Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Workshop
Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics Workshop
| 2023 Workshop | SCHEDULE | Resources | PREVIOUS YEARS |
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 |