| Mon, Jun 10 |
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| Time |
Activity |
Instructor(s) |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Lecture 1.1: Introduction to the course & quantitative genetics |
FHL, Steve Arnold, Joe Felsenstein |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Discussion |
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| 10:30-11:15 |
Lecture 1.2: Molecular quantitative genomics |
Patrick Phillips |
| 11:15-11:30 |
Discussion |
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| 11:30-12:15 |
Lecture 1.3: Inheritance of a single trait & response to selection |
Steve Arnold |
| 12:15-1:30 |
Lunch |
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| 1:30-2:15 |
Exercise 1.1:Heritability estimation: Parent-offspring regression in R: |
Arnold &Uyeda |
| 2:15-2:30 |
Discussion |
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| 2:30-3:30 |
Lecture 1.4: Multivariate inheritance & response to selection |
Steve Arnold |
| 3:30-3:45 |
Discussion |
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| 3:45-4:45 |
Exer.1.2: Multivariate inheritance: matrix algebra in R and PCP software |
Phillips & Arnold |
| 5:00-5:15 |
(optional, but required for use of rowboats) Rowboat orientation, at pier |
Kristy Kull |
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| Tue, Jun 11 |
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| Time |
Activity |
Instructor |
| 9:00-9:45 |
Lecture 2.1: Estimation of inheritance with fixed & random effects |
Pat Carter |
| 9:45-10:15 |
Discussion |
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| 10:15-11:00 |
Exercise 2.1: Using MCMCglmm in R to estimate inheritance parameters |
Pat Carter |
| 11:00-11:15 |
Discussion |
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| 11:15-12:15 |
Lecture 2.2: Selection as a surface |
Steve Arnold |
| 12:15-1:30 |
Lunch |
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| 1:30-2:30 |
Exercise 2.2: Estimating a selection surface |
Arnold & Simon |
| 2:30-2:45 |
Discussion |
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| 2:45-3:45 |
Lecture 2.3: Evolution on a surface: The adaptive landscape |
Steve Arnold |
| 3:45-4:30 |
Discussion |
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| 7:30 |
R workshop (optional) |
Marguerite Butler |
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| Wed, Jun 12 |
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| Time |
Activity |
Instructor |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Lecture 3.1: Simulating the evolution of the G-matrix |
Adam Jones |
| 10:00 -10:30 |
Discussion |
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| 10:30-11:30 |
Exercise 3.1: G-matrix stability and evolution |
Jones & Arnold |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Discussion |
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| 12:00-1:00 |
Lunch |
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| 1:00-1:30 |
Group photo, on knoll to right of main lab building (walk around porch) |
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| 1:30-3:30 |
Lecture/Exercise 3.2: Brownian motion, contrasts and comparative methods |
Samantha Price and Joe Felsenstein |
| 3:30-6:00 |
Lecture/Exercise 3.3: Exploring evolutionary hypotheses along trees with BM and OU models |
Brian O’Meara and Marguerite Butler |
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| Thurs, Jun 13 |
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| Time |
Activity |
Instructor |
| 9:00-10:30 |
Lecture/Exercise 4.1: Long-term and short-term evolution |
Josef Uyeda |
| 10:30-11:15 |
Lecture/Exercise 4.2: Morphometrics and phylogenies |
Joe Felsenstein |
| 11:15-12:15 |
Lecture/Exercise 4.3: Usefulness of Brownian or OU simulation |
Samantha Price |
| 12:15-1:15 |
Lunch |
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| 1:15-2:15 |
Lecture 4.4: Accounting for sexual radiation with coevolutionary models & OUwie |
Steve Arnold |
| 2:15-3:30 |
Lecture/Exercise 4.5: Measurement error, identifiability, and model adequacy |
Brian O’Meara |
| 3:30-3:45 |
Break |
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| 3:45-5:00 |
Lecture/Exercise 4.6: Making sense of your output: assessing confidence in model selection and parameters |
Marguerite Butler |
| 5:00-6:00 |
Participant presentations |
James Boyko, Karl Grieshop, Maria Akopyan, and Raphaël Royauté |
| Fri, Jun 14 |
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| Time |
Activity |
Instructor |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Lecture/Exercise 5.1: Phylogenetic natural history: data-driven and hypothesis testing frameworks |
Josef Uyeda |
| 10:00-12:00 |
Lecture/Exercise 5.2: Applying all of this to your data |
Butler, O’Meara, Price, Uyeda |
| 12:00-1:00 |
Lunch |
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| 1:30-3:00 |
Lecture/Exercise 5.3: The threshold model |
Joe Felsenstein (lecture) and Josef Uyeda (exercise) |
| 3:00-4:00 |
Discussion: Overview of workshop topics |
All surviving lecturers and participants |
| 4:00-4:30 |
Workshop feedback |
led by Steve Arnold |