On Coffee and Epistasis: A Conversation with Brandon Ogbunu, Brown University

Join us for our second BD2K Summer Series Lecture of the 2018 season!
C. Brandon Ogbunu
Assistant Professor
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Brown University
In this seminar, Dr. Ogbunu will explore a cutting-edge concept in modern genetics called epistasis, informally defined as “the surprise at the phenotype when mutations are combined, given the constituent mutations’ individual effects.” He will more rigorously define epistasis from several different perspectives, highlight recent studies that shed light on how it works, and explain its broader importance across many fields of biology and biomedicine. He will focus on recent work in the Ogbunu Lab exploring how epistasis shapes complex biological traits. He will relate this to broader perspectives on how we think about biological, social, and other complex systems.

Last modified: Jul 16, 2018