Programme
All lectures take place in room CG93 (the Scarborough lecture theatre) in the Department of Mathematical Sciences on the Science Site. Coffee and Tea are served in CM105. Meals are taken at Grey College.
Monday 5th July |
| 14:00 | Registration in Holgate House - closes at Dinner |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
| Tuesday 6th July |
| Chairman: P Donnelly |
| 09:00-09:30 | B Charlesworth | Evolution and variation in genomic regions with low recombination rates |
| 09:30-10:00 | S Lessard | The Ewens sampling formula and related formulae: combinatorial proofs, extensions
to variable population size and applications to ages of alleles |
| 10:00-10:30 | S Sawyer | How can one tell in which direction evolution is going? |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| Chairman: S Krone |
| 11:30-12:00 | M Möhle | Coalescent processes with simultaneous multiple collisions of ancestral lineages |
| 12:00-12:30 | P Joyce | Evaluating the theory of adaptive evolution: Do two Wrongs make a Wright?
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| 12:30-13:00 | J Blath | Coexistence in locally regulated competing populations |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 15:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| Chairman: P Joyce |
| 16:00-16:30 | S Krone | The role of spatial structure in Bacteriophage evolution |
| 16:30-17:00 | JC Whittaker | Predicting the functional consequences of amino acid polymorphisms using hierarchical Bayesian models |
| 17:00-17:30 | C Wiuf | An algorithm for dividing genotypes into blocks: An extension of Hudson and Kaplan's RM to genotypic data. |
| 20:00 | Wine Reception (after dinner) |
| Wednesday 7th July |
| Chairman: S Sawyer |
| 09:00-09:30 | E Baake | Ancestry in mutation-selection models |
| 09:30-10:00 | R Griffiths | The genealogy of a mutation
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| 10:00-10:30 | A Wakolbinger | Continuous-mass stable branching and its resampling counterpart |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| Chairman: G Nicholls |
| 11:30-12:00 | R Buerger | A multilocus analysis of intraspecific competition and stabilizing selection on a quantitative trait |
| 12:00-12:30 | C Neuhauser | Ecological and evolutionary consequences of large-scale perturbations |
| 12:30-13:00 | P Donnelly | The fine scale structure of recombination rate variation in the human genome |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 13:50 | Conference Photograph |
| 15:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| Chairman: B Charlesworth |
| 16:00-16:30 | M Przeworski | Directional positive selection on standing variation |
| 16:30-17:00 | SP Ptak | Absence of the TAP2 human recombination hotspot in chimpanzees |
| 17:00-17:30 | S Myers | Do chimps share human recombination hotspots?
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| Thursday 8th July |
| Chairman: J Marchini |
| 09:00-09:30 | A von Haeseler | IQPNNI: Moving fast through tree space and stopping in time |
| 09:30-10:00 | M De Iorio | Importance sampling on coalescent histories |
| 10:00-10:30 | MA Beaumont | Approximate Bayesian methods in genetic data analysis: some
applications
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| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| Chairman: A Wakolbinger |
| 11:30-12:00 | G Reinert | Small worlds - statistics |
| 12:00-12:30 | M Birkner | Spatial critically branching particle systems with state-dependent branching rate
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| 12:30-13:00 | WS Kendall | Multiresolution Ising models |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 15:00 | Poster Session |
| 15:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| Chairman: IJ Wilson |
| 16:00-16:30 | Z Yang | Comparison of synonymous and nonsynonymous rates to detect selection in protein-coding genes |
| 16:30-17:00 | G Nicholls | Specifying and fitting a Dollo point process model
of binary trait character evolution |
| 17:00-17:30 | AJ Drummond | Testing neutrality and modeling non-neutrality using temporally spaced sequence data |
| Friday 9th July |
| Chairman: M Przeworski |
| 09:00-09:30 | JK Pritchard | Coalescent approaches to association mapping |
| 09:30-10:00 | N Patterson | How old is the most recent ancestor of two
copies of an allele?
