Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Workshop
Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Workshop
| 2021 Workshop (Online) | SCHEDULE | Resources | PREVIOUS YEARS |
Schedule for 2021 Workshop
All times are Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Note that Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) is 3 hours later in the day.
These were the scheduled times. We sometimes fell behind this schedule, or even ahead.
| time | topic | speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, July 12 | ||
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Introduction | Steve Arnold, Joe Felsenstein |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Introductions of participants | themselves |
| 10:00 - 11:15 | Lecture 1-2: Inheritance and response to selection, in two parts | Steve Arnold |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Discussion | participants |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Exercise 1-1: Heritability estimation by parent-offspring regression in R | Josef Uyeda |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Discussion | participants |
| 12:15 - 1:30 | Lunch break | |
| 1:30 - 2:45 | Lecture 1-3: Selection as a surface, in two parts | Steve Arnold |
| 2:45 - 3:00 | Discussion | participants |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Exercise 1-2: Estimating a selection surface | Josef Uyeda |
| 3:30 - 3:45 | Discussion | participants |
| 3:45 - 5:00 | Lecture 1-4: Evolution on adaptive landscapes, in two parts | Steve Arnold |
| 5:00 - 5:15 | Discussion | participants |
| Tuesday, 13 July | ||
| 9:00 - 10:15 | Lecture 2-1: Estimation of inheritance with fixed and random effects | Patrick Carter |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Discussion | participants |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Exercise 2-1: Using MCMCglmm in R to estimate inheritance | Patrick Carter |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Discussion | participants |
| 11:15 - 12:30 | Lecture 2-2: Sexual radiation, in two parts | Steve Arnold |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Discussion | participants |
| 12:45 - 2:00 | Lunch break | |
| 2:00 - 3:15 | Lecture 2-3: Evolution in the short term and the long term | Josef Uyeda |
| 3:15 - 3:30 | Discussion | participants |
| Wednesday, 14 July | ||
| 9:00 - 10:15 | Lecture 3-1: Micro to Macroevolution: What does Quantitative Genetics have to do with Comparative methods? | Josef Uyeda |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Discussion | participants |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Lecture 3-2: Brownian Motion and comparative methods | Joe Felsenstein and Samantha Price |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | break | |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Exercise 3-1: Brownian Motion / comparative methods | Samantha Price and Joe Felsenstein |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | break | |
| 12:45 - 1:45 | Lecture 3-3: OU models on phylogenies | Michelle Lawing and Brian O’Meara |
| 1:45 - 2:30 | Exercise 3-2: OU models and methods | Michelle Lawing and Brian O’Meara |
| 2:30 - 2:45 | Discussion | participants |
| Thursday, 15 July | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Lecture 4-1: Simulation using models of evolution: a lizard example | Samantha Price and Michelle Lawing |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | break | |
| 10:30 - 11:30 | Lecture 4-2: Identifiability, model adequacy and measurement error | Brian O’Meara, Samantha Price and Joe Felsenstein |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | break | |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Exercise 4-1: Simulations and Measurement error | Brian O’Meara and Samantha Price |
| 12:15 - 1:15 | Discussion | participants |
| 1:15 - 1:30 | break | |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | “Student’s choice” breakout rooms with each of the lecturers | all lecturers |
| Friday, 16 July | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Lecture 5-1: Morphometrics on phylogenies | Joe Felsenstein and Michelle Lawing |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Exercise 5-1: Morphometrics | Michelle Lawing and Joe Felsenstein |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | break | |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Lecture 5-2: Threshold model (30 minutes), and Comments on using QTLs and sequence data (30 minutes) | Joe Felsenstein |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Exercise 5-2: Threshold model | Josef Uyeda |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | break | |
| 12:45 - 2:00 | Discussion: Wrap up Q & A with surviving lecturers | all |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Feedback from participants | Steve Arnold |