Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Workshop

Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Workshop

       
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After this point, the schedule is last year’s schedule, for an online workshop

It will gradually be updated as the Workshop nears. To see the most recent example of the schedule of an in-person workshop, use the Previous Years link above, and go to the 2019 schedule.

 

Schedule for 2022 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 11    
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 meal break all
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, 12 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 - 11:30 Exercise 2-1: Using MCMCglmm in R to estimate inheritance Patrick Carter
11:30 - 12:00 Discussion participants
12:00 - 12:30 meal break all
12:30 - 1:30 Lecture 2-2: Simulations of evolution of the G-matrix Adam Jones
1:30 - 2:00 Exercise 2-2: Evolution of the G-matrix Adam Jones
2:00 - 2:15 Discussion participants
     
Wednesday, 13 July    
9:00 - 10:15 Lecture 3-1: Evolution in the short term and the long term Josef Uyeda
10:15 - 10:30 Discussion participants
10:30 - 11:15 Lecture 3-2: Micro to Macroevolution: What does Quantitative Genetics have to do with Comparative methods? Josef Uyeda
11:15 - 11:30 Discussion participants
11:30 - 12:30 Lecture 3-3: Brownian Motion and comparative methods Joe Felsenstein and Samantha Price
12:30 - 1:00 meal break all
1:00 - 1:30 Exercise 3-1: Brownian Motion / comparative methods Samantha Price and Joe Felsenstein
1:30 - 1:45 break all
1:45 - 2:45 Lecture 3-4: OU models on phylogenies Brian O’Meara
Thursday, 14 July    
9:00 - 9:45 Exercise 4-1: OU models and methods Brian O’Meara
9:45 - 10:00 Discussion participants
10:00 - 10:45 Lecture 4-1: Simulation using models of evolution Samantha Price
10:45 - 11:00 break  
11:00 - 12:00 Lecture 4-2: Identifiability, model adequacy and measurement error Brian O’Meara, Samantha Price and Joe Felsenstein
12:00 - 12:15 break  
12:15 - 12:45 Exercise 4-2: Simulations and Measurement error Brian O’Meara and Samantha Price
12:45 - 1:00 Discussion participants
1:00 - 1:15 break  
1:15 - 2:15 “Participants’ choice”: three successive 20-minute breakout rooms with some of the lecturers all lecturers and participants
     
Friday, 15 July    
9:00 - 10:00 Lecture 5-1: Morphometrics on phylogenies Joe Felsenstein
10:00 - 10:45 Exercise 5-1: Morphometrics Joe Felsenstein
10:45 - 11:15 break  
11:15 - 12:15 Lecture 5-2: Threshold model (30 minutes), and Comments on using QTLs and sequence data (30 minutes) Joe Felsenstein
12:15 - 2:15 Discussion: Wrap up Q & A with surviving participants and lecturers all
2:15 - 2:45 Feedback from participants Steve Arnold or Joe Felsenstein