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| 10:00-10:30 | F Depaulis | Population genetics of time structured data, an application on cave bear ancient DNA |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| Chairman: AJ Drummond |
| 11:30-12:00 | K Dawson | A Bayesian approach to some model-based clustering problems in population genetics |
| 12:00-12:30 | F Rousset | Performance of maximum likelihood estimators of dispersal and
mutation rates from gene frequency data |
| 12:30-13:00 | IJ Wilson | Genealogies and population structure. |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 14:30 | Cathedral visit |
| Chairman: R Buerger |
| 16:00-16:30 | D Roze | Inbreeding depression and the evolution of migration rates |
| 16:30-17:00 | MAR de Cara | Models of evolution of assortative mating |
| 17:00-17:30 | X-S Zhang | The frequency distribution of genes affecting quantitative traits in populations under natural selection |
| Saturday 10th July |
| Chairman: J Blath |
| 09:00-09:30 | Y Fu | Exact coalescent under the Wright-Fisher model |
| 09:30-10:00 | S Williamson | Non-stationary population genetic models with selection: theory and inference |
| 10:00-10:30 | NGC Smith | Bayesian inference of genome structure and application to base composition variation |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| Chairman: R Griffiths |
| 11:30-12:00 | L Loewe | Testing hypotheses about the importance of Muller's ratchet in mtDNA |
| 12:00-12:30 | J Hofbauer | Selection dynamics for a continuum of alleles |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 15:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| Sunday 11th July |
| 09:00 | Day trip to Robin Hood's Bay and Whitby |
| Monday 12th July |
| Chairman: WJ Ewens |
| 09:00-09:30 | N Barton | Distinguishing causes of reduced diversity |
| 09:30-10:00 | T Johnson | Multipoint linkage disequilibrium mapping using multilocus allele frequency data |
| 10:00-10:30 | WH Stephan | Localizing selective sweeps along a recombining chromosome |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| Chairman: J Wakeley |
| 11:30-12:00 | N Rosenberg | Estimating transposition rates using serial isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
| 12:00-12:30 | J Marchini | IN SILICO genotyping |
| 12:30-13:00 | RN Nielsen | Detecting selective sweeps from ascertained SNP data |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 15:00 | Poster Session - another chance to speak to the participants presenting posters |
| 15:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| Chairman: D Falush |
| 16:00-16:30 | P Fearnhead | A review and comparison of population-based estimators of local recombination rates |
| 16:30-17:00 | C Bustamante | Comparative evolutionary genomics of Humans and Chimpanzees |
| 17:00-17:30 | A Di Rienzo | Inferences about human demography based on multilocus analyses of noncoding sequences |
| Tuesday 13th July |
| Chairman: M Turelli |
| 09:00-09:30 | BS Weir | The genetic architecture of human chromosome 20 |
| 09:30-10:00 | D Reich | High density admixture mapping to find genes for complex disease and application to multiple sclerosis |
| 10:00-10:30 | J Wakeley | Natural selection and genetic drift in a subdivided population |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| Chairman: WH Stephan |
| 11:30-12:00 | JW Wall | Estimating recombination rates using three site likelihoods |
| 12:00-12:30 | WJ Ewens | Thoughts on the TDT |
| 12:30-13:00 | S Schaffner | Calibrating coalescent simulations of human genome sequence variation |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 15:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| Chairman: T Johnson |
| 16:00-16:30 | R Nicholls | Discrepancies between real population histories and the assumptions of mathematical models: problems and some solutions. |
| 16:30-17:00 | H Wilkinson-Herbots | Fst and the "effective level of gene flow" in models of subdivided populations.
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| 17:00-17:30 | M Turelli | Effects of genetic drift on variance components under a general model of epistasis |
| 19:00 | Drinks in Grey JCR followed by the Conference dinner |
| Wednesday 14th July |
| Chairman: G McVean |
| 09:30-10:00 | A Eyre-Walker | The distribution of fitness effects of new mutations in humans and fruit flies |
| 10:00-10:30 | D Falush | Anthropological genetics, as taught by Helicobacter pylori |
| 10:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| Chairman: D Reich |
| 11:30-12:00 | D Goldstein | Haplotype mapping in pharmacogenetics |
| 12:00-12:30 | D Labuda | X-linked markers tracing history of human populations |
| 12:30-13:00 | G McVean | Approximate models of recombination |
| 13:00 | Lunch - Grey College |
| 15:30 | Coffee/Tea |
| Chairman: S Myers |
| 16:00 | Graduate Talks |
| 16:00-16:15 | M Capaldo | A disintegrationtheorem for infinite variance superprocesses |
| 16:15-16:30 | N Cloete | MCMC for a distribution over ancestral selection graphs |
| 16:30-16:45 | L Meligkotsidou | Maximum likelihood estimation of coalescence times in genealogical trees |
| 16:45-17:00 | P Pfaffelhuber | Genealogical trees including fossils |
| 17:00-17:15 | J Polechova | Speciation
in sympatry? Evolution of associations between loci under disruptive
selection and loci affecting assortative mating. |
| 17:15-17:30 | K Schneider | The role of assortative mating in shaping genetic
variation under frequency-dependent selection |
| 17:30-17:45 | BF Voight | Confounding from cryptic relatedness in association studies |
| Thursday 15th July |
| Departure after breakfast |
