Workshops

Spring 2014

Computation-Intensive Probabilistic and Statistical Methods for Large-Scale Population Genomics

Feb 18, 2014 to Feb 21, 2014

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Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract, slides and archived video.

All events take place in the Calvin Lab Auditorium.

Tuesday, February 18th, 2014
8:30 am–8:50 am		Coffee and Check-In
8:50 am–9:00 am		Opening Remarks
9:00 am–9:45 am		A Population Reference Graph for Human Genetic Variation Gil McVean, University of Oxford
9:45 am–10:30 am		Genetic Variation in Gene Regulation Jonathan Pritchard, Stanford University
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–11:45 am		A General Method for Calculating Likelihoods for Coalescence of Linear Genomes Nick Barton, IST Austria
11:45 am–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–2:15 pm		Ancestral Population Genomics with Coalescent Hidden Markov Models Thomas Mailund, Aarhus University
2:15 pm–3:00 pm		Inferring the Past for Traits that Alter Speciation and Extinction Sarah Otto, University of British Columbia
3:00 pm–4:30 pm		Reception

Wednesday, February 19th, 2014
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am–9:45 am		Population Genetics of the Neanderthal Genome Project Montgomery Slatkin, UC Berkeley
9:45 am–10:30 am		Any Way You Want It: Applications of Whole Genome Capture to Ancient DNA, Metagenomics, and Orthogonal Validation Carlos Bustamante, Stanford University
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–11:45 am		Creating (and Mapping to) a Universal Reference Genome David Haussler, UC Santa Cruz
11:45 am–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–2:15 pm		Algorithms for Genetic Selection Vineet Bafna, UC San Diego
2:15 pm–3:00 pm		Inference from Allele Frequency Time Series Steven Evans, UC Berkeley
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:15 pm		Coalescent Approaches to Selective Sweeps Graham Coop, UC Davis
4:15 pm–5:00 pm		Natural Selection in a Spatial Continuum Alison Etheridge, University of Oxford

Thursday, February 20th, 2014
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am–9:45 am		Some Tight Bounds in Recovering Species Trees and Population Histories Elchanan Mossel, UC Berkeley
9:45 am–10:30 am		Robust Demographic Inference from Genomic and SNP Data Laurent Excoffier, University of Bern
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–11:55 am		Calculation of Joint Allelic Spectra Nick Patterson, Broad Institute
11:55 am–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–2:15 pm		Analysis of Haplotype Sharing and Recent Demographic History with Examples from the Netherlands Itsik Pe'er, Columbia University
2:15 pm–3:00 pm		Probabilistic Models for Spatial Geographic Localization Eran Halperin, Tel Aviv University
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:15 pm		Quantifying the Extent of Geographic Signature in the Human Genome Lior Pachter, UC Berkeley
4:15 pm–5:00 pm		Mutation Rates and Generation Times in Humans Molly Przeworski, Columbia University

Friday, February 21st, 2014
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee and Check-In
9:00 am–9:45 am		A Tree-based Approach to Inferring Past Population Size Changes and Separation Times Simon Myers, University of Oxford
9:45 am–10:30 am		Correcting for Confounding in Genetic Studies Eleazar Eskin, UCLA
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–11:45 am		Identifying Recombination Hot Spots from Sequence Polymorphism Data Jeff Wall, UCSF
11:45 am–1:30 pm		Lunch
1:30 pm–2:15 pm		The Impact of Recent Human Demography on Deleterious Mutation Load and the Genetic Architecture of Disease Susceptibility Guy Sella, Columbia University
2:15 pm–3:00 pm		Coancestry in the Analysis of Genetic Traits Elizabeth Thompson, University of Washington
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:15 pm		Crowd-sourcing Genetic Discovery Nicholas Eriksson, 23andMe