TITLE: "Decoding alarm signal propagation of seed-harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex californicus." ABSTRACT: Alarm signal propagation through social-insect colonies provides an empirically tractable context for analyzing information flow through a natural system, with useful insights for network dynamics in other social groups, including human social networks. Here, I develop a methodological approach to track alarm spread within […]

“Towards Bayesian phylogenetics via systematic search and gradient ascent” Hosted by Sriram Sankararaman

TITLE: "Restricted diet drives autism gut-microbiome associations, and other tales from the Australian Autism Biobank" ABSTRACT: The Australian Autism Biobank (AAB) is an initiative of the Autism CRC – the first national, cooperative research effort focused on autism across the lifespan. The AAB recruited a total of ~2,500 autistic children, family members, and unrelated undiagnosed […]

TITLE: "Asymmetric Branching Scale Factors as Features in Neuronal Cell-Type Classification" ABSTRACT: Neurons are connected by complex branching processes - axons and dendrites - that process information for organisms to […]

“The role of chromosome evolution in adaptation and speciation in stickleback fish” Hosted by Kirk Lohmueller

TITLE: “TBD” Hosted by Sarah Spendlove

TITLE: "Comprehensive study of gene expression outliers and their regulation mechanisms in pan-cancer." ABSTRACT: With the ultimate aim of improving the management of cancer, many groups have studied the molecular […]

TITLE: "Massive parallelization of massive sample-size survival analysis." ABSTRACT: Large-scale observational health databases are increasingly popular for conducting comparative effectiveness and safety studies of medical products. However, increasing number of patients […]