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Workshop 4: Inference in Stochastic Models of Sequence Evolution: Schedule

Schedule

Monday, February 22
Human Diversity and Populations
12:15pm Shuttle leaves for MBI
12:45-1:00pm Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky
1:00-2:00pm Graham Coop: Parallel mutations and partial sweeps
2:00-2:30pm Coffee break
2:30-3:15pm Thomas Mailund
3:15-3:30pm Coffee break
3:30-4:30pm Mikkel Schierup: Coalescent HMMs for inference of population genetics processes in ancestral species
4:30-6:00pm Reception in the MBI Lounge
6:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Tuesday, February 23
Evolutionary Models
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:30am Breakfast
9:30-10:15am Asger Hobolth: Efficient calculation of various summary statistics for end-point conditioned continuous-time Markov chains
10:15-11:00am Michael Lassig: Molecular Fitness Land and Seascapes
11:00-11:15am Coffee break
11:15-12:00pm Carolin Kosiol: Using empirical codon models to understand the patterns and pressures of natural variation reflected in genomic re-sequencing data
12:00-1:00pm Lunch break
1:00-2:00pm Ana Arribas-Gil: Parameter estimation in models for sequence alignment
2:00-2:30pm Coffee break
2:30-3:15pm Kees Albers: A Bayesian method for genome-wide identification of small insertions and deletions
3:15-4:00pm Abdoulaye Diallo: Interence of Insertions and Deletions for Ancestral Genome Reconstruction and Phylogenetics Analyses
4:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Wednesday, February 24
Transposons, Viruses and Pathogens
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:30am Breakfast
9:30-10:30am Matthew Hahn: Models for Gene Gain, Gene Loss, and Gene Movement
10:30-11:00am Coffee break
11:00-12:00pm Marc Suchard: Many-Core Algorithms for Statistical Phylogenetics
12:00-1:00pm Lunch break
1:00-2:00pm Cedric Feschotte: Transposable elements: germline invaders with a lasting impact on genome evolution
2:00-2:30pm Coffee break
2:30-3:30pm Daniel Falush: Inference of population structure using dense genotype data
4:00pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Thursday, February 25
Comparative Genomics
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:30am Breakfast
9:30-10:30am Anna Kedzierska: Model fitting for mixture models
10:30-11:00am Coffee break
11:00-12:00pm Adam Siepel: Estimation of ancestral population divergence times and effective population sizes from complete human genome sequences
12:00-1:00pm Lunch break
1:00-2:00pm Katie Pollard: Accelerated and biased nucleotide evolution in the human genome
2:00-2:30pm Coffee break
2:30-3:30pm Matt Rasmussen: Bayesian Gene-tree Reconstruction and Learning in Phylogenomics
4:00pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
6:00-7:00pm Cash Bar
7:00pm Banquet in the Fusion Room @ Crowne Plaza Hotel
Friday, February 26
Paleogenetics and Reconstruction
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:30am Breakfast
9:30-10:30am Robin Gutell: Independence and dependence of the nucleotide positions in the Evolution of ribosomal RNA structure
10:30-11:00am Coffee break
11:00-12:00pm David Liberles: Models for Amino Acid Substitution and Gene Duplication With Roots in Molecular and Evolutionary Processes
12:00-1:00pm Lunch break
1:00-2:00pm Stephen Chamberlin: Extracting useful information from protein sequences
2:30pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI