Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Workshop
| 2025 Workshop | SCHEDULE | Resources | PREVIOUS YEARS |
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2025 Workshop Schedule
This schedule is subject to updates and changes.
All times are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). Note that Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) is 3 hours earlier in the day.
These are the scheduled times. We sometimes fall behind this schedule or even ahead.
| time | topic | speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, June 9th | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Lecture 1-1: Introduction | Josef Uyeda |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Introductions of participants | Participants |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Break | |
| 10:45 - 11:45 | Lecture 1-2: Quantitative Genetics Intro | Pat Carter |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Discussion | Pat Carter |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30 - 2:00 | More discussion of quantitative genetics theory | Joe Felsenstein and Pat Carter |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Lecture 1-3: History and Structure of Workshop | Joe Felsenstein (virtual) |
| 2:30 - 3:30 | Exercise 1-1: Selection & Inheritance Exercise | Pat Carter |
| 3:30 - 5:30 | Participant Slideshows | Participants |
| Tuesday, June 10th | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Lecture 2-1: Mixed model approaches to estimating inheritance | Pat Carter |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Discussion | participants |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Break | |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Exercise 2-1: MCMCglmm + (hints at multivariate world) | Pat Carter |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | meal break | all |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | Lecture 2-2: G-matrices & selection | Jacqueline Sztepanacz |
| 2:30 - 2:45 | Discussion | |
| 2:45 - 3:45 | Lecture 2-3: G-matrices & selection | Jacqueline Sztepanacz |
| 3:45 - 4:15 | Exercise 2-2: G-matrix exercise | Jacqueline Sztepanacz |
| 4:15 - 4:30 | Break | |
| 4:30 - 5:30 | Lecture 2-4: Brownian Motion in populations and on trees | Joe Felsenstein (virtual) |
| 8:00 - 9:00 | MLBS Lecture Series | Laura Alencar |
| Wednesday, June 11th | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Exercise 2-2 (continued): G-matrix exercise | Jacqueline Sztepanacz |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Lecture 3-1: Evolving G-matrices | Joel McGlothlin |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Discussion | Joel McGlothlin |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | meal break | all |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | Lecture 3-2: Micro2Macro-EQG to Comparative methods | Josef Uyeda |
| 2:30 - 3:15 | Exercise 3-3: EQG on trees | Josef Uyeda |
| 3:15 - 3:30 | Break | |
| 3:30 - 4:30 | Lecture 3-3: The Paradox of Predictability | Fabio Machado |
| 4:30 - 5:30 | Discussion | Team |
| 5:30 - 6:30 | Dinner | all |
| 6:30 - 8:00 | Breakouts | Joe Felsenstein & Stevan J Arnold |
| Thursday, June 12th | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Lecture 4-1: Trait evolution on trees | Laura Alencar |
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Exercise 4-1: Intro to PCMs | Laura Alencar & Josef Uyeda |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | break | |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Lecture 4-2: Ornstein-Uhlenbeck models | Laura Alencar |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | meal break | all |
| 1:30 - 3:00 | Exercise 4-2: OU models | Laura Alencar & Josef Uyeda |
| 3:00 - 5:00 | Afternoon Break - Go on a hike! | |
| 5:00 - 6:00 | Lecture 4-4: Best practices in PCMs | Fabio Machado |
| 6:00 - 7:00 | Dinner | all |
| 6:30 - 8:00 | Breakouts | Instructor Team |
| Friday, June 13th | ||
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Lecture 5-1: Multivariate PCMs | Fabio Machado |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | break | |
| 10:15 - 12:00 | Exercise 5-1: Multivariate PCMs | Fabio Machado & Josef Uyeda |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | meal break | all |
| 1:30 - 2:30 | Lecture 5-2: Threshold model and discrete/continuous connections | Josef Uyeda |
| 2:45 - 4:00 | Exercise 5-2: Discrete & continuous model connections | Josef Uyeda |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Links between scales: Discussion for all | all instructors & participants |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Participant feedback | all |
| 5:30 - 6:30 | Dinner | all |