Programme
The programme is subject to change.
Time zone: Stockholm/CEST
Please note that pre-registration is required.
Wednesday, 19 May
10:00
Christina Garsten, SCAS
Welcome & Introduction
10:00 - 11:00
Martin Lascoux, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Sweden
Drifting or Drafting? Contribution of Deleterious and Beneficial Mutations to the Nearly
Neutral Theory
11:00 - 12:00
Asger Hobolth, Department of Mathematics, Aarhus University, Denmark
Phase-Type Distributions in Population Genetics
12:00 - 13:00
BREAK
13:00 - 14:00
Thibault Latrille, Laboratoire de Biométrie & Biologie Évolutive (LBBE), Université Lyon 1, France
Population-Genetics Based Modelling of Phylogenetic Codon Models
14:00 - 15:00
Mario Dos Reis, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, UK
The Population Genetics of Codon Substitution
15:00 - 15:30
BREAK
15:30 - 16:30
Ingemar Kaj, Department of Mathematics, Uppsala Univercity, Sweden
The Poisson Random Field Approach to Modeling Genome Sequence Evolution
16:30 - 17:30
Stephanie Spielman, Department of Biological Sciences, Rowan University, USA
Seeking a Connection between Protein Models and Evolutionary Processes
Thursday, 20 May
10:00
- 11:00
Stéphane Guindon, Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Robotique et de Microélectronique de Montpellier
(LIRMM), CNRS, France
Bayesian Phylogeography along a Continuum: Sampling Its Way in a Random Walk
11:00 - 12:00
Fabien Burki, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Sweden
On the Origin of Plastids: Phylogenomic Insights from the Elusive Marine Phylum Picozoa
12:00 - 13:00
BREAK
13:00 - 14:00
Isabel Sanmartin, Real Jardin Botanico de Madrid,CSIC, Spain
The Rand Flora Revisited: Applying Phylogenomics to Understand the Tempo and Mode of
Continental Extinction
14:00 - 15:00
Carolin Kosiol, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, UK
Polymorphism-Aware Phylogenetic Models with Selection
15:00 - 15:30
BREAK
15:30 - 16:30
Nicolas Lartillot, Laboratoire de Biométrie & Biologie Évolutive Lyon (LBBE), CNRS, France
Comparative Analysis of Polymorphism and Divergence in Protein-Coding Sequences
16:30 - 17:30
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, USA
Methods to Detect Introgression: Extensions of D Statistics
Friday, 21 May
10:00 - 11:00
Yan Wong, Big Data Institute, University of Oxford, UK
Tree Sequences: A Framework for Megascale Evolutionary
Genomics
11:00 - 12:00
Ziheng Yang, Department of Genetics, Evolution, & Environment, University College London, UK
Inference of Species Tree and Cross-Species Gene Flow under the Multispecies Coalescent Model
12:00 - 13:00
BREAK
13:00 - 14:00
Sylvain Glémin, Ecobio Rennes, CNRS, France
Multispecies Coalescent and Hybridization: The Complex Case of Wheat Relatives
14:00 - 15:00
Discussion/Socializing