Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Workshop

2025 Workshop	SCHEDULE	RESOURCES	PREVIOUS YEARS

Workshop Resources

For workshop participants

• Slack Page Slack is a free messaging platform we will use in the course to communicate with one another. It is a great way to quickly coordinate, ask questions, and share materials. The Slack page will continue after the course. Note that we are using the free version, so messages disappear after 3 months. Please download any materials or information that you want to preserve.

• Website The primary way of navigating course materials, including presentation slides and lab exercise data and code will be through the schedule on the website.

• Polleverywhere We will sometimes use poll everywhere to gather interactive feedback. It will always be at this link, so you can bookmark it.

• How to get ready for the workshop!
  • Reading list
  • Read about Steve Arnold’s book, “Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics”, and see animations of figures
  • Joe’s Theoretical Population Genetics Book

• Github page for Course Materials The entire website and materials will be posted here on github.

• Installing and using R & Rstudio R is a free statistical computing program that will be used throughout the course. Rstudio Dekstop is an integrated development environment for R that has features that will be useful. If you are new to R, we recommend its use in the course. Instructions for the installation of R and Rstudio can be found at at the Rstudio site. Please install before June 9th. Even if you already use R you might want to install the most up-to-date version so that new package installations are easier.

• Installing and using git This is optional, but if you want to be able to interact with the github repository and easily download course materials all at once, we recommend you use git.
  • Installing git guide
  • Getting started with github
  • Using git, github, and Rstudio
• Need help using R?
  • FHL EQGW site
  • U. Toronto EEB R manual
• List of R packages you need to install on your computer (this list is still evolving):
  • MCMCglmm
  • ape
  • MasterBayes
  • ggplot2
  • plyr
  • car
  • OUwie
  • bayou
  • l1ou
  • BAMMtools
  • phytools
  • corhmm
  • geiger
  • nlme
  • dplyr
  • stringr
  • evolvability
  • pedtricks
  • celltrackR
  • usethis
  • gitcreds

Matrix Algebra Tutorials

• Matrix algebra primer is here, or wikipedia, with a R markdown exercise here.

Script library

• Script library Some exercises and things we’ve made that we don’t have an exercise for. Explore as you wish!

For lecturers

Editing lecture or exercise web pages, adding new ones, posting files (a brief guide)