Petrov Lab Blog

Balancing selection is often presented in opposition to directional selection. Indeed, balancing selection promotes maintenance of ge...

One of the key insights from the neutral theory of molecular evolution is that functional sequences should generally evolve slower than ...

In a paper published in Genome Research , Penka Markova (who successfully graduated this year) and Dmitri, continue to shine light on th...

Transposable elements (TEs) are the primary contributors to the genome bulk in many organisms and are major players in genome evolution. ...

We are very happy to announce that Ruth Hershberg has just accepted a tenure track position at the Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of ...

Anna-Sophie Fiston-Lavier and Josefa González (with the participation of a summer student Matthew Carrigan and Dmitri) h...

Alan Bergland wins prestigious NIH postdoctoral fellowship Alan Bergland was just awarded an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellowship to study the...

The schedule for BAPG III at Stanford is all set. This time and hopefully in the future BAPG is sponsored by the Ecology and Evolution Gro...

Genes that underlie human disease are important subjects of systems biology research. In a paper just published in GBE by James Cai , Elh...

Natural selection sorts through the variability generated by mutation and biases evolution toward fitter outcomes. Mutation, while general...

Dmitri is going to present two lectures at the "Physics of Evolution" workshop at UC San Diego at the end of this month. The wo...

We are very happy to announce that James Cai , a postdoctoral fellow in the lab, has accepted an offer for a tenure-track Assistant Profe...

Adaptation in eukaryotes is often assumed to be limited by the waiting time for adaptive mutations. This is because effective population s...

Nadia Singh , a former PhD student in the lab, has accepted an Assistant Professor position in the Genetics Department at the North Carolin...

The potential of geographic studies of genetic variation for the understanding of adaptation has been recognized for some time. In Drosop...

Philip Bulterys , a fourth-year undergraduate in the lab, was just accepted into the extremely prestigious UCLA MD/PhD program (MSTP) . ...

Fabian Staubach from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology is joining our lab in May 2010! During his Ph.D. research he work...

On the heels of the success of the first Bay Area Population Genomics Conference at Stanford in the Fall 0f 2009 we are planning the s...

We are excited that Alan Bergland from Brown University has decided to join our lab! Alan is currently finishing up his Ph.D. research ( h...

We just hosted the first Bay Area Population Genomics Conference at Stanford. Students and faculty from Stanford, Berkeley, UCSF, and UC ...

Transposable Elements (TEs) are fragments of DNA that can jump from one genome position to another producing extra copies of themselves in ...

If you are intetested in joining our lab as a graduate student, the deadline for applications is December 1. The Graduate Bioscience Admiss...

First, Nature Review Genetics highlighted Ruth Hershberg's PLoS Genetics paper . And then Genetics published a paper by Philipp Messe...

Mutations are the foundation of genetic diversity, yet we remain uncertain about their rates and patterns. This is because new mutations a...

Yuan Zhu , a second year graduate student from Genetics, is done with her rotations and has decided to join our lab. In her rotation proj...

In many genomes, presence of some codons in the gene improves the rate and the accuracy of protein translation compared to other synonymo...

Transposable elements (TEs) are short DNA sequences that can jump around the genome creating new copies of themselves. All this jumping cr...

Anna-sophie Fiston-Lavier and Cyril Lavier are happy and proud to announce the birth of their son, Eshan Lavier, born on Wednesday, May 1...

Over the past four decades, the predominant view of molecular evolution saw little connection between natural selection and genome evoluti...

Genes underlying human heritable diseases are not only important for medicine but are also of great interest for evolutionary biologists. ...