks by Martin Sikora, @ShyamGlobe, @KBougiouri , Fernando Racimo, @idamoltke , @A_Albrechtsen. For more info: website.popgen.dk/summer/

Welcome back to our monthly #EPIC seminars! We started today with our two speakers Evelyn Todd and @MartaCiucani talking about their research on #Scandinavian #wolves 🐺 and African forest #hogs 🐗 Next seminar 🔜 May 21st.

PopGenDK is now of course also on Bluesky 🦋 bsky.app/profile/popgen…

Including under-represented groups in population genomics data could reduce inequalities in genetics-based clinical care and personalized medicine go.nature.com/4jPoYzr

Nature research paper: Genetic architecture in Greenland is shaped by demography, structure and selection go.nature.com/4hvprFa