| 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 |
