[Emeriti-faculty] Department of Physics and Astronomy Events for week of April 5, 2010

[Gayle Grant <gayle grant tufts edu>]

Good morning:

Events for this week are as follows:

1:00 pm
Friday, April 9, 2010
Robinson Hall, Room 250
Tufts University
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Oral Qualifying Exam
"The Rate of Adaptations in Finite Asexual Populations”
Models in population genetics consider the effects of three main 
parameters: population size, mutation rate and fitness advantage (i.e. 
natural selection). The rate of accumulation of beneficial mutations, or 
adaptation, in asexually reproducing populations is an observable that 
can reveal the relative importance of these forces to the evolution of a 
population. I will contrast the predictions of two stochastic models of 
genome evolution and discuss their application to studying virus evolution.
Rebecca Batorsky