Welcome to the site for the 25th Bay Area Population Genomics (#BAPGXXV) Conference at UC Davis! The conference will be held April 11, 2026 on UC Davis Campus at the Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility. Parking is free on campus on weekends and available directly outside the building. Registration for talks is now closed, but registration for posters and attendance is still open. Please follow the link below to the Google Form. Registration is free (but required) and will include coffee/breakfast and lunch for the first 150 people that register.
Thank you to the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences, Genome Center, Center for Population Biology, Integrative Genetics and Genomics Graduate Group, Department of Plant Sciences, Bayer, and nCode Biosciences for sponsoring this conference!
Schedule
8:30-9:25: Check-in and continental breakfast
9:25-9:30: Welcome Remarks
9:30-10:30: Talk Session 1 - Moderator: Natasha Dhamrait
- 9:30-9:45: Turnover and introgression shape the dynamic evolution of a sexual mimicry polymorphism shared across the genus Xiphophorus - Tristram Dodge, Schumer Lab, Stanford University
- 9:45-10:00: Community coalescence reveals strong selection and coexistence within species in complex microbial communities - Sophie Walton, Petrov and Good Labs, Stanford University
- 10:00-10:15: No Evidence for MHC-Based Mate Choice: Insights from a Natural Experiment in the Himba - Gillian Meeks, Henn Lab, UC Davis
- 10:15-10:30: Methylation Clocks Do Not Predict Age or Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Across Genetically Admixed Individuals - Sebastián Cruz-González, Capra Lab, UC San Francisco
10:30-11:10: Coffee Break
11:10-12:10: Talk Session 2 - Moderator: Forrest Li
- 11:10-11:25: Population genomics of Ctenophores - Shannon Johnson, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
- 11:25-11:40: An assembly graph permutation test to detect variation caused by haplotype misassembly - Sam Bogan, Kelley Lab, UC Santa Cruz
- 11:40-11:55: The genetics, evolution, and maintenance of a biological rock-paper- scissors game - Ammon Corl, Nielsen Lab, UC Berkeley
- 11:55-12:10: Biobank-scale visualization and interactive exploration of ancestral recombination graphs with Lorax - Pratik Katte, Corbett-Detig Lab, UC Santa Cruz
12:10-1:30: Lunch
1:30-2:00: Keynote Talk - Molly Schumer, Stanford University - Insertion of an invading retrovirus impacts a novel color trait in swordtail fish
2:00-3:00: Talk Session 3 - Moderator: Regina Fairbanks
- 2:00-2:15: Point cloud local ancestry inference (PCLAI): continuous coordinate-based ancestry along the genome - Margarita Geleta, Ioannidis Lab, UC Berkeley
- 2:15-2:30: Comparative multi-omics uncovers cis-driven rewiring of biofilm regulatory network topology across Candida species - Deepika Gunasekaran, Nobile Lab, UC Merced
- 2:30-2:45: Uncovering the Dynamics of Population Structure Through Time Using Genome-Wide Genealogies - Yun Deng, Pritchard Lab, Stanford University
- 2:45-3:00: Linked selection drives allele frequency change in global evolution experiment - Miles Roberts, Exposito-Alonso Lab, UC Berkeley
3:00-4:30: Poster session
- Immunogenetic Profiling of Tuberculosis Susceptibility in a South African Population - Oshiomah Oyageshio, Henn Lab, UC Davis
- Waves-on-plates’: high-resolution lineage tracking in controlled range expansions - Keon Abedi, Hallatschek Lab, UC Berkeley
- Evolution in spatially structured populations - Gursachi Sikka, Hallatschek Lab, UC Berkeley
- Modeling Drug Resistance Evolution Via Ontogenetic Systems - Zoe Keenan, Hallatschek Lab, UC Berkeley
- Towards population genomics of the bacterial wilt pathogens in the Ralstonia solanacearum species complex - Tiffany Lowe-Power, Lowe-Power Lab, UC Davis
- Quantifying Anthropogenic Effects on Maize Genetic Diversity - Samantha Snodgrass, Ross-Ibarra and Coop Labs, UC Davis
- Genotype specific transcriptomic responses to heat stress in Zostera marina - Glyn Carson, Bay Lab, UC Davis
- One Nation Under a Groove: Ensemble Learning for Demographic Inference - Ananya Kapoor, Kern-Ralph Colab, University of Oregon
- HLA–KIR Interaction and Active Tuberculosis Risk in Khoe-San Descent Populations - Kristin Hardy, Henn Lab, UC Davis
- Catostomid genetics - Johnathan Lo, Sudmant and Boots Labs, UC Berkeley
- Tissue Specific Mitochondrial DNA Mutational Landscapes in Humans, Mice, and Macaques - Hannah Aguilar, UC Berkeley
- T2T primate genomes reveal 70 million years of structural variation and karyotype evolution - Scott Ferguson, Sudmant Lab, UC Berkeley
- Expected Value of the Sackin index under a biased speciation model - Daniel Bauman, Rosenberg and Good Lab, Stanford University
- TBD - Japneet Kaur, Henn Lab, UC Davis
- Genomic diversity across 200 plant species of variable Red List status - Jules Perez, Moi Lab, UC Berkeley
- Experimental climate change magnifies genetic vulnerabilities from mutation load and maladaptation - Laura Leventhal, Stanford University
- Spatial Genomic Scale and Determinants of Human Germline Mutation Landscape - Nathan Cramer, Moorjani Lab, UC Berkeley
- Maize landraces are not distinct populations or genetic lineages - Mackenzie Chun, Ross-Ibarra Lab, UC Davis
- Measuring selection on regulatory networks combining population transcriptomics and experimental evolution - Eddy Mendoza-Galindo, UC Berkeley
- What the POP is going on? Complex allelic variation underlying trait diversification in columbines - Evangeline Ballerini, Ballerini Lab, CSU Sacramento
- Determinants of local ancestry in a three species hybrid zone - Kelsie Hunnicutt, Schumer Lab, Stanford University
- Population genetic determinants of protein biophysics - Solomon McShea, Phillips Lab, UC San Francisco
- The contribution of ethnolinguistics to Mesoamerican maize genetic diversity - Forrest Li, Ross-Ibarra Lab, UC Davis
- CAAPAWeb: Linking Data and Discovery for Population Genomics and Variant Annotation - Mustafa Malik, Henn Lab, UC Davis
- Panmap: Scalable phylogeny-guided alignment, genotyping, and placement on pangenomes - Alan Zhang, Corbett-Detig Lab, UC Santa Cruz
- Seasonally fluctuating selection drives repeatable allele frequency shifts across years in large genetically diverse populations - Christopher Kirby, Petrov Lab, Stanford University
- Comparative genomic analyses shed light on the introduction routes of rice-pathogenic Burkholderia gladioli strains into Bangladesh - Ismam Ahmed Protic, Alvarez-Ponce Lab, University of Nevada Reno
- Infrastructure for Genomics Analysis at Scale - Syrine Ben Driss, Operon Technologies
- The Genomic Legacy of Neanderthal and Denisovan Ancestry Across 50,000 Years of Evolutionary History in East Asia - Sophie Joseph, Moorjani Lab, UC Berkeley
- Reconstructing mutation patterns over the course of human evolution - Yulin Zhang, Moorjani Lab, UC Berkeley
- Towards Defining a Core Mouse Gut Microbiome - Cassandra Olivas, Data Intensive Biology Lab, UC Davis