Programme
Workshop on Models and Inference in Population Genetics
WARWICK, 14-16 September 2015
The workshop's booklet with full details is now available for download here.
All activities will take place in the Mathematics & Statistics Building, with talks in room MS.04 (signposted from lobby), unless otherwise stated.
Monday 14th September
| 08:00 | Registration | Maths & Stats building, lobby |
| 08:55 | Welcome | |
| 09:00 | Mark Beaumont | Computational approaches for detecting local selection |
| 09:50 | Christopher Quince | Inferring microbial species and strains directly from metagenome data |
| 10:40 | Coffee | Lobby |
| 11:10 | Maria De Iorio | Bayesian inference on population structure: from parametric to nonparametric modelling |
| 12:00 | Yee Whye Teh | Cancer subclonal reconstruction with Aldous' beta-splitting trees |
| 12:50 | Lunch | Lobby |
| 14:00 | Ellen Baake | Ancestral selection graph meets lookdown construction |
| 14:50 | Poster summaries |
Eugenio Buzzoni
Mathias Cronjager & Alejandra Avalos-Pacheco
Andreas Futschik
Jere Koskela
Sebastian Probst & Mareike Esser
Simone Tiberi
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| 15:40 | Coffee | Lobby |
| 16:10 | Jochen Blath | Some new results for seed bank models |
| 17:00 | Posters & wine reception | Lobby |
| 19:00 | Dinner | Rootes Social Building (Rootes Restaurant) |
Tuesday 15th September
| 09:00 | Steven Evans | Random trees in the large |
| 09:50 | Matthias Birkner | A conditional coalescent limit in fixed pedigree |
| 10:40 | Coffee | A0.05 |
| 11:10 | Richard Everitt | A preliminary investigation of online Bayesian inference of clonal ancestry |
| 12:00 | Gerton Lunter | Using particle filters to infer past population sizes and migration rates from whole-genome sequences |
| 12:50 | Lunch | A0.05 |
| 14:00 | Carolin Kosiol | Reversible polymorphism-aware phylogenetic models and their application to species tree inference |
| 14:50 | Amy Williams | Inferring local ancestry by jointly analyzing admixed samples |
| 15:40 | Coffee | A0.05 |
| 16:10 | Simon Myers | A new approach to infer local ancestry in populations impacted by admixture |
| 17:00 | Finish | |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner | Radcliffe House |
Wednesday 16th September
| 09:00 | Robert Griffiths | Neutral Wright-Fisher bridges |
| 09:50 | Asger Hobolth | Mathematical theory and statistical methods for the neutral Wright-Fisher model |
| 10:40 | Coffee | A0.05 |
| 11:10 | Noemi Kurt | An individual-based model for the Lenski experiment, and the deceleration of the relative fitness |
| 12:00 | Lunch | A0.05 |
| 13:00 | Finish |
Check-in to on-campus accommodation is from 15:00 on the day of arrival, and check-out is before 9:30 on the day of departure. Breakfast for participants with on-campus accommodation is 07:30-09:00